Anacubis reports it has released Desktop 2.0, visual research and analysis software that enables discovery and extraction of key intelligence from multiple information sources. The company describes its new offering as an intuitive visual tool that transforms complex information drawn from any resource into a dynamic graphical map that highlights the relationships and links buried in the data, thereby increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of core business research.

Anacubis claims Desktop 2.0 is the first product to allow users to easily retrieve, consolidate and analyze information from Web sites, internal databases, spreadsheets, subscription services and other enterprise applications. Anacubis explains Desktop 2.0 transforms that information into icons and links that show how companies, people, intellectual property and news are related.

Desktop 2.0 is accompanied by a domain-specific analysis plug-in for visual research and analysis. The Intellectual Property Analysis Add-In is designed to enable professionals to dissect large amounts of complex patent information by automating a wide range of common patent analysis tasks providing citation, inventor, timeline and link analysis, thus facilitating intelligence extraction