Managing queries and content spend with Priory Solutions
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By Catherine Dhanjal

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Is your budget being spent in the best way and are your resources being used in the best way to handle requests? We find out how Priory Solutions and its products Quest and ResearchMonitor can help.

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We often get feedback that accurately and efficiently managing spend for online content sets remains a difficult nut to crack. The difficulties include: 

• Obtaining accurate usage statistics

• Reducing information centre (and/or IT department) time spent on administering access to the various sources

• Ensuring compliance with licensing requirements

• Assigning costs to internal customer bases.

We were interested to meet Leigh Walters recently. Leigh is the new managing director of Priory Solutions, the company behind online resource management software ResearchMonitor, used to aid discussions in areas from contract negotiation to budget setting.

A sister product which focuses on another area of perennial focus is Quest, for tracking research and reference requests.

We'll be publishing reviews on both products in the near future. 

Diversification and group strength

The interview, "Q&A with Priory Solutions - positioning for strong continued growth" (Subscriber content), gives an overview of the company as a whole, its recent acquisition by TRG (formerly The Roberts Group) and priorities for the future. 

Leigh Walters highlights diversification as one of those priority areas and explains how the company is moving from its traditional base of customers in the legal and investment banking space, "We also foresee the diversification of our products into other markets. We already have clients in pharmaceutical and accounting, but the use-case applies to any information-intensive organisation. For example, we are seeing demand in large corporates, energy companies and market research firms."

Find out more

Read the full interview "Q&A with Priory Solutions - positioning for strong continued growth" to learn more about how "the combination of TRG and Priory Solutions now offers a unique proposition - a one-stop-shop providing complete transparency into what you are spending and whether the services are being used".

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