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Andrew Lucas Mini Review of Tableau Desktop
19th March 2015

As part of the FreePint Topic Series "Making Information Visible", Andrew Lucas reviews Tableau Software's Desktop product, an easy, quick to install and use business intelligence and data visualisation application which is content-agnostic. The company mission is to "help people see and understand data", and Tableau is designed to be used by a wide range of business users and functions - any reasonably proficient Excel user can access its analytical and visualisation capabilities. Competitors in data visualisation range from those at the enterprise end such as IBM and Oracle to Salesforce Analytics Cloud and smaller competitors such as Qlik, Datawatch and Pentaho.

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Chris Porter Q&A with Cision - Taking Social Media Monitoring to the Next Level
19th March 2015

Chris Porter talks to Scott Livingston, senior vice president of product marketing at Cision, about the vendor's view of evolving user needs relating to social media, and about plans for its own social media product capabilities following Cision's acquisition of specialised vendor Visible Technologies last year. The group also combines the assets of the predecessor Cision entity, US-based Vocus and London-based Gorkana, all of which already contained some social media-related tools.

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Sophie Alexander Q&A with Lucidworks - Creating Actionable Insights from Data
17th March 2015

As part of the FreePint Topic Series "Making Information Visible", Sophie Alexander caught up with Will Hayes, CEO of Lucidworks, to discuss some of his thoughts on the issue of visibility within the enterprise. The importance of context, classification of data, and the role of natural language processing in search and discovery are considered along with the possibility of a privacy revolution.

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Britt Mueller Moving from Passive Visibility to Active Viewing
16th March 2015

Britt Mueller provides some actionable takeaways on the topic of information visibility and how to use communication and responsive change to move from passive visibility to active use, to help ensure that the information centre's valuable deliverables are well-used.

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Anne Jordan Source Update for Nexis
16th March 2015

The latest additions and takedowns in Nexis, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Ashish Shukla Product Review of AdisInsight (Customer Support; FreePint's View)
13th March 2015

In the final part of his product review of Springer's new AdisInsight drug information platform, Ashish Shukla looks at customer support and gives an overview of its strengths as a single point of access platform. He analyses the overall value that the product offers to those seeking a one-stop solution on the entire drug lifecycle, from profiles of drugs in development, insights into the trials being performed to advance these drugs through regulatory pathways, to safety reports associated with a drug, and any deals undertaken by the organisations involved.

Note: Full review (PDF) at /go/sub/report/2468

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