Dolcera's mission is to provide information integration and outsourced research services for decision support. Our services are targeted towards multiple types of knowledge workers within organizations including:
The Dolcera team has deep expertise in medical devices, computer software, communications, pharmaceuticals, chemical and mechanical engineering.
Dolcera works with researchers, engineers and technologists, and provides them with very high-quality technology and market information through our technology reports. Our technical team prepares technology reports on important areas of research and development. These reports comprehensively cover:
Dolcera provides the intellectual property (IP) teams with a variety of services including:
Knowledge managers are faced with a rapidly changing environment that includes a plethora of new tools (blogs, wikis, the semantic web etc.) and many challenges to go with them (e.g. taxonomy organization). Dolcera provides a range of collaboration services for managers of knowledge-driven organizations. The collaboration services include:
The brand manager dashboard is a new Dolcera offering targeted towards marketing teams within consumer products, pharmaceutical and automotive companies that organize their product strategies around strong brands and monitor them relentlessly.
The dashboard:
Executives and strategists use the integrated executive dashboards to obtain a comprehensive overview of market, research and IP trends. Other services from Dolcera include:
The Dolcera team has expertise in:
Medical devices | Surgical beds, Pulse oximetry, Stents, Devices for ischemic strokes, Implantable pressure sensors |
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Pharmaceuticals | Alopecia (hair loss), Ischemia, Coronary artery disease (CAD) |
Biotechnology | Genomics, bioinformatics, biomedical engineering |
Communications | Satellite antennas, Mobile communication (GSM, CDMA, 3G), VoIP |
Software | RFID, Consumer applications, E-Learning, Multimodality, Advanced user interfaces, Mobile applications, Location-based services, Advertising tracking |
Dolcera's clients include one of world's top 3 software companies, as well as many of the world's most reputed companies as well as law firms specializing in this area, both in US and Europe. We provide intellectual property (IP) and technology research services to our clients.
Our team has decades of collective experience in the software industry. We have covered a range of areas in this space, including:
Dolcera team prepares technology reports on important areas of research and development. These reports comprehensively cover:
The unique aspects of Dolcera's technology reports are:
Client: | A large medical device company |
Goal: | Create a technology report on one of the newest types of cardiac devices. Integrate data from a variety of data sources. |
Duration: | Intial preparation - 4 weeks |
Result: | The Dolcera report was shared between the research, marketing and legal groups within the client corporation. Dolcera also provides monthly updates for this report. |
Savings: | Approximately 1/8th of the cost |
Example: | (Confidential) |
Dolcera advantage: | Multi-disciplinary data integration, rapid results, low costs |
Client quote: | "This is the perfect kind of thing for me." |
Dolcera IPMaps present the comprehensive view of intellectual property in a particular area. Prepared by highly-trained technical analysts, Dolcera IPMaps are:
Client: | A Fortune 500 software company |
Goal: | Provide an overview of the company's patent portfolio in a key technology area. |
Duration: | 2 weeks |
Result: | The Dolcera IPMap integrated patent and competitive information from a variety of sources in one 'snapshot' IPMap that was used by the client for validating the market space and their own research strength. |
Savings: | Approximately 1/5th of the cost |
Example: | RFID IPMap, Multimodal applications IPMap |
Dolcera advantage: | Data integration, technology expertise, speed, low costs |
Client quote: | "You showed us how small this market is. We would not have entered this market if we had this information in advance." |
Certain fields of research progress at bewildering speeds. It is often impossible for researchers, technology experts and executives alike to keep track of the developments. Dolcera timelines are exactly what their name implies: interactive visual maps that show the development of a field over the course of time. Our timelines are used for a variety of purposes including:
Client: | A major N. American smartphone manufacturer |
Goal: | Determine inventorship of some of the most important cellular telephony standards by analyzing patent, standard and market data. |
Duration: | 4 weeks |
Result: | Dolcera timelines, based on research through several gigabytes of standards meetings minutes, specifications and patents, allowed the client to negotiate with their competitors. |
Savings: | Approximately 1/10th of the cost |
Example: | Sample timeline |
Dolcera advantage: | Powerful search tools, data integration from disparate sources, succinct presentation |
Client quote: | "I did not even have to lift a finger to understand the information... I used your presentation for my company's Board (of Directors)." |
Dolcera works in partnership with research and development groups within companies to help them understand the business opportunities for their research. We develop full-strength business plans with:
Client: | A global software company |
Goal: | Create business case for a research project with several patent applications |
Duration: | 6 weeks |
Result: | Complete business plan including market research, financial plan, competitive analysis, product positioning, product and need characteristics |
Savings: | Approximately 1/10th of the cost |
Example: | (Confidential) |
Dolcera advantage: | Strong technology and business expertise to help researchers shorter innovation cycle |
Client quote: | "Dolcera is an integral part of our research commercialization strategy." |
The Dolcera executive IP dashboard provides an integrated view of all the key performance indicators for your organization's intellectual property, including:
The interactive executive IP dashboard allows users to perform their own what-if analysis. Behind the scenes, the Dolcera team performs extensive research and market+competitive analysis to drive the executive dashboard and keep it up-to-date.
