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SCRA's Alastar Unveils Comprehensive Social Media Tool
[October 30, 2014]

SCRA's Alastar Unveils Comprehensive Social Media Tool


SUMMERVILLE, S.C. --(Business Wire)--

SCRA today announced the latest release of their situational awareness software, Alastar.

"Reveille" includes several substantial enhancements of Alastar's Social Media Widget. The first enhancement now allows the user to search both geo-located feeds and the feeds with no location defined, which represent the majority of public social media postings. This feature allows Alastar users, including public information officers and emergency managers, to see firsthand what the public is posting about an event or incident and allows for a more comprehensive search by analysts. The second enhancement, the Social Media Wall, will display all social media search results on a wall view. Both of these enhancements create significant new capabilities for personnel in real-time crime centers, allowing expanded options from the geospatial and tabular views in previous versions of the software.

"Alastar provides the ig picture and the ability to share that across multiple agencies, providing effective and efficient responses," said SCRA Applied R&D Vice President Mark Aukamp. "The product delivers situational awareness and provides a common operating picture for public safety and corporate organizations. We are pleased to release the Reveille version of our software, which will allow users to better leverage social media feeds."



The Alastar team attended the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Orlando, Fla. last week, where they showcased the software's new social media features. The team will next be at the National Fusion Center Conference in Alexandria, Virginia.

About SCRA


http://www.scra.org/

SCRA is an applied research corporation with over 30 years of experience delivering technology solutions with high returns on investment to federal and corporate clients. To fulfill our mission, SCRA has three sectors: Our Technology Ventures sector has helped over 300 early-stage companies to commercialize innovations and create jobs, our Applied R&D sector manages over 100 national and international programs worth over $2 billion in contract value, and our R&D Facilities sector builds and manages research facilities that include wet labs, secure rooms for sensitive work and advanced, high-tech manufacturing shops. Multiple economic impact studies show SCRA's cumulative output into South Carolina's economy to be over $16.6 billion.


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