Business Services

Consultation in various fields of expertise, for example:

• Design and Usability review and testing of advanced user interfaces
• Building knowledge centers and knowledge management
• Developing digital libraries and search engines

Defining and conducting research projects in the field of computer science and Internet, information technology and business administration. This includes learning and surveying the state of the art in the field, starting with the problem definition, continuing with methods and alternatives for solutions, and ending with a prototype and its testing, including a final report/paper.

System analysis, including requirements surveys and technical specifications, from users and/or entrepreneur. Assistance in defining, writing, and executing of Requests for Information (RPI) and Requests for Proposals (RFP), and/or assisting in answering RFIs and RFPs, while using standard methodologies, such as Nohal Mafteach, MIL-STD and UML. Example fields of expertise:

• Multimedia, Videoconferencing, and Distance Education systems.
• Mapping and GIS systems.
• Expert systems (in various fields, e.g., CRM)
• Knowledge Management systems, Ontologies, and Organizational Memory (including Metadata formats, such as RDF, XML, etc.)
• and many more…

Search for commercial, academic and research information.

• Information searching
  Locating and gathering information in the commercial, academic, research and personal (e.g., medical information) fields. Surveying of various fields and needs of information and Business/Competitive Intelligence (such as products, patents, competitors, market directions, etc.), or finding specific information. This, while using diverse information sources, such as:
  • Information on the Internet, in directories, databases, and libraries.
  • Information existing in regular search engines, specialized search engines, digital libraries, and on the Invisible Web.
  • Information in newsgroups, blogs, etc.
  • Information in specializing databases.
  • Information in special purpose data repository.
  • Information in purchased (market) surveys.
• Information updates
  Regularly scheduled searching while collecting new, updated, relevant information, possibly in a Newsletter format.
• Organization and summary of information
  Organization of material in subtopics, providing executive summaries and digests of the information.
• Information analysis
  Analyzing and reaching conclusions based on the information gathered, and providing an executive summary. Research to gather information on the Internet and outside, including telephone researches. For example: genealogical research to locate information and "family tree".
• Bibliographical survey
  Locating relevant, academic and commercial, papers and summarizing them.