The success and value of Ardivos solution is based on two factors:

1) Our solution guarantees that all of the information, content and data a user has ever accessed will be available for subsequent search and retrieval

2) The data stored by the system are user-selected (i.e. selected and pre-processed by the user in the course of his/her daily computer usage), and therefore by orders of magnitude more manageable than the raw Internet data pool.

The Ardivo Point of Difference:

1. User-Centric Approach
Provider-centric knowledge management is primarily targeted at accumulating data and storing them. Due to the large size of the data stored, the ability of knowledge managers to structure them is limited. The user is given access to data and tools to perform standard searches on them. As the data are not highly structured, the user has to screen large volumes of irrelevant information before s/he finds what s/he is looking for.
A user-centric approach is, on the contrary, concentrated on making a search more efficient and less time-consuming for a user. Our product brings user-centric knowledge management on an entirely new level.

2. Transparent Integration
An Ardivo user can search and retrieve data of every format and origin, whereas the majority of available solutions have serious limitations in this respect. No special effort is required from a user to operate the system; data conversion and transformation are automatic.

3. Data Relevance
At present, a lot of attempts are made to handle data a user stores in one form or another. The point of difference of our product is that we work with data a user actually accessed. To a user, this means that all his/her passive memory (i.e. things s/he has seen once but would not recall if need be) is turned into active memory, i.e. can be recalled at any time.