Conquest could find a needle in a haystack, but the Web made too many haystacks. We can handle multiple haystacks, searching not one database, but all relevant databases. The old model was one aggregator hosting all data on a mainframe. Now we ve moved to virtual aggregation. The Powerize Server supports access to and dissemination of competitive intelligence and business information through intranet and Web connections.
Users can conduct ad hoc online searches against multiple and distributed information sources.
The Server also supports dynamic research agents called wizards that can constantly monitor sources for new, relevant information. According to Addison, at present the company has contracts with more than 60 publishers and aggregators, most for hosting, some for linking. They follow copyright laws and do try to form written relations with sites. They expect to announce more Internet connections this spring, including one to Dow Jones Interactive that relies on DJI s Intranet Toolkit. The powerize Server integrates and analyzes query results from multiple sources, summarizes them, and provides them to users in a customized presentation.