IvySys is a boutique software company specializing in providing automated solutions for critical intelligence analysis and threat awareness problems using its signal processing-based advanced analytics capabilities. IvySys is a leader in big data integration, predictive analytics, and analytic modernization software. IvySys develops big data integration software solutions that enable existing intelligence analytics tools to securely share data, while providing capabilities to automatically synchronize, disambiguate, and align entities/objects across disparate data stores. IvySys data integration solutions provide seamless intelligence software system interoperability and information sharing to facilitate object-based production in a cloud-computing environment. IvySys leverages its extensive signal processing expertise to develop advanced software tools that accurately model and predict the way information and behaviors propagate over online social networks to provide early warning of emerging national security threats. The IvySys approach uses model-based predictive analytic techniques to accurately detect early in the diffusion process alarming social media signals, representing significant potential threat activities, that will propagate widely in the future. IvySys uses novel sparse sampling techniques to efficiently process large volumes and varieties of social media data produced at a rapid velocity, while enabling precise prediction of future threat activities. IvySys rapidly prototypes analytic modernization software to provide intelligence integration in support of critical situational awareness missions. IvySys has developed a variety of analytic capabilities that enable automation and modernization of intelligence analyst workflow processes. Some analytic capabilities include automated indexing of all source intelligence documents, historical trend analysis of topics, and automated alerts and warnings.