What FMS Advanced Systems Group does

FMS Advanced Systems Group (operating as FMS, Inc.) is a privately held, Vienna, Virginia-based software company founded in 1986 that sells Sentinel Visualizer, a Windows-based link analysis and data visualization platform. The product is built on Microsoft SQL Server with a Visual Studio .NET architecture and integrates advanced link analysis, social network analysis (SNA), geospatial mapping (Microsoft Bing Maps, Google Earth, ESRI ArcGIS), and temporal/timeline visualization in a single desktop application. Four commercial editions are sold under perpetual licenses ($2,999-$6,999) with optional annual support contracts ($599-$1,299) and an alternative Premium-tier SaaS subscription; a free Sentinel Visualizer Reader is offered for distributing read-only link charts.

The company serves law enforcement, federal/state/local government and intelligence agencies, commercial fraud teams, law firms, and academic/investigative-journalism researchers, with named deployments supporting a $250M insurance fraud settlement and a €5B EU VAT fraud investigation. FMS is an In-Q-Tel portfolio company and Microsoft Certified Partner, and operates with a small team (11-50 employees) through a direct sales motion, a free-trial product-led funnel, and a channel of system integrators, consultants, and ISVs. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; the firm has been continuously operating for nearly four decades without external funding events appearing in the input data.

Name

FMS Advanced Systems Group

Legal name

FMS, Inc.

Website

https://fmsasg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

FMS Advanced Systems Group is a Vienna, Virginia-based software company that sells Sentinel Visualizer, a Windows link-analysis and data-visualization platform used by law enforcement, intelligence agencies, governments, legal teams, and researchers to uncover hidden relationships in complex data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Vienna

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Perpetual Software Licenses: One-time purchase perpetual licenses for Sentinel Visualizer software. Buy once, the software works forever even without annual support plan. Four editions available: Standard ($2,999), Professional ($3,599), Premium ($4,599), Ultimate ($6,999).
2. Annual Software Support: Optional annual support contracts providing priority telephone and email support with one business-day response time, plus all software upgrades at no additional charge. Support pricing: Standard $599/yr, Professional $699/yr, Premium $899/yr, Ultimate $1,299/yr.
3. Concurrency Licensing: One-time add-on fee of $899 per license for concurrency option allowing software installation on unlimited computers while limiting simultaneous users. Requires annual support contract.
4. Software as a Service (SAAS): Subscription alternative to perpetual license for Premium Edition. Pricing: 1 Month $499, 3 Months $999, 12 Months $2,999. Desktop solution requiring Internet connection.
5. Training and Consulting Services: Additional fee services including training on software usage, data organization and configuration assistance, and custom consulting. Provided by FMS team.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

FMS Advanced Systems Group develops and sells Sentinel Visualizer, a Windows-based data visualization and link analysis software built on Microsoft SQL Server. The platform combines advanced link analysis, social network analysis (SNA), geospatial mapping, and temporal/timeline visualization into a single integrated desktop application originally created for the U.S. Intelligence Community and now used by law enforcement, government, legal, and commercial investigative customers worldwide.

Product overview

FMS Advanced Systems Group offers Sentinel Visualizer, a unified data visualization and link analysis platform built as a Windows desktop application with Microsoft SQL Server backend. The product portfolio includes four editions (Standard, Professional, Premium, Ultimate) ranging from $2,999 to $6,999 perpetual licenses, differentiated by deployment scope (single-user vs. multi-user), geospatial capabilities, and security features. A free Sentinel Visualizer Reader enables distribution of read-only charts. The core platform integrates link analysis, Social Network Analysis (SNA), geospatial mapping, and temporal/timeline visualization as a single integrated solution rather than separate modules.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sentinel Visualizer: Advanced Link Analysis, Data Visualization, Social Network Analysis (SNA), and Geospatial Mapping software. A Windows-based data visualization and analysis solution for big data, originally created for the Intelligence Community.

