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Eikon Answers: Impressive Search Results Instantly
19th December 2013
Eikon is Thomson Reuters' desktop market data solution for financial markets professionals. Andrew Grave examines its powerful Eikon Answers functionality and finds it marks a real leap forward in the functionality of business information tools. Launched in January 2013, Eikon Answers is easy to use for end users and instantly produces tables and charts from straightforward or complex queries such as "Show US hospitals on New York consolidated exchange with operating margins >2% and revenue growth 5 years >1%". After the chart is produced a wealth of data can quickly be surfaced and easily exported or shared.
Survey on News and Beyond Aggregation
18th December 2013
News and beyond aggregation are under scrutiny in December with the Buyer's Guide on News Content published earlier this month and the results of our Annual Survey on News Needs & Preferences published this week. Along with the reports, there's also the opportunity to read the 50+ articles, Q&As, reviews and case studies published as part of the FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation. And in 2014 FreePint's in-person Communities of Practice in the US and UK offer the chance to network with peers to further discuss news aggregation.
My Favourite Tipples from a Global Law Firm Research Specialist
18th December 2013
Liz Hawkes manages a research team for a global law firm and provides us with a list of her favourite tipples, both those she uses for client work as well as a personal favourite: the Invisible Woman blog from the Guardian, dedicated to style and tips for ladies over 40. In a professional context Liz chooses sites covering marine shipping, hard-to-find overseas company registration information, old government documents and one which will automatically monitor webpage updates so you know, for example, when progress has been made on cases or legislative documents.
InfoNgen: Tailored Discovery & Distribution
17th December 2013
InfoNgen can be an invaluable tool for enabling workflow automation, finds Yulia Aspinall. The discovery engine combines the ability to metasearch all or selected internal and external sources of information with flexible tagging and the ability to add or change taxonomies to meet customer-specific requirements. InfoNgen's content discovery capabilities are used by clients primarily in the corporate, legal, and financial markets and holding a wide range of job titles, including competitive intelligence and information professionals.
Sixth Annual News Needs & Preferences Survey Shows Change in Attitudes
16th December 2013
A shift in attitudes towards news is highlighted in FreePint's Sixth Annual News Needs & Preferences Survey. The introduction of DJX has caused a spike in the number of respondent customers of Factiva who are actively considering alternative news options. The ability to redistribute content from news suppliers throughout the organisation, a new question for this year, demonstrated the increasing importance of this function. Advanced search options and a choice of delivery formats are also essential.
IngentaConnect: Content & Compliance Resources in One Portal
13th December 2013
IngentaConnect offers digital access to article summaries and citation data from over 30,000 academic journals and publications and 4.5 million articles in fields such as engineering, library science, social sciences, medicine, science (STM) and technology. Full-text access is available free if available, or via pay-per-view, individual or institutional subscriptions. Librarians can track usage through COUNTER and create solutions to accommodate specific customer needs.
Concluding the FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation
11th December 2013
The FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation concluded with our final article advising on the supplier selection process. The Series of over 50 articles and two webinars included full results of FreePint's Sixth Annual News Needs and Preferences Survey, product reviews, mini reviews, how-to guides and a case study of news in action in a City law firm. We interviewed leading vendors Acquire Media, Attensa, Comintelli, Dow Jones, Northern Light and Thomson Reuters.
FreePint, Free Range: Live Events this Winter
5th December 2013
FreePint's Community of Practice sessions will next year be available in-person, with events upcoming in London and New York in January and Chicago and Minneapolis in February. Sessions allow FreePint Subscribers to connect in real time with peers around critical topics like changes in news aggregation, mobile content security, and the value of content investments.
Input from the FreePint Sounding Board
4th December 2013
FreePint's "sounding board" of information managers representing the full range of customers by industry, geography and professional industry has helped to firm up FreePint's editorial plans for the coming months. Upcoming Topic Series include The Social Enterprise; International Copyright; Licensing, Pricing & Negotiation; Next-Gen Competitive Intelligence; and Elearning for Information Skills.
In-Person Communities of Practice Coming in January and February
4th December 2013
The opportunity to discuss key challenges and issues in a confidential environment with peers across other industries offers great possibilities for thinking differently about working practices, technologies implemented and plans for the future. FreePint's Communities of Practice now offer those opportunities in-person as well as in teleconference. Four in-person sessions are running in January and February 2014, covering critical issues around the future of news delivery in your organisation, such as understanding and measuring return on investment in news, and how best to educate senior executives on content distribution and cloud storage of news resources.
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