Performing a Relationship Search
Relationship searches enable investigators to discover unknown relationships between objects. These searches enable you to specify up to 10 queries, as well as search direct relationships up to five objects. On running the search, SAS Visual Investigator displays a network diagram of all the returned, linked nodes. The purpose of this post is to show how to create and run a relationship search in SAS Anti-Money Laundering, which is a solution built on SAS Visual Investigator.
Let’s say that law enforcement in Illinois called and are interested in discussing any SARs filed in their area. I’ll create a relationship search to find these SARs.
On the menu bar, click Search. And, on the Search page, for Type, I select Relationship search.
Next, I define the relationship. The object types I select here depend on the relationships that are set up in my environment as well as the data that exists in the system. I am looking for relationships between the regulatory report entity and the address entity. However, there’s not a direct relationship defined between these two objects in my system. Because of that, I’ll need the system to search from the regulatory report, through the case, through the customer, and then to the address. Let’s take a look.
Undefined search is already selected. For Object type, I’ll select Regulatory Report. Because I’m looking for all SARs in Illinois, I don’t need to specify any further search criteria for the regulatory report. Notice the 1 between the search objects in the screenshot above. This causes the relationship search to return network diagrams that include only direct links between all of the selected object types. With the separation level set to 1, I can define the relationship attribute that must be present between the objects. If I click the 1, I can change the separation level from the menu. This causes the relationship search to return network diagrams that include indirect links between the two defined object types. I’ll leave the separation as 1 level.
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Next, I select the other Undefined search. Again, since there’s no direct relationship between regulatory report and address, I’ll first need to select Case, and then Customer. For this Object type, I select Case. I click Add object query, and for Object type, I select Customer. I click Add object query again, and this time, I select Address for Object type. Because I’m specifically looking for SARs in Illinois, in the Search “Address” field, I enter Illinois.
It’s important to mention that I can add additional object types up to a maximum of four hops. I currently have three, so I could add one more, if needed.
Now, on the toolbar, I click Search.
From the results, I see that Pat Dobbs and David Pompis each have SARs filed in Illinois.
I can double-click any of these nodes to see additional information.
To view more information about searching or our SAS Anti-Money Laundering solution in general, please visit https://support.sas.com/en/software/sas-anti-money-laundering-support.html.
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