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Brush up on Benchmarking with Reports from Best Practices
23rd September 2013
Benchmarking reports can offer valuable insights into the way your organisation operates versus your competitors. Yulia Aspinall finds Best Practices LLC offers competitive intelligence specialists and researchers a wealth of information on metrics from services to staffing and quality in this database focusing on the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and healthcare technology industries.
Content & Technology Under Scrutiny in Our New FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation
19th September 2013
The FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation launches in October. Series Producer Andrew Grave previews the articles and key news aggregator tools which will be reviewed. These include traditional news aggregators such as Nexis, newer software tools such as Newsdesk and tools aimed at the marketing and PR communities including M-Adaptive.
Banking on Top Rate Intelligence: FreePint for Banking & Finance Professionals
19th September 2013
Banking and finance organisations have vast requirements for information, including sources on regulatory compliance, competitive intelligence, companies and industries, and more. FreePint can help information professionals in banking and finance organisations identify new sources, consider older sources in a new way and provide fuel to justify procurement decisions.
World of FreePint Webinars
19th September 2013
Robin Neidorf introduces a bumper season of FreePint Webinars and Communities of Practice (CoP). Webinars cover topics from news analysis and validation to the nitty gritty of compliance products. As part of the FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation, webinars will explore integrating news information into workflow, news awareness and technology, and licensing news for aggregator products. Web-based CoP events offer the opportunity for an interactive dialogue between peers and topic experts on areas from ROI through to tackling enterprise content on mobile devices, and reviewing contracts for news platforms.
Talking with Vendors about Compliance
16th September 2013
As part of the FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context we find out more about some of the prominent vendors of compliance-related products. For products designed to maintain compliance with financial regulations, workflow integration means more than efficiency. It means fundamental protection against regulatory risk - for the organisation and for the individuals who lead that organisation. FreePint interviews leading vendors of compliance products to find out more about their strategy, philosophy and resources.
The Intel on ALM Legal Intelligence
12th September 2013
The ALM Legal Intelligence platform leverages the data that fuels the company's well-known and well-respected suite of annual surveys and reports on the legal industry. Brought together into one user-friendly platform, this data can easily be mined, made sense of, and compared. Researcher John DiGilio conducted an in-depth review and was pleased to find a resource that is not only intuitive to use and feature rich, but is as deep as it is broad in the scope of its coverage of the key information that shapes the legal industry.
Compliance Series, Subscription Content
5th September 2013
The FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context is launched, and the Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation is underway. Learn more about these series and how you can benefit from registering for them. Other new content in FreePint is highlighted, including product reviews, industry commentary, source updates and more.
Coming Soon - FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation
4th September 2013
FreePint's exploration of topics of interest to information professionals continues with the FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation which looks at news sources and news aggregators. Andrew Grave, the series producer, introduces the main themes ranging from harnessing news from social media sources to the growth of newspaper paywalls and the phasing out of Factiva.com.
Navigate Complex Compliance Issues with Confidence
3rd September 2013
Andrew Lucas looks at some of the themes that will feature in our FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context which will be running over the next two months. Compliance is not just about complying with regulatory requirements; it is also about protecting your business by carrying out due diligence on new commercial relationships.
Early Results on FreePint's News Needs and Preferences Survey: Factiva Changes Making Big Waves
3rd September 2013
The first phase of data collection on our annual survey on News Needs & Preferences already highlights the impact felt by information managers by the changes in Dow Jones' product strategy. Initial data suggests that information managers in organisations where Factiva is currently a preferred product are more likely to be looking at alternatives for the future. However, analysis of all responses to date indicate that the difference may be one of degree rather than of substance: More than 50% of respondents are at least somewhat likely to be looking at alternative products.
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