Products and services

• Sentinel Visualizer Windows-based data visualization, link analysis, and knowledgebase management software that produces interactive dynamic link charts, timeline and geospatial views with integrated Social Network Analysis (SNA) for identifying hidden relationships among people, places, and events. Built on Microsoft SQL Server; originally created for the U.S. Intelligence Community and sold to law enforcement, government, legal, and commercial investigative customers worldwide.
• Sentinel Visualizer Standard Edition Entry-level single-user perpetual-license edition priced at $2,999 per computer/user. Provides unlimited entities, relationships and metadata, import from Excel/Access/SQL Server/text, automated layouts, SNA metrics, 3D visualization, temporal analysis, document search, and query builder. Database resides on local hard drive.
• Sentinel Visualizer Professional Edition Single-user perpetual-license edition priced at $3,599 per computer/user. Adds all Standard features plus geospatial maps with Microsoft Bing Maps satellite/street/hybrid views, ESRI ArcGIS support, and Google Earth integration.
• Sentinel Visualizer Premium Edition Multi-user perpetual-license edition priced at $4,599 per computer/user. Adds all Professional features plus shared SQL Server database (network or Azure cloud), concurrency option, and team collaboration. Also available as SaaS subscription: 1 month $499, 3 months $999, 12 months $2,999.
• Sentinel Visualizer Ultimate Edition Full-featured perpetual-license edition priced at $6,999 per computer/user. Adds all Premium capabilities plus Advanced Security with granular read/write/view-only permissions at the user level for complete data security.
• Sentinel Visualizer Reader Free, view-only desktop application that opens link analysis charts created by licensed Sentinel Visualizer users. Recipients can view charts and drill down to underlying data including metadata, notes, topics, and documents but cannot modify data; supports SVX file export and direct database connection for authorized users.
• Sentinel Visualizer Annual Software Support Optional annual support contract providing priority telephone and email support with one-business-day response time plus all software upgrades at no additional charge. Priced $599/yr (Standard), $699/yr (Professional), $899/yr (Premium), $1,299/yr (Ultimate).
• Sentinel Visualizer Training and Consulting Services Fee-based professional services delivered by the FMS team covering training on software usage, data organization and configuration assistance, and custom consulting engagements.

Quantifiable outcome

• $250 million insurance fraud settlement achieved by Clifford Law Firm using Sentinel Visualizer data analytics
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• MicrosoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationMicrosoft Certified Partner and member of Microsoft Partner Network. Sentinel Visualizer is built on Microsoft SQL Server and Visual Studio .NET. Supports Microsoft Azure cloud hosting. Uses Microsoft Bing Maps for geospatial features. Includes free SQL Express with all editions.
• System Integrators and ConsultantsminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPartners providing services to government and commercial customers seeking analytic solutions. FMS welcomes partnerships with system integrators, consultants, independent software vendors, and OEMs.
• GooglecoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration with Google Earth for geospatial visualization. Sentinel Visualizer can export data to Google Earth for location pinning, link display, and timeline filtering. Google Earth is free download.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• SAS Visual Analytics: SAS provides a broad data visualization, analytics, and investigation platform (including anti-fraud, AML, and law enforcement modules) used by government and commercial enterprises — a broader incumbent that overlaps with parts of Sentinel Visualizer's footprint.
• Palantir Technologies: Palantir (Gotham/Foundry) serves many of the same government, intelligence, and defense customers with broader data integration and analytics. It overlaps in investigative link analysis at scale but addresses a wider portfolio than Sentinel Visualizer's niche.

Direct peers

• Linkurious: Linkurious provides graph visualization and link analysis built on Neo4j/OrientDB for fraud, AML, intelligence, and cyber use cases — directly competing in the same investigative analytics category as Sentinel Visualizer.
• Maltego: Maltego (by Maltego Technologies) provides OSINT-driven link analysis and entity visualization — a directly comparable investigative analytics product targeting law enforcement, cybersecurity, and fraud analysts alongside Sentinel Visualizer.
• Visallo: Visallo is an investigative analytics platform focused on law enforcement, fraud, and intelligence use cases with link analysis and visualization — directly competing for overlapping buyer segments.
• IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook: IBM's investigative link analysis platform originally from i2 Limited; the dominant incumbent in law enforcement, intelligence, and defense. FMS explicitly benchmarks against i2 on features and pricing, confirming head-to-head competition for the same buyer.

Emerging players

• Babel Street: Babel Street offers OSINT and cross-lingual analytics platforms used by intelligence, law enforcement, and defense — partially overlapping with Sentinel Visualizer's investigative use cases around people/event/place analysis.
• Dataminr: Dataminr delivers real-time event and risk detection across public data streams for enterprise security, defense, and news — an adjacent player whose entity/relationship event model intersects with Sentinel Visualizer's link analysis.
• Tom Sawyer Software: Tom Sawyer Software provides advanced graph visualization and link analysis tools for enterprise and government analytics — overlapping in graph layout, SNA, and link-charting capabilities that compete with Sentinel Visualizer's analytic visualization.

Others

• Cellavision / Cyacel (graph & intelligence analytics): Adjacent graph- and intelligence-analytics vendors in the investigative software ecosystem that occasionally co-exist or compete with Sentinel Visualizer in specific government and defense deployments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/sentinelvis

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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