The Research Challenge

The explosion of online information has created unprecedented opportunities to mine the digital world to increase knowledge, accelerate innovation and understand market landscapes. At the same time, “too much information” has made it harder and harder to quickly find actionable information. Attending trade shows, reading journals, networking, hiring consultants, conducting focus groups and other resource-intensive research approaches are time consuming. The results are all too often hit-or-miss. Meanwhile, most online searches produce thousands, if not millions, of documents, and only a fraction can be pursued within a reasonable timeframe.

NetBase Research Platform

NetBase was founded in 2003 to address these challenges by developing smarter and faster tools for R&D, innovation, marketing, and other business functions. Today, we are mining over five billion business-relevant Internet sites plus premium content. Our solutions deliver summaries of topics in seconds instead of the days, weeks or even months required using traditional approaches.

To do this, NetBase has developed a proprietary, patent-pending research engine. Similar to a relational database, the research engine enables users to quickly search and find summarize information with rich interrelationships from billions of business-relevant web sites and scientific documents.

The research engine works with interrelated entities, topics, concepts, and ideas created by automatically crawling, parsing, and synthesizing sentences from billions of documents from the web and premium content sources.

NetBase’s platform enables the creation of solutions that combine all of the following:

Simplicity, convenience, and scalability of a search engine
Structure, organization, and relationships of a database
Power and flexibility of a Business Intelligence (BI) analysis tool

One such solution that is using NetBase technology is Elsevier's new illumin8 product for R&D professionals.