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Personalised Insight & Intelligence from Manzama
9th January 2014

Graphs and other visual outputs make business and competitive intelligence tool Manzama ideal for displaying complex information and highlighting patterns and trends, finds James Mullan. He also draws attention to the high degree of personalisation available in this information gathering and dissemination product. Currently used primarily by legal and professional services organisations, he foresees this expanding to other sectors.

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Ins and Outs of Content Licensing: Updates and Insights
8th January 2014

FreePint keeps you on top of changes in key aggregrators' collections with monthly updates from Anne Jordan on vendors including EBSCO, Eureka, Factiva, Nexis and ProQuest. Now FreePint's Community of Practice calls offer the opportunity to hear from industry experts and discuss with peers key points to consider around content licensing - from aggregator profiles to licensing restrictions and the economics of licensing.

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My Favourite Tipples Now Searchable
6th January 2014

"My Favourite Tipples", readers' recommended online resources and an integral part of the FreePint Newsletter, will now also be available as fully searchable Feature blog items.

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Finding Solutions to Key Issues at the AKISS Conference
23rd December 2013

The inaugural ASLIB AKISS conference provided highly practical advice for information and knowledge management professionals coupled with thought-provoking case studies and advice on future trends, found Catherine Dhanjal. Topics covered included big data, open source software and copyright.

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Euromonitor Passport: Industry Insights and Cross-Comparable Country Data
20th December 2013

Euromonitor's Passport database offers market research data on 28 consumer industries and 210 countries which can be customised and filtered in many ways. With over 115 million statistics available, users can either gain an overview of a country or industry using the Dashboards or delve deeper using the Centre for Analytics, Modelling and Innovation (CAMI) to get more precise answers that help support strategic planning, risk and business intelligence functions.

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FreePint Newsletter Refresh
19th December 2013

We explain the thinking behind the fresh new look now introduced to the FreePint Newsletter.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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