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Product Review of Innography (Value - Development & Pricing)
18th August 2014
In the final part of her review of Innography's intellectual property research products, Cathy Chiba covers the platform's maturity and development programme. She outlines the pricing options for Advanced Analysis, Innography Explorer and PatentScout and details the value each of the three solutions offers decision-makers in the IP and technology development field.
Why Social Implementations Can Fail
18th August 2014
Failure, we all try to avoid it, but sometimes through no fault of our own, it can rear its very ugly head. When it comes to social media projects in particular, defeat can be something that is encountered all too regularly. But with many companies having seen the benefits that using social tools have brought their competitors and peers, the pressure on information and knowledge managers to implement these tools can be extreme. Implementing a social tool is a difficult process and there are many different issues to consider to ensure success - James Mullan identifies some of the most significant challenges.
Product Review of Innography (Value - Overview and Competitors)
15th August 2014
The value offered by Innography's intellectual property business intelligence tools are covered in the ninth part of Cathy Chiba's review. She also investigates the competitor landscape, from patent information providers to those in the legal information and competitive intelligence space.
Product Review of Innography (Technology - PatentScout; FreePint's View)
14th August 2014
In the eighth part of her review of Innography, Cathy Chiba introduces PatentScout, a secure, private alternative to free online patent databases. She looks into the features designed to encourage user adoption and reduce the administrative load of policing corporate usage of free online tools - and explains why IP-savvy organisations will find this tool of interest.
How to Avoid Collaboration Fatigue
14th August 2014
We all understand - or at least think we understand - the benefits of collaboration, and in the last 10 years the collaboration industry has done a fantastic job of delivering a range of tools that have made it easier and easier for team members to collaborate with fewer and fewer barriers. Today the unified communications tools and systems we have available in our organisations have virtually eliminated the barriers to both collaborating with colleagues and sharing knowledge. However is there a dark side to collaboration that we dare not write about until now, the idea of collaboration fatigue.
Product Review of Innography (Technology - Innography Explorer; FreePint's View)
13th August 2014
The seventh part of Cathy Chiba's review of Innography examines Innography Explorer, the application for R&D teams and technical decision-makers, which provides features for secure collaboration as well as workflow templates for idea validation and invention disclosure preparation. She also gives FreePint's View of Advanced Analysis and Innography Explorer.
The KYC Conundrum - Should You Outsource?
13th August 2014
Darren Hickman examines whether companies should carry out Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures in-house or whether they should embrace outsourcing. He explains the options, the pitfalls and where to start. A useful market overview of the key providers and key technologies is included along with a checklist to identify the true costs of current processes.
Product Review of Innography (Technology - Advanced Analysis, Results Display & Outputs)
13th August 2014
In the sixth part of her review of Innography, Cathy Chiba takes a close look at Advanced Analysis, the suite of intellectual property research, analysis, visualisation, and workflow tools for business decision makers. She looks at features such as interactive data visualisations, Company Comparisons, and CustomStrength (where users create their own algorithmic approaches to IP objectives). Cathy also puts Innography Playbooks through their paces, to see how the workflow facilitation tools work for different scenarios. Finally the administration of user accounts, security and help options are discussed.
BYOD Brings Challenges to IT Departments
13th August 2014
FreePint writers have been commenting on the subject of Bring Your Own Device for a number of years now but whilst the concepts have been around for a number of years, it's only now that we're beginning to see both the true value and the issues organisations have with BYOD. IT departments, in particular, have been at the forefront of the adoption of BYOD within organisations, but for many IT departments it can be a challenge to manage the huge number of devices that individuals now have whilst ensuring security especially in relation to access is still taken seriously. James Mullan asks why BYOD can be such a nightmare for IT departments and as a consequence for those individuals who might want to use their own device.
Product Review of Innography (Technology - Advanced Analysis, Inputs & Search)
12th August 2014
In the fifth part of her review of Innography, Cathy Chiba takes a close look at the technology elements of Advanced Analysis, as well as target users and use cases for this enterprise level decision-support tool for intellectual property business intelligence. She also examines the search workflow, language customisation options and advanced search options. Innography's proprietary Semantic Search is put through a thorough test.
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