"STN AnaVist is an easy-to-use tool providing concise, graphically well-presented patent analyses. 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. Degussa uses such tools and favors their further development, since they support innovation and trend research and can possibly shorten the time expended in R&D."

- Dr. Gisela Darges, Competitive Intelligence, Degussa AG

"The interactivity of the visualized data and the maps based on high-value databases make STN AnaVist a pioneering Analysis & Visualization tool. Design and functionality are key to meeting the requirements of R&D and identifying technology trends and in-/out-licensing opportunities. 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."

- Nicolas Lalyre, Patent Information Specialist, Syngenta

“To benefit from both data mining and text mining approaches, analysts have needed to prepare different sets of data and work with multiple tools. 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.”

- Anthony J. Trippe, a well known speaker and writer on patent information and competitive intelligence who served on the STN AnaVist development team.

CAS and FIZ-Karlsruhe Staff Presentations

• New Software Transforms Research with Visualization Techniques -
  reprint of article by Chris McCue in the November/December 2005 issue of Chimica Oggi.
  (~293K PDF with permission of Chimica Oggi - TeknoScienze S.r.I)
• Text and Data Mining: Together at Last!
  - at the 2006 Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) International Annual conference & Exhibition on April 27, 2006 and at the Fall 2005 American Chemical Society Meeting on August 29, 2005 (~2.2 MB PDF)
• "The Importance of Being Ernest": Why Gathering and Cleaning All the Relevant Data Matters for Patent Analysis
  at the 2005 PIUG Northeast Meeting on September 28, 2005
• From Knowledge Discovery to Understanding: Making Sense of Large Data Sets at the International Chemical Information Conference (ICIC) on October 18, 2005 (~1.6MB PDF)
• STN AnaVist: An Essential New Tool for Analysis and Visualization of Patent and Sci-tech Information
  at the STN European User Meeting, Nov. 28, 2005