MAI Contest -- Name Those Products !!!

[SantaMufasa]

We all know how talented MAI-ers are at naming things...You've helped Me (SantaMufasa), MiniMufasa, and DeepDiverMom come up with great names for businesses.

Here are two more opportunities to see your suggestions in lights. The company for which I am working has developed two software products that have working titles, but they need catchy, trademarkable names for the two packaged products.

Both products have, as audience and potential customers, professionals in the Healthcare industry: Doctors, Hospitals, Medical Laboratories, Reasearchers, Pharmaceuticals, et cetera.

The software systems, along with their working titles and descriptions are:[ul][li]Biospecimen Tracker -- As the working title implies, this product tracks all aspects of biological specimens: specimen type, specimen source (i.e, contributor/patient identity, location details), specimen characteristics (e.g., quantity, evaluative details, et cetera), dates/times, gathering method(s), medical facility, lab facility, et cetera.

[/li][li]Ontology -- This software product stores the relationships, hierarchies, meanings, and usages of terms relating to the healthcare industry.

Examples of entries in Ontology might be:[/li][ul][li] bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)[/li][li]mad cow disease[/li][li]Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

[/li][li]Asprin[/li][li]Metformin[/li][li]Glucophage[/li][/ul]

In terms of relationships:[ul][li]the first three entries, above, fall into the general category of "Diseases",[/li][li]the latter three items are categorically "Pharmaceuticals".[/li][li]The first two items are synonyms for one another, while both are types of the third item.[/li][li]"Glucophage" is a brand name pharmaceutical for the generic pharmaceutical, "Metformin"[/li][/ul][/ul]So, those are the rather general product descriptions. Here are the contest rules:[ul][li]You can enter as many times as you want, with as many suggestions per posting as you want.[/li][li]All submissions must appear here by 16:00 Thursday, August 14(U.S. Mountain Daylight Time...GMT+7)[/li][li]SantaMufasa is the sole judge of the final winning entries, but he is open to the opinions of anyone.[/li][li]There will be a 1st Place winner for each of the two products mentioned, above, with possibly Honourable Mentions for other entries.[/li][/ul]Let me know if you have questions or need clarifications.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

which of the above entries seem most worthy to you?"

Oh, I'd consider SampleBase and MediBase a good pair.

(innocent whistling...)

Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[SantaMufasa]

Thanks, Edward, for getting us back on track...I'm actually compiling onto a spreadsheet all of the entries presently, to facilitate comparing and rating the suggestions.

If any of you want to do any last-minute lobbying for entries (besides your own), please feel free to do so here. (I'll be monitoring updates to this thread while compiling and rating the entries.)

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[wahnula]

You know it's a sad day when EdwardMartinIII is the voice of reason... or <grin>

Tony

Users helping Users...

 

[Olaf Doschke]

I like trac-me and hold-me although the Biospecimen Tracker and Ontology systems
do not necessarily seem like an application suite to me and thus need no such
close name pair, it's not a bad idea to have similarities in all product names
of a company. Microsoft is a good example with their "Microsoft xyz <<year>>"
name schema ;-).

The Biospecimen Tracker seems more workflow and collabaration oriented and
Ontology seems to be a simple dictionary like database with a stronger
emphasis on relating the database entries to each other and categorizing them,
but we see that in the wikipeadia too.

I would perhaps suggest What's Up Doc? (WUD?) for the specimen tracker and
What's This Doc? Or What's It Doc? (WID?) for the Ontology system.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

If any of you want to do any last-minute lobbying for entries..."

Be sure to drag a couple of techs up from a lab and run potential candidates by them.

I once worked on a really neat application for neurological research, a very clever application that did many clever things, but was strapped with the horrifically ill-chosen moniker: "FLAPS"

The researchers thought it made sense (it was an acronym), but the techs just laughed and laughed at it.

Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

You know it's a sad day when EdwardMartinIII is the voice of reason..."

Aw, I'm always reasonable.

It's just that not everyone sees the same reasons I see.

Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[IknowMe]

Turd Tracer ???

[small]Sometimes you gotta leave your zone of safety. You have to manufacture Inspirado. You gotta get out of the apartment. You've got to run with the wolves. You've got to dive into the ocean and fight with the sharks. Or just treat yourself to a delicious hot fudge sundae........ with nuts. - Jack Black[/small]

 

[IknowMe]

more serious

Sample Solutions

[small]Sometimes you gotta leave your zone of safety. You have to manufacture Inspirado. You gotta get out of the apartment. You've got to run with the wolves. You've got to dive into the ocean and fight with the sharks. Or just treat yourself to a delicious hot fudge sundae........ with nuts. - Jack Black[/small]

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Is there any result yet, Dave?

 

[SantaMufasa]

Olaf, Great minds think alike...On Friday, I rattled the cage of our Marketing VP since hearing the outcome of the name submissions was a month overdue. He responded to me yesterday.

And the Winners are:

Biospecimen Traker:
[ul][li]First Prize: LabTrak (from EdwardMartinIII)[/li]

[li]Honorable Mentions:[/li][ul][li]BioBase (from EdwardMartinIII)[/li][li]BioTrieve (from Remou)[/li][li]BioSpec (from SQLSister)[/li][/ul][/ul]

Ontology Product:
[ul][li]First Prize: BioLogikal (from StackDump)[/li]

[li]Honorable Mentions:[/li][ul][li]MetaTrak (from EdwardMartinIII)[/li][li]MedSpeak (from RJoubert)[/li][li]MedSpexx (from Wahnula)[/li][/ul][/ul]

Thanks to all the wonderful ideas ! And special recognition to the Top Name Synthesizers!

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[GSCaupling]

I just gotta start looking at the dates on these threads . I was reading merrily along hoping no one had posted my idea when I realized the contest was a month old and the winners were being announced.

Good choices, by the way, DoS.

 

[SantaMufasa]

So...GS...don't be shy -- what was your idea? (It's never too late for inspiration. <grin>)

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[GSCaupling]

I suspect as soon as I hit "submit" i'm gonna wish I'd stayed shy.

Ontology reminded me of a family tree with all its interconnections, so I was thinking some form of "Pharmatree."

Hmm. Perhaps theres a reason no one posted my idea.

(hey, you asked for it!)

 

[SantaMufasa]

That contribution is just fine, GS. The whole concept of "-tree", as a suffix, is intriguing:
[ul][li]Bio-Tree[/li][li]Medi-Tree[/li][li]Meta-Tree[/li][li]et cetera[/li][/ul]Good idea!

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”