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NovaRes from Cicero Group, an expansive portal providing public policy and regulatory detail for the financial services industry, is reviewed by Heidi Longaberger.
Elsevier's SciVerse Applications, an application marketplace and developer network to refine and enhance the search and discovery process, is reviewed by Joanna Ptolomey.
Insider looks at why business organisations were slow to realise the potential of mobile systems and how they are starting to address this issue.
StrategyEye Digital Media, a cloud-based intelligence platform aimed at senior decision makers, is reviewed by Penny Crossland.
HighBeam Business from Cengage Learning, for quick and easy access to company profiles, industry reports and business articles, is reviewed by Jan Knight.
An Insider comparison of six news aggregation products, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, content and search options.
Factiva.com, a business intelligence system with diverse and robust searching options providing access to thousands of global news publications, is reviewed by Heidi Longaberger.
NexisUK from LexisNexis, a comprehensive database of up to date worldwide news and business information, is reviewed by Jan Knight.
An Insider view of assessing how evaluate the processes essential to calculating the return of investment for information on expenditure of content.
BvD Bankscope, a global database and financial analysis tool offering bank financial statements, ratings, news and intelligence, is reviewed by Heidi Longaberger.
Infotrieve Mobile Library, a business service solution for content access and management, secure social networking and collaboration, full service library outsourcing, content licensing, copyright compliant document delivery, usage analysis, reprints and collection management, is reviewed by Leah Pellegrino.
An Insider view of benchmarking content contract pricing, which helps both buyers and vendors agree a contract amount that appropriately reflects value to both sides of the deal.
Intelligence Plaza, web-based market and competitive intelligence software that automates routines and organises data in one storage repository while enabling information sharing and delivery to end users, is reviewed by Scott Brown.
Preqin, a publisher of online databases, reports and data on alternative investments, including private equity (PE), real estate, hedge funds and infrastructure funds, is reviewed by Perrin Kerravala (Private Equity Databases).
An Insider view of buying patterns in UK law firms, copyright policies and practices, and pricing of information products.
FirstRain, a business information search solution offering a variety of methods to deliver content into the workflow of busy business professionals, including mobile applications, portal integration or simply over the web, is reviewed by Perrin Kerravala.
WestlawNext, a new search interface and legal research system which provides access to primary and secondary sources, including statutes, annotated cases, regulations, forms digests and encyclopedias, is reviewed by Leah Pellegrino.
Reinventing librarians: The relocation of law collections to the relevant departments provides the perfect opportunity for librarians and research specialists to embed themselves within practice groups or departments.
Lexis Diligence, a database designed to help a company perform the necessary due diligence in the areas of risk, compliance and fraud, is reviewed by Heidi Longaberger.
Euromonitor Passport, which provides statistics and analysis on consumer-based products for 26 countries, is reviewed by Jan Knight.
An Insider view of the issues that have led to a proliferation of projects looking at deploying mobile content in the enterprise despite scepticism only 12 months ago. Also details of an upcoming FreePint Webinar on Defining Readiness for Mobile Content.
CEIC China Premium Database and EMIS China from ISI Emerging Markets, which cover macroeconomic, industry time series and business content for China, are reviewed by Penny Crossland.
China Connect from BvD, which provides targeted intelligence on the Chinese mergers & acquisitions market, is reviewed by Perrin Kerravala.
An Insider view of FreePint's forthcoming Report which covers the results of a survey on information from and about China. This will establish a foundation for understanding the role of China-related information in decision-making.
DataInsight 4.1, a desktop application produced by IHS Global Insight, which allows users to analyse and integrate economic data within their own workflow, is reviewed by Penny Crossland.
Radian6, which is a tool for social media monitoring and engagement across a variety of social media platforms such as blogs, Twitter, online forums, Facebook and comments, is reviewed by Scott Brown.
An insider view of FreePint's latest Research Report on Buying Patterns for STM Content, which looks at changes in STM subscription budgets and compares them with overall subscription budgets.
ProQuest Dialog, a search interface providing access to a
range of scientific, technical and medical content from 68 databases,
is reviewed by Joanna Ptolomey.
ZoomInfo, which provides a suite of products that offer
business contact information and profiles for business entities and
employees, is reviewed by Scott Brown.
A high level overview of a typical vendor procurement cycle is
provided by Alan Pelz-Sharpe.
An Insider view of FreePint's latest Research Report on Info Pros
and End Users, which looks at the relative importance of their
contributions to the value of information in today's organisations and
notes the changing priorities for info pros.
