Elsevier's Illumin8 research tool helps corporate research professionals answer R&D questions

“Research professionals now have a purpose-built productivity tool tailored to deliver solutions and insights in seconds. With illumin8, we are unlocking new value from Elsevier’s world class content and other sources,” said Rafael Sidi, vice president for product development of Elsevier’s Engineering & Technology Division. “R&D knowledge workers no longer need to spend hours, days or weeks sifting and reading through thousands of search results or full-text documents, and then manually synthesize results to find actionable answers. illumin8 is poised to transform the way companies innovate, find solutions to their R&D problems, collaborate and make key R&D investment decisions.”

Fulfilling a Research Market Need

Booz Allen estimates that the Global Innovation 1000 companies spent $447 billion on R&D initiatives in 2006, making it increasingly important for these organizations to adopt technologies that accelerate innovation cycles and enable them to identify opportunities faster, while simultaneously minimizing investment risk.

illumin8 was designed with corporate development partners to help R&D professionals find solutions to R&D problems faster and support R&D investments decisions. For further product information, please visit www.illumin8.com.

About Elsevier

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About NetBase

NetBase is a leader in business research software solutions to enable knowledge workers to mine the Internet and other online data to accelerate research for technology intelligence, tech scouting, competitive intelligence, market discovery, and more. 3M, Procter & Gamble, General Mills and Clorox are among the more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies using NetBase products. To learn more about NetBase please visit www.netbase.com, call 650-810-2100 or e-mail us at .