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ACTIVE vs. STATIC Content |
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Better Leverage Search Results |
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In your mind Information Insights are crystal clear. But electronically persisting these Insights has been difficult for many reasons. iMapping: Making sense of the complexity in our Information Lives Simply Outline your Information Universe and then, as you make significant Information “Finds”, simply Drag and Drop them to persist your Information Insights. |
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i360 Business Plan Outline |
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The first variant would use the wide array of Open Source Technology available which would make i360 mesh at the Code Level with the current offerings of Google and their industry allies. It should be noted that i360 already meshes at the User Workflow level with Google’s current offerings. The second variant would be to port the current generic Windows i360 implementation to Microsoft’s most current .NET, Office System, and Windows Presentation Framework to allow Vista, which is still a dominant Market Reality, to re-invigorate Microsoft’s view of the Information Universe. Follow the link to read more... |
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Computer Smarts with added Human Insight |
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E+ FOCUSearch |
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Frequently Asked Questions |
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I360 is meant to provide an efficient Workflow environment to allow both Consumers and Information Workers to better apply their Information to their “Task at Hand”… |
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E+ FOCUSearch |
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Tabbed Browsers have added a marginal level of productivity to Internet Research, but how often does you switch your Research Context from Personal to Business, or Medical to Shopping? Mixing and correlating Multiple Searches across many Research Projects with today’s Browsing Model puts too much burden on the User to manually maintain their Research Context. |
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E+ FOCUSearch Video Summary |
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Search is a powerful Application that we take for granted. But how many of your Missions can be satisfied with a single Search? Does a single set of Keywords completely define your Information needs? |
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Getting to the Point |
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Hear us out. We’ve studied Google’s current offerings very thoroughly and can demonstrate how to go beyond Search and Findability to truly change how people utilize and communicate Information for whatever Mission they wish to pursue. |
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Google Centric Information Universe |
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We would be creating a very simple “Green Zone” where Users could instantly act upon their “Information Insights” and leverage their Search Results in such a way that moves farther along a Solution Path to better Accumulate, Correlate, and Communicate their disparate Information “Finds” towards the completion of their Mission. |
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Google Microsoft Competitive Landscape |
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You don’t have to agree with the relative weightings in the Diagram below, but just be aware that there is some real competition going on in the Information Management space. And, the competitors are not going to be limited to Google and Microsoft. Play around with the Segments in your mind and speculate how one or the other can close the Gaps. |
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infoGenome - Google Proposal |
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For both Consumers and the Enterprise |
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The i360 Solution |
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It’s not just about “finding” Information. The Missions which dictate our Searches weave a complex Web of Information which could provide a wealth of experience if we could maintain the relationships between the Nuggets of Information related to a Mission. Unfortunately, this complex, Mission Centric Information Web is usually only manifested in the Human Memory of the Team Members who achieved the Mission. |
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i360 iMapping |
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No cumbersome File Dialogues… Your iMaps simply pop out of the side of the screen on Drag and Drop operations and disappear after you log your Information Insight… Fire and Move On!!! You can even navigate to alternate iMaps or through your infoDNA Personal Information Web during the Drag and Drop Operation to properly log your Insight… |
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iMapping Background |
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Outline your Information Universe and then electronically persist the Information Insights and Relationships which are clear in your Mind. |
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i360 iMapping Video Summary |
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What did we do about it? How did that work for us? New Missions are born in every Organization every day. The 3 questions above come to mind every time a Team is deployed to attack a Task or Issue. How can we better tap the “Information Experience” that has been accumulated, correlated, and Communicated in the past? |
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infoDNA Bookmarks for Custom Application Integration |
