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How Role-Based Integration Strategies Increase Content Management Utilization: Failed IT projects, the need to improve information worker productivity and the growing mobile workforce are key drivers impacting integration strategies. This white paper will examine key market drivers, challenges faced by CIOs and how role-based content integration strategies can regain measurable returns on existing content management investments. Factiva Consulting...; Tags: Strategy, Factiva, Integration, Content Management, Web Technology, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers 2005-10-01
Business Information Provider Deploys Robust Branch Office Solution: Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, is a leading provider of services that put essential business information in the hands of busy executives. To ensure that the company's sales personnel have access to pertinent internal data, Factiva moved internal data from its geographically dispersed branch offices to a central...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Factiva, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Peer To Peer (P2P), Sales, Internet; Case studies 2005-10-01
Deriving Order From Chaos: The Benefits of an Information Integration Strategy - A Guide to Help IT Develop a Successful Information Strategy for the Enterprise: Disconnected departmental knowledge systems make it difficult for employees to find the information they need to make critical decisions. Marketing portals, CRMs, financial tracking systems and collaboration solutions are important tools, yet if they cannot act in concert, valuable information relationships remain undiscovered. How can a workforce share, collaborate and...; Tags: Solution, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Information Technology, Information Integration, Benefit, Factiva, Strategy, Portals, Management, Internet; White papers 2004-09-22
Factiva Case Study: Altria Group, Inc.: Altria Group, Inc. is the parent company of Kraft Foods, Philip Morris International, and Philip Morris USA. Altria Corporate Services, Inc. selected Factiva to build a global content repository to provide global news and business information for approximately 50,000 employees worldwide. Factiva's Client Solutions created a customized enterprise-wide solution based...; Tags: Factiva, Altria Group Inc.; Case studies
Factiva Case Study: CH2M HILL: CH2M HILL is a full-service firm that helps clients plan, design, build and operate public and private facilities, infrastructure, and systems worldwide. Because the firm's diverse product offering is a combination of engineering, scientific and management consulting services and technologies, CH2M HILL recognizes the importance of having global, current business...; Tags: Factiva, CH2M HILL, Portals, Strategy, Outsourcing, Internet, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; Case studies

Factiva Case Study: Ford Motor Company: Ford Motor Company is a household name on a global scale. Ford's Research Library and Information Services, or RLIS (pronounced 'Arlis') is the heart of Ford's research community. Ford is a significant, long-standing Factiva client. Until recently, the Research Library had been using Dow Jones Interactive, one of Factiva's legacy...; Tags: Factiva, Ford Motor Co.; Case studies
Factiva Case Study: KAPLAN: Kaplan, Inc., headquartered in New York City, with locations in the U.S. and abroad, is one of the world's leading providers of lifelong education. Prior to the Factiva engagement, media monitoring for Kaplan was a manual, time-consuming process. Corporate Communications recognized the need to streamline the delivery of news into...; Tags: Factiva; Case studies
Factiva & Lois Paul & Partners: A Case Study: Lois Paul & Partners creates and expands market leadership for a variety of companies - established and emerging, private and public - through its unique Speed to Leadership approach. LP&P employees faced the challenge of sharing information across teams and across the organization and successful collaboration with their clients. To...; Tags: Factiva, Lois Paul & Partners, Leadership, Management; Case studies
Global Company With Business Pedigree Makes Strategic Storage Choice for the Future: Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, is a leading provider of global news and business information services. With content pouring in from nearly 8,000 global sources (encompassing more than 100,000 articles per day), it has a familiar challenge: how to design a storage infrastructure to accommodate continual growth. In...; Tags: StorageTek, Factiva, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware; Case studies

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Productivity software as games?: In a thinly veiled swipe at Microsoft, Sam Lawrence, CMO at Jive Software challenges readers to question why productivity software is so clunky: Shouldn't productivity software make us want to work? I mean, it's goal is to make us and our company more productive. Given that, the most goal-oriented...; Tags: Software, Problem, Enterprise, Productivity Software, Sam Lawrence, Social Networking, Tools & Techniques, Games, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-03-04
Silobreaker pitches 'insight as a service': Silobreaker offers a new twist on news aggregation and search navigation. The free service, which was introduced at Demo 08, offers several views of news, with more than 20,000 data sources (including news sites,blogs, and research institutions) poured into the index. The company claims that it provides...; Tags: Business Model, Service, Silobreaker, Trends, Productivity, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-30
Google News Archive Search released today: The Google [News] Archive Search was launched today -- it is a service similar to the one I predicted after some domains were registered by the company last Friday. I originally though the service would allow users to look into the history of the web like the WayBackMachine, but...; Tags: SEARCH, Google News, Google Inc., Web; Blog posts 2006-09-06
Is Google News Archive Search really the latest Google information revolution?: Google's expansion of its news search index to include "old" news stories is being announced by Google with its usual bluster claiming benevolent knowledge creation and access for users and no-fee customer generation for content owners.Google puts forth any incremental product or service enhancement as just one more step in...; Tags: Google Inc.; Blog posts 2006-09-06
Yellowikis - A Case Study of a Web 2.0 Business, Part 1: Continuing my series on disruptive Web 2.0 businesses, Yellowikis is an open business listings site that has the potential to shake up the Yellow Pages industry. What Wikipedia is to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Yellowikis may be to Business listings. In an email interview, Yellowikis founder Paul Youlten explained...; Tags: Yellowikis, Paul; Blog posts 2005-11-14
HP Proliant blade server cuts cost and complexity: HP ProLiant blade servers cut cost and complexity Read how Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company uses HP ProLiant BL20p G2 blade servers to improve overall performance and at the same time reduce the expense and time deploying and supporting new servers; Tags: Blade Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, HP Compaq ProLiant, Blade Servers, Servers, Utility Computing, Hardware; White papers 2004-04-19