“In 2001 Gartner analyst Doug Laney defined the three major problems created by the explosion of information in the Big Data era – Volume, Velocity, and Variety (Three V’s).

• Volume – the sheer amount of data being created doubles the amount of available storage, and 95% of this data is complex or unstructured in nature.
• Velocity – data has become a strategic asset being used as a basis for competitive advantage; the faster a company can access, manipulate, and gain insights on its data, the better.
• Variety – there are countless sources and types of data today; moving outside of the corporate firewall with sensors, social media, photos, and video to name a few.”

Mobile Library™ as an information management tool addresses primarily, although not exclusively, the issue of Velocity. The International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM – www.stm-assoc.org) published a study in 2009 by Mark Ware Consulting which reported that the number of scientific articles published each year has grown at a slow but steady pace of about 3% per year for over 100 years.

That said, Mobile Library has the largest collections of STM content in the industry and most requests for journal articles and other content can be delivered in 5 minutes or less. As a cloud-based system, Mobile Library is able to offer some insights into the data by providing the end user with valuable information on additional content related to their specific request. The business value of a cloud-based document delivery service that incorporates secure social media has been well documented in a recently published thought leadership briefing. We invite you to download your complimentary copy by clicking here.

Most of us use FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media sites in our personal lives. The one thing all these platforms have in common is that they allow us to follow friends and colleagues, share, comment, offer opinions, advice and communicate in a simple, easy fashion. Imagine the value of being able to do all that within your company while remaining compliant in a completely secure environment!

Global companies have been trying for years to create systems that facilitate collaboration amongst their employees. All companies understand that effective collaboration leads to higher productivity and ultimately, more innovation. That is why the concept of consumer-style social media as a tool for collaboration makes sense in the context of our Mobile Library product, enabling R&D and other professionals to share, comment, offer their opinions and advice to make their work and workgroups more efficient and productive. That’s why we added secure, social media tools as an integral component of the Mobile Library’s scientific document delivery service. No one has ever done this before! If you haven’t seen these features, click here for more information.