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Using BizInt Smart Charts to Organize Your Pipeline Data

As an experienced information specialist knows, the results of many patents and drug pipeline searches can result in "too much of a good thing." Searches such as "What patents have been issued in this area?" or "What is our competitor's pipeline?" can yield hundreds of records. The challenge is to organize this information to meet each reader's needs.

BizInt Smart Charts products from BizInt Solutions provide tools to organize, analyze, present, and distribute valuable patent and drug pipeline data available on Dialog and DataStar. You can easily import your search results from Dialog or DataStar into BizInt Smart Charts, customize the presentation to meet your needs, and create a polished report for printed or electronic distribution--in a few minutes rather than the hours required to produce such reports manually.

BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals creates tabular reports combining information from the leading drug pipeline databases. You create reports by importing your search results from Dialog or DataStar into BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals, which automatically processes the records and creates the chart. BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals also provides an interface for searching pipeline databases on DataStar. Reports include the table and supporting records, and can be updated and combined with other BizInt Smart Charts reports. You can also add your own columns for comments and keywords.

Since coverage of therapeutic areas and compounds varies between databases, combining information into a single table helps you build a more complete drug pipeline report. BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals is based on a detailed understanding of the structure and content of drug pipeline databases. Common fields (such as phase of development) are displayed in the same column to help the researcher compare information among databases.

BizInt Smart Charts for Patents provides similar capabilities for creating tabular reports from selected patent and scientific literature databases on Dialog. You can define your own templates for different users or departments -- focusing on the data of interest to R&D, legal, strategic planning, etc. Using the HTML export feature, you can present the results of searches or Alerts in a table with links to the full records and distribute it via e-mail or the web.

New for 2001 in both BizInt Smart Charts products is a statistics feature, which you can use to create Excel spreadsheets and graphs from any column in your chart. For example, you can analyze the number of patents by company or the number of compounds by indication. Also new for 2001 is support for the Prous Science Drug Data Report in BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals, and the addition of several patent and medical literature databases (US Patents Fulltext, EMBASE, MEDLINE, and BIOSIS) in BizInt Smart Charts for Patents.

The best way to evaluate the value of BizInt Smart Charts is to try it on one of your own projects. You can download a fully functional trial version of either BizInt Smart Charts product from the BizInt Solutions web site.

Databases supported

BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals — DialogClassic and DialogClassic Web; DataStar and DataStarWeb

• PJB Pharmaprojects: 128,928; PHAR
• IMSworld R&D Focus: 445, 955; IPUR
• Adis R&D Insight: 107, 907; ADRD
• Prous Science Drug Data Report: 452, PRDR

BizInt Smart Charts for Patents — DialogClassic and DialogClassic Web

• Derwent World Patents Index: 280, 350, 351, 352
• IFI CLAIMS®/US Patents: 340, 341, 942
• US Patents Fulltext: 652, 653, 654
• EMBASE®: 72, 73
• MEDLINE®: 154, 155
• BIOSIS Previews®: 5, 55

Examples

See Figure 1 for an example of a BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals drug pipeline table combining data from Pharmaprojects, R&D Focus, and R&D Insight. See Figure 2 for an example of statistics generated by BizInt Smart Charts for Patents, showing Patent Assignees and the number of times each appears in the table.

Getting started with BizInt Smart Charts

For more information, including trial software and pricing information, visit http://www.bizcharts.com. Or contact Diane Webb, President, BizInt Solutions, 650 N. Costello Place, Orange, CA 92869 (714) 289-1000, .

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