Thomson ISI ResearchSoft and OmniViz Collaborate on New Data Analysis Tool—RefViz

World's Most Popular Bibliography Software Maker Teams Up with Leading Data Mining Company
 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Carlsbad, CA, USA - July 29, 2003—Thomson ISI ResearchSoft and OmniViz announce a new visualization tool for the researcher’s desktop. RefViz^™ provides users with a powerful way to explore reference literature visually for major themes and topics. References can be moved easily between RefViz and any of the ISI ResearchSoft products—EndNote^®, ProCite^® and Reference Manager^®—to publish results faster.

“We are pleased to have the opportunity to partner with Thomson ISI ResearchSoft,” said Dr. Jeffrey D. Saffer, President of OmniViz, Inc. “The natural fit of bibliographic management products with text analysis and visualization enhances researchers’ ability to understand the literature for publishing and planning future projects.”

“The synergies between these products address the classic case of information overload,” said David Kochalko, President of ISI ResearchSoft. “RefViz is an excellent example of the complementary tools we are developing and licensing to improve the research and publishing experience of our customers.”

Explore reference literature visually
Today’s academicians, students and researchers are faced with an overwhelming amount of information to organize, track and understand with too little time to digest it. RefViz, a text analysis and visualization software program, provides an intuitive framework for exploring reference collections based on content. With an at-a-glance overview, users can orient themselves with the literature to reveal trends and associations in references. RefViz provides a suite of tools for detailed exploration of bibliographies and online search results that helps users retain important references otherwise lost when narrowing a search or skimming a list.

Publish results faster
Used together with EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager, RefViz provides an additional level of analysis to existing reference collections and lets users find the most relevant citations for their papers. Researchers, writers and students depend on EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager to locate bibliographic data and create bibliographies for curricula vitae, manuscripts, grant proposals, term papers and other publications. Using these products, writers save countless hours of typing and interpreting style requirements of scholarly publications by simply selecting the publication by name and generating a perfectly formatted document. The combination of text analysis and bibliographic management makes these products ideal for any discipline whether in the sciences or the arts and humanities. For more information on RefViz, visit www.refviz.com.

About OmniViz
OmniViz, Inc. (www.omniviz.com) provides visualization and decision support software to the life science, healthcare and chemical industries. Sophisticated software solutions from OmniViz help clients transform raw data quickly into high-value information for research and new product development. Founded in 2000 as a subsidiary of Battelle Memorial Institute, OmniViz is based in Maynard, Massachusetts.

About Thomson ISI ResearchSoft
ISI ResearchSoft (www.isiresearchsoft.com) is a division of Thomson ISI. ISI ResearchSoft publishes bibliographic software products for the desktop—EndNote^®, ProCite^® and Reference Manager^® used by over a million researchers, students and librarians worldwide and for the Web—WriteNote^™, the research and writing tool for students. These products search remote databases and library catalogues on the Internet, import references into and organize personal libraries of citations, and produce papers written in word processors with correctly formatted in-text citations and bibliographies.

About Thomson ISI
ISI is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA with offices worldwide, ISI provides essential, high quality Web-based information to over seven million researchers, information specialists, and administrators in diverse fields. For more information about ISI, visit www.isinet.com.

The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2002 revenues of $7.8 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software applications and tools to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC).