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SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dolcera Corporation, a leading information services and technology firm that helps companies quickly and effectively navigate through their entire innovation cycle to achieve successful business outcomes, today announced its new Patent Dashboard, available for the first time as a standalone platform.

Dolcera’s flagship software as a service (SaaS) Patent Dashboard is a proprietary Web 2.0-based collaborative tool that enables companies to visualize, search, and map the relevant competitive patent landscape, determine patent value, and ultimately accelerate the time to commercialize their patents. The new Patent Dashboard v1.1 provides greater flexibility and control as well as enhanced search and reporting capabilities.

Mapping the Patent Landscape

Today, patents are under greater scrutiny, take longer to be approved, and can cost several hundred thousands of dollars from application until grant stage. At the same time, patents represent new sources of revenue through commercialization or acquisition, and are also viewed as points of differentiation and competitive advantage.

The Patent Dashboard’s ease of use and flexibility, along with its collaboration capabilities, make it easy and practical for experts and non-experts to use. It may also be used alone or with other patent tools, such as those for search, intellectual asset management, or research.

Among the new features of the Dolcera Patent Dashboard Tool v1.1 are:

• Custom Taxonomies and Patent Additions by users on the fly, based on their topics of interest;
• Editable Patent Categories that can be easily moved within the Dashboard;
• Enhanced Researching and Reporting, with patent searches (even complex Boolean ones) and information filters; and
• Enhanced Collaboration via relevance rankings, referral tagging, track changes, and data security for selective user access.

The Dolcera Patent Dashboard is sold directly; a single full and functional user license starts from $49 per user per month.

About Dolcera

Dolcera is a leading information services and technology firm that helps companies quickly and effectively navigate through their entire innovation cycle to achieve successful business outcomes. The company’s mission is to deliver high-quality Intellectual Property (IP), technology, and market research services that can be deployed easily and quickly within a company or department. Dolcera’s products and services are used by Fortune 500 and Global 1000 organizations across a wide array of industries including alternative energy, biotechnology, chemicals, oil and gas, consumer goods, food and beverages, manufacturing, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, software and telecommunications. The company is privately held and based in San Mateo, Calif. and Hyderabad, India. For a demo of the Patent Dashboard, please see: YouTube Link.

For more information, please visit: www.dolcera.com

Dolcera and Dolcera Patent Dashboard are trademarks of Dolcera Corporation. All other products and services mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies.

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Summary: Use of both wikis and iPhones is growing within enterprises. Using wikis from iPhones is not very easy yet, though there are some promising applications/approaches in the works. A notable application is Mini Confluence for the iPhone.

Wiki usage is growing rapidly in enterprises, and the success of Wikipedia has encouraged information technology (IT) and business units to try and set up something similar to a Wikipedia within their organizations as well.

A concurrent trend is the growth of smartphone use by business users. The Blackberry devices, currently the favorites of enterprise users, have always had top-notch email capabilities, but have not focused on the web browsing experience, though that’s changing rapidly.

The Apple iPhone is the real game-changer when it comes to mobility. Now comes the news that it is making big strides in enterprise adoption. Via GigaOm, we have the following quote from the Apple COO, Tim Cook:

The phone is particularly doing well with small business and with large organizations that allow people to purchase the phones for individual use, and this is both in corporate and government settings. Specifically, to give you some numbers, almost 20% of the Fortune 100 have purchased at least 10,000 units or more and there’s now multiple corporations and government agencies who have purchased in excess of 25,000 each.

Business users will soon want to access their wikis from their iPhones. In most cases, they will want read-only access and for that, a variety of options are already available. For example, there is an iPhone app out for the the popular Confluence wiki. The app’s called Mini Confluence

and it allows for browsing, searching and commenting. Editing does not seem to be supported.

Other wikis are taking a different approach. SocialText made an announcement in 2006 for something called the Miki, which, for all practical purposes, seems like a ’skin’ or a stylesheet that makes the wiki content readable on a mobile device. Many other wikis (including Twiki) follow the same model.

Yet a third approach is that of dumping the entire wiki on to the phone, since these phones have plenty of memory. Wikipedia-iPhone, for example, lets you take the whole encyclopedia with you on your device.

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