NEW DATA MINING AND VISUALIZATION TOOL FROM THOMSON SCIENTIFIC ANSWERS THE PROBLEM OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD
Philadelphia, PA, USA - London, UK — November 28, 2005 — Today, Thomson Scientific announced the forthcoming launch of Thomson Data Analyzer, the powerful intelligence tool. The successor to Derwent AnalyticsSM, the Thomson Data Analyzer desktop software offers a powerful interface for managing and extracting business-critical insights from patent and scientific data within in-house or commercial databases.
Thomson Data Analyzer provides an easy way to analyze trends, profile competitors, avoid or uncover patent and copyright infringement, and identify strategic development opportunities in information from a wide variety of Thomson Scientific databases including:- value-added patent records from Derwent World Patents Index® and Patents Citation Index™
- full-text patent documents from Delphion®, MicroPatent PatentWeb® and Aureka®
- current and retrospective multidisciplinary journal information from Web of Science® and INSPEC, via ISI Web of KnowledgeSM
Customers including information specialists, legal professionals, research scientists, and human resources professionals can also adapt Thomson Data Analyzer to mine their own in-house databases and Microsoft Excel files.
Using the sophisticated technology of VantagePoint software from Search Technology, Inc., Thomson Data Analyzer enables users to analyze information from any structured database at their desktop, and to discover patterns and relationships that may not be immediately apparent.
“Thomson Data Analyzer is the second incarnation of Derwent Analytics, which was created in response to the challenge for businesses to fully understand and maximize the value of their own information and intellectual assets, and those of their competitors’,” said Nick Fallon, Director of Product Management, Thomson Scientific. “Thomson Data Analyzer answers the increasing problem of information overload, letting the technology do the hard work and freeing the user to focus on analysis, which they can now perform on an even wider range of data sources”.
Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com), with 2005 revenues of approximately $8.5 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 40,500 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Scientific is a business of Thomson Reuters. Its information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and development—from discovery to analysis to product development and distribution. Thomson scientific information solutions can be found at www.scientific.thomson.com.