Not Enough or Too Much? A Data Protection Dilemma
1st September 2014

Companies know that compromising privacy is bad for business, which is why Microsoft is challenging official disclosure demands in the United States courts. Meanwhile a United States congressional thinktank has concerns about the protection of personal financial records, and a British survey shows just how much customers will punish companies that play fast and loose with their data. But has the pendulum now swung too far in the privacy direction? One survey suggests that the protectionist barriers against digital trade could cause a measurable contraction in gross domestic product - but governments know that privacy wins votes.

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Product Review of LexisNexis Company Dossier (Technology - Search, Outputs & Alerts, User Interface & Help)
1st September 2014

The third part of Chris Porter's review looks at the searching, filtering, list-building and exporting capabilities within LexisNexis Company Dossier, a research database providing information about companies, executives and industries. His scrutiny includes the "Compare Companies" feature and "Custom Report" tool.

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Risk & Compliance - Free Online Resources
1st September 2014

Penny Crossland highlights some high quality free resources in the risk, regulatory and compliance sphere, presenting some alternatives to the "Big Three".

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Product Review of LexisNexis Company Dossier (Sources - Content & Coverage)
29th August 2014

In the second part of his review Chris Porter examines company-related content in LexisNexis Company Dossier, the company-focused add-on to the well-known LexisNexis and Nexis.com services, digging in particular into financial information and news coverage. Around 80 million companies (quoted and private) are profiled on the service, from Australia to China, Russia and the USA. Information is also included on executives and industries. 

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The Real Problem with Yammer
29th August 2014

Since Microsoft purchased Yammer in 2012 we've heard a lot about how Yammer is going to make SharePoint more social and provide organisations with a quick and easy way to encourage enterprise-wide social networking. James Mullan discusses the benefits Yammer and enterprise social networks can bring to organisations but also the significant problem with Yammer and other enterprise social networks - that individuals just won't use them.

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FreePint Report: Subscription Update for Information Services Management
28th August 2014

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Q&A with ProQuest Dialog - the Pi2 Acquisition
28th August 2014

Yulia Aspinall interviews ProQuest Dialog and Pi2 executives to find out more about the Pi2 acquisition and what the addition of this solution means for large and small pharmaceutical companies who need to access and manage product information or are involved in pharmacovigilance. The Q&A also looks at Pi2 systems such as the PinPoint Product Literature Database and the Drug Safety Triager.

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Product Review of LexisNexis Company Dossier (Introduction; Contact Details)
27th August 2014

Chris Porter looks at the LexisNexis Company Dossier product, a research database providing information about companies, executives and industries. The product is often sold in association with either the Nexis or Lexis core research platforms.

Company Dossier is aimed primarily at researchers and analysts in information-intensive organisations.

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Why Compliant Bosses Need Info Pros - Some Cautionary Compliance Tales
26th August 2014

As the FreePint Topic Series: What You Need to Know Your Customer (KYC) continues, Tim Buckley Owen notes that there are special insights that information professionals can bring to this and other regulatory compliance challenges. Whether it's the Safe Harbor agreement, adverts for financial services generated automatically by search engine results, financial promotions in social media or regulatory authorities' encouragement of financial technology developments like Bitcoins, info pros should be able to offer a uniquely well informed perspective. And that's before you even consider ways of keeping the boss out of jail for not doing their due diligence properly...

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LinkedIn... Making it Even Easier to "Follow" People
25th August 2014

It has been a busy year for LinkedIn, as reported recently, LinkedIn acquired Newsle to bolster its news and subscription services and LinkedIn has rolled out a number of significant changes to the site. These include, but aren't limited to: status updates being relocated to the LinkedIn homepage, a new way to manage contacts, showcase pages for companies, LinkedIn Pulse news and mobile and - perhaps most significantly - a new publishing platform which allows LinkedIn members to publish blog posts to their profile. Now LinkedIn has quietly rolled out a new "follow" feature, which is likely to have a significant impact on the way we all use LinkedIn.

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