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However, with a concept called infoDNA Bookmarks , it is still possible to integrate Information from more traditional Forms Based Applications if you have the cooperation of the Vendor or have access to the Code Base for the Application. Typically, with about 100 lines of Code, these more proprietary Information Applications can pass the instructions or queries necessary to directly navigate the User back to a known Information Form or Report as a “Black Box” Bookmark. infoDNA now can add your Custom Information Types as just another type of Information Nugget to Freely Associate with any other Documents, Contacts, or other typical Information you encounter while working your Tasks. |
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Why infoGenome and Google |
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Information Equality |
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all Information is created equal; that each piece of Information is endowed by its Creator and Collaborators with certain unalienable rights; to be easily located through the dimensions of time and affinity with other Information as defined by its Creator or Collaborators. Artificial boundaries defined by Folders within disjointed Information Stores should not prevent diverse Information from joining with other Information to further the Goals of its Creator. Information Equality breaks down the Caste System where different classes of Information are relegated to Strict Storage Hierarchies. Information contained within other Information should also be treated and utilized at a level equivalent to any other Information which might stand alone. Under the premise of Information Equality, all Information should be easily communicated using a standard format that any Collaborator or party Interested in such Information can Browse. If permitted by the Creator, the Contextual Structure and Content of Information, including its implicit and explicit Information Associations, shall be easily integrated with the Contextual Information of any additional Collaborators or independent Information Creators across the Global Information Universe." |
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Information Management Cycle |
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We encounter Volumes of Information of Disparate Types related to many, potentially interrelated, Missions and all this Information needs to be Assembled, Correlated, Communicated, Published, and Collaborated. So much attention on the “Search” segment… Offerings like Google Enterprise Search are focused on optimizing and reducing the estimated 25%-30% of Information Worker’s time that is spent just “Finding” Information. We believe that if you look at our Information Lives as a continuous cycle, and facilitate an efficient Workflow that revolves around our Missions which feed on Information, that there is a big payoff in Efficiency and Effectiveness. |
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Information Management Cycle |
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How often each day does the scenario below play out for you and your Team? What percentage of the time do you just commit an important “Find” to memory? Why? Because it just takes too long to add it to a Document, Project Plan, Blog, or Presentation. In your mind, all of the interrelationships of how the “Find” fits into your experience are clear. But Electronic Persistence is just not yet standardized or efficient. |
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Information Management Cycle Detail |
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We can easily enrich Search Results and reduce the need for needless repetitive Searches. What about the time we spend Organizing our Information “Finds”? Perhaps another 25%-30%? This can be reduced. What about the time we spend Sharing or Communicating our Information “Finds”? Perhaps another 25%-30%? This can be reduced. |
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Information Succession Planning |
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Instants of Information Insight |
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In your mind Information Insights are crystal clear. But electronically persisting these Insights is difficult for many reasons. Pervasive use of Search Technology has accelerated the pace at which we experience Information Insights. Most of the traditional ways we might think of persisting them are time consuming and we rarely fight through the “Barriers to Entry” to log these important “Finds”. |
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i360 Platform Integration Plan |
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i360 analogous to the iPhone |
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Simplicity on your PC: i360 Information Insight Management In reviewing the strategic plan and alliance we propose here, we hope you will recognize the SIMPLICITY and EFFICIENCY that we present in contrast with how you might live your Information Life today. |
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i360 Target Problem Space |
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How many times have you had the feeling of being overwhelmed when you “Find” a Document or Web Page that is relevant to some Tasks or Missions you may be working and you just don’t have the time or energy to properly “File” or otherwise “Log” this important “Find”. Too often we do nothing and simply commit the “Find” to memory only to have to repeat the process again sometime in the future. What comes after the “Find”? This is our simplest description for the problem and, with improvement in Search Technology in the overall Information Management picture, we, and our teams, encounter this dilemma more frequently. |
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Google Microsoft Competitive Landscape |
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You don’t have to agree with the relative weightings in the Diagram, but just be aware that there is some real competition going on in the Information Management space. And, the competitors are not going to be limited to Google and Microsoft. Play around with the Segments in your mind and speculate how one or the other can close the Gaps. |
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Microsoft Centric Information Universe |
