When your business operates globally, you need to make decisions based on the best information and advice.

Scott Owen Associates provides information services to clients in the energy, engineering, construction, defence, pharmaceutical, financial services, insurance and media sectors. We meet their needs through a suite of accurate, timely and relevant information and intelligence products designed to address directly the questions and requirements of corporate clients. We make information available through our online subscription services or through bespoke research and analysis.

Information to Intelligence

Scott Owen Associates is not merely an information aggregator, reformatting open source information and reissuing it to clients. We turn raw information into actionable intelligence that can be used to help you protect your people, assets, information and reputation.

The number of information sources and delivery channels is increasing all the time: from the burgeoning number of 24-hour news channels, web-based resources and blogs to newspapers and freely available government-sponsored information portals such as the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The vast quantity of information available requires expert analysis and handling, and end users have to be more discerning and questioning of their information sources than ever before.

We review thousands of these sources of information every month on behalf of our clients, assessing the reliability and accuracy, not only of the source itself, but of the information they are providing. We also commission our own bespoke research and analysis, undertake our own collection operations and gain first-hand insights from our offices and teams around the globe, all of which feeds into our operations centres, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Our team of intelligence analysts collate, cross-reference and analyse this raw information, adding context and expert comment to deliver intelligence reporting that supports the corporate decision-making process. End users can thus be confident that they have the best information and intelligence available to help protect their people and business interests.

Bespoke research and assessment

In many cases, clients have a need for research and analysis tailored for a specific need

This may range from the information needed to support decision-making in international investment planning through to analysing insurance risks and exposure. Scott Owen Associates' intelligence team comprises political risk analysts, security specialists, military analysts, economists and global security commentators with a wide range of experience and skills that can be applied to produce expert analysis.

24/7 support and response

Scott Owen Associates' operations centres are manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Our operations controllers provide a first point of contact for corporate headquarters, regional offices and individual travellers who may require immediate advice and support ranging from a traffic accident in Saudi Arabia through to dealing with the aftermath of a terrorist atrocity in the Far East.

Our controllers will guide and support you through the critical first minutes of an incident or problem, using the many sophisticated tools that they have at their disposal. These include satellite-tracking systems, CCTV over IP, GPS mapping, up-to-the-minute information, and intelligence and advanced overhead imagery systems.