A computer-based platform is provided for integrating data from multiple
systems including (but not limited to) point of sale (POS) terminals,
video systems, electronic article surveillance (EAS) systems, automatic
teller machines (ATMs), gas pumps, alarm systems, radio frequency
identification (RFID) detection systems, etc. The subject computer-based
platform is configured to gather and correlate data (e.g., transactional
data and/or video data), package such data into multiple discrete system
"events", and to provide various features for proactively identifying
selected events as "exceptions". Additional aspects of the computer-based
platform may be utilized to provide signaled identification to a user of
identified exceptions and other integrated system data. Still further
aspects of the platform can be used to group these new events to create
larger groupings of multiple transactions, events, data, exceptions,
and/or research. This larger grouping can be derived from similar or
diverse input systems and can be treated as a new entity that can be
acted on independently.