The role of corporate security and other intelligence units has changed. Rather than just monitoring threats, corporate security must be able to anticipate threats and provide decision makers with critical and strategic information. All enterprises and government agencies need intelligence analysis software that effectively supports them in the creation, analysis, exploration and distribution of all the strategic information available from internal and external sources.

Automation, is another important criterion as it helps solve the challenge of the growing scarcity of security expertise. It enables a coordinated response to automated attacks, and shortens time to response.