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Mini review of Global Market Model
Tuesday, 2nd February 2021
Global Market Model by The Business Research Company is a market intelligence tool designed to help companies find new customers, understand competitors and analyse global markets. This mini review looks at the company behind the product, as well as its extensive database of economic and market data and forecasts. We find out what changes have been made to the product since Jinfo last reviewed it a couple of years ago. We also take a look at some of its competitors, including Euromonitor’s Passport, MarketLine’s Advantage, IBISWorld, and Fitch Solutions Country Risk & Industry Research.
Mini review of M-Brain's Intelligence Plaza
Monday, 18th January 2021
Intelligence Plaza from M-Brain is a market intelligence and competitive intelligence platform that can be used by companies of any size working in market intelligence, sales and business development to help with decision-making and strategic planning. This mini review looks at the company and product, and how it's changed since we last looked at it a couple of years ago. We explore the competitive landscape, which includes products from Digimind, Manzama Insights and Meltwater. We also look at its pricing structure and overall value proposition.
Product review of Aurora's FirstLight
Monday, 11th January 2021
Aurora's FirstLight is an intelligence SaaS (Software as a Service) platform, and a powerful competitive intelligence product. It uses machine learning algorithms to mine public and private data sources and can help organisations make more informed business decisions.Jinfo last looked at the...
Mini review of D&B Hoovers
Friday, 8th January 2021
D&B Hoovers is a sales intelligence application that uses data and analytics to enable B2B sales professionals to identify and engage more rapidly with customers and prospects. Having reviewed the product at the beginning of 2019, Jinfo takes a look at the latest iteration of the product. This mini review looks at the company and product, its content, including news and corporate data, and how to navigate it. We also highlight some of its competitors, including DiscoverOrg, UpLead and Pipedrive, amongst others, as well as pricing information.
Product review of TRG Screen's Quest
Friday, 18th December 2020
TRG Screen’s Quest is a request and workflow management system that lets you handle research and information needs across the firm on one simple platform. The Quest product was launched in 2015 and TRG Screen went on to acquire Priory Solutions in 2016. Some of its other products include...
Product review of Nexis Newsdesk
Tuesday, 15th December 2020
Media monitoring and analytics tool, Nexis Newsdesk, is a powerful market intelligence product that was launched in April 2015 as a result of the LexisNexis acquisition of Moreover Technologies in 2014. We last carried out a full review of the product in 2016 and now take a look at how it has...
Product review of InfoNgen
Tuesday, 24th November 2020
We last reviewed InfoNgen, the web monitoring and aggregation service, in 2018 and in this updated review we look at its latest iteration.
The InfoNgen discovery portal is a semantic web discovery platform that provides content discovery and text analytics solutions for competitive and market...
Product Review of Factiva
Tuesday, 27th October 2020
Since Jinfo last reviewed Factiva, Dow Jones' premium news and business information service, there have been quite a few changes. As well as the addition of hundreds of new sources, its geographic coverage has also been expanded along with a new focus on globally important industries.
This...
Product review of Statista
Wednesday, 7th October 2020
Statista is a leading statistics portal known for its charts, graphs, infographics, and dossiers but over the last few years it has also become known for its market and consumer data. With its wide range of content and expert tools it's used by enterprise customers as a one-stop-shop for its...
Product review of Data Planet
Monday, 17th August 2020
Data Planet is an online statistical aggregation database with an extensive collection of public and private data covering a wide range of economic, political and social science topics. The product offers access to the data via a suite of visualisation, search, and analysis capabilities and is...
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