Research Professionals Applaud STN AnaVist

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Research Professionals Applaud STN AnaVist

Analysis/Visualization Software Aims for New Standard in Patent and
Competitive Analysis Tools


Columbus, Ohio / Karlsruhe, Germany, July 18, 2005 - Chemical Abstracts
Service and FIZ Karlsruhe have officially launched their new STN =
AnaVist
software. After months of extensive use in testing, research
professionals and other experts predict that STN AnaVist will quickly
establish itself as a standard for patent and competitive intelligence
analysis tools. They are hailing STN AnaVist's innovative capabilities
including its intellectually-based standardization of fielded data from
patent and non-patent literature, coupled with an interactive approach
for viewing data relationships.

"STN AnaVist is an easy-to-use tool providing concise, graphically
well-presented patent analyses" said Dr. Gisela Darges, Competitive
Intelligence, Degussa AG. "Of particular interest are the interactive
linkages between the individual charts allowing for multi-dimensional
viewing of selected criteria. The two- or three-dimensional Research
Landscape is a promising new way to analyze and visualize document
content. Such tools support innovation and trend research and can
possibly shorten the time expended in R&D "

According to Nicolas Lalyre, Patent Information Specialist, Syngenta,
"the interactivity of the visualized data and the maps based on
high-value databases make STN AnaVist a pioneering Analysis &
Visualization tool. For example, you can select an area of interest on
the map and get simultaneously the key competitors, key inventors and
database records related to this area."

Much of the STN AnaVist appeal results from its design, explained
Anthony J. Trippe, a well known speaker and writer on patent =
information
and competitive intelligence who served on the STN AnaVist development
team. "To benefit from both data mining and text mining approaches,
analysts have needed to prepare different sets of data and work with
multiple tools," explained Trippe. "STN AnaVist was designed to =
include
powerful text and data mining tools in the same environment, so =
analysts
can easily use both techniques and gain when they are interactively
combined."

STN AnaVist was developed to meet the need to assimilate and present
information more effectively to derive greater value from search =
results
and to support management in making business-critical decisions. Key
features of STN AnaVist include:

o Integrated content from multiple databases - Users can search,
analyze, and visualize data from multiple sources, including CAplus,
PCT, and U.S. full-text patent databases.

o Unique relationships between structured and unstructured data - STN
AnaVist offers the unique ability to uncover relationships among seven
different fields within documents records, e.g., companies, inventors,
years, and concepts.

o Data grouping and cleanup - A company name thesaurus appropriately
groups companies and company name variations prior to the analysis.

o Concept standardization - Application of CAS vocabulary standardizes
technology terms across the databases, reducing data scatter.

o Interactive relationships among data and charts - The visualization
workspace makes relationships easy to see with highlighting of data
during the analysis.

o Flexible creation of results sets - Results can be obtained through
easy import of an existing answer set created in STN Express with
Discover! Analysis Edition, Version 8.0, or using the integrated =
concept
search capability in STN AnaVist.

STN has announced a special introductory offer for information
professionals that provides STN Anavist at no charge for the software
itself, effective through December 31, 2005. Details and pricing
information can be found on the Web at
<http://www.cas.org/stnanavist/index.html>
http://www.cas.org/stnanavist/index.html.

STN International is the premier online service for science and
technology, offering a collection of more than 220 databases. The
service is provided jointly through a North American service center,
operated by CAS in Columbus, Ohio; a European service center, operated
by FIZ Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany; and a Japanese service center,
operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency in Tokyo.

An international scientific service institution, FIZ Karlsruhe is
dedicated to providing information services and solutions for both
information management and scholarly communication. For almost three
decades, FIZ Karlsruhe has been offering its high-quality, value-added
information services to scientists from all over the world involved in
academic and industrial R&D, as well as to decision makers in business
and administration. In cooperation with national and international
institutions, FIZ Karlsruhe produces and provides databases in various
fields of science and technology, including the most distinguished
patent files. Its main business area is STN International (The
Scientific & Technical Information Network). The FIZ Karlsruhe Web =
site
is at <http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de> http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de.

CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is an organization of
scientists creating and delivering the most complete and effective
digital information environment for scientific research and discovery.
CAS provides pathways to published research in the world's journal and
patent literature?virtually everything relevant to chemistry plus a
wealth of information in the life sciences and a wide range of other
scientific disciplines?back to the beginning of the twentieth century.
In addition to offering STN. in North America, CAS publishes the print
version of Chemical Abstracts? (CA), related publications and CD-ROM
services; operates the CAS Chemical Registry; produces a family of
online databases; and offers the SciFinder. desktop research tool. =
The
CAS Web site is at <http://www.cas.org> http://www.cas.org.

Eric Shively
CAS





Received on Tue Aug 02 2005 - 11:54:28