What's the likely impact of MiFID II on financial research?
6th February 2018

With the era of MiFID II still in its infancy, its likely impact on the investment research sector remains unclear. This article attempts to shed some light on where the industry is now, a month into the new regime, and where it is likely to go in the future.

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The data analytics challenge, is your team ready?
5th February 2018

In the first of three webinars held as part of the Jinfo Research Focus, "Stake your claim in the success of data analytics", we presented key steps that information professionals can take to prepare for a more inclusive role in current and future data analytics projects. This article presents an overview of what was discussed including ways information professionals can leverage existing skills and learn new ones.

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Why information teams need change management skills
1st February 2018

Change management skills are needed to run an effective information service and support users in performing tasks that were previously the information centre's domain. This article covers some of these skills from communication and training through to stakeholder and community management and offers some useful practical tips to ensure change management skills are part of your new skill set.

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Become an authority on external data for analytics
31st January 2018

How best to manage data, whether it's produced internally or externally, is an area that many information teams are finding increasingly complex, and one that technology alone cannot fix. In a recent Community session, participants discussed the ownership and visibility of data, and how to keep sets correct, clean and complete for analytics, text and data mining.

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Product review of Aurora FirstLight (help & training; administration; competitors; pricing)
30th January 2018

In the final part of Jinfo's product review of Aurora FirstLight, a powerful competitive intelligence platform with access to over 67,000 media sources, we take a look at the product's ability to act as a bespoke intelligence backbone, with access to LexisNexis content and social media tracking that can serve any size organisation. We also explore what support is available and how responsive this was. Finally, we see how administrators can derive value from the product and who its competitors, are along with pricing options.  

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2937

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Northern Light applies powerful machine learning to its search functionality
29th January 2018

Northern Light has recently applied machine learning to its global search functionality to provide summaries of internal market research reports and business news articles for competitive intelligence analysis. According to the company, it is the first really new improvement to search in over 20 years. In this article, we take a look at how it came to be and how it can add value.

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Product review of Aurora FirstLight (technology - search & user interface; outputs & alerts; administration)
29th January 2018

In the third part of Jinfo's product review of Aurora FirstLight, a powerful current awareness and intelligence search platform with access to over 67,000 media sources, we focus on its search and user interface. Some of the product's key features include the flexible widget options, customisable newsletter templates, page tracking functionality, newsfeeds dashboards and visualisation options.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2937

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Product review of Aurora FirstLight (sources - content & coverage)
26th January 2018

In part two of Jinfo's product review of Aurora's FirstLight, we highlight the product's sources, including news databases, company financials, as well as access to LexisNexis Metabase content. It also lists the product's languages and geographical coverage.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2937

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Product review of Aurora FirstLight (key advantages; introduction; contact details)
25th January 2018

FirstLight is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product that uses machine-learning algorithms to mine a variety of public and private data sources which organisations can use to make better and more informed decisions. In part one of Jinfo's review, we introduce the company and platform, its audience, key advantages, value and development plans.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2937

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Product review of DrugPatentWatch (value - help & training; competitors; development; pricing)
24th January 2018

In the final part of our product review of DrugPatentWatch, a database which provides actionable business intelligence on small-molecule drugs, we look at the help and training that's available to users along with detailed pricing information. We also highlight the value of the product and how it can be used as a business analysis tool rather than just be used for patent searching, and where it sits against competitor or complementary products such as Cortellis, Clarivate and AdisInsight.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2934

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