Research and development form the basis for long-term security of a company because they create and develop the foundation for subsequent series of products. The results of R & D are used in production in order to expand and/or secure market shares.

The challenge in this field today is the optimization of communication both within and outside the company. Knowledge of achieved results and insights is of decisive significance for the entire company. In addition, it must be possible to use R & D results in a comprehensive way as a starting basis for new products and services. This means that corresponding know-how must be made easy to research for other departments in a rapid and targeted way. A positive side-effect of this unified information structure is that several fold developments and expenditure can be avoided even within the R & D division.

COI solutions offer considerable advantages for your R & D division through amalgamation of this complex information from different sources on a unified basis. The more comprehensively the information from company-internal and company-external information systems can be aggregated, the more substantiated is your decision making. This unified information basis enables you to additionally provide existing results to other company divisions or departments in a simple and targeted way. Even entire work processes involving R & D are optimized and slimmed down through far-reaching process support. Knowledge transfer from other departments such as, for example, service to the research & development department is in addition also clearly facilitated in parallel. Lower development costs and a reduced throughput time for processes are possible positive effects.