JULY 2021CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM 19system. Specifically, we enable clients to generate growth through innovation strategies and automate innovation challenges and technology scouting and landscaping, while also providing crowdsourcing subject-matter expert (SME) functionality.Please tell our readers about your technology scouting solution.The Ezassi Innovation Discovery software platform helps clients access cutting-edge research, while reducing costs and complementing R&D and engineering departments around the world. It offers insights into emerging technologies, patents, subject matter experts, and financial analytics - all on one platform. Subscription-based platform access is available, as well as full-service technology scouting or landscaping projects.Our software tracks historical data to determine market readiness and product launches using key indicators ­ through simple searching and visual datafiltering to rapidlyanalyze results. Our Innovation Discovery software mines technical documentation "big data", offering a deep-dive into the digital universe where scouts can identify prime targets for innovation and capitalize on those opportunities: whether they are adjacent, disruptive or emerging technologies, startup incubators, suppliers and vendors, or subject matter experts.Whether ideating, evaluating potential technologies, assessing investment options or looking at alternative business solutions, the Ezassi platform gets you the right information at the right time to innovate faster.These solutions reside in our open innovation platform, which businesses can access via a subscription-based model. Most importantly, all of our solutions can be integrated with clients' existing technology stacks through APIs ­ so, they do not need to start everything from scratch.Innovation is more and more criticalevery day. We work closely with our clients and continue to improve our technology to equip them with state-of-the-art research capabilities.What is your typical client onboarding process?At Ezassi, we pride ourselves on our excellent customer service. We start with an onboarding call to introduce our client success team and become familiar with their existing innovation program. We customize the appearance of their environment and offer example content, hands-on learning material, and walkthroughs. Clients with established programs get the option to upload existing content into their innovation repository, where everything becomes searchable, even attachments. We provide ongoing training and offer consulting services and continuously share knowledge and industry best practices.What differentiates Ezassi from competitors?The Ezassi Innovation Discovery software uses a sophisticated searchbot to crawl the digital universe and identify specific keywords, traits, and attributes, to locate relevant technologies and problems solvers; uncovering the relevant critical technologies and innovators to address unmet needs -- all in real-time.When a software-only solution is not adequate, our Technology Scouting and Landscaping Services team works with innovation teams across all industries and business verticals to help them through their innovation pain-points. Our team prides itself on the ability to operate across rapidly moving global technology arenas, and has perfected the art of identifying disruptive and emerging technology rapidly and cost-effectively.What does the future hold for your company?We are continually engaged in the process of improving and enhancing our software platform. Take the Innovation Discovery solution, for instance: we continue to optimize its intuitiveness so users can effectively drill down to the critical information they're looking for in the shortest time possible. We have also developed an Innovation Project Management module to help clients move from discovery to project implementation. For ideation, we built APIs for our clients who prefer to innovate from a public-facing website. Stephanie Creech, VP of Marketing & Product Management
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