Solutions

  • HyLighter to improve collaboration within and between documents stored in SharePoint libraries. While SharePoint does many things well that are related to managing and controlling collaboration, it does little to improve collaboration inside the “container” (i.e., inside the files that are stored in SharePoint libraries). HyLighter offers a plugin for SharePoint that enables a user to push a document from a SharePoint library to a browser with HyLighter installed while maintaining document control through SharePoint. It also enables users to create links within and between documents in SharePoint libraries.

  • HyLighter to help establish a more collaborative culture. A leading business development consulting company is opening several satellite locations around the country. The CIO is concerned that adding many more dispersed workers will create even more problems around managing and sharing documents. To help address this problem, he is introducing HyLighter to various departments and teams across the company as a SharePoint add on for a variety of tasks. These include proposal management, policy review, and several other tasks where he sees potential value and benefits. The CIO expects that as workers see the value of richer, more interactive collaboration using HyLighter, adoption will spread through viral effects.

  • HyLighter for intelligence work. Analysts are engaged in reviewing many sources of information to assess a wide range of threats. A senior analyst at a major agency wants to enable large groups of analysts to gather data on persons of interest from documents that have been pre-screened through machine intelligence more efficiently. As analysts highlight relevant pieces of information, they add comments and tags to their selections. As this layer of highlighting and other annotation accumulates across the document collection, users can view the data extracted from the HyLighter data structure in a tabular report or Excel spreadsheet in real time. Further, they can search, sort or filter the data by various criteria including, for example, by persons of interest. This mechanism provides each analyst with real time access to the activities of all analysts across the document collection for greater coordination of effort and a more efficient and auditable process.

  • HyLighter for legal services. Your legal team is collaborating with several other teams around the country in pursuing a class action law suit. Briefs and other collateral are flying around as email attachments and keeping track of document traffic is painfully inefficient. By importing all of the collateral to HyLighter, the process becomes more orderly, consistent and auditable.

  • HyLighter for realizing the vision of social libraries. You want to make your online publications stickier. HyLighter transforms your collection of publications into a social library by capturing the distributed knowledge of readers.

  • HyLighter for cognitive compliance in highly regulated environments. You want to ensure and document that all employees who are affected by a new regulation have read and understood the regulation.

  • HyLighter for research teams and product development. While next generation technologies in the life sciences have the potential to dramatically accelerate the rate of innovation, more productive and efficient collaboration technology, especially for interdisciplinary teams, is more crucial than ever. A company in the life sciences has invested heavily in new DNA sequencing technology that has the potential to increase their product pipeline by tenfold. Using HyLighter’s easy linking capability, users can create links between self-selected fragments within and between documents and define the relationships – for example, by linking a finding in one document with related information in other documents that support or contradict the claim. Using HyLighter, scientists in molecular biology, chemistry and other disciplines along-side business people in sales, marketing, finance, and legal are able to easily share their thinking.

  • HyLighter for education and training. As an instructor, you want to promote development of higher-order thinking skills in your students. HyLighter provides a platform for building highly interactive learning environments that provide scaffolding for the development of higher-order thinking skills, enable authentic learning and assessment activities, facilitate rich feedback, and help build and sustain a supportive social and emotional context for learning.