Mobile Deployment: What Do Buyers Want?
21st June 2013

Corporate users often have specific requirements and non-negotiable concerns, such as certain security levels, when purchasing content for mobile use. FreePint's Community of Practice: Mobile Deployment in the Enterprise looked into issues ranging from security to pricing, industry standards and usage flexibility.

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Sales Intelligence Comes of Age with Sales 2.0
20th June 2013

Sales tools have moved from simple spreadsheets or discrete information sets to single-view, cross-platform workflow solutions. Michael Levy explores the evolution and the technologies behind the move, such as the use of multiple independent taxonomies, semantic tagging, predictive analytics and social media. He highlights some of the key sales intelligence products such as D&B360, InsideView and OneSource iSell.

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Mobile Deployment: Which Challenges for Content Vendors?
19th June 2013

Content vendors and publishers are facing a raft of challenges as they face increasing pressure to deliver content to a wide variety mobile devices - and in a way that's engaging and entertaining as well as informative, easy-to-use and optimised for mobile workflow. Robin Neidorf reports on recent discussions in FreePint's Community of Practice: Mobile Deployment in the Enterprise which delved into the challenges of build, buy or partner and development platforms.

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FreePint Report: Big Data in Action
18th June 2013

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ProQuest Dialog: Nearly Ready for Prime Time
18th June 2013

Robin Neidorf interviewed members of ProQuest Dialog's senior management team to find out more about the upcoming customer transition to the new ProQuest Dialog service, features and content to be included, the focus on customer experience, and future plans.

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Mobile Deployment: Different Challenges for Different Content Vendors
17th June 2013

FreePint's Community of Practice: Mobile Deployment in the Enterprise explores the different types of content vendors, such as aggregators and publishers, and discusses why it's important to understand their business models in order to appreciate the varying issues and challenges they face when deploying content over a mobile platform.

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Prezi: Set Your Presentations Free
13th June 2013

Prezi is rapidly gaining in popularity as a free web-based presentation tool offering a very different way to develop and present information. Yulia Aspinall examines what makes this tool popular, what it offers that PowerPoint doesn't, and how Prezi can give presenters' ideas and stories additional impact, greater memorability and lead to better audience clarity.

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Beyond the Pale: Researching Non-Text Resources and Grey Literature
12th June 2013

Grey literature is material created by government, academics, non-profits and industry that exists outside the traditional publishing model. Non-text grey literature includes a wide variety of items, from audiovisual media and presentations to technical reports and tweets. Finding non-text research resources is not easy, many of the formats are non-traditional text, image or multimedia-based so they are not easily found using traditional database search tools. Cindy Elliott provides some suggestions on starting your search to find non-text grey literature.

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Financial News Publishers Take On LinkedIn and Twitter
11th June 2013

It seems that traditional print publishers have realised that if you can't beat the rapid-fire news coverage of social media platforms, you may as well join them. This was demonstrated in recent weeks by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and the Financial Times, who have respectively announced and launched social media tools WSJ Profile, BloombergCurrent and fastFT to take on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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BYOD... Saving Money, But At What Cost?
10th June 2013

Several FreePint editors, including myself, have written articles recently about how the idea of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is changing the corporate IT landscape. BYOD provides many opportunities for companies including potential cost savings, but is there a downside to BYOD that we're only now seeing? How can companies COPE?

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