The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) uses a Neo4j database supplemented by a cloud search index, as well as AWS and Azure document stores, to analyze conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. They partnered with the Institute for the Study of War to create the Critical Threats Project, which aims to model a transformation in open-source intelligence generation and use. AEI's work includes mapping networks such as the Salafi-jihadi network in the Sahel region of Africa, uncovering previously unknown connections between the network and local tribal and ethnic groups. The team found that graph databases like Neo4j are optimal for integrating and analyzing diverse datasets, and they concluded that these systems should become core backbones for analytical organizations within the government and beyond. They also emphasized the importance of designing software tools to match existing workflows as precisely as possible, and the need for seamless integration with user interfaces.