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Express and Extend Information Visually with extended MS MapPoint Solutions Research and Publish with a new Web Browsing Document Type Seamlessly leverage all of your other Information Technology Investments |
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Why care about Next Steps Beyond Search |
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In a Google Enterprise Webinar entitled “Google Enterprise in Contact Centers” delivered in March 2008 by Vijay Koduri, Marketing Manager for Google Enterprise Products, it was estimated the 25% of Information Worker’s time was spent Searching for Information. In a May 2006 Executive Briefing delivered by Bill Gates of Microsoft, he stated: “Estimates are that information workers spend as much as 30 percent of their time searching for information, at a cost of $18,000 each year per employee in lost productivity. Meanwhile, the University of California, Berkeley predicts that the volume of digital data we store will nearly double in the next two years.” How much of the Cost of Search is tied up in Repetitive Search? Multiple disconnected Searches? Regaining Full Information Context? Transfer of Search Expertise to others? Perhaps more than HALF of the 25%-30% of time Information Workers are estimated to expend Searching for Information? How many of your Searches are repeat Searches? How many are Related Searches executed to flesh out the full body of knowledge to address an Issue? What if you could drastically reduce the time you spend executing these Repetitive or Related Searches? |
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It's not just about Findability |
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Search is not an end onto itself, but rather, we Search to finds things that will help us achieve our short and long term goals. Search has taken much of the drudgery out of finding what we need, but what occurs after the “Find” consumes ever more of the time we spend on our Information intensive Missions. |
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i360 with Other Platform Players |
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The i360 Personal Information Web |
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Integration with Content Management Systems |
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So let’s look at how iMapping and infoDNA Technology can help leverage current investments in technologies like Microsoft Office Sharepoint… Easy to get Information in. Easy to relate to other Information. Deliver enhanced Results from simple Searches. |
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Quick Read Points |
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Search Centric Solutions Today |
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Tagging without the Tags |
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infoDNA has built in Tagging capabilities since Keywords are treated as “First Class” Information on a par with Files, Web Content, Contact Records, Email, or any other type of Information. However, more powerful than traditional Tagging is infoDNA’s ability to “Directly Associate” any Information Nugget with any other. That is, you do not have to create a Tag and then associate both pieces of Information with the Tag, but rather you can directly Associate any number of Information Nuggets with any other Information Nugget. |
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Tech Populism |
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The Evolving Business Analyst Role: "Business-oriented business analysts will need more IT skills, and IT-oriented business analysts will need more business acumen.” |
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Unique Aspects of i360 |
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It all works the way you work… Shouldn’t you be able to Log and Associate important Information as soon as the Information Insight strikes you? Shouldn’t you be able to naturally present your progress or findings without any additional effort? Shouldn’t you be able to capture the valuable Insights of your Team while you are presenting? i360 increases Efficiency and Effectiveness in all of the little things that we do every day that waste time or, because of their cumbersome workflow, make us avoid action towards successful completion of our Mission. |
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i360 Video Demo Index |
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When is Good Good Enough |
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Two of the major competitors are Microsoft and Google and both parties are starting to talk about it more openly. Innovation, pure and simple, makes the old way of doing something seem like it’s broken… We quote this phrase above from the Google Keynote Address at AIIM 2008 this March in Boston. Let’s also look at a couple of statements from Bill Gates on this topic... |
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Why Google and infoGenome? |
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Why not software like this sooner |
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The Netscape vs. Internet Explorer anecdote... The FlickR / Yahoo anecdote... The Microsoft Longhorn WinFS anecdote... |
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Why No Venture Capital Backing |
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With that said, after having presented the i360 Vision and its incremental implementations under various names over the past 4 years, there were several common threads of response from Venture Capitalists. · Your idea is too big for us to get a handle on, we want you to focus on a single niche and then come back to us. · You don’t have a customer base. · You don’t have a track record of bringing such ideas to market. |
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Why no significant Custumer Base |
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We currently have a Windows based Solution which cleanly layers on Google’s current offerings and a clear vision and plan on how to extend these offerings to more smoothly and completely deliver more complete end-to-end Solutions to any Vertical Market. |
