Dolcera for your organization: Technology, IP and Market Research
Dolcera's mission is to provides information integration and outsourced research services for decision support. Our services are targeted towards multiple types of knowledge workers within organizations including:
- Researchers, engineers and technologists
- Patent counsel and attorneys
- Knowledge managers
- Marketers and brand managers
- Senior executives and strategists
Dolcera for Researchers
Dolcera works with researchers, engineers and technologists, and provides them with very high-quality technology and market information through our technology reports. Our technical team prepares technology reports on important areas of research and development. These reports comprehensively cover:
- Technology and research developments,
- Market factors, and
- Intellectual property aspects
Dolcera for Patent Counsel and Attorneys
Dolcera provides the intellectual property (IP) teams with a variety of services including:
- Prior art, invalidation and infringement searches (Dolcera IPMaps)
- Technical writing and patent drafting
- Technology reports
- IP asset management services
Dolcera for Knowledge Managers
Knowledge managers are faced with a rapidly changing environment that includes a plethora of new tools (blogs, wikis, the semantic web etc.) and many challenges to go with them. Dolcera provides a range of collaboration services for managers of knowledge-driven organizations. The collaboration services include:
- Wiki and other collaboration tools setup and management
- Taxonomy design and updates for large taxonomies
- Collaboration/knowledge processes design
- Ongoing updates with latest tools
Dolcera for Brand Managers
The brand manager dashboard is a new Dolcera offering targeted towards marketing teams within consumer products, pharmaceutical and automotive companies that organize their product strategies around strong brands and monitor them relentlessly.
The dashboard:
- Identifies the impact of global and local events on client's and competitor's brands,
- Brings together data from a variety of data sources, and
- Includes data collected through sampling blogs, social networking sites and other non-traditional media sources.
Dolcera for Strategists and Executives
Executives and strategists use the integrated executive dashboards to obtain a comprehensive overview of market, research and IP trends. Other services from Dolcera include:
Here is a list of Dolcera services for various roles within an organization:
| Offering | Goal | Client | Role | Demo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technology reports | 360-degree view of technology and market data | Technology company | Researcher | HEV report |
| IPMaps | Comprehensive view of a particular research area | Law firms, corporations | Researcher | Satellite Antenna IPMap |
| Timelines | Integrated timeline of technologies, standards and patents | Corporations | Executive | Timeline view |
| Business plans | Integrated timeline of technologies, standards and patents | Corporations | Executive | Timeline view |
| Executive dashboard | Up-to-date snapshot of market+competitive data | Large corporation | Executive | RFID dashboard |
| Brand dashboard | Integrated market information for a brand | Consumer products company | Brand Manager | Brand dashboard |
| Collaboration services | Multi-way interaction platform for research, marketing and manufacturing groups | Medium and large companies | Knowledge worker | Interactive reports |
| Intellectual asset management services | Comprehensive overview of all your and your competition's IP | Medium and large companies | Patent counsel | IP asset management |
| Technology trends research | Monitor technology, IP and market trends | Medium and large companies | Executive | Technology trends report |
Technology reports
Dolcera team prepares technology reports on important areas of research and development. These reports comprehensively cover:
- Technology and research developments,
- Market factors, and
- Intellectual property aspects
The unique aspects of Dolcera's technology reports are:
- High quality of technology and market analysis,
- Interactive development in partnership with client, and
- Continuous updates
Case study: Technology reports
| Client: | A large medical device company |
| Goal: | Create a technology report on one of the newest types of cardiac devices. Integrate data from a variety of data sources. |
| Duration: | Intial preparation - 4 weeks |
| Result: | The Dolcera report was shared between the research, marketing and legal groups within the client corporation. Dolcera also provides monthly updates for this report. |
| Savings: | Approximately 1/8th of the cost |
| Example: | Hybrid Electric Vehicle report |
| Dolcera advantage: | Multi-disciplinary data integration, rapid results, low costs |
| Client quote: | "We can collaborate much more easily now." |
IPMaps
Dolcera IPMaps present the comprehensive view of intellectual property in a particular area. Prepared by highly-trained technical analysts, Dolcera IPMaps are:
- Comprehensive
- Interactive
- Visually clear-cut
- Database-driven
Case study: IPMaps
| Client: | A Fortune 500 software company |
| Goal: | Provide an overview of the company's patent portfolio in a key technology area. |
| Duration: | 2 weeks |
| Result: | The Dolcera IPMap integrated patent and competitive information from a variety of sources in one 'snapshot' IPMap that was used by the client for validating the market space and their own research strength. |
| Savings: | Approximately 1/5th of the cost |
| Example: | RFID IPMap, Hair loss IPMap, Multimodal applications IPMap |
| Dolcera advantage: | Data integration, technology expertise, speed, low costs |
| Client quote: | "You showed us how small this market is. We would not have entered this market if we had this information in advance." |
Timelines
Certain fields of research progress at bewildering speeds. It is often impossible for researchers, technology experts and executives alike to keep track of the developments. Dolcera timelines are exactly what their name implies: interactive visual maps that show the development of a field over the course of time. Our timelines are used for a variety of purposes including:
- Understanding the development of a field of science/technology
