Market research has shown
that per week, corporate R&D/science and engineering professionals spend*:
- 5.5 hours gathering, looking for or pulling together information.
- 4.7 hours analyzing and applying the information.
*Source: 2007 survey of 6,300 knowledge workers, Outsell, Inc
What is illumin8?
illumin8 is a research tool that extracts solutions in the form of products, organizations, approaches, and experts.
illumin8 was specifically designed to help corporate R&D knowledge workers with their Technology Intelligence questions. It quickly transforms vast amounts of information into solutions to research problems while providing insights, and supporting more informed decision making.
illumin8 accelerates innovation by:
• Integrating authoritative scientific, patent and web content
• Eliminating information overload
• Revealing solutions faster
• Saving valuable research time
• Increasing R&D productivity
• Giving companies a competitive advantag
Information overload is affecting how efficiently and effectively R&D operates. Project momentum slows when you have to spend hours, days and even weeks scanning thousands of search results and documents to find answers.
1. Intelligently reads web, scientific and patent content
2. Extracts, synthesizes and categorizes meaningful insights
3. Identifies solutions and insights that may be missed through keyword search
4. Classifies solutions by products, approaches, organizations and technologies
5. Transforms research from piles of documents to organized and actionable answers
6. Helps users identify and connect with key opinion leaders
7. Support interactive analysis of results
8. Facilitates collaboration and taps into the collective knowledge of team members
