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Mini review of RightFind Navigate
29th January 2020
RightFind Navigate is a new product in the portfolio of the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) which promises to break down information and data silos within organisations, enabling a more effective generation of insights through personalised user views and by revealing undiscovered connections across different information assets. This mini review looks at the company and product and finds out who uses it and how it's used as well as exploring the competitive environment.
What content licensing professionals need to know about licensing data
14th January 2020
For information managers, there's a whole world of content out there, coming from sources such as aggregators, vendors and open datasets. Keeping on top of content licensing is a constant concern, but here Jinfo guides you through the key issues, challenges and how the market is maturing.
Principles of determining ROI of external data
9th January 2020
Information professionals are constantly asking how value can be measured but when it comes to licensing external data, this can become an even more arduous task. This article looks at how you can develop data-driven approaches to measuring value and return on investment.
Product review of HBR SpendConnect (value - help & training; competitors; development; pricing)
19th December 2019
The final part of our product review of HBR SpendConnect, a software-enabled service that enriches and solves critical data challenges for clients in the legal industry, focuses on the value provided by the product, along with the help and training on offer, the competitive landscape, which includes the likes of Thomson Reuters' Elite Enterprise and Aderant for spend analytics and budget reporting and Coupa, Proactis, and GEP purchasing and contract management. We also look at product development plans and pricing options.
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Product review of HBR SpendConnect (technology - search & user interface; outputs & alerts; administration)
18th December 2019
In the third part of our product review of HBR SpendConnect, a software-enabled service that enriches and solves critical data challenges for clients in the legal industry, we explore the technology used within the platform and how users are able to navigate it. We'll take a close look at usage data, reports, contracts, spend analysis and how administrators can manage access to the product.
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Product review of HBR SpendConnect (sources - content and coverage)
17th December 2019
In the second part of our product review of HBR SpendConnect, a software enabled service that enriches and solves critical data challenges for clients in the legal industry, we focus on the product's content and how it helps clients identify and update parent company relationships. We also look at the contract management module which lets you add new contracts into the system.
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Product review of HBR SpendConnect (key advantages; introduction; contact details)
16th December 2019
HBR SpendConnect provides sophisticated, consumable analytics to law firms. It is a software-enabled service that enriches and solves critical data challenges for clients in the legal industry and in the first part of our product review we take a closer look at the company and product, along with its key advantages and value and future development of the product.
Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/3304
Continuous improvement - what does it mean and how do you measure it?
16th December 2019
This article looks at how to apply continuous improvement in the context of managing an information service and covers some of the foundations that need to be in place to deliver sustained improvement as well as some considerations to make it all happen.
Operations of an Information Centre of Excellence
12th December 2019
In the final part of our series of articles on the characteristics of the Information Centre of Excellence and how information managers manifest these characteristics, we take a look at operations and how it needs to be grounded in continuous improvement.
Commercial awareness - the toughest characteristic
11th December 2019
In the third of a series of articles on the characteristics of the Information Centre of Excellence and how information managers manifest these characteristics, we look at how teams cultivate commercial awareness.
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Community session
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Blog posting
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YouTube video
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