- Determining the contributions of individuals/companies to
- Juxtaposing market and technology developments
Case study: Timelines
| Client: | A major N. American smartphone manufacturer |
| Goal: | Determine inventorship of some of the most important cellular telephony standards by analyzing patent, standard and market data. |
| Duration: | 4 weeks |
| Result: | Dolcera timelines, based on research through several gigabytes of standards meetings minutes, specifications and patents, allowed the client to negotiate with their competitors. |
| Savings: | Approximately 1/10th of the cost |
| Example: | Sample timeline |
| Dolcera advantage: | Powerful search tools, data integration from disparate sources, succinct presentation |
| Client quote: | "I did not even have to lift a finger to understand the information... I used your presentation for my company's Board (of Directors)." |
Business plans
Dolcera works in partnership with research and development groups within companies to help them understand the business opportunities for their research. We develop full-strength business plans with:
- Commercialization possibilities for research
- Competitive landscape
- SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
Case study: Business plans
| Client: | A global software company |
| Goal: | Create business case for a research project with several patent applications |
| Duration: | 6 weeks |
| Result: | Complete business plan including market research, financial plan, competitive analysis, product positioning, product and need characteristics |
| Savings: | Approximately 1/10th of the cost |
| Example: | HEV Report |
| Dolcera advantage: | Strong technology and business expertise to help researchers shorter innovation cycle |
| Client quote: | "Dolcera is an integral part of our research commercialization strategy." |
Executive dashboard
The Dolcera executive IP dashboard provides an integrated view of all the key performance indicators for your organization's intellectual property, including:
- Patent filings
- Patent licensing opportunities
- Patent threats
- Competitive position
- Key IP performance indicators
The interactive executive IP dashboard allows users to perform their own what-if analysis. Behind the scenes, the Dolcera team performs extensive research and market+competitive analysis to drive the executive dashboard and keep it up-to-date.
Case study: Executive dashboard
| Client: | A US medical device major |
| Goal: | Provide a central point of entry for all corporate IP performance indicators |
| Duration: | Ongoing |
| Result: | All patent information in one spot, and shared by all stakeholders within the organization. |
| Savings: | Greater overall visibility improves response time considerably |
| Example: | Consumer products dashboard, RFID Dashboard |
| Dolcera advantage: | Correlating market movements with IP information and technology trends |
| Client quote: | "The dashboard helps our team think strategically." |
Brand dashboard
The brand manager dashboard is a new Dolcera offering targeted towards marketing teams within consumer products, pharmaceutical and automotive companies that organize their product strategies around strong brands and monitor them relentlessly.
The dashboard identifies the impact of global and local events on client's and competitor's brands. It brings together data from a variety of data sources. It also includes data collected through sampling blogs, social networking sites and other non-traditional media sources.
Collaboration services
Dolcera provides a range of collaboration services for large organizations. The collaboration services include:
- Wiki and other collaboration tools setup
- Taxonomy design and updates
- Collaboration/knowledge processes design
- Ongoing updates with latest tools
Case study: Collaboration services
| Client: | Large pharmaceutical company |
| Goal: | Provide a central Human Resources forms and document system for the corporate intranet. |
| Duration: | 2 months |
| Result: | We prepared the taxonomy and classification system for all documents and classified the documents initially. We also trained clients to update the documents on an ongoing basis. |
| Savings: | Approximately $300,000 for the project |
| Example: | IPMap |
| Dolcera advantage: | Best-in-class technology and processes, ably supported by our technical team in India |
| Client quote: | "Our goal is to be a smarter organization, and Dolcera helped us achieve it." |
Intellectual asset management services
Dolcera takes medium- to large-sized patent portfolios and:
- Creates a taxonomy to organize the patents
- Organizes the patents inside the taxonomy
- Identify and juxtapose the key competitive patent and non-patent documents
- Identify products and 'virtual products' related to different sets of patents
- Highlight the key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
Technology trends research
Technology changes rapidly and it is often difficult to keep track of all the trends swirling on the Internet, all the ideas bubbling in academia, and the range of innovations you and your competitors are working on. Dolcera provides a sophisticated service to track technology trends, juxtaposing academic research, market data and patent filings information worldwide.
Case study: Technology trends research
| Client: | Major technology company |
| Goal: | Provide an overview of technology directions of an important technology topic. |
| Duration: | 2 months |
| Result: | We identified the key technology trends, the patent information worldwide and provided predictions for the 'next big thing' |
| Savings: | Potentially millions, with timely positioning of new offerings |
| Example: | HEV Report |
| Dolcera advantage: | Constant monitoring of technology trends |
| Client quote: | "We are swamped with information and are unable to digest it." |
Questions Dolcera answers
We help you answer questions such as:
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Dolcera Expertise
The Dolcera team has expertise in:
- Technology analysis in the areas of chemistry, biotechnology, computer software, electronics, communication and mechanical engineering.
- Market research - primary and secondary - across multiple industries
- Information integration for large sets of structured and unstructured data
- Collaboration tools and technology including wikis, blogs and Web 2.0