The Business Case for Federated Search

Presented by:Lesley D’Almeida, CSA Product ManagerSeptember 11, 2006

CSA Worldwide

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The unifying concept that drives our efforts….our mission statement.

CSA enables researchers to be more effective by expanding and expediting discovery, aiding the

management and organization of quality information relevant to their research, and providing tools to assist

them in disseminating their information.

CSA enables researchers to be more effective by expanding and expediting discovery, aiding the

management and organization of quality information relevant to their research, and providing tools to assist

them in disseminating their information.

The Numbers

300+300+

Employees

200 million200 million

2005 Searches

25,000,00025,000,000

2005 Logons

650650RefWorks Customers

4,2904,290

CSA Illumina Customers

History of Innovation

1994 • 1998Best Science/Technology Service (SIIA)

2002Best Online STM ServiceIIA CODiE

2004Best Customer Supportfrom the Charleston Advisor

“You must be willing to change what you are today to become what you want to be tomorrow.”

• NO!!

• Not Now!

• NEVER!!!

Skeptical ------ why?

Suspicious ------ what is the value?

Scared

VisionCSA works to create information services

that take full advantage of

technology that will aid researchers in

their quest for discovery.

Why?

• Leverage our platform

• Increased customer requests for federated search capability

• Increase usage

• Satisfy customers

Where are we today?

• Confident

• Believers in the technology

• 2006 CODiE Award for Best Solution Integrating Content into an Application

CSA Today

the future is

what we create