1. Content Aggregation & Distribution: Abbotts Custom Solution Dawn Lynn Research Information Scientist, Abbott Labs

2. February 12, 20142Company Confidential © 2008 Abbott Presentation Table of Contents Overview of Abbott Library Information Resource Project Objectives Project Timeline Deliverables Content and Aggregation Workflow Overview Pros & Cons

3. February 12, 20143Company Confidential © 2008 Abbott

4. February 12, 20144Company Confidential © 2008 Abbott Neuroscience October 2008 4 Library Information Resources Mission To provide world class, corporate wide access to knowledge resources, literature research capabilities and information delivery solutions to support and enable Abbotts market leadership.

5. February 12, 20145Company Confidential © 2008 Abbott Neuroscience October 2008 5 Enable Abbott staff - worldwide with desktop access to published Information Collection development Portfolio lifecycle Information systems Global contracts Training and awareness Knowledge Integration Teams Fully allocated staff co-located With key client groups Enable Abbott staff - worldwide with desktop access to published Information Provide Literature Research Services conducted by skilled Information Professionals Service Strategy

6. Project Objects Maximize value of licensed content –Make globally licensed resources truly globally available Leverage library research expertise across organization Leverage native platform taxonomies and our existing search strategies Make targeted content available across multiple platforms Create easy to use one-stop-shopping for all Library alert content Create scalable solution that allows new content to be easily added February 12, 20146Company Confidential © 2008 Abbott

7. February 12, 20147Company Confidential © 2008 Abbott Content Aggregation & Distribution Time Line Sep 2009 – Development Begins Jan 2010 – Initial Launch June 2010 – Integration of Additional Content Sets Dec 2010 – Launch of Newsletter Module Feb – July 2011 – 6-Month Development Engagement

8. February 12, 20148Company Confidential © 2008 Abbott RSS Search strategies XML Proprietary XML Search strategies Search strategies Search strategies RSS Other structured export or API E-mail alerts RSS feeds Parser and loader Aggregated content store Topics / channels Portlets / widgets Newsletter creator / editorial tool Content sources (A&I databases, news, internal DB) News landing page Web Service / API Content Aggregation & Distribution Overview

9. February 12, 20149Company Confidential © 2008 Abbott Content Aggregation & Distribution – The Stats Over 475+ content feeds available 6,300+ unique client accounts in system 58,600+ email subscriptions Over 15 Sharepoint/Websphere integrations including several high profile sites across Abbott intranet

10. February 12, 201410Company Confidential © 2008 Abbott Content Aggregation & Distribution Objectives of project met Well received by users Increase in content distribution Platform is flexible; content is easy to add Self-service; single interface Allowed us to integrate library brand into our client portal sites Total ownership of product Time intensive hands-on development Long Development Timeline Over 90 pages of specifications and mock-ups Five separate code deployments to-date each with 2-3 weeks of active QA ROI still to be determined Total ownership of product ProsCons