Sophie Alexander
Sophie Alexander is a business researcher and provides customised research to companies in a wide variety of industries with a particular interest in investigative research. She has a BA Hons in Law and a Diploma in Information Studies along with over 15 years' experience in both the public and private sector.
Articles by Sophie Alexander:
Why time measurement matters
Friday, 5th July 2019
American Financial Group's Information Research Centre explains the benefits they find of tracking time, from demonstrating value to identifying most engaged customer groups. They also highlight the tool they use and the downfall of the tools they've used in the past.
Q&A with Ozmosys - a mission to disrupt and simplify news aggregation
Thursday, 18th April 2019
We interview Eric Gross, founder and president of Ozmosys, a tool which includes curated newsletter options, search, delivery and distribution under one umbrella. We find out how they're planning to disrupt the news aggregation market through lower prices and a new model which aims to become the "Slack for news".
Q&A with Copyrightlaws.com - the place to learn about copyright and licensing
Friday, 22nd March 2019
Understanding copyright and licensing is a cornerstone of information work. Helping professionals learn about the issues from a practical perspective is Copyrightlaws.com. It specialises in teaching copyright to non-lawyers, with users from a wide variety of industry sectors in countries around the world. Courses are delivered through online content, some with video, along with downloadable guides and certification programmes. Sophie Alexander spoke to founder Lesley Ellen Harris to find out how its users benefit and what's coming next.
Mini review of Comintelli Intelligence2day - CI in the cloud
Thursday, 14th March 2019
We explore the latest features of Intelligence2day from Comintelli. A cloud-based competitive intelligence platform, Intelligence2day provides a single point of access to multiple and automates aggregation, classification, search and more. Competitors include Northern Light SinglePoint and M-Brain Intelligence Plaza.
Product review of TBRC's Global Market Model (value - help & training; competitors; development; pricing)
Monday, 21st January 2019
Our in-depth product review of The Business Research Company's Global Market Model concludes with part 4. where we give the Jinfo verdict on the value it offers, as well as looking at the help provided by the company, competitor products, pricing for different types of users, and planned changes for 2019. This database provides integrated market information across 60 geographies and 2,400 market sectors. Competitors include Euromonitor's Passport, MarketLine's Advantage, IBISWorld, BMI Research.
Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/3108
Reports by Sophie Alexander:
Market landscape - company information
Wednesday, 2nd October 2019
In this Market Landscape report, Jinfo examines 13 products offered by some of the most respected providers of company information, providing outline...
Company landscape - Lucidea
Monday, 9th September 2019
Lucidea is a leading global provider of knowledge management, collections management and library automation software, providing applications and busin...
Market landscape - media monitoring
Wednesday, 28th August 2019
In this market landscape, we look at products from nine companies in the business intelligence and data visualisation field, updating our previous mar...
Market landscape - market research report providers
Thursday, 22nd August 2019
In this market landscape, we look at 10 market research report providers specialising in online market research for a wide variety of clients in a div...
Market landscape - semantic intelligence and semantic search
Thursday, 25th July 2019
Semantic intelligence and semantic search is a complex space, and our list is not intended to be comprehensive but instead provides a comparison of so...
Community session
11th December 2024
2025 strategic planning; evaluating research reports; The Financial Times, news and AI
5th November 2024
How are information managers getting involved with AI? Navigating privacy, ethics, and intellectual property
- 2025 strategic planning; evaluating research reports; The Financial Times, news and AI
5th November 2024 - All recent Jinfo Subscription content
31st October 2024 - End-user training best practice research
24th October 2024
- Jinfo Community session (TBC) (Community) 23rd January 2025
- Clinic on contracting for AI (Community) 11th December 2024
- Discussing news and AI strategies with the Financial Times (Community) 21st November 2024