Product review of Knowledge360 from Cipher Systems (sources - content & coverage)
1st October 2018

The second part of our product review of Knowledge360 from Cipher Systems LLC, an end-to-end competitive intelligence platform designed to support market analysis, takes an in-depth look at the content available including global and regional data, as well as third-party and internal content. It also explores the company and sandbox dashboards which are the key ways for users to interact with and consume information in Knowledge360.

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Comparing product satisfaction for Factiva vs Nexis users - 2018
28th September 2018

Factiva and Nexis remain the leaders in premium products for news and current awareness, over 75% of our research respondents named them as their primary premium product for current awareness. We drilled down and report back on how satisfied they are with their choice of platform, whether they're planning to change product, their views on specifics such as search, content, training, mobile, visualisations, price and more.

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Product review of Knowledge360 (key advantages; introduction; contact details)
27th September 2018

Knowledge360 from Cipher Systems LLC is a SCIP-certified end-to-end competitive intelligence solution designed to support market analysis. Jinfo last reviewed the product at the end of 2016 and in the first part of our new product review, we outline background on the company and product, look at which products it competes with, who uses it, and why it's proven to be of such value to its users.

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Benchmarking through the finance lens
27th September 2018

Information teams in financial firms have specific concerns relating to that industry and this was reflected in a recent Community session which looked at benchmarking data and how this year's results shed light on best practice in the financial services and insurance arenas.

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Product review of PharmaCircle Business Class Elite (value - help & training; competitors; development; pricing)
26th September 2018

In the final part of our product review of PharmaCircle Business Class Elite (BCE) we look at the help and training available. The company considers one-to-one customer support its top priority with a team of experts to provide the required support. Its competitors, who include Thomson Reuters' Cortellis, Informa's Pharmaprojects, and Springer Nature's AdisInsight, along with pricing and development plans, including the refinement of its proprietary search technology.

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Product review of PharmaCircle Business Class Elite (technology - search & user interface; outputs & alerts; administration)
25th September 2018

The third part of our product review of PharmaCircle Business Class Elite (BCE) for drug, biologics, product development and market landscape. We explore the product's technology, including its proprietary search platform and interface that provides access to apps, outputs and alerts and charting options for areas from patents to labels and development timelines.

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Product review of PharmaCircle Business Class Elite (sources - content & coverage)
24th September 2018

Part two of our product review of PharmaCircle Business Class Elite (BCE) looks at the range of key information sources tracked by the product's analysts and available via its 11 modules and 6 apps, including geographic coverage and languages available.

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Disaggregation between software and content
21st September 2018

"Content is king" used to be the adage but with the easy availability of free content, this is no longer the case. This article looks at the changing consumption patterns of content and particularly the pros and cons of consuming content via software only vendors, such as Comintelli and InfoDesk, as opposed to vendors that provide both software and content, such as Factiva, NewsEdge and Nexis. It also considers user needs and pricing as factors in the decision-making process.

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Product review of PharmaCircle Business Class Elite (key advantages; introduction; contact details)
21st September 2018

PharmaCircle Business Class Elite (BCE) is an online platform offering continuously updated information on products and pipeline programmes, public and private companies, and global clinical trial records. In this first part of our product review, we take a closer look at the company and product, its users, who include the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, as well as its key features and value.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/3058

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Jinfo current awareness survey (part 4 - primary suppliers)
17th September 2018

Jinfo's director of research, Robin Neidorf, presents the final part of our current awareness survey results exploring the needs, preferences and goals of information professionals with regard to news content and current awareness provision. This article gives feedback on specific feedback relating to their primary products for current awareness, including Factiva, Nexis, FT, Bloomberg, Westlaw and CEDROM-SNI, as well as platform suppliers InfoDesk and LexisNexis Publisher.

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