Formulators and Regulatory Specialists within Food & Beverage companies often follow an inefficient process to evaluate and optimize formula & product designs against regulatory compliance requirements at the Assessment and Design stages of the PLM. They need to perform compliance assessments early in the PLM cycle to avoid costs and lower impacts of changes.

• Review relevant information located in multiple legislative texts
• Access and view the most current and authenticated legislative texts
• Create substance searches according to targeted markets
• Click over to the legislation to view the highlighted search item within the document to allow self interpretation if needed
• Import relevant substance information, such as approved list names into Parameter fields in their Optiva formulation module to support their research
• Save search strings for future and community sharing use allowing operational efficiency
• Create automated alerts based on regulatory repository updates
• Have tools in place to build Guidelines and Restrictions in Optiva

Web Discovery provides unified access to multiple internal and external information sources, such as news feed systems, document management repositories, intranets, and the World Wide Web.

Each of these information sources typically has its own search interface, and to submit a similar query to each of them becomes a time-consuming process. Web Discovery effectively streamlines the information retrieval process. It enables users to submit a single query to multiple information sources, and returns a unified and sorted set of results. Rather than spending excessive time submitting the same query over and over to multiple data sources, The product enables users to broadcast their query to a wide assortment of search engines and receive one set of consolidated results.

With this product, you can provide users with a unified knowledge management system that enables them to quickly find the information they need, improving productivity, and saving time and money.

• Provides a single point of access-Provides unified access for searching internal and external information sources in a common user interface
• Improves productivity-Makes it easier for users to find the information needed to do their job, enabling them to be more responsive and productive
• Leverages existing investments-Preserves the value of investments in legacy data sources by providing unified access to content in its existing locations, thus avoiding the cost of transferring large amounts of legacy data to new repositories

With a web-based repositories for Environment, Health, Safety and Transport information you can quickly locates global regulatory information. It will simplify the monitoring process for regulatory changes and saves you time by providing online, updated regulatory data that is reviewed by experts.

These tools will ease the burden of consolidating regulatory information on a global scale and significantly reduces the complexity by providing one centralized source for both government and industry guidelines. It provides regulatory information in a standardized format combined with powerful search capabilities.

Users can ensure that current products can be sold into new markets or products in development can be sold into their target market areas, with the understanding of regulatory restrictions, labeling requirements, export notifications, and inventory reporting.

Organizes unstructured content and provides Information Retrieval tools to mine PLM content. Connectors enable full-text indexing of free text, giving users Knowledge Management access to "hard-to-find" PLM content. Faster, easier retrieval of PLM content with more confidence, make timely decisions, sort through endless information.

This tool is a web-based application for organizing, loading and updating the USDA data for a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementation.

Using a tree structure as a navigation bar, a user can browse trough the various foodgroups as organized by the US Department of Agriculture. After opening a folder, the list of food items in that group are displayed for review.

When the user clicks on an item name, the corresponding nutritional content information is made available, such as general information about this particular ingredient, as well as the complete list of ingredients and values.

Items selected by the checkboxes can be gathered and reviewed in the SELECTION tab. Once the user is satisfied with his/her section they can be downloaded into a PLM application.

• Keeps track of imported items, so that the USDA loader can modify already imported data when a new Service Release of the USDA data comes available
• Uses the Household Units of measurement as provided by the USDA database available for selection and import
• Gives the user the ability to provide it's own Variable UOMS, and import this into a PLM application
• More extensive grouping in the tree has been added. Creating one group of items that are small variants of each other in order optimize user navigation and selection

The data mining - Advanced Information Retrieval Toolkit provides a set of analysis tools that enhance the capabilities of Search - Discovery Server. As the amount of information in document collections continues to expand, it becomes increasingly important to provide users with additional tools beyond the standard ranked list of documents in response to a search query-tools that can help users find more relevant information and help them understand the information for both its content, and its context.

• Concept mining allows users to get an overview of the organizations, people, and other concepts that are significant in a set of documents-the technology analyzes documents in a result set, or in an entire database, and selects the concepts that are deemed to be most important
• Use the automatic search enhancement option of concept mining to return most similar documents to the target documents
• Cluster documents to give users an overview of the range of topics discussed in a set of documents-in addition to (or even in place of) a standard result list, applications using document clustering can present a list of subtopics found in the retrieved documents

MSDS Vault is a sophisticated database-driven SDS (safety data sheet) management solution. Being database-driven enables unlimited searching, full glossary functions and uniform consistent format.

With close to a million SDS's under management and being continually revised, users can be confident that hazardous chemical compliance tasks are easily managed with automation.

MSDS Vault is a tailored solution using client specific SDS information, sourced directly from the chemical manufacturer or distributor. This ensures 100% compliance with all hazard communication standards and provides up-to-date, accurate SDS data at your fingertips. As a complete solution the MSDS Vault service continually manages all aspects of your SDS information and ongoing maintenance. Designated Account Teams handle the acquisition, organization and revision maintenance for your entire SDS inventory, and stay in constant communication with your designated employees.