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Arity Corporation

Arity Corporation leads the way in the use of Linked Data and Social Learning for Performance Support.

We build life-preservers for individuals and organizations that are drowning in data and tools. We are passionate about facilitating innovation, insight, and collaboration to enable people to solve complex problems and create breakthrough solutions.

To achieve this, we have solved a great many problems in the understanding of content and context of knowledge within documents and as expressed by people's goals and workflow needs while performing research. We are expert at natural language understanding, knowledge representation, recommendation, and reasoning technologies.

Research Process Optimization

Research Process Optimization™: The Next Frontier

Transformational change opportunities arise from research processes where depth of knowledge, judgment, and collaboration are essential for clients engaged in, for example:

Safety science and comparative medicine
In-licensing and Out-sourcing
Evidence-Based Medicine
Competitive market strategy

Time-to-patent, time-to-market, and time-to-profit translate directly to an organization’s top-line growth and bottom-line performance.

The magnitude of time and money that researchers save by using EXPRESSway is immense, even when information is freely available. One recent (12/2007) survey conducted for LexisNexis by WorldOne Research found that professionals spend on average over 2¼ hours performing online research each day and over 85% agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that “Not being able to access the right information at the right time is a huge time-waster.” EXPRESSway transforms the economics of individual and organizational research and create a fundamental discontinuity in the search and portal markets by demonstrably making the research process substantially faster and more effective.

Arity solves the information overload problem that is a limiting factor and a major source of costs incurred during scientific and business research. Unlike search engines and portals which tend to divert the researcher in many different and unrewarding directions, EXPRESSway brings focus, clarity, and efficient workflow support to the researcher. EXPRESSway saves additional costs by minimizing the occasions when critical information is overlooked. And, EXPRESSway captures the intellectual capital of organizations for reuse that would otherwise be lost or re-invented.

EXPRESSway uniquely provides research workflow support that is powerful but does not constrain the directions where the investigation may lead.

EXPRESSway provides orientation and guidance based on the topics and ideas that the user is investigating. EXPRESSway suggests resources, intelligently direct and launch context-specific queries on search engines and databases, track provenance and prompt further thinking. And, users can create their own notebooks, mash-ups, and analysis whenever a more in-depth exploration is appropriate (such as comparing product features, evaluating an investment opportunity, or conducting scientific research).

Knowledge-driven organizations:

Hire bright people.
Spend a fortune on tools, internal resources, and access to external resources.
Rely on research outcomes for critical decisions, actions, and strategic growth.

The top 1000 public corporate research companies increased spend 5.7% to $532 Billion in 2008.

Source: Booz and Company, November 2009

Research is Risky
Research is Chaotic
Research is Unpredictable

Research is inefficient and is a prime candidate for transformational change especially outsourcing.

Diagram from Understanding Science Web site. 2010. University of California Museum of Paleontology. 31 March 2010 http://www.understandingscience.org