MarketVisual, a business relationship mapping service which provides tailored knowledge maps, visualising business relationships between companies and individuals, based on three degrees of separation, is reviewed by Penny Crossland.
Morningstar Direct, a web-based application which provides current and historical performance data, portfolio holdings data, and benchmark market indices data on global investment universes and securities, is reviewed by Perrin Kerravala.
An Insight into Capital IQ, a provider of data and analytics for global financial professionals, which is very active in the acquisition and partnering arena, and how these activities affect content collections.
An Insider view of FreePint's latest report on Copyright Policies and Practises, which offers insights into the gaps that may exist between what organizations think they are doing to manage the risk associated with potential misuse of copyrighted materials and what end-users are actually doing.
PI Navigator, from Perfect Information, a workflow tool for corporate finance teams which assists with company analysis and financial modelling, is reviewed by Jan Knight.
PitchBook, which specifically focuses on small, mid-market, and large private equity (PE) deals and provides analysis on every stage and aspect of PE transactions, from announcement to final exit, is reviewed by Perrin Kerravala.
Insights from interviews with workers at large organisations regarding what they are doing with their mobile devices - which are mainly their own and not issued by their employer - and what they would like to be doing with them in the future.
An in-depth interview looking at the challenges and opportunities facing Infogroup CEO, Clare Hart.
Dun & Bradstreet's new DNBi platform, a credit management system offering credit risk and portfolio management tools in a web-based, easy-to-use interface, is reviewed by Perrin Kerravala.
Knowledge XChanger, from Comintelli, a knowledge management solution that has strong collaboration and competitive intelligence applications, is reviewed by Scott Brown.
Cipher's Knowledge.Works, a relational database that can help a company in many parts of the competitive intelligence lifecycle including the collection of primary and secondary information and its dissemination within the organisation, is reviewed by Scott Brown.
Sustainability Watch from EBSCO, which pulls current evidence on sustainability from a range of reliable sources and presents it to the end user as an overview of current thinking, is reviewed by Sarah Dillingham.
Factiva.com, a news and business information tool with more than 28,000 sources from 200 countries in 23 languages, is reviewed by Heidi Longaberger.
Newsdesk 4, an SaaS current awareness tool, which aggregates business and consumer news from a variety of online news and social media sources, is reviewed by Penny Crossland.
ICAP Online, which provides credit information for 500,000 Greek
companies and 2.5 million companies in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia,
is reviewed by Perrin Kerravala.
NewsEdge.com, a news monitoring and distribution resource covering
3500 content providers and 4000 websites (including blogs) in 28
languages, is reviewed by Lorene Kennard.
CEIC Data's Brazil Premium Database, which includes economic, sector and financial data for 13 macroeconomic and 11 industry growth sectors, with highlights including coverage on the Energy, Biofuel and
Automobile sectors, is reviewed by Heidi Longaberger.
EIU's Country Risk Service, which aims to provide subscribers with a quantitative risk assessment of doing business in 100 emerging and 20
developed countries worldwide, is reviewed by Penny Crossland.
Eureka.cc, an online news and information service which provides access to around 3,500 sources (mainly Canadian and French with some US), including around 1,054 blogs and 139 Twitter users from Newstex, is reviewed by Anne Jordan.
TheMarkets.com, which provides equity and fixed income research, estimates, new issue information, and market data from the Member Firms and 700 Contributing Firms located around the world, is reviewed by Heidi Longaberger.
Zephyr, a database of deal information from Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing covering M&A, IPO, private equity and venture capital deals, and including information on rumours as well as announced and completed deals, is reviewed by Anne Jordan
Alacra Compliance, which provides federated search of free and fee-based information databases on customer identification and due diligence processes for in the financial, insurance and professional service industries, is reviewed by Perrin Kerravala
Legal Resource Preferences: the results of FreePint research on what law firm libraries prefer and why.
Legal Heavyweights: LexisLibrary and Westlaw UK go a round in the ring, referreed by legal information expert Diane Raper
The Stress of Distress: Perrin Kerravala reviews Debtwire, publisher of proprietary intelligence and research on worldwide high yield and distressed credits
And Now for Your Intranet: What your intranet can learn from the Internet.
Featured Report: FreePint Research Report: Information Governance Policies and Priorities This was the first time FreePint Research brought together various areas of information governance -- records management, IP protection, copyright risk management, etc. -- into a single research project.
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