Find the Expert You NeedThe Role of Data-Mining!

Albert Meige IC3K

CEO PRESANS 26 may 2011

Johnneeds an expert

Lai Choi San is the expert John needs

This is a perfect match…

Well, almost!

1. John does not know about Lai Choi San

What is the problem?

2. She works on radically different applications

John will never find Lai Choi San

There are tens of millions of experts in the world,

how do you find the one you need?

AGENDAPRESANS

X-Search: expertise mapping

This is just a tool!

Connect Business & Expertise

Production

R&D

Management&

Strategy

Publicresearch

Private labs

StartupsSuppliers

Consultingcompanies

Expert SourcingPRESANS brings value to Businessesby connecting them to worldwide expertise

Marketing

CONFIDENTIAL

Advanced technology dedicated to expert sourcing

Most qualified experts

Millions of Experts leave tracks on the web• Websites• Literature & patents • Etc.

① crawl ③ Query

Web Mining Advanced Search

ExpertSearchEngine

Expert profiles

② index & structure

X-Search

X-Search: the Worldwide Expert Search Engine

Find, qualify and contact experts onpresans.com/x-search

One million experts!

X-Search is just a tool!

ANSWERNEEDIdentify, qualify and

engage ExpertsExperts work on your need

and deliver answersReformulate your need

Over1 000 000 Experts

worldwide

CONVERT HUNT DELIVER

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Expertise matters!

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Appendix

With PRESANS, we solved a long term problem in less than 3 months,

for an incredibly low cost!CEO of a company in defense

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PRESANS did not solve our problem… instead, they identified important players that had recently emerged within our sector.

Strategy Director of a large company in information systems

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We thought we knew all the Experts within our core-business. PRESANS found new ones. We did not know them because they were working on totally different applications!

CTO of a large group in communications

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Want to know more about Dynamic Expert Sourcing?

• A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing• www.open-your-innovation.com• presans.com/x-search