With sales of $1.2 billion for the last fiscal year, Analog Devices is a
leading provider of precision high-performance integrated circuits used
in analog and digital signal processing applications. Headquartered in
Norwood, Massachusetts, the company employs more than 7,000 peo-
ple worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in the United States,
Ireland, the Philippines, and Taiwan.
Interactive Multimedia Systems (IMS), with their partners Empolis
and Kaidara International, built a solution for an electronic catalogue on
a CD-ROM together with a Web solution for the product selection of op-
erational amplifiers for Analog Devices in the United States. In this chap-
ter we will describe this solution as one example of a successful knowl-
edge management ...