Crimewall Product Updates Q3, 2024

With Q3 of 2024 fully wrapped up, we want to let everyone know we’ve been up to, and it’s been another highly productive quarter for the Crimewall team! In this update, we’re excited to highlight the latest features and enhancements introduced to our flagship product. 

Let’s dive into the details!

New Features

This really is a bumper quarter, with a whole range of entirely new features, which expand and add more flexibility to the overall functionality, allowing  users to do things that just weren’t possible before. Here’s a rundown.

Collaborative Mode

Collaborative Mode is a powerful multi-user feature designed to enhance and facilitate teamwork within Crimewall. This feature allows multiple analysts to seamlessly work together in a shared space, facilitating real-time collaboration on investigations. 

Similar to Miro, Figma, and other collaboration apps, team members can now see each other’s live contributions to a given Crimewall project, whether it’s launching methods, expanding digital footprints, or just moving their mouse around. With Collaborative Mode, the entire team or unit can join forces and combine their efforts on the complex and demanding projects, significantly boosting efficiency and productivity. 

New Templates

We’re continually adding to our inbuilt templates, giving our users an ever-wider palette to work from. And our latest offering is the all-new, super useful Social Listening Template. This template is geared towards streamlining social listening on X (formerly Twitter). Simply input a hashtag, keyword, or phrase, to retrieve all relevant posts and conduct quick, automated sentiment analysis on them. The template also supports post extraction based on specific sentiments, allowing users to gain a targeted view of public opinion. 

The Social Listening Template dramatically accelerates the social analysis process, making it particularly valuable for investigations around brand protection. For instance, by entering a company name, you can quickly zero in on the related posts with an exclusively negative sentiment. This is a great way to size up public opinion, identify malicious campaigns and other potential issues, and develop effective strategies for continually protecting your brand and reputation.

Drag-and-Drop Image Import 

We understand that every second gained in an unfolding case is valuable. So we’ve provided a new option for image import that takes a couple of steps out of the process—our new Image Drag-and-Drop feature. This allows you to effortlessly upload images to a project, by simply selecting the image or images you want to import, then dragging them from your desktop onto the Crimewall graph. Designed specifically for user convenience, this feature allows you to get your data in a workable place with next to no effort—great for all cases, where time is of the essence!

Group/Sort Objects in the Navigation Tab

Organizing objects in Crimewall just got a lot more efficient thanks to our new Group/Sort Objects feature. This allows users to sort objects by element or number of connections, making it much easier to manage complex datasets—it’s particularly valuable for filtering and managing objects displayed on the graph. 

For instance, you can quickly select all email addresses within your investigation to perform targeted searches on associated LinkedIn accounts. Alternatively, you can highlight objects with a minimal amount of connections, to declutter and optimize your valuable workspace real estate. 

Bookmarks

When working with a complex informational picture, it’s often essential to have simple visual signifiers allowing you to recognize what’s what at a glance. So, we’ve introduced Bookmarks—a feature allowing users to easily select and categorize objects within Crimewall using customizable colors. 

This functionality is accessible across all view modes—graph, table, and map—enabling a versatile approach to data management. With Bookmarks, you can highlight and group objects according to your own logic—for example, you might want to focus on those related to a specific person, place, or topic. This intuitive organization method allows you to manage your data efficiently and in a way that makes intuitive sense specifically to you.

PDF Reports

SL Crimewall now allows users to automatically generate not only HTML but PDF reports as well. Crimewall reports are extremely user-friendly, capturing all data from your investigations, including objects, connections, clickable links, images, and other relevant details. These reports consolidate your investigation into a single, structured file, making it easy to share findings or archive data outside of the solution itself. 

UX/UI Updates

We’ve also brought new additions to the overall user experience and interface, focusing on both the Graph and Table views in SL Crimewall. 

In Graph View 

• Object Count. The interface now displays the number of objects within each group, providing immediate insights into the composition of each dataset. 
• Directional Connections. Connections now indicate direction to clarify relationships between objects.
• Link Labels have been added for improved context. 
• Grouping. Users can now group, ungroup, and delete multiple groups at once, streamlining workflow management. 
• Organic Layout. This new setting allows for a more intuitive visual arrangement, enhancing overall navigation. 

In Table view

• Collapsable Properties. A new feature where users can hide specific property columns. This gives you greater control over the data you want to display, making it easier to focus on the most relevant information during analysis. 

Functionality Improvements

On top of all these great new additions, we’ve also been hard at work enhancing operability across the whole functionality, bringing all kinds of improvements and fixes to a range of existing features. 

Monitoring and Tasks

• Users can now benefit from more detailed monitoring notification emails, for more comprehensive insights into ongoing activities and results. This enhancement ensures that users stay informed about significant developments without needing to constantly log into the platform itself. 
• We’ve introduced the ability to temporarily pause monitoring tasks. This feature allows users to manage their workflow more flexibly, enabling them to halt monitoring during specific periods without losing progress or data integrity. 
• We’ve improved the user experience (UX) for accessing result documents, making it easier to locate and review relevant findings. 

UX/UI

• Users can now disable automerge, meaning you now have greater control over how objects are combined and can carry out more precise data management. 
• We’ve refined the algorithm for creating objects from properties, resulting in faster and more accurate object creation. 
• To enhance visibility, filled properties are now shown first in the right panel, making it easier to identify relevant data at a glance. 
• In the Methods tab, methods are now sorted alphabetically, providing users with quicker access to the tools they need. 
• We’ve improved interaction with Advanced Search, making it more intuitive and responsive.
• Images in Table View are now displayed more effectively, improving the overall visual experience. 
• We've updated the icons in Graph View making them clearer and more recognizable. 
• Groups are now automatically renamed when all elements are of the same type, simplifying organization and enhancing data presentation. 

Stability and Performance

• The platform has now been optimized for multitasking, enabling users to work more effectively without sacrificing performance. 
• Users will notice faster response when working with groups, allowing for quicker organization and management of data. 
• Automatic merging has also been enhanced, making it quicker and  easier to consolidate data seamlessly. 
• We’ve made some important fixes—crashes are no longer an issue when merging a large number of entities, meaning you’ll experience smoother operation even during large-scale data processing. 
• Lastly, we’ve resolved issues with system responses being lost, enhancing the reliability of interactions within the platform.

And that wraps up our Crimewall updates for Q3, 2024. We’re continually working away to create the most powerful, effective, and user-friendly solution we can, so you can expect another bumper set of updates at the end of the year, after Q4. In the meantime, if you have any questions about the new features or want to find out more about Social Links products, follow the link below to book a call with one of our specialists.