Client: | A US medical device major |
Goal: | Provide a central point of entry for all corporate IP performance indicators |
Duration: | Ongoing |
Result: | All patent information in one spot, and shared by all stakeholders within the organization. |
Savings: | Greater overall visibility improves response time considerably |
Example: | (Confidential) |
Dolcera advantage: | Correlating market movements with IP information and technology trends |
Client quote: | "The dashboard helps our team think strategically." |
The brand manager dashboard is a new Dolcera offering targeted towards marketing teams within consumer products, pharmaceutical and automotive companies that organize their product strategies around strong brands and monitor them relentlessly.
The dashboard identifies the impact of global and local events on client's and competitor's brands. It brings together data from a variety of data sources. It also includes data collected through sampling blogs, social networking sites and other non-traditional media sources.
Dolcera provides a range of collaboration services for large organizations. The collaboration services include:
Client: | Large pharmaceutical company |
Goal: | Provide a central Human Resources forms and document system for the corporate intranet. |
Duration: | 2 months |
Result: | We prepared the taxonomy and classification system for all documents and classified the documents initially. We also trained clients to update the documents on an ongoing basis. |
Savings: | Approximately $300,000 for the project |
Example: | (Confidential) |
Dolcera advantage: | Best-in-class technology and processes, ably supported by our technical team in India |
Client quote: | "Our goal is to be a smarter organization, and Dolcera helped us achieve it." |
Dolcera takes medium- to large-sized patent portfolios and:
Technology changes rapidly and it is often difficult to keep track of all the trends swirling on the Internet, all the ideas bubbling in academia, and the range of innovations you and your competitors are working on. Dolcera provides a sophisticated service to track technology trends, juxtaposing academic research, market data and patent filings information worldwide.
Client: | Major technology company |
Goal: | Provide an overview of technology directions of an important technology topic. |
Duration: | 2 months |
Result: | We identified the key technology trends, the patent information worldwide and provided predictions for the 'next big thing' |
Savings: | Potentially millions, with timely positioning of new offerings |
Example: | HEV Report |
Dolcera advantage: | Constant monitoring of technology trends |
Client quote: | "We are swamped with information and are unable to digest it." |
Offering | Goal | Client | Role | Demo |
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Technology reports | 360-degree view of technology and market data | Technology company | Researcher | HEV report |
IPMaps | Comprehensive view of a particular research area | Law firms, corporations | Researcher | Satellite Antenna IPMap |
Timelines | Integrated timeline of technologies, standards and patents | Corporations | Executive | Timeline view |
Business plans | Integrated timeline of technologies, standards and patents | Corporations | Executive | Timeline view |
Executive dashboard | Up-to-date snapshot of market+competitive data | Large corporation | Executive | RFID dashboard |
Brand dashboard | Integrated market information for a brand | Consumer products company | Brand Manager | Brand dashboard |
Collaboration services | Multi-way interaction platform for research, marketing and manufacturing groups | Medium and large companies | Knowledge worker | Interactive reports |
Intellectual asset management services | Comprehensive overview of all your and your competition's IP | Medium and large companies | Patent counsel | IP asset management |
Technology trends research | Monitor technology, IP and market trends | Medium and large companies | Executive | Technology trends report |
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The Dolcera team has expertise in: