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Yulia Aspinall Product Review of InfoNgen: Technology & Delivery Platform; User Interface
12th December 2013

The technology which underpins discovery engine InfoNgen is discussed in the third part of Yulia Aspinall's review. InfoNgen is also known as a news aggregation system; its workflow automation can eliminate a huge amount of the "heavy lifting" of manually searching through multiple sources, reading them, cutting/pasting/emailing, aggregating them together, formatting, and publishing, and hence save researchers time and make their work more effective and productive. Export options include custom newsletters which can be delivered manually or automatically via email or RSS feed.

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Andrew Grave Product Review of Eikon: Introduction, Value and FreePint's View
11th December 2013

The first part of Andrew Grave's review of Eikon from Thomson Reuters introduces the product which covers pricing data, financial research including analyst/broker reports, global financial news and commentary, fundamentals analysis, financial estimates and charting. He finds the market analysis and trading software offers efficiency over other systems through its ease of use, workplace tools, messaging, mobile functionality and more.

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Anne Jordan Source Update December 2013: What's Happening with Factiva?
11th December 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in Factiva, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Yulia Aspinall Product Review of InfoNgen: Sources, Content & Coverage; Products
10th December 2013

The second part of Yulia Aspinall's review of discovery engine InfoNgen examines the sources, content and coverage which can be aggregated. These range from traditional newspapers to blogs and social media, subscription databases, customer-specific resources and private companies. Tagging and translation capabilities cover eight languages but InfoNgen can aggregate content in any language. Yulia also introduces the Discovery Portal, Enterprise Knowledge Management Portal and Text Analytics Services.

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James Mullan What Affects the Adoption of New Technology?
10th December 2013

I read a lot of articles and blog posts about how successful some companies, including law firms, have been when implementing social and other technologies. But I also read a lot of tweets and posts from individuals, including intranet managers, who have been frustrated by the lack of adoption or engagement with their latest tool or application. There are a number of reasons why technologies aren’t adopted, which has led me to believe that fear of change might be significant in blocking uptake of new software and services.

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Anne Jordan Source Update December 2013: What's Happening with Nexis?
9th December 2013

This month's additions and takedowns in Nexis, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Sarah Dillingham Co-Authoring in SharePoint 2013
6th December 2013

Sarah Dillingham outlines how co-authoring works in SharePoint 2013 and the benefits it offers. The organisational intranet software now offers real-time collaboration on the same Word, Excel or PowerPoint document; the authors can see one another’s work and everyone knows who is working on the document. She provides tips to help users make the most of co-authoring and to work more productively with one another.

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Andrew Grave Supplier Selection Process: News Aggregation
6th December 2013

Andrew Grave outlines a framework for selecting your news supplier. He details the essential steps to take from planning the process to understanding the news aggregation process, users' needs and stakeholders' views on news aggregation. The article also demonstrates how Robin Neidorf’s Art of Persuasion model can be applied to successfully engage stakeholders in your news aggregation project.

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Sophie Alexander Q&A with Attensa: Enabling Awareness & Knowledge Sharing
6th December 2013

In her interview with Charlie Davidson, CEO of Attensa, Sophie Alexander finds out about the company's enterprise information and knowledge management tools including StreamServer, due to be reviewed again in 2014. He explains why Attensa is developing tools that can help better allocate attention through highly relevant personalised news and content streams, improve predictive delivery of high value information and help organisations to identify and access knowledge that exists within them to solve problems or innovate faster.

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Yulia Aspinall Product Review of InfoNgen: Introduction, Value and FreePint's View
5th December 2013

Yulia Aspinall reviews InfoNgen, a "discovery engine" which combines the ability to do metasearches of all or selected internal and external sources of information with flexible tagging and customer specific needs. The foundation of InfoNgen is an automated classification system that analyses unstructured content and organises it into a variety of taxonomies, making it easier to manage. The first part of her review introduces the product and offers feedback on the value and return on investment it offers.

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