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…

John Patrick is a Knovel Board member, former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, and one of the leading Internet visionaries as a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994. Most importantly, John is a tremendous asset to Knovel in helping to guide our strategy. His blog is closely followed by many thousands of readers and I am sure he will blog about being…

I am excited to write about being “On the Road” with our customers and partners. The Knovel team is spending more time today “on the road” than at any time in our history. I will be spending 4 out of 5 days this week with customers and partners who serve our customers. Being an on-line business means it is even more important to meet face to face with our customers….

Can “content” cost engineers time and money? Yes, because there are stark differences between delivering a highly tuned service that provides answers rather than generalized search engines and other content sources that sap productivity (time) from engineers! Let’s contrast Knovel against the way many engineers find answers to mission critical questions. While the content itself is important (after all the “right” content is what the user needs), users tell us…