Galway’s Siren teams up with Praescient to work with US government

Through a new partnership with Praescient Analytics, Irish data intelligence start-up Siren will be able to access an array of new opportunities in the US federal space, according to CEO John Randles.

On Tuesday (16 April), Galway-based investigative intelligence platform Siren announced a new partnership that will see its technology integrated into Praescient Analytics. Based in Philadelphia, Praescient has developed an analytics solution that provides intelligence analysis to the US federal government.

As part of the deal between the two companies, Praescient will be able to provide new and existing customers with access to Siren’s investigative platform, which was developed as a spin-out from big data and knowledge representation research.

Headquartered in Galway, Siren has offices in France, Italy, Cambridge and Philadelphia. The Irish start-up raised $10m in November 2019 as part of its Series A funding round.

Working together

Katie Crotty, CEO of Praescient Analytics said: “Siren is an evolution in regard to the next phase of traditional intelligence platforms. It provides organisations with the tools to understand and leverage how critical data is interconnected in real-time, merging functionalities that were previously disconnected.”

The Galway company’s technology provides a combination of search, business intelligence, big data, link analysis and knowledge representation, which can be used to advance the way that organisations address data-driven problems.

Siren’s platform will be integrated with Praescient’s advanced analytics solution (A2S), which is an adaptable intelligence solution designed with the intelligence analyst in mind.

Praescient said that the A2S platform leverages an open, extensible architecture built with IBM i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis at its centre.

According to Praescient, the key capabilities of A2S include supporting operations in connected and disconnected environments; automated text analytics; geo-spatial analysis; automatic report generation; ad-hoc imports; analyst collaboration; advanced tooling for external data access; data replication and sub-setting.

Work with the US Department of Defense

In a statement, Praesient said that its A2S platform has been developed as a result of more than two decades of experience with more than 1,200 military organizations in 130 countries. The company’s customers include all the members of the US intelligence community, all branches of the US Department of Defense and all major US federal agencies.

Siren is primarily aimed at investigative functions within organisations, such as cyber threat intelligence, financial crime and law enforcement.

John Randles, CEO of Siren, said: “The partnership with Praescient opens up an array of opportunities for us the US federal space. Praesicent provides us with a larger geographical presence and invaluable domain expertise.”

Crotty said: “We are excited to partner with such an innovative, ground-breaking platform within the data analytics space. Siren will be a vital solution to many of our clients’ intelligence and investigative requirements. Not only does it resolve their immediate needs, but it catapults them into anticipating and solving future challenges.”