1. The Business Case for Federated Search Presented by: Lesley D’Almeida, CSA Product Manager September 11, 2006

2. CSA Worldwide CHILE

3. The unifying concept that drives our efforts….our mission statement. CSA enables researchers to be more effective by expanding and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information relevant to their research, and providing tools to assist them in disseminating their information.

4. The Numbers 300+ Employees 200 million 2005 Searches 25,000,000 2005 Logons 650 RefWorks Customers 4,290 CSA Illumina Customers

5. History of Innovation 1994 1998 Best Science/Technology Service (SIIA) 2002 Best Online STM Service IIA CODiE 2004 Best Customer Support from the Charleston Advisor

8. “You must be willing to change what you are today to become what you want to be tomorrow.”

9. NO!! Not Now! NEVER!!! Skeptical ------ why? Suspicious ------ what is the value? Scared

10. Vision CSA works to create information services that take full advantage of technology that will aid researchers in their quest for discovery.

11. Why? Leverage our platform Increased customer requests for federated search capability Increase usage Satisfy customers

12. Where are we today? Confident Believers in the technology 2006 CODiE Award for Best Solution Integrating Content into an Application

13. CSA Today

14. the future is what we create