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William Lewis Settles In as Dow Jones CEO
19th May 2014

As Will Lewis is appointed CEO of Dow Jones on a permanent basis, Chris Porter examines the likely impact on the business information provider's customers. Institutional purchasers of products such as Factiva and Dow Jones Newswires have, in recent years, faced uncertainty over the Factiva/DJX offer and changes in company leadership.

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Product Review of Cipher Systems' Knowledge.Works: Introduction and Contact Details
16th May 2014

Knowledge.Works is a relational database that helps in the competitive intelligence process by offering a single point of search across all data sources, allowing more time for analysis. In the first part of her review, Sophie Alexander looks at the company and its users as well as some of its newest features such as the new report wizard, integrated translation tool and keyword tree.

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Product Review of DiscoverOrg: Sources, Content and Coverage
16th May 2014

DiscoverOrg's sales intelligence tool offers hard-to-find data on IT departments in a wide variety of business segments across private and public companies plus higher education and government organisations. In the second part of her review Jan Knight examines the sources, datasets and research process.

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Developing & Leveraging Your Primary Source Network for High Impact Competitive Intelligence
15th May 2014

Marc Limacher identifies how to cultivate a network of internal and external primary sources for a competitive intelligence early warning system, how to foster a CI culture and how to leverage insights for maximum impact. He demonstrates how human intelligence can provide critical competitive advantage.

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Whose Identity Is It Anyway?
14th May 2014

Ever-increasing regulatory and compliance requirements mean that the identity and access management (IAM) market continues to grow rapidly. But the millennial generation, used to controlling its own identity across multiple platforms through one social log-in, could be about to break the current top-down approach. Tim Buckley Owen charts the growing phenomenon of Bring Your Own Identity (BYOID), and notes that when employees do eventually take their identity from job to job in the same way as they take their mobile phone now, IT departments risk losing control of IAM and employers could even find themselves having to bid for access to employee identities.

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OSIRA - a New Champion for Information Professionals
14th May 2014

Penny Crossland reports on the inaugural conference of OSIRA, a new professional body representing practitioners and vendors involved in open source intelligence. The two day conference in London highlighted the complex issues of ethics and privacy, especially in today's digital landscape and provided the audience with case studies on cyber security and investigative research.

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Product Review of DiscoverOrg: Introduction and Contact Details
14th May 2014

DiscoverOrg is a web-based sales and marketing intelligence tool supporting sales and marketing processes for IT companies. Jan Knight introduces the company and product which is used mainly by IT vendors & consultants, IT departments and staffing companies.

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Is Enterprise Social Networking a Must?
13th May 2014

The FreePint Topic Series: The Social Enterprise recently looked at some of the ways in which organisations are maximising internal social connections and knowledge management. James Mullan examines whether an enterprise social networking tool is a must-have and what the benefits are for organisations.

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Media Intelligence Providers Vocus and Cision Set to Join Forces
13th May 2014

A major change in the media intelligence market is looming as leading players Cision and Vocus are expected to come together under the ownership of private equity company GTCR. While a rival takeover bid from Meltwater does not look set for success, quite a competitive shake-up could still be on the cards, Chris Porter says.

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Source Update for Eureka.cc and Europresse.com
12th May 2014

This month's additions and takedowns in Eureka.cc and Europresse.com, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan. Europresse.com is the European version of the Eureka.cc solution.

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