The Forensic Data Engine
The Forensic Data Engine
(FDE) is a data management, analysis and communications tool for fraud auditing,
forensic accounting and investigation. It forms the heart of each of the four
phases of our Case Knowledge Management process which transforms case information
into knowledge: acquisition; organisation; analysis; and communication.
The FDE can be quickly
adapted to meet the requirements of any case and provides the following features:
Acquisition
- Efficient manual
data entry
- Rapid, easy import
from any electronic sources
- Image conversion
- Document management,
text recognition and search tools
Organisation
- Full featured,
multi-user ANSI standard Structured Query Language (SQL) relational database
- Quick data verification,
validation and editing
- Complete ANSI SQL
data integrity
- Supports all types
of data: text; numeric; graphics; audio; video
- Integration of
data from various sources (eg. telephone logs, account transactions and documents)
- Complete, multi-level
security system
Analysis
- SQL Query Builder
to analyse data (select records, perform calculations, sort results)
- Full featured 4GL
programming language with embedded SQL enables the use of any investigative
accounting technique or other analytical procedures such as statistical processing,
pattern recognition, engineering calculations etc.
- Export query results
to spreadsheets or other analytical software tools for further analysis
- Query Result Browser
for “browsing” the query results (on the PC screen) in order to refine the
query or create new queries
- Query Result Reporting
for printing query results in order to refine the query or create new queries
Communication
- Query Result Browser
for viewing query results on the PC screen
- Query Result Reporting
- integrated, full featured text and graphic client-ready report generator
- for printing query results
- Export query results
to spreadsheets for spreadsheet-style graphing
- Export query results
to word processors or email for user-customizable, client-ready reporting
and correspondence
- Export query results
to graphics/presentation programs to enable Dynamic Query Visualisation for
direct, accurate, data-driven, automated graphing, charting and animations
on demand
