VA: Unlocking Innovation through Synergic IBM Partnerships

For Shane Britten, soon after taking up the role of CEO at VA, the first thing on his agenda was to bring about a major change: to make his company a forward-thinking, adaptive, and innovative technical solutions provider. By leveraging its partnership with IBM effectively, the Australia-based company has sought to address the big data-centric challenges that its clients face, especially in the areas of defense, law enforcement, corrections, financial, and commercial intelligence. To that end, the company has been an early endorser and an expert in delivering the IBM i2 product suite. Being backed by a technological giant like IBM has positioned VA at a superior level of technical efficacy to gain and maintain the edge of delivering robust and easy-to-use solutions to their clients.

“We have helped our clients achieve great success in fraud and crime prevention, insider threat detection, regulatory compliance, and broader investigations,” says Britten. VA provides a high level of service to their diverse client base that faces a common challenge of managing enormous amounts of data pouring in from various sources. The company’s solutions can fuse together data from multiple sources that range from databases, applications, and systems, and present analysts with one view of their data, thereby enhancing their ability to draw values and insights. From open-source information, social media sources, internal repositories, and enterprise systems, analysts can retrieve and visualize all information associated with an investigation.

When it comes to deployment, VA enables its potential clients to either make more of the IBM i2 suite, should they be using it already or can help them to setup the powerful toolset from scratch. Like Britten—who hails from a strong Australian intelligence background— most of VA’s employees comprise skilled practitioners from intelligence, law enforcement, and military domains. By offering online training courses, added recently to its portfolio under Britten’s leadership, VA goes the extra mile to ensure its expertise translates to be equally resourceful for their clientele.