Market Needs
Tomorrow’s knowledge worker will be the intellectual driver for successful companies, empowered by individualized tools, knowledge, informational sources, social networks, and employment styles.
-Gartner
Today’s business community is faced with the stark reality that the velocity that data is being created will continue to accelerate at exponential rates over the next decade. The key to the success for tomorrow’s organization will be determined by how they enable this large amount of data with context and content relevancy. It has become vital for organizations to identify logical content relationships amongst their vast amount of data.
Organizations are realizing that in order for their teams to work collectively and not as groups of individuals, they must create an automated knowledge management environment that fosters sharing and collaboration, without adding any additional administrative overhead to the individual researcher. Given the vast array and magnitude of available data, collaboration is becoming the difference between success and failure and beating your competition to the market. Ardenno provides a rich, collaborative solution to enable businesses to better collaborate and make better use of existing content within their organization.
The key problem that Ardenno solves is in making today’s worker more productive and more knowledgeable. As the graphic below from an A.D. Little study shows, in research, less then 11% of their time working on creative research. Similar findings can be found across other industry segments. In order to increase the creative time of a worker, solutions must be put in place to maximize their productive time. Ardenno is a company focused specifically on solving this business challenge. Our products have been designed by people from the industry. We understand the challenges and realities confronting local regional and global teams.
The Ardenno Collaboration Center solution helps address key business pains related to information accessibility, information relevancy, the ability to easily locate and access structured and unstructured content with meta tags and the ability to provide management and metrics on laboratory equipment.
Other key market needs that Ardenno addresses are
Provide Effortless Team Collaboration over Time
One of the biggest issues that faces a team is the loss of key members and the addition of new members. Teams lose momentum when senior staff members transition off a project and are required to support new team members during their ramp up period. One company stated that, “When a key person left in the middle of the project, the new person had almost a whole year getting up to speed." Ardenno solves this business challenge by providing an active and accessible data repository of structured and unstructured data files to enable new members to rapidly ramp up. Our Set-it and Forget-it Collaboration ensures that automated processes continue to execute without manual intervention. Ardenno’s Town Hall™ helps provide quick visual access and presentation of relevant files with social community networking capabilities.
Minimize Duplicate Effort
Users have to replicate work that may have already been done to get the information they need. Ardenno solves this business challenge by offering a unique Relevancy Heat-Index™ for each file indexed in the Ardenno repository to help users more easily search and locate similar activities to reduce costly and time–consuming duplicate efforts. The Relevancy Heat-Index also provides team members with a quick understanding of what others are finding pertinent and valuable.
Eliminate Information Silos
Conventional strategies for storing data have forced users to operate in a “My Data” environment. Files are usually saved on the user ’s desktop or stuck on a server outside the mainstream storage infrastructure, where no one can find them, except the author. Ardenno solves this business challenge by securely storing newly created files within the storage infrastructure, making native collaborative file copies available in a separate location for shared access. Ardenno also provides each user with their own unique Knowledge Bags for easy access to their favorite files, which helps apply relevancy factors for others to learn and understand what others have determined as important.
Provides Improved Equipment and Resource Utilization Metrics Reporting
Projects are often difficult to resource cost–effectively because there is minimal utilization metric reporting available. Project bottlenecks are mostly overcome, by over buying resource constraining instruments and equipment. Ardenno solves this business challenge by providing integrated summary and detailed resource usage reporting metrics by project, study, experiment, instrument, datasource, etc. to enable managers to better justify equipment purchases and to minimize project bottlenecks due to constrained staffing or financial resources.
Provide an IT Solution that Requires Minimal Resource Commitment
The increasing demands on IT has often stifled the ability for staffing internal development projects to address the needs to improve collaboration for their internal customers. Ardenno solves this business challenge with an easy to implement collaboration knowledge management solution that can be operational in days; not weeks or months.