FreePint Report: Product Review of Arachnys
23rd January 2014

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Lex Fenwick Leaves Dow Jones; What's Next on the Factiva Rollercoaster?
22nd January 2014

The CEO of Dow Jones, Lex Fenwick has just resigned with immediate effect. FreePint identifies the impact this could have on the Factiva/DJX offering, the drawbacks with the DJX offering, and what's likely to lie ahead for Factiva's news aggregation products in the context of the new landscape of new and nimble news services.

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Product Review of Transactional Track Record (TTR): Search & Output Options
22nd January 2014

In the third part of her review, Perrin Kerravala provides an extensive overview and assessment of the search and reporting capabilities of Transactional Track Record, a new business intelligence service on Spanish and Portuguese language markets. She explains what makes it useful for finding sales leads, investment opportunities, or finding out what competitors or counterparties are doing.

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Product Review of Arachnys: User Interface, Pricing, Help & Contact Details
21st January 2014

The ability to handle multilingual content is essential when choosing a compliance tool for high risk and emerging markets. Chris Porter looks at how Arachnys performs in terms of translation and other language-related options. The final part of his review also provides feedback on the user interface, customer support options and pricing structure. He looks at special software functionality for Chrome users, API options, and ways to monitor usage and allocate costs across departments or projects.

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Product Review of EMISPRO: Outputs & Alerts, User Interface
21st January 2014

Outputs, alerts and the user interface are examined by Andrew Lucas in the fourth part of his review of EMISPRO from ISI's Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS). He gives his view on the personalisation and advanced analytical functionality as well as alerting options and sharing possibilities.

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Product Review of Transactional Track Record (TTR): Sources, Content & Coverage
20th January 2014

In the second part of her review Perrin Kerravala takes a close look at how Transactional Track Record (TTR) obtains unique business intelligence on Spanish and Portuguese-language markets worldwide plus the English-speaking Caribbean. Details on TTR's geographic and deal coverage are also revealed.

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Product Review of EMISPRO: Search
20th January 2014

The third part of Andrew Lucas' review of EMISPRO from ISI's Emerging Markets Information Service looks at the many search options available. All searches in EMISPRO start with an emerging market country or region, or an "all countries" search, after which the search can expand to include companies and industries. The product is highly structured using drop-down lists to navigate and select content as well as interactive maps and slide bars.

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Product Review of Arachnys: Outputs and Alerts
20th January 2014

Regulators believe ongoing monitoring is an essential feature of effective due diligence. Keeping audit trails and findings, even when they show zero results, should be an integral part of evidence. Chris Porter focuses on the output and alerting options in the fourth part of his review of Arachnys, compliance tool for high risk and emerging markets.

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Product Review of Transactional Track Record (TTR): Introduction, Value & FreePint's View
17th January 2014

Business research expert Perrin Kerravala introduces TTR - Transactional Track Record, a business intelligence service specialising in Spanish- and Portuguese-language market activity. The first part of her review provides an overview and product highlights. She identifies the value experienced by TTR's audience of sales & marketing professionals, financiers & investors, business consultants and legal & accounting specialists. 

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Product Review of EMISPRO: Sources, Content & Coverage
17th January 2014

EMISPRO offers essentially the same data as ISI's Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS), with the addition of DealWatch. In the second part of his review Andrew Lucas explains why he thinks the content in both services offers perhaps one of the best collections of emerging markets news, company, industry and macroeconomic data.

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