Edutech to offer Content Informatics solutions

August 29, 2007; 01:12 AM

Chennai -- Edutech, a leading learning and performance management solutions provider, ties up with Serendio to offer DisKoveror – a platform that supports semantic discovery, analysis and visualization of unstructured content in an enterprise.

Life Sciences is information intensive

Today Life Sciences companies face enormous challenges in knowledge discovery. Actionable knowledge is often embedded in technical abstracts, business reports, theses, patent documents, lab workbooks etc. Efficient access to such knowledge across content silos generates sizeable time and cost savings thus playing a vital role in the success of every drug discovery & development program.

DisKoveror Content Informatics Platform – Convergence of Search & Business Intelligence

DisKoveror offered by Edutech and Serendio, empowers the knowledge worker to discover, analyze and visualize the unknown and seemingly unrelated facts and relationships buried in all forms of digital assets within an enterprise. Leveraging recent advances in Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning and Ontologies, DisKoveror takes a path-breaking approach to extract insights and intelligence from unstructured content.

DisKoveror offers enterprises the following benefits:

• Enhancing drug discovery productivity through Entities, Facts and Relationship Mining & Visualization
  
• Competitive trend analysis to identify areas of opportunities, alliances & competition
• Semantic & Context-sensitive discovery for highly relevant information
  
• Dynamic content clustering and categorization supporting serendipitous discovery
  
• Subscription and custom content integration capabilities
  
• Custom ontology integration to match business objectives
  
• Creation of derivative databases through literature mining for Business and Research needs
  

DisKoveror is from Serendio (www.serendio.com), a leading provider of Content Informatics solutions based on NLP, Machine Learning and Text mining techniques for Life Sciences, Media, Publishing and Enterprise Knowledge Discovery. DisKoveror’s features and capabilities are showcased in BioAsk (www.bioask.com), a community site for the Life Sciences.

Said Ravi Condamoor, Chief executive Officer, Serendio, “Edutech’s vast experience in selling high value products to the Life Sciences industry is complementary and synergistic to Serendio’s capability to productize research ideas. Together Edutech and Serendio are committed to providing Life Sciences customers with knowledge solutions to drive business advantage and competitive differentiation.”

“DisKoverer fits perfectly into our suite of knowledge solutions for the Life Sciences Industry. With DisKoverer, we are able to provide our customers with more than just information – the ability to ‘analyze’, relate and make sense of all the unstructured data that resides in independent silos of information as well as internal information repositories across various Bio Pharma functions like Business Development, R&D, Intellectual Property and Regulatory Affairs”, said Shameema Parveen, Knowledge Officer, Edutech.

For more details, call 044 2833 0999 or email info@edutech.com

About Edutech

Edutech is a leading provider of enterprise wide knowledge-solutions. Edutech provides solutions that meet the learning and knowledge requirements of business enterprises as well as academic institutions including universities, colleges, schools; companies in the IT-ITeS industry, Life Sciences , Banking & Financial Sectors, Manufacturing, and Hospitality industry; as well as government and research institutions. Edutech’s global alliances and presence across India, Middle East, US and Malaysia ensures cost-effective, faster-to-market solutions while upholding the highest quality standards. Edutech India is headquartered in Chennai with offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi.
www.edutech.com

About Serendio

Serendio is one of the early companies to come out of Svapas Innovations, a Technology Incubator focusing on transforming leading-edge ideas to market innovations. The association that Svapas Innovations has with AU-KBC Research Center provides a unique opportunity to constantly evaluate cutting-edge research ideas for productization. One such idea that got looked at in the early 2006 was a more precise Entity-extraction algorithm developed to help the Researchers in Life Sciences. Understanding its potential and possibilities for commercial usage was indeed the beginnings of Serendio's foray into the exciting world of Unstructured Content Informatics.