Our flagship product, VantagePoint, is a powerful text-mining tool for discovering knowledge in search results from patent and literature databases. VantagePoint helps you rapidly understand and navigate through large search results, giving you a better perspective—a better vantage point—on your information. The perspective provided by VantagePoint enables you to quickly find WHO, WHAT, WHEN and WHERE, enabling you to clarify relationships and find critical patterns—turning your information into knowledge.

Learn About Your Competitors

Identify the key competitors, large and small, in a targeted domain.  VantagePoint’s data cleaning assures you will accurately investigate, identify, and consolidate companies and affiliates as you learn and understand the business.  Identified here are the major companies patenting in the plant based protein space.  

Add Your Own Classifications

Tailor your analysis to the target concepts that fit the lexicon of the world in which you research.  For example, the main focus of this plant based protein research deals with specific concepts such as flavor, texture, appearance, medical uses, stability and DNA derivation.  VantagePoint gives you tools to identify, classify and tag documents by concept including NLP, auto-classifiers, custom thesaurus and flexible reporting.  In this example, we see how the bubble pie compares the project’s targeted concepts for the top assignees over time.   

Focus Your Analysis

Identify competitive overlap and discover strengths and weaknesses.  Conform output to the needs of the clients.  Focus reports on these needs and deliver insightful results. 

Use the Power of Visualizations to Understand Your Data

Create Cluster Maps for multi-dimensional analysis and to explore overlapping technical concepts.  These are invaluable when addressing questions of patentability and freedom-to-operate.

Explore Your Data

Deliver analysis that gives your client control to explore and verify. In this instance, focus on the global coverage of the flavor related patents of Mars Inc.  Go even deeper and link to the underlying documents.

Share Your Results

Communicate findings using Sankey charts to focus on concepts shared throughout the analysis.   

Discover New Ideas

Apply Technical Emergence to identify emerging technologies and their related authors/inventors, companies and countries.  

Build Your Indicators

Take advantage of VantagePoint’s custom features and bring your analysis into greater focus with personal statistical indicators. Don't settle for canned metrics made for another industry. Pick a field; define your operators; and create your own unique indicator.  Then save it as a template for your next report.  

Find Key Players

Apply Network Metrics to measure centralities and identify key influencers, collaborators and team players.  Our Keystone measure combines multiple metrics to easily identify individual’s overall importance.

VantagePoint is most useful when your search strategy returns "more than you want to read." It can provide great benefit when working with only a few dozen records, but it is most helpful when you need to work with thousands of records.