Islamic finance - prepare to open the floodgates?
24th September 2012

Global Islamic finance is set to double in size between 2011 and 2015, says Stuart Anderson, Middle East head at rating agency Standard & Poor's. At the recent Global Islamic Finance Forum, both Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters announced new indices to track Sukuk financial markets. Information managers may need to brace themselves for a flood of new products covering this market.

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Google+ heading towards the enterprise
24th September 2012

When it rolled out in June 2011, it was obvious that most of the features within Google+ were aimed at individual users rather then businesses or large organisations. Now it would appear that Google is implementing some changes to its flagship product which is bringing it closer to being used within the enterprise.

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Source Update September 2012: What's happening with Factiva?
24th September 2012

Monthly update on changes to Factiva's source list

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Source Update September 2012: What's happening with Nexis?
24th September 2012

Monthly update on source changes in Nexis.com

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Sustainability from Thomson Reuters - a new site worth visiting
20th September 2012

Sustainability is a buzzword used by government agencies and politicians in countless reports and speeches these days and is a concept we are all meant to aspire to. The term can be applied to a wide range of industries, making it hard for information professionals to find all-encompassing sources on the subject. Now one of the major business intelligence providers, Thomson Reuters has entered the arena, launching a website in the last few days dedicated to the topic.

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Micro news tools highlight importance of information streaming
20th September 2012

The week that President Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention managed to achieve a record 52,000+ tweets per minute - no doubt helped by the readily crafted tweet-sized sound bites - we learned of two new developments in the world of real-time micro news, involving information streams that could have a significant impact on how content is consumed, especially in this US election year.

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Consuming information via streams
19th September 2012

How individuals and organisations publish content to the web has changed significantly since the early days of the web. It would appear that now we’re seeing another significant change in web publishing. One of the biggest drivers of this change is the move from pages to streams. This new way of consuming content is also changing the way content is published, but how and why?

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The dark side of information overload
18th September 2012

The extent by which we all suffer from information overload has been written about and discussed time and time again, but is there a dark side to information overload - a side that we're only just becoming aware of?

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Findability: a taxing issue
18th September 2012

Taxonomies connect people and content. They enable us to find what we're looking for by grouping related things together and help capture the key vocabulary of our knowledge domains. So why do so few organisations seem to make use of them? Why do we hear so much about big data, the cloud, social media and mobile computing, but relatively little about taxonomies? Is this an area we should be focussing on in our organisations?

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FreePint Report: Workflow Integration: Right content, right place
17th September 2012

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