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2008 NEWS
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Software Helps Researchers Answer Their Questions Faster |
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Streamlined R&D Research |
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Open Innovation Becoming Key to R&D Success [Not Available Online] |
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illumin8-ing Improvements for Knowledge Workers? |
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Scientific Inquiry: New Search Engine Tool Helps Packaging Research Reap Benefits of Investment [Printed Newsletter] |
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Elsevier and NetBase Launch illumin8 |
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Elsevier's Illumin8 Unleashes Semantic Search on Intelligence for R&D |
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Search Engines Could Be the Answer |
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Scientific/engineering and cultural content moving toward the Semantic Web |
Briefs
2007 NEWS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcing the August, 2008 Release of illumin8
Elsevier and NetBase are proud to announce the latest release of illumin8. As with previous releases, thanks are due to the illumin8 users for the suggestions and feedback that make illumin8 a 'killer' research product for R&D. Learn more on the illumin8 blog.
NetBase Indexes 6 Billion Documents
NetBase is pleased to announce the achievement of another technical milestone for its research engine by semantically indexing over 6 billion documents. Unlike traditional "keyword" search engines, the NetBase research engine uses advanced linguistics to read every sentence of documents to extract rich information and relationships and organize it into meaningful categories for researchers. NetBase's research engine is the first deep semantic/linguistic search platform to be deployed commercially at Internet scale. The combination of rich semantics and massive amounts of source data make illumin8 and other NetBase-powered products uniquely valuable for researchers.
Merrill Brenner Joins NetBase's Advisory Board
NetBase is pleased to announce that Merrill Brenner, formerly of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., has joined its advisory board. Merrill has over 30 years of helping Fortune 500 companies understand how to leverage information to achieve business results in R&D, Technology Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence, and Partnering activities.
Said Jens Tellefsen, NetBase’s Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy, “Merrill’s tremendous amount of experience in building systems and processes to help companies make better, faster decisions is directly relevant to the NetBase research engine, and to the applications it powers, such as illumin8. We are excited to have the opportunity to work with Merrill.”
Accelovation Inc. is now NetBase
Effective immediately, Accelovation is now NetBase. In moving from a single product company to a multi-solution research platform, we believe this new identity better reflects our expanded focus and product capabilities.
“Our new company name, NetBase, is derived from our continued
focus on organizing and interrelating information on the web and other
content sources to unlock the potential of digital information for
organizations.” - Jonathan Spier, CEO, NetBase.
Although our company name has changed, our focus has not: providing tools to help knowledge workers find actionable insights smarter and faster.
Elsevier and NetBase Form Strategic Alliance
Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of science and health information with 30 million users worldwide, and NetBase have formed a strategic alliance to deliver a revolutionary research tool designed for R&D professionals called illumin8.
illumin8, is a hosted research tool designed to help scientists, engineers and R&D professionals quickly discover and explore organizations, products, technical approaches, and other interrelated information across industries. illumin8 is powered by NetBase, and combines our business-relevant web content with the vast amount of Elsevier’s full-text articles, scientific abstracts, and patents. In addition, illumin8 susbscribers will be able to easily access the full-text of Elsevier journals if they have an online subscription to the journal through ScienceDirect, the world’s largest online platform of science, technical and medical (STM) content.
The result is a significant reduction of time and work required by
researchers to:
- Get up to speed in new areas
- Find technical solutions
- Map technology landscapes
- Conduct competitive intelligence