how Jumper 2.0 help cut through the clutter and get right to the innovation.

A global medical research company needed help with one of the unglamorous, but basic parts of science, managing the tons of research papers and PDF files they piled up doing preclinical research. They needed more than a global Enterprise Content Mangement suite to locate the best research papers.

The volume of papers had become overwhelming and researches were spending a frustrating amount of time trying to find the best and most relevant papers to their particular field of study or project. Despite the many tools available none seemed to meet their needs.

When researching papers users typically began by searching the big scientific databases like PubMed and the Web of Science. The challenge is that these databases provide lists of what has already been published on a given subject; it’s where most scientists find out about the papers they want to collect, but where do you begin. What papers are good? Which ones should you not waste your time on? What insights have others found in specific papers? What is the consensus review of a particular paper? None of this is available online. All you get is an abstract and some reference notes. An extraordinary amount of time was being wasted in this way. They needed a simple way to share reviews of papers across the organization, exchange insights, a collective thought process about published work, even share proprietary developments as it relates to published work.

Desktop tools like Zotoro, Mendeley and others helped users effectively manage papers on a personal level, on their laptops. But none of this information was being shared. They needed a tool that allowed this personal knowledge to be effectively shared with all researchers in the organization. Content management systems housed much of these papers on our Intranet making them easily accessible. Traditional metadata captured little of this critical knowledge and to make things worse these papers were often housed in different content systems with different search interfaces. Searching all of these systems to find good papers was a huge challenge. Given an exact title these systems worked fine, beyond that the search could be maddening.

What they found was Jumper 2.0. Keeping track of research papers became a simple and highly collaborative process. Jumper 2.0’s user-friendly web interface allowed fast access to search more than just titles, but to actually search and evaluate the reviews of each paper, the critical findings of each paper, the papers value to research, all was served up in a summary tag profile. Each researcher could add their own comments, tags, reviews, and ratings to further expand the knowledgebase. Jumper also provided the capability to link research papers to other work, and show this in the search results. Research papers that related to specific assays could be linked across systems (content systems to database systems), papers could be linked to lab notes and other systems allowing for a highly effective web of information to be created.

share the collective intelligence

In highly creative and fast-moving industries, the amount of money spent on the research and development budget can literally determine the future of the business. The earlier a product can be brought to market, the longer the company may sell the product without competition. The time needed for preclinical discovery and development are far more difficult to gauge. The price of research is really a measure of time. Even incremental increases represent significant investment.

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