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Managing Knowledge in Uncertain Times
6th June 2013

Knowledge has always been viewed as being valuable within law firms. However, the ways in which knowledge is created and managed are often poor and not taken as seriously as they should be internally. But in an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the importance of knowledge, especially around building competitive advantage, has never been greater.

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Q&A with Opera Solutions: Making Big Data Smaller
6th June 2013

The big data ecosystem is growing exponentially and the task of grappling with the data is becoming correspondingly more complex. FreePint met Scott Weber of Opera Solutions Government Services to find out how its team of scientists and engineers turns huge datasets into "anticipatory intelligence" to allow organisations to take smarter actions.

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Dow Jones Product X - RIP Factiva?
5th June 2013

Dow Jones looks set to subsume Factiva into its new portal, Product X, which will also include The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Dow Jones Institutional News, plus risk & compliance and research & analysis products. Dow Jones stresses the value-add of unifying all this content, but some customers seem concerned about the loss of a separate Factiva, which has seen rapid expansion in content and functionality in recent years. Dow Jones is to explain its plans at the forthcoming Special Libraries Association conference, but meanwhile a recent News Corporation investor presentation has hinted at the scale of the change.

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Source Update June 2013: What's Happening with Nexis?
5th June 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in Nexis, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Good Guy, Bad Guy - Privacy Spells Opportunity
5th June 2013

As Bloomberg continues its damage limitation exercise following use of customer data by some of its journalists, two commentators appear to take opposing views on the future of privacy. But whether you believe cyber-privacy is now a lost cause or should be pursued with increasing vigour, recent developments suggest that there are plenty of opportunities for info pros to seize - in both analytics and regulatory compliance.

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Source Update June 2013: What's Happening with Factiva?
4th June 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in Factiva, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Satisfying the Appetite for Legal Apps
4th June 2013

The Financial Times recently announced that it had signed a partnership to make its content available on Flipboard. This partnership is interesting for two reasons: firstly because the Financial Times had previously made its content available on iTunes and secondly because it shows just how keen some publishers are to make their content available in as many places as possible. Would the likes of Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis ever do the same?

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Competitive Intelligence: Analytical Tools - How to Do More Than Just SWOT!
4th June 2013

As part of FreePint's series of articles on competitive intelligence, Andrew Grave examines four tools popularised by management consultants. He describes the practical ways in which information professionals can use the tools - SWOT, Boston Consulting Group Matrix, PESTEL and Porter's Five Forces and notes the constraints of each.

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Product Review of D&B360: Executive Summary
31st May 2013

If your job involves some kind of sales or marketing role and you'd like to be able to better target new leads, profile your best customers and research what's going on in your target markets all from within your existing CRM or other enterprise software solution then D&B360 could be the product for you. Sophie Alexander's executive summary of sales intelligence tool D&B360 highlights some of the product's best features and how easily it integrates with your existing workflow solution.

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Newsle - Tells You When Your Friends Make News
31st May 2013

Newsle, the news discovery tool likened to Google Alerts for news on your contacts, has this week received $1.65 million in venture capital and is set for expansion. What sets Newsle apart from the myriad of aggregators specialising in what your "friends" are up to, is the fact that it crawls the web for news from reputable sources only. It does not monitor news distributed by Facebook, Twitter and the like, giving the service a degree of credibility.

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