Software and products

BrightPlanet™ Corporation, a provider of technology solutions for comprehensive researching, competitive monitoring and managing Internet-sourced information, has version 2 of the Deep Query Manager™ (DQM2). The DQM2 is an information management application for professional researchers that improves much of the discovery, processing and organizing of information found on-line. Subscription service. http://brightplanet.com/products/product_specs.asp

Use syndicated research to look at competitive spending directionally. If we assume the numbers are inaccurate, we can assume they're inaccurate across the board. We use the research to report on relative differences in spending across advertisers, as well as providing a reasonably good creative "clipping" tool to analyze creative and messaging. There are three leading services: Nielsen's AdRelevance and TNS Media Intelligence/CMR's AdNetTrackUS and Evaliant. ‘Taking stock of our toolbox, part 2.’ David Cohen. July 23 ClickZ Today. http://www.clickz.com/mkt/emkt_strat/article.php/2238761

Coemergence announced the release of ACIS(TM) 4.0. This new product release offers an extremely flexible application architecture, easily customizable for functions including business development, competitive intelligence, strategic planning, R&D, product development, and marketing, for any industry. ACIS(TM) balances automation with the value of human input and analysis, providing a competitive advantage to individuals, business units and companies through its Opportunity Discovery and Action Support methodology. Press release, July 29. http://www.coemergence.com

Editors of PC Magazine have selected Copernic Agent Basic 6.0 as the best search toolbar in their Utility Guide 2003. More specifically, Copernic Agent Basic was recognized, along with the Google and Merriam-Webster toolbars, as the best “Search Toolbar” in the Browsers Utilities category. Press Release, June 9. http://www.copernic.com/en/company/press/press-releases/press_53.html

Copernic Agent is a meta search engine, invisible web explorer, online research assistant and extensive tool box, all combined into an elegant, easy to use program. ‘Copernic Agent: jack of all searches.’ Chris Sherman. July 23, SearchEngineWatch. http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2237971

Entrieva announced that the US Army Chief Information Officer (CIO) has chosen Entrieva's Semio suite for taxonomy development and deployment, providing the Army the ability to quickly design and develop highly customized taxonomies for over 100 Communities of Practice and enable rapid deployment of Army's knowledge base across its 1.2 million users. Press Release, June 18. http://www.entrieva.com/entrieva/news/061803.asp?Hdr=releases

With more than 800 industry-focused terms, Factiva’s pharmaceutical and healthcare taxonomy is designed to help companies in those sectors organize and interpret information from both internal and external sources. Factiva says the new taxonomy is structured as a series of extensions to its existing Intelligent Indexing taxonomy, as used within Factiva’s business information services. Press release, July 16. www.factiva.com. http://www.kmworld.com/news/index.cfm?action=readnews&news_id=2875

CCBN (www.ccbn.com) announced it has acquired Fair Disclosure Financial Network’s corporate earnings call transcript and webcast distribution business. The acquisition will enable CCBN to deliver an expanded suite of services for investors and investor relations professionals to assist in managing the rapidly increasing amount of corporate disclosure information. Press release July 18. http://www.ccbn.com/news/news_releases_archive/releases2003/20030717.asp

Online advertising intelligence essentially enables subscribers of the service to find out what their competition is doing. The new Nielsen//NetRatings LemonAd service provides online advertising intelligence for eleven European markets including the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. ‘NetRatings expands into European online ad market. Mark Berniker. InternetNews, July 21. http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/2237951

Borders' newest venture, KeepMedia is an online portal that provides access to archives of 140 magazines for a monthly fee of about $5. It's also a one-stop entry point for current news, for those people who already hold subscriptions to any one of its publications. Members also can store articles, annotated with their own thoughts, within their online accounts and for access on any Net-enabled device. “Borders founder to open net newsstand.’  Stephanie Olsen. July 25, CNET news. http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5055614.html?tag=cd_mh

Oracle and Yahoo announced a relationship to provide enterprise customers with more news choices for their employee portals. Customers will have access to more than 100 pre-built news applications, called portlets, featuring content from more than 2,000 web and premium news and trade sources. ‘Oracle teams with Yahoo.’  July 16. http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/26289.html

Pacific Northwest National Laboratories has developed  a collection of 16 visualization technologies. Information Visualization is a highly efficient way for the mind to directly perceive data and discover knowledge and insight from it. http://www.pnl.gov/infoviz/technologies.html

PublicAds Competitive Analysis Comparison Report notes things competitors’ web sites might be doing better or worse than you, features they offer, how they fare in search engine rankings, the number of links into their site they have, and any other significant issues. Press release, Feb. 27. www.publicads.com

In this paper, we provide a review of related work and tools, a description of the VxInsight tool and its functionality, and then report on features of specific domain analyses used for competitive intelligence purposes at Sandia. The paper concludes with a summary of lessons learned and thoughts on the future of S&T management. ‘Domain visualization using VxInsight for science and technology management. Kevin Boyack et. al. preprint from JASIST, 2001. http://www.cs.sandia.gov/projects/VxInsight/pubs/jasist02_prepub.pdf  VxInsight web site http://www.cs.sandia.gov/projects/VxInsight.html

WebClipping.com is the world’s leading Internet-based Web intelligence gathering and monitoring service. The company’s proprietary technology, coupled with its database of online publications, Web sites, search engines and Usenet groups, provides a comprehensive, strategic Internet monitoring services. Subscription service.  http://www.webclipping.com/


scip.online, issue 37, August 8, 2003