FreePint Report: Product Review of StrategyEye Digital Media
10th July 2014

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Big Data Analytics - Are There Still Things that the Software Can't Do?
10th July 2014

Where big data is concerned, bosses increasingly prefer relevant insights over simply more of them. As new analytical products continue to appear, technology has its part to play - but a new book from a perhaps unexpected source makes clear that it's the humans who need to have the last word. One blogger's insights into the war in Syria demonstrate the effectiveness of employing brain power to engage in open source intelligence using social media forensics. And you also have to wonder whether it's unduly optimistic to assume that sentiment analytics software will be up to the job yet of detecting sarcasm.

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Product Review of Cortellis (Introduction; Contact Details)
10th July 2014

Yulia Aspinall introduces the Cortellis solutions for the life sciences industry, offering data from areas such as drug monographs, company records, patent reports, deal reports, regulations and generics activity. Information on more than 50,000 investigational drugs, 400,000 bioactive compounds, and 6 million biologically active patents is included. The platform contains over 15 million expert-curated reports featuring deal information, patents, literature and clinical trials data.

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Product Review of StrategyEye Digital Media (Value - Competitors, Development & Pricing)
9th July 2014

The competitor landscape and product maturity of StrategyEye Digital Media are examined in the final part of Jan Knight's review of this business intelligence (BI) product. She also looks at the value it offers corporate clients and investors interested in data and insights on technology companies, particularly those in start-up phase or are innovators or disruptors.

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News - Less and Less Safe?
9th July 2014

Recent revelations that one search engine is already removing links to news in response to the European Court's "right to be forgotten" ruling, and that a major social media provider has been conducting an emotional impact experiment by tinkering with users' feeds, raise important issues about the integrity of news. As another study reveals that journalists are now more likely to source news from social media and less likely to check it - despite its known unreliability - there are new challenges for information professionals in how they source and disseminate news within their own organisations, and how they encourage end-users to evaluate it.

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Product Review of StrategyEye Digital Media (Technology - Search, Outputs & Alerts, User Interface & Help)
8th July 2014

In the third part of Jan Knight's review of StrategyEye's Digital Media business intelligence (BI) product, she looks at the technology, scrutinising the search and filtering, as well as special features such as the Hot Companies, Deal Data and customised report options.

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FreePint Report: Product Review of Comintelli Knowledge XChanger
6th July 2014

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Product Review of Comintelli Knowledge XChanger (Value - Competitors, Development & Pricing)
4th July 2014

The final part of this review of Comintelli's Competitive Intelligence product Knowledge XChanger and the SaaS-based version, intelligence2day, examines the value it offers CI professionals, the competitive landscape and FreePint's view on the product maturity and development plan.

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Source Update for Factiva
4th July 2014

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

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Product Evaluations - Completing a Needs Assessment
4th July 2014

Author Perrin Kerravala reflects on her 10+ years of procuring information products and writing convincing evaluations, and shares her best practices.

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