Release notes - i2 Insights 1.0.0

This document provides an overview of the new features, system requirements, and known issues for i2 Insights 1.0.0.

Important notices

⚠️ Installation

i2 Insights requires that i2 Analyst's Notebook 10.1.0 has been installed with support for i2 Analyze enabled. This is the default for a Typical installation, however in a Custom installation it is possible that i2 Analyze was not selected.

To install the i2 Insights, extract all components from the compressed file using the Extract All... option in the Windows right-click menu. Navigate to the root of the extracted folder and run setup.exe, then follow the installation prompts.

Features

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Data Management

The Data Management panel is the starting point for Insights, where you can provide supported file types that are automatically processed by the system.

Upon processing, the Data Management panel automatically shows a list of all the subjects within the files along with a list of called numbers.

You can use this panel to set the time period you're interested in, along with setting attributions to assign human-friendly names to the subject phone numbers.


Data Management Pane

Intelligence View - Dashboards

The Analyze tab in the intelligence view automatically shows Insights after the files have been processed. This panel can be configured to filter by event type or show & hide subjects. All of the widgets in the dashboard support exporting either as data or an image.

The Analyze tab has several dashboard components:

  • Histograms

    The Histogram shows all of the subject phone numbers activity over the period of time defined.

  • Communications

    The Communications Bar Charts show the activity of all of the subjects, highlighting which phones have been in the most calls, along with which device has made the most and received the most calls.

  • Hours Comparison

    The Hours Comparison widget shows the pattern of life for the subject phones, showing which time of the day the device was active.

  • Heat Matrix

    The Heat Matrix shows all of the subject phones activity, and can be configured to show only the subjects, the subjects and common numbers or all devices communicated with.


Intelligence View

Intelligence View - Lists

The Lists view shows all of the processed data files in one tabular list. This view supports searching through the view along with limiting the rows to the selected ones only.

You can export this list either to a formatted Excel file or a csv file.


Lists View

Mapping Enhancements

The mapping component shows both a condensed view and a split azimuth view on the chart surface. This setting can be configured in the Layers view. Other improvements include:

  • Ability to print the current map view
  • Drawing capabilities to annotate the map
  • Filtering subjects
  • Map Playback - a feature allowing events to be 'played' in a chronological order

Maps View

Analyst's Notebook Integration

Insights automatically charts all of the rows in the files provided, allowing use of the rest of the Analyst's Notebook capabilities.


Analyst's Notebook Chart

Version by Version comparison

The following table shows a comparison of features between recent versions of Analyst's Notebook:

🆕 = New Feature ✅ = Existing Feature ❌ = Feature Removed/Obsolete

FEATURESi2 Insights 1.0.0
Data Management🆕
Intelligence View - Dashboards🆕
Intelligence View - Lists🆕
Mapping Enhancements🆕
Analyst's Notebook Integration🆕

Supported File Types

The following file types are supported in this release:

  • XLSX
  • CSV

Call Data Records are supported by following providers in this release:

  • o2
  • H3G
  • EE
  • CDAN
  • Generic Template

Fixed and known issues

The issues that have been fixed in this release, and known issues.

Fixed issues

Issue NumberIssue title
Not applicable

Known issues

Issue NumberIssue title
Not applicable

System requirements

The following tables shows the system requirements for this release, and previous releases. These system requirements should be used to ensure that the setup you are running is fully supported. Ensure that existing deployments are upgraded to currently supported versions of all the software required.

🆕 = Newly supported ✅ = Supported ❌ = No longer supported

Operating systems

OPERATING SYSTEMSi2 Insights 10.1.0
Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise x64 (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro x64 (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise x64 (64-bit)1
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x64 (64-bit)1
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Essentials Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition1
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Essentials Edition1
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition1

1 Microsoft Windows 10 Pro amd Windows Server 2016 support will be deprecated in a future Analyst's Notebook release.

Note: i2 products are supported on hardware virtualization environments that run any of the operating systems that are listed in the detailed system requirements. When you run in a virtual environment, any issues that can be replicated by i2 in a supported operating system are addressed by using the standard support policy. Trial editions of i2 Analyst's Notebook cannot be run in virtualized environments.

Prerequisites

SOFTWARE PREREQUISITESi2 Insights 10.1.0
i2 Analyst's Notebook 10.1.0

Hardware

Hardware requirementsMinimumRecommended
Disk space1GB for installation plus additional working space
ProcessorIntel or AMD processor with 64-bit and SSE 4.2 support
2GHz or faster
Memory8GB16GB
Display1280 x 7681920 x 1080

Language support

i2 products are tested on a number of various regional variations of operating systems. At this release, i2 Insights is not translated, and is available in English only..

Operating system language support

i2 supports this product on the following regional versions of the supported operating systems:

Language Group/LanguageLanguage CollectionSupport Status
Western Europe and USABasic
Central EuropeBasic
BalticBasic
CyrillicBasic
TurkicBasic
ArabicComplex Script
JapaneseEast Asian
KoreanEast Asian
Traditional ChineseEast Asian
Simplified ChineseEast Asian
ThaiComplex Script
VietnameseComplex Script
GreekBasic
HebrewComplex Script
IndicComplex Script
GeorgianComplex Script
ArmenianComplex Script
DhivehiComplex Script
GalicianComplex Script
GujaratiComplex Script
KannadaComplex Script
KyrgyzComplex Script
Mongolian (Cyrillic)Complex Script
PunjabiComplex Script
SyriacComplex Script
TeluguComplex Script

Data support

i2 products support unicode data.

Translations

The following languages are supported:

Translationsi2 Insights
English