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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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BvD Compliance Catalyst - Getting to Grips with Compliance Workflow
29th August 2013

Bureau van Dijk (BvD) is well-known to many readers of FreePint as a supplier of highly structured databases of company and executive information. Now, BvD has launched Compliance Catalyst, a workflow application designed to streamline the process of taking an informed, risk-based decision on whether to accept a potential new customer, supplier or other business partner. It also addresses ongoing monitoring and audit trail requirements, with a key focus on using the researcher's time to best effect.

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Vendor Value: Exploring What Vendors Get from FreePint
26th August 2013

For vendors of information products and services it's imperative to keep up with issues, evolving client needs, market developments and key products and services. Ann Marie Plankey looks at recent FreePint Articles and Reports and examines how a FreePint Subscription helps vendors keep updated in essential areas from Thomson Reuters' new product launches to company divestment such as Pearson's planned sale of Mergermarket. Regular product reviews and mini reviews investigate key products such as D&B360 and Global Financial Data while FreePint's original research sheds light on topics from news aggregation products and trends to mobile deployment in the enterprise.

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Leadership Companies Premium: Developing a C-Suite Network
22nd August 2013

Leadership Companies Premium is a robust online interactive directory of senior-level executives from the largest US and worldwide companies, and second-to-none in its field, finds Aileen Marshall. An easy-to-use drill down approach coupled with high quality data ensures organisations which require executive contact and network details will achieve ROI over expending their own resources to collect this information.

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Continuing Investigation into News Needs and Preferences
21st August 2013

FreePint's Director of Research, Robin Neidorf, presents a round-up of current and upcoming FreePint Research in areas from news needs and preferences to compliance. FreePint's monthly updates on news sources are always popular and the annual FreePint Survey: News Needs and Preferences is now in it sixth year with the research focus evolving to reflect the changing marketplace. The upcoming FreePint Topic Series: Beyond Aggregation will identify the key issues and tools through a range of articles, features and reviews. Better understanding of compliance issues is also high on many information managers' priorities and if it's a topic you need to know more about, register for the FreePint Topic Series: Compliance in Context which launches in September.

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