Sabine Brünger-Weilandt plans to make FIZ Karlsruhe the number 1 in Europe

Sabine Brünger-Weilandt, who took over as Managing Director of FIZ Karlsruhe on May 1st, 2003, intends to establish the German service institution as the premier supplier of sci-tech information and services in Germany and Europe.

(PRWEB) November 28, 2003 --FIZ Karlsruhe under new leadership since May 1st, 2003 / New Managing Director aims for pole position in the European market for sci-tech information and services / National and international partnerships expanded / New business areas created

Karlsruhe, November 2003 - Sabine Brünger-Weilandt, who took over as Managing Director of FIZ Karlsruhe on May 1st, 2003, intends to establish the German service institution as the premier supplier of sci-tech information and services in Germany and Europe.

Outlining her strategy in advance of the Online Information exhibition 2003, to be held in London in early December, Brünger-Weilandt comments: „With high-quality content, user-friendly interfaces, and tools designed to increase the efficiency of searches in our online databases, FIZ Karlsruhe offers a highly attractive range of services that meet both market and customer needs. We also help customers make the most of the retrieved information, providing them with powerful post-processing tools, as well as customized solutions for information management and knowledge transfer."

To achieve her goal Brünger-Weilandt has set the organisation six strategic imperatives: to continue developing existing core business areas; to develop new business areas and fields of activity by offering customised services to clearly defined customer groups; to establish a new research department; to forge new national and international cooperative ventures and strategic partnerships; to acquire new customer groups and develop new markets; and to intensify and strengthen existing customer relationships.

Future development will build on FIZ Karlsruhe's core competencies. The main pillar of the strategic policy is the online service STN International. STN customers, therefore, will continue to receive optimum support into the future. STN, the worlds leading online service for sci-tech information, is supported by numerous national and international partnerships with prominent database producers and suppliers of full-text documents. Brünger-Weiland intends to strengthen this network. As a marketing specialist, she believes that strategic partnerships, and a consistent focus on market and customer requirements, are the best way of building on FIZ Karlsruhes competitive position in the international market.

Additionally, it is intended to position FIZ Karlsruhe as a service partner to scientific communities. To this end new products and services are being developed, in partnership with academic institutions and research institutes. Amongst other things, work is underway to develop subject-related, customized sci-tech information solutions for information, knowledge and publication management. This will see the creation of new E-Science business activities within FIZ Karlsruhe. The organization will continue to participate in national projects in this area and intensify its related activities.

The existing business segment „IT Services will also extend its range of activities by developing and hosting online databases as „Private Files with specialized search functions. In addition, FIZ Karlsruhe plans to develop standardized eBusiness modules for small and medium-sized publishing houses who require customized solutions.

The new research department will concentrate on strengthening and enhancing FIZ Karlsruhes innovative capabilities, and improving the quality assurance of its products. It will also undertake core research in the field of sci-tech information, and will actively cooperate with the scientific community to the same end.

We offer a wide range of sophisticated, upgradeable products and services, Brünger-Weilandt concludes. A particular advantage of FIZ Karlsruhe is that, being an independent platform, we are able to supply our customers with products from competing information providers -- as well as providing innovative value-added solutions and excellent service."

A picture of Sabine Brünger-Weilandt, as well as an online version of this press release, can be accessed at http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/pressroom/pressrel.html.

To fix a date for an interview with Sabine Brünger-Weilandt please contact Ruediger.Mack@fiz-karlsruhe.de.

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Sabine Brünger-Weilandt
Sabine Brünger-Weilandt (aged 46) has many years of experience in senior positions in the marketing and communications departments of renowned, international organisations and enterprises. Mrs. Brünger-Weilandts first contact with the information sector was in the early eighties when she helped to install the first database-supported information and documentation system in the Documentation Center of the Deutsche Bank AG. Then, in 1985, she took over as Head of Sales of the Frankfurt/Main branch office of the Handelsblatt publishing house, where she was responsible for the GENIOS databases. In 1989, Mrs. Brünger-Weilandt became Director of the ASSDATA Assekuranz Datenbank GmbH, a service provider specializing in insurance information. After working as a Senior Consultant for Mummert Consulting, Hamburg, she spent four years as a member of the Managing Board of Greenpeace, Germany. In 2000, Mrs. Brünger-Weilandt became Head of Strategic Consulting at the BBDO Group, before setting up her own independent consultancy in 2002.

FIZ Karlsruhe
A non-profit scientific service institution, FIZ Karlsruhe produces and markets scientific and technical information services worldwide. Information is made available both electronically, through various distribution channels on the internet and via proprietary data networks, and as customized print services. In cooperation with national and international institutions, FIZ Karlsruhe produces databases in the fields of energy, nuclear research and technology, crystallography, plastics, mathematics, computer science and physics. FIZ Karlsruhe also provides an R&D search service for corporations and institutions.
FIZ Karlsruhe also operates STN International in Europe. STN International (The Scientific & Technical Information Network) is one of the worlds leading online services offering access to bibliographic, factual and full-text databases in science and technology. At present, STN offers more than 220 databases with approx. 400 million documents from all fields of science and technology, among them the worlds largest and most important patent files.
STN International is jointly operated by FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany; Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Columbus, OH, USA; and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo.
FIZ Karlsruhe is a member of the Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried W. Leibniz (WGL), an association of non-academic scientific research and service institutions sponsored by the German Federal Government and the Federal States.