I’m back in New York after a stimulating 3 days at Special Libraries Association (SLA), where the traffic was steady and customer feedback was generally positive.  Overall, users are enthusiastic about our product direction, notably the new content collections and the addition of Knovel Lab. In a couple of weeks, we’ll be showcasing a redesign of Fielded Search in Knovel Lab. As it stands today, it’s too hard to use…

Beth Stackpole of Design News gave me the opportunity to speak with her last week about how Knovel is helping engineers with mathmatical calculations with our introduction of Knovel Math.  We keep hearing from Mathcad users how offering calculations from reference works in Mathcad format will save them 6, 8, or even 10 hours of effort.  And we’re glad to help. After our talk, Beth posted Knovel Simplifies Math Equations…

I was thrilled to see Alan Belniak’s  June 3 post ( he is the Mathcad Product Manager at PTC) discussing ”exciting new content” for Mathcad. Knovel is partnering with PTC to bring Mathcad users a rich content experience that will dramatically improve the ROI on thier investment in Mathcad. We will launch this new integrated content collection at the PTC User event in Orlando next week.

Chemical Processing Magazine published an article which prominently features Knovel and addresses how chemical process companies are dealing with the mass retirements of employees while minimizing the knowledge loss related to their departures. The article discusses how Knovel and other tools help ensure knowledge is made available and shared throughout large organizations. Our good customer Lubrizol is featured in the article and discusses how Knovel provides Google-like searchability to engineers who…