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The various agencies tasked with these responsibilities face a number of challenges, including:

• Conflicting or ambiguous standards for information collection, sharing, and reporting.
• Ineffective knowledge and data management across diverse categories of data sensitivity and protection regimes.
• Lack of efficient, integrated, interoperable performance of collection, intake, analysis, and dissemination.
• Differing state structures and laws.
• Lack of a referenceable fusion center or national collaboration platform architecture.

To counter future threats and criminal activities, government agencies need an information-gathering, assessment, and sharing environment that provides the means for a coordinated, collaborative effort to prevent, prepare for and, if necessary, respond to and recover from any emergency situation. The development and implementation of information fusion centers has become the generally accepted solution for enhancing awareness, prevention, preparation, and response.

Microsoft’s FusionX delivers a solution tailored to help fusion centers fulfill these missions, helping agencies at all levels to get the right information to the right people at the right place and the right time. To that end, FusionX automates collection, intake, workflow management, collaborative analysis, data visualization, dissemination, auditing, and capture of business-performance metrics. By reducing manual processes, your agency can improve organizational performance and personnel productivity. And when you spend less time engaged in immediate tactical analysis and support, you can invest more in strategic analysis and prevention.

Agencies engaged in homeland security activities need versatility in diverse mission environments, flexibility for adapting to new missions and unforeseen operational challenges, and adaptability in managing multiple-access eligibilities. Microsoft’s FusionX solution:

• Leverages existing systems and infrastructure—reducing reinvestment, development, and replacement costs.
• Integrates with existing workflows and policies and provides an intuitive user experience.
• Complies with information-management policies for safe, automated, consistent records management.
• Protects sensitive information with tools that preserve data confidentiality and availability.
• Reduces time and effort required in for searching databases and knowledge bases.
• Allows for comprehensive response to legal inquiries for specific classes of documents.
• Limits access to authorized users.
• Meets regulatory requirements through organized stored content.

With this interoperable solution, agencies can seamlessly move information from intake to analysis to dissemination in a multiple-agency, multilevel environment while utilizing existing assets and integrating with domain-specific applications.

If it’s vital to government, it’s mission critical to Microsoft.