The gathered and stored intelligence would just contribute to the organization’s overhead and dead assets if there was not any effective processing involved in the effort. Processing intelligence in an electronic fashion might be simple access rights execution via company network locations or much more sophisticated activities such as feeding web based portals or customized and personalized employee’s desktop interfaces.
There are two processing stages when delivering intelligence to intelligence users within an organization: the electronic processing and the actual usage by human users.
Intelligence that is gathered and stored thereafter needs to be brought to the attention of human intelligence users or at least be made accessible. Depending on the delivery and dissemination method, processing could mean feeding abstracts with hyperlinks onto platforms such as socialized or customized portals or portlets or contributing to more complex on-the-fly calculations of marketing key data to support the marketing planning process.