Domain Specific Search Engine (PowerSearch)
Customer
Swiss Chemical Company
Establishing a search engine to aggregate and facilitate access to product data for R&D activities, resulting in faster search times and decreased research costs
Challenge
- Client manages a large product portfolio based on 1000s of patents with product info spread over various systems
- Product managers unable to fully harness the available data for new product development
- Previous search tool has several downfalls
Solution
- Set up a user-friendly search engine covering all company data in collaboration with internal team
- Integrated ML models previously developed for the same client into this new PowerSearch tool
Business impact
- Significant decrease in time spent looking for information
- Information that was previously inaccessible is now available to end users
- Improved R&D efficiency and reduced research costs
- As of Dec 2020, used in 25 countries with 250 unique users/week