Reducing Research Time and Costs in the Corporate Environment

One of the many unseen costs in corporations is the actual time spent doing research for the company. Researchers, product managers and scientists use a significant time researching a wide variety of sources to bring a new product to market. There are multiple costs in research. First, there is the cost of the research materials themselves, namely the journals and subscription content that every technology driven organization uses to keep ahead of developments in the field. Maximizing utilization of subscription content is important to an enterprise. No one wants to buy content and then have it sit in the equivalent of a digital closet because the interface is too hard to use or there are too many interfaces to search for multiple sources. Enterprises want to get the maximum value for their subscription dollar.

The cost of the content isn’t the only cost to be considered either. Research scientists are paid on average $84,000 annually. A principal research scientist earns on average $120,000. In organizations that are primarily research driven such as aerospace, semiconductors, chemical manufacturing, law and engineering, time spent in research is time not spent developing a product, improving a process or inventing the next great widget. Research needs to get done, and quickly, without any sacrifice on breadth or depth of research.

Federated search addresses these two cost areas of research while providing a third benefit to organizations. By providing a single point to searching hundreds of sources, researchers can issue a single search request through a simple Google-like interface and get thousands of results sorted by semantically related concepts. Compare this with issuing multiple, individual search requests, then collating the results across multiple applications, de-duping the results and then getting the full text; federated search speeds this process up with every source that a researcher needs. Furthermore federated search decreases the likelihood of missing an important document. By extending the search across multiple sources, you give researchers more time to go in depth into the results. This significantly cuts the time to result for a researcher to begin analysis and to do the real job he or she is paid to do – build that next generation product, improve that process or design that industrial process.

Deep Web Technologies Explorit is used by some of the world’s leading research organizations to speed research. Our corporate customers are world leaders such as Boeing in aerospace, Intel in semiconductors and BASF in chemicals. These organizations have chosen Explorit to provide a competitive advantage in today’s world. Isn’t it time your firm looked at improving it’s bottom line and competitiveness? If you are interested in reducing research time and research costs and improving the effectiveness of your knowledge enterprise, contact Brian Despain, VP of Sales, toll free: 866-388-1407 x235 or visit Deep Web Technology and click on the chat link during business hours.