While the process of analyzing the results of data gathering differs for each project, there are several process techniques that a CI analyst should keep in mind in every situation. For convenience, we have divided them between evaluating data, on the one hand, and organizing your analysis, on the other.

Both evaluation and analysis are steps critical to the CI process. In practice, it is somewhat difficult to distinguish exactly where they begin and the process of collecting raw data ends. To try to separate them, use the following division: