April 17, 2002 – KollabNet Inc. is
seeking 25 “early adopters” for its new
software, a requirements capture tool that
increases the velocity of product design and
development, and captures best practices without
creating additional administrative burdens.
Under normal operating procedures, valuable
intellectual capital is constantly discarded as
concepts are narrowed to a final product. This
software environment makes the design engineer
more productive, by capturing and linking to
data created in the normal use of other
applications, such as design software. KollabNet
has termed this groundbreaking application and
operating environment Knowledge Accounting™.
KollabNet develops software
products for manufacturing firms that capture
and keep track of knowledge, by replacing
traditional white-boarding, data-capturing or
documentation tools.
KollabNet’s environment:
Simplifies and enhances
requirements capture
Provides concept-driven support for product
definition
Accumulates preliminary design variants for
easy retrieval
Facilitates product definition
white-boarding
Bridges between product concept and sales
configurations
“Manufacturing companies lose significant assets
every time they create a design and do not save the
accumulated knowledge of their common practices for
future reuse, product improvement, and regulatory
compliance," pointed out a spokesman for KollabNet.
“And every time an experienced engineer leaves the
company, his or her knowledge and experience also
walk out the door.”
"How can what's in a designer's mind be
captured? How can thoughts and intentions be
captured and managed? How is all the information
in designers' heads related to tools such as
CAD/FEA/PDM/ERP/MRP and requirements documents?
That is the unique capability of our product. "
Earlier efforts from other companies
to capture engineering knowledge required the design
engineer to do extra work. KollabNet’s unique
approach simply makes existing design practice much
easier, and more interesting for the engineer, while
capturing the design alternatives for later
re-use-both by the engineer and the whole
enterprise.
KollabNet believes that it is well positioned for
rapid growth, as it will introduce significant new
concepts and technologies to the Knowledge
Management marketplace, valued at $10 Billion in
software sales by 2005.
“Early adopters” will receive special
attention from the company in exchange for
providing detailed feedback on their product
use. They will also benefit from greatly reduced
licensing fees, and membership in the “KollabNet
Early Adopters” council, which will help provide
strategic direction to KollabNet in the coming
months. Any company desiring to participate in
the “early adopters” program should email their
interest to info@kollabnet.com.
