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Data, Data, Everywhere - FreePint for Legal Information Professionals
5th August 2014
Law firms and legal establishments both within the corporate sector and outside of it have vast requirements for information. Information or knowledge is what most law firms sell, so how they create and manage it can be a key element in how successful they are as a company. There are some significant challenges that law firms face in managing this knowledge. In this article James Mullan looks at some of the challenges and opportunities for legal information professionals and how FreePint resources can help.
Free Report - Know Your Customer, Contain Your Costs
4th August 2014
Risk and compliance is an area subject to increasing regulation and new types of compliance burdens. Register for the FreePint Topic Series: What You Need to Know Your Customer (KYC) to receive a free PDF report containing Tim Buckley Owen's commentary on how compliance tools can help make the complex research required for thorough compliance easier and more reliable, plus key chapters from three reviews of leading products.
Getting to the Point. Reg-Track Zooms In on the Regulatory Essentials
4th August 2014
Chris Porter looks at how the Reg-Track regulatory monitoring solution, from specialised US-headquartered regulatory monitoring and advisory company Reg-Room LLC, can add value for hard-pressed compliance staff in financial services companies.
Subscription Update for Information Services Management
31st July 2014
The monthly FreePint Report: Subscription Update for Information Services Management has been published, which highlights product reviews, source updates and news & analysis relevant to those responsible for information service management, information strategy and content procurement.
FreePint Newsletter 403 Published
31st July 2014
Announcement of the publication of FreePint Newsletter 403.
My Favourite Tipples from a Medical Research Specialist
30th July 2014
My Favourite Tipples are shared by Geraldine Clement-Stoneham, knowledge and information manager at the Medical Research Council UK. She shares her favourite online resources in areas from horizon scanning and political intelligence to French "bandes dessinées".
FreePint Report - Next-Generation Competitive Intelligence Published
29th July 2014
The FreePint Report: Next-Generation Competitive Intelligence has been published. This collates the FreePint articles and reviews on the topic of Competitive Intelligence (CI) and covers those included in the FreePint Topic Series: Next-Generation Competitive Intelligence.
Product Lifecycle Management and Opportunities for Collaboration
29th July 2014
Construction industry information specialist and chartered environmentalist, Michael Smith, introduces Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and outlines the benefits it can bring from overcoming geographical limits to reducing development costs and yielding smarter design decisions.
Analyse and Visualise the Drug Development Cycle with Cortellis
29th July 2014
The new Cortellis life sciences platform from Thomson Reuters will be welcomed by many in the current "merger mania" environment in biopharma, explains reviewer Yulia Aspinall.
Shifting Perceptions of What's "Acceptable" in Compliance
28th July 2014
Andrew Lucas reports from the recent annual Thomson Reuters Compliance & Risk Summit where Tracey McDermott of the UK Financial Conduct Authority spoke on how the regulator's approach to policing the market is changing and the impact this will have on firms and their senior managers.
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