KYC Survey Findings from Dow Jones, KPMG and Thomson Reuters
6th August 2014

2013 was a year of significant global regulatory change in the area of compliance. This resulted in more intensive oversight from regulators globally along with record fines and an increased focus on the actions of senior managers. This article highlights the findings of three recent surveys carried out by Dow Jones, KPMG and Thomson Reuters and gives an overview of how regulatory change has impacted on business decisions and some of the key trends in this area.

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Product Review of Innography (Sources - Data Quality and FreePint's View)
5th August 2014

In the third part of her review, Cathy Chiba looks at how Innography's data normalisation, semantic indexing, and data quality checks make the platform much more than the sum of its data sources. She also looks at key patent information providers covered in the sources, plus recent additions of full-text coverage from Japan, Korea, Canada, Spain and Germany. Also noted is the addition of DocShare, a new feature to help search and manage internal data.

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Source Update for Nexis
5th August 2014

The latest additions and takedowns in Nexis, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Keeping Track of Your Data - Identifying the Threats
5th August 2014

Plenty of self-serving reports from security specialists predict catastrophes to which they happen to provide solutions. But their findings can be useful nevertheless - for example in helping organisations decide whether they should be more worried about hackers or their own staff, or about traditional desktop machines as opposed to BYOD and mobile devices. Of particular interest, too, are some recent findings indicating that most organisations haven't a clue where their unstructured data resides. Plus the intriguing suggestion that what is going to matter in future is not where it is physically but its legal, political and - crucially - its logical location when several jurisdictions are involved. Information professionals with a compliance role should be licking their lips.

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Product Review of Innography (Sources - Content & Coverage)
4th August 2014

Innography's intellectual property business intelligence platform combines patent data with key business and technical information, including company data, litigation records, trademark registrations, and standards. In the second part of her review, Cathy Chiba learns how, as of spring 2014, in a major release, non-patent literature and internal company documents became searchable sources.

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Big Data Comes to the Rescue!
1st August 2014

James Mullan recently wrote about how you can avoid information disasters using effective information management techniques and by ensuring you have the appropriate governance in place. If the worst does happen and you're faced with an information disaster there are many ways in which information can help. This now includes using "big data" to help ferry wounded soldiers from battlefields, save babies lives, fight fires and combat crime.

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Q&A with RDC - Making the Impossible Possible
1st August 2014

Andrew Lucas interviews Tom Obermaier, CEO of Regulatory Data Corp, looking at some of the key themes in compliance and Know Your Customer (KYC). Tom talks about the possible emergence of a compliance data utility serving all the financial institutions and public companies. The interview also discusses the drivers that are helping the RDC business to expand with a recent new European launch.

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FreePint Report: Product Review of Reg-Track
31st July 2014

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Product Review of Innography (Introduction; Contact Details)
31st July 2014

Cathy Chiba introduces Innography and some of its key intellectual property products: Advanced Analysis, Innography Explorer and PatentScout. Innography’s software combines patent data with key business, scientific, and technical information to enable rapid insights for decision-making.

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Selling Knowledge Management Within Your Organisation
31st July 2014

One of the biggest challenges that knowledge managers often face is selling knowledge management within their organisation. Whilst the managers can be as enthusiastic as they like about KM and the benefits it brings, many people have argued that efforts to sell it within organisations should be focused on several key groups. James Mullan explores which are the key stakeholders and how can knowledge managers can effectively sell knowledge within their organisations.

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