• Companies – Current and Potential Product Portfolios
• Technology Landscapes – Present State and Future Developments

Features

• Any structured database, in-house or commercial (using Import Engine Editor)
• Value-added
  Value added
  In economics, the difference between the sale price and the production cost of a product is the value added per unit. Summing value added per unit over all units sold is total value added. Total value added is equivalent to Revenue less Outside Purchases...
  
   patent records from Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) on Dialog, STN, Questel.Orbit, Delphion, and Derwent Innovations Index
• Patents Citation Index
  Citation index
  A citation index is a kind of bibliographic database, an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents. The first citation indices were legal citators such as Shepard's Citations...
  
   on Dialog and STN
• Full-text patent documents from PatentWeb, Aureka, and Delphion
• Current and retrospective multidisciplinary journal information from INSPEC and Web of Science
  Web of Science
  ISI Web of Knowledge is an academic citation indexing and search service, which is combined with web linking and provided by Thomson Reuters. Web of Knowledge coverage encompasses the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It provides bibliographic content and the tools to access, analyze,...
  
   via ISI Web of Knowledge
• Data is auto-summarized as it is imported so you instantly see trends
• You can create composite records from different data sources to give you a multi-faceted view of a subject, e.g. PCI citation information into a full DWPI record; INSPEC classifications to a Web of Science citation record.
• Pre-defined tools enable you to perform automated analyses (macros) with a single click for detailed reporting on a single company or technology, or detailed comparisons of up to five companies

• Cleaned Lists e.g. combine company names to reflect M&A activity
• Classifications & Thesaurus - incorporate your organization’s terminologies and labels
• List Comparisons - identify unique or common items within and across files
• Co-occurrence
  Co-occurrence
  Co-occurrence or cooccurrence can either mean concurrence / coincidence or, in a more specific sense, the above-chance frequent occurrence of two terms from a text corpus alongside each other in a certain order. Co-occurrence in this linguistic sense can be interpreted as an indicator of semantic...
  
   matrices – see trends and relationships, e.g. a company’s patenting activity over time
• Maps – visualise relationships between people, companies and technologies

Applications

• Evolution of competitors' research and business strategies – for insight into future plans
• Current product portfolio strengths & weaknesses – for licensing / M&A opportunities
• Prolific inventors and their corporate collaborators – for head-hunting
  Headhunter
  Headhunter or head hunter may refer to:-General use:* Headhunting, the practice of literally taking a person's head after killing them* Headhunter, an informal name for an employment recruiter, sometimes referred to as executive searcher...
  
   / M&A

• Research and development
  Research and development
  The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of...
  
  opportunities
• Emerging trends and patterns
• Which technologies are hot (or just hyped)
• New areas to apply existing technologies