FreePint Report: Information Services Management Monthly Update (May 2013)
30th May 2013

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D&B360: Sources and Searching
30th May 2013

As a Dun & Bradstreet product, D&B360 naturally sources much of its data from D&B. However, the customer's own data is integrated into the user's view to create a "360-view" of an account or a contact. Search options offer standard approaches as well as more intuitive "like this" approaches, and results can be enhanced through visualisation tools. Reviewer Sophie Alexander reports.

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D&B360: Introduction and FreePint's View
29th May 2013

D&B360 is an award-winning on-premise and cloud-based sales intelligence tool that connects users to existing and prospective customer data all from within their current CRM (client relationship management) system or other enterprise software applications. The product combines direct access to Dun & Bradstreet's database of more than 220 million businesses worldwide with corporate hierarchies, company profiles and financial data along with relevant real-world context from news feeds, social media and maps. By allowing the user to monitor and track the data in one place, with news updates pushed to their email, it provides more targeted prospecting and helps users close business more effectively. The application is primarily used by sales and marketing professionals to enable them to increase sales and deepen customer engagement.

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Analysing Products and Markets? Try Consumer Reports!
28th May 2013

Consumer Reports is a US magazine and accompanying website from Consumers Union which offers a wealth of information on consumer products and markets. Yulia Aspinall explains why it should be on your list of sources alongside the likes of Datamonitor or Decision Resources and how it offers "difficult to find" market data.

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Big Data: Speed to Insight, an Interview with Linguamatics
28th May 2013

Natural language processing-based text mining is a powerful application for mining big data in the healthcare and pharmaceutical arena, for example. FreePint's series producer Victor Camlek interviews Linguamatics to find out why its flagship product I2E is used by top commercial, academic and government organisations and how it helps them to get the answers to highly sophisticated questions.

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Could You Use Social Media Tools for Internal Communications?
27th May 2013

Traditional forms of internal communications have been developing slowly but surely over the last few years. Now with the increased use of social media both internally and externally, organisations are looking at whether social media tools, especially enterprise social networks such as Yammer, Jive and Chatter can be used to facilitate internal communications.

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Mini Review: Duedil
23rd May 2013

Duedil is an internet start-up with a mission to make open source official company data transparent. The database covers all UK and Irish corporate filings, 100 million in all, and with sophisticated visualisation tools and clever linking of social media has managed to produce a useful tool for company and due diligence researchers. This review analyses the service, highlights some of the finer points and points to aspects that still need improving.

Update: A new review of this product is available here »

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Moving from an Info Pro To a Big Data Career: Big Deal or Big Headache?
22nd May 2013

As studies show a shortage of big data experts and an estimated 4 million roles in the sector predicted by 2018, Victor Camlek considers what big data jobs are likely to involve and which attributes and skills are required of information professionals considering a move into the world of big data.

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Mobile Strategy in the Investments Business
21st May 2013

Carlos Ramon of retirement investments provider VALIC tells FreePint how the company developed a mobile app to allow its customers to check their fund positions, get news updates and contact their financial adviser. He also provides valuable tips for other organisations considering their own mobile strategy, whether for smartphones or tablets.

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Law Librarians and Content Choices
20th May 2013

As Thomson Reuters continues to assimilate PLC into its business post acquisition, FreePint interviews members of the senior management team to find out how PLC's offering can support the changing structure of law firms and the increasingly strategic role of legal information professionals.

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