STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the expansion of illumin8, its semantic search tool first launched in 2008. illumin8, which indexes scientific, patent, news and web content from Elsevier and other trusted sources, now offers a range of new features. These include an improved ability to explore technology trends and white space opportunities, evaluate potential new technologies and product applications, and compare organisations, products, people and approaches.
The functionality of illumin8 is further enhanced by the introduction of illumin8 Reports - customisable documents that users can create to share their findings and analysis of a research topic. The new functionality was developed based on customer requests and testing with a representative group drawn from the thousands of illumin8 users worldwide - including innovation leaders and R&D scientists and engineers from leading Fortune 500 companies. illumin8 customers come from across industries such as automotive, chemicals, and consumer packaged goods. The web-based tool has been enhanced to closely align with its users' workflow and the questions they need to answer at the front-end of innovation.
illumin8 supports an organisation's innovation platform by helping identify new technologies and applications for product development, supporting risk assessment of entering new market space, uncovering competitor activity and helping identify potential new partners or suppliers. Unlike regular search platforms, illumin8 is able to easily identify and show relationships between concepts and entities such as technologies, organisations, products, and scientific approaches.
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