Research

Is there a fail-safe method of evaluating which database, data provider, research source or tool will best suit your organisation and budget?

Return on investment and value of information products is a subject you'll regularly find us tackling at Jinfo, through our articles, reports, webinars and Community sessions. We're mindful that definitions of value vary depending on your organisation and what’s of prime importance to you and your stakeholders but steps will include:

• Defining your personalised list of top variables for content, and for technology
• Refining those lists by "must have" and "nice to have"
• Deciding how you'll measure "value" for this particular product (efficiency, revenue-generation, ease of use…)

You'll have other considerations if you're displacing a product:

• What you will lose in terms of vendor data and data you've added to the solution
• How long implementation will take and whether you need to buy-in specialist skills to achieve a live solution
• Whether users will need training on the new solution and how long you estimate it will take users to get fully up-to-speed...

Our market landscapes, product reviews and models save you time by providing in-depth insights into vendor products, an overview of the competitor environment, and practical models to help you map out considerations with your team. And you'll find our webinars and Community sessions offer practical steps to help you make the purchasing decisions that best suit your organisational set-up and requirements.

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Catherine Dhanjal
Managing Editor

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Latest Reports:

• Market landscape - online learning systems on 22nd February
  
  
• Market landscape - engineering portals on 15th February
  
  
• Market landscape - ebook sources for engineering on 15th February
  
  
• Market landscape - macroeconomic sources on 13th February

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Latest Articles:

• Insider knowledge - researching Russia on 14th February
  
  
• The decline of complex search on 10th February
  
  
• Changing information sources in investment banks - impact of MiFID II on 9th February

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Forthcoming Webinars and Community sessions:

• Best practices in effective, activity-based learning for information literacy (Webinar) on 7th March
  
  
• Tracking your organisation's journey to information literacy (Community Session) on 15th March
  
  
• State of the industry, 2017 (In-Person) (Community Session) on 16th March (New York)

Want more information on what's coming in Jinfo? We publish a "Forthcoming" PDF every month. Find it here »

Spending too much time creating competitive intelligence? Take a look at Jinfo's CI coverage for information on finding the right tools to help streamline your competitive intelligence monitoring.

Blog

Latest Jinfo Blog items:

• My Favourite Tipples from a business information researcher on 22nd February
  
  
• Get up to speed on Russia & other CIS nations
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• Getting to grips with engineering sources on 16th February
  
  
• Changes in financial research - an opportunity for information professionals? on 14th February
  
  
• Jinfo for managing a research team on 14th February
  
  
• Embrace analytics for a bright future on 14th February
  
  
• Research update - are you on top of strategy? on 9th February

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