ARDENNO ANNOUNCES GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF ARDENNO COLLABORATION CENTER®—SUMMER 2006 EDITION
Ardenno aids Research & Development Departments to rapidly increase their ability to understand data relevancy across disparate groups and to reduce the My Data Syndrome
Philadelphia, PA. USA and Manchester, UK - (8 May 2006) Ardenno Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of Collaborative Knowledge Management software solutions for research and development, today announced the general availability of it's flagship product, Ardenno Collaboration Center® Summer 2006 Edition.
Collaborative Knowledge Management-the sharing of intelligence across the enterprise and with partners-is rapidly taking hold in the research community. Leading companies are looking for better ways to foster positive working environments for their knowledge workers. The ability to provide a constructive collaborative working environment is becoming a work place requirement, as the workforce under goes widespread change. The market is forcing companies to construct or implement overlaying knowledge management frameworks that leverage their existing information management system and infrastructure investments.
Researchers today are looking for research-oriented solutions that add value to their day and minimize administrative work. The Ardenno Collaboration Center product ensures that knowledge workers can secure, manage and better collaborate with other knowledge workers from the initial creation and collection of data to the streamlined retrieval of data from existing storage infrastructures with the company's unique Set-it and Forget-it Collaboration™ approach. Ardenno is the first company to apply social networking to improve the operational efficiency of knowledge workers by providing smart data relevancy with our Knowledge Relevancy Heat Index™.
Other key business challenges solved by Ardenno include:
Provide Effortless Team Collaboration over Time
One of the biggest issues that researchers face 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 researcher left in the middle of the project, the new researcher took almost a whole year getting up to speed. The project took over four years to complete instead of three." 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 intevention.
Minimize Duplicate Research Effort
Researchers have to replicate work that may have already been done to obtain the information they desire. Ardenno solves this business challenge by offering a unique Relevancy Heat-Index™ for each file indexed in the Ardenno repository to help researchers more easily search and locate similar research activities to reduce costly and time consuming duplicate research 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 R&D data have forced investigators to operate in a "My Data" environment. Files are usually saved on the researcher'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
Research projects are often difficult to resource cost effectively because there is minimal utilization metric reporting available. Research project bottlenecks are mostly overcome, by over buying resource constraining instruments. 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 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 research department customers. Ardenno solves this business challenge with an easy to implement a collaboration knowledge management solution that can be operational in hours and days; not weeks or months.
About Ardenno Solutions
Ardenno Solutions is a provider of Collaborative Knowledge Management software solutions that aid knowledge workers become more knowledgeable. We enable research teams to produce and deliver research of the highest quality, with an improved utilization of their time and project resources and help them minimize project redundancy. Ardenno is purpose built to deliver almost instant collaboration benefits, without adding administrative project overhead. Ardenno applies graphical social networking visualization techniques to provide knowledge workers with improved data relevancy and data context, which is vital for disparate research organizations. Further information about Ardenno Solutions and its products is available at www.ardenno.com.
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