Tools reviewed in this article cover two different target segments - one specifically catering to the research needs of an enterprise researcher, while the other serving a hitherto neglected niche: academic research.

Research Director from Cogenta

Let us talk about Research Director from Cogenta first, compare to research tools reviewed in the earlier article Research Director takes enterprise or individual research to a newer level and integrates both internal extent content sources (both from free and paid databases. And while searching for information and facts it displays a higher degree of automation - where a researcher can schedule a research-task freeing her of the burden of being present while research is going on. Research Director also gives the researcher the ability to store, organize and manage information processed through research requests. Processed information is presented to the user in an easy to use theme-based interface, and the user is intelligently alerted of updates from ongoing research.

Research Director can save time, energy and efforts of a corporate or an individual researcher and can fit well into the requirements of research-heavy fields such as legal industry, financial, telecoms, etc.

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RefViz from Thomson ISI ResearchSoft and OmniViz

One obvious area of research automation which is usually neglected by software vendors serving the enterprise market is academic research where text mining and textual analytics can play a measure role. Imagine a researcher trying to wade through heaps of scanned electronic documents, books and bibliographical references - anything that helps her in exploring reference literature visually for major themes and topics, any thing that helps her discover new relationships, recognize patterns that could slip human attention span would be considered a welcome addition.

Thomson ISI ResearchSoft, providers of academic research software such as EndNote, ProCite, and Refernce Manager has teamed up with text and data analytics and visualization company OmniViz to offer RefViz.

RefViz at this point is in a beta testing phase and claims that it can create a digest of topics discussed in the reference literature; recognize and reveal relationships between topics; analyze trends and associations amongst topic areas; and can allow the researcher to store, manage, retrieve research in a flexible manner, integrating seamlessly with bibliographies in EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite.

But what sets RefViz apart is OmniViz's technology that aids textual analytics and visualization. OminViz's CoMet Visualization technology allows mining of any kind of data (numeric as well textual) and offers visualization based on thematic patterns called ThemeMap.

Addition of these technologies makes RefViz an interesting offering for the academic research community.