Product Review of Corporate Affiliations (Introduction; Contact Details)
17th June 2014

Corporate Affiliations is a cloud-based business information database that enables searching on the world’s leading public and private companies. With listings for all major publicly traded companies with US-located headquarters, it provides company profiles on over one million parent and subsidiary businesses worldwide along with over 1.7 million personnel profiles, including 140,000 C-level executives and directors of these companies.

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FreePint Report: Product Review of Avention
16th June 2014

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The Principles of Intranet Content Management
16th June 2014

Content management is something that information professionals across different organisations have been doing for years. However, sometimes it's important to remind ourselves of the defining principles of content management as these can often be forgotten during our day-to-day work. So what are these principles and what steps do organisations need to undertake to ensure they're managing intranet content correctly?

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Performance Evaluation: Cision and Meltwater
13th June 2014

FreePint compares the media monitoring results produced by two of the key vendors we are most frequently asked about: Cision and Meltwater. The use cases covered consumer and business brands across traditional and social media.

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FreePint Report: Product Review of ScienceDirect Reference Modules
12th June 2014

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Product Review of Avention: Value, Competitors, Development & Pricing
12th June 2014

Author Chris Porter assesses how the Avention service presents itself in relation to other offerings and where it fits in the range of other company information services, from news-focused aggregators to financial market data specialists.

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Mini Review: WordsAnalytics
12th June 2014

Author Perrin Kerravala reviews WordsAnalytics, a powerful text mining tool for SEC filings. Featuring impressive capabilities such as Compare Reports, Sentiment Scores and Find Similar Paragraphs, WordsAnalytics is ideally suited for due diligence compliance and competitive intelligence research.

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Product Review of ScienceDirect Reference Modules: Value, Competitors, Development & Pricing
11th June 2014

The value, competitors and pricing of Reference Modules are explored in the final part of Yulia Aspinall's review of this reference solution integrated into Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform. Two modules are already available to researchers (Chemistry, Molecular Sciences & Chemical Engineering; and Earth Systems & Environmental Sciences).

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Privileged Users and Threats to Confidential Data
10th June 2014

One of the biggest risks of corporate data theft comes from privileged insiders looking at stuff they shouldn't - sometimes out of simple curiosity. As ever, technology is only part of the solution; so too is having a proper access policy and monitoring staff behaviour. With a growing number of people having their personal data compromised, United States officials are calling for a proper system of data breach notification. Meanwhile Britain (which supposedly has one already) is worried that most organisations keep their worst breaches secret. They may not be too bothered about fines, Britain's privacy boss says - but they are worried about their reputation.

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Big Data Bonanza - But Only for Those With High Quality Data
10th June 2014

The opportunity for organisations to benefit from big data may be limited by poor data quality. Over a third of companies face data problems and fewer than 20% have high quality data. The cost to organisations of poor data is substantial. For marketing data the majority of databases surveyed were found to be lacking basic data. It is more cost-effective to prevent data problems than to try to fix them.

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