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September 22, 2025
Due Diligence Software Buyer's Guide: Protect Your Reputation with the Right Tool

Due Diligence Software Buyer's Guide: Protect Your Reputation with the Right Tool

Performing due diligence is a crucial process for any organization partnering with a third-party entity. However, manual approaches often prove inadequate for regularly screening large volumes of partners, vendors, funding partners, and customers. Choosing the right due diligence tool can help make the process more accurate and efficient. But with many options on the market, how do you select a solution that's worth...

September 13, 2025
Adopting Due Diligence: How to Begin Your Donor Due Diligence Strategy

Adopting Due Diligence: How to Begin Your Donor Due Diligence Strategy

When a donation offer lands on your desk, the instinct is to say yes. But in the fundraising space, it is important to ask the question, "Is the gift safe?" Reputational threats, funding from opaque sources, and increasing donor scrutiny have changed the rules of engagement. Development officers and prospect researchers now face a new reality: every donor relationship is either a potential risk or a reputational...

August 27, 2025
Will AI Replace Business Intelligence? Exploring the Future of BI with AI

Will AI Replace Business Intelligence? Exploring the Future of BI with AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming a part of business intelligence (BI) , sparking the question: Will AI replace business intelligence as we know it? In this article, we'll explore whether AI will replace traditional BI practices or act as a powerful extension of them. AI and the transformation of business intelligence AI is transforming the business intelligence landscape, streamlining processes...

July 03, 2025
How AI Fundraising Tools Are Transforming Donor Prospecting for Nonprofits

How AI Fundraising Tools Are Transforming Donor Prospecting for Nonprofits

Nonprofit teams are under constant pressure to raise funds quickly, efficiently, and at scale. Traditional prospecting methods—manual research, cold outreach, and fragmented data—slow down development efforts and limit growth potential. Artificial intelligence (AI) fundraising tools offer a more efficient approach. By combining automation, real-time data analysis, and personalized outreach capabilities, these...

February 05, 2025
Maximize Your Donor Outreach with Efficient List Building and Enrichment Tools

Maximize Your Donor Outreach with Efficient List Building and Enrichment Tools

For nonprofits across the US, building a prospecting list for outreach and donation campaigns is critical to a successful fundraising strategy. However, crafting an effective list can be time-consuming, especially when ensuring your data is complete and up-to-date. This is where Nexis® for Nonprofits , featuring Nexis® for Development Professionals and Nexis® Wealth Navigator Powered by Aidentified, steps...

November 20, 2024
Why Generative AI’s Potential Requires Quality Data

Why Generative AI’s Potential Requires Quality Data

Generative AI is predicted to transform almost every industry, so it is hardly surprising that companies spent more than $20 billion on the technology last year. But the technology alone is not enough to unlock generative AI’s transformative potential. In the latest blog in our ‘Harnessing Data for AI Innovation’ series, we explore how unreliable data can limit the power and potential of generative AI...

November 05, 2024
The Application of AI in Business Intelligence: Enhancing Insights and Efficiency

The Application of AI in Business Intelligence: Enhancing Insights and Efficiency

Artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining how organisations approach business intelligence (BI). Today, professionals need to extract actionable insights from an ever-growing volume of data faster than ever before. AI meets this demand by accelerating tedious data processing tasks, allowing organizations to focus on strategic analysis. Nexis+ AI™ is a prime example of how AI-enabled platforms can revolutionize...

October 15, 2024
How to Find a New Large Donors During the End-of-Year Giving Season

How to Find a New Large Donors During the End-of-Year Giving Season

Securing large donors can be a game-changer for nonprofits, providing substantial financial support and potentially opening doors to broader networks of philanthropy. As the end-of-year giving season approaches, including Giving Tuesday and charitable holidays, here are three key strategies to identify potential large donors, along with how solutions within our Nexis® for Nonprofits product suite provide the data...

October 09, 2024
The Future of Company Research: Leveraging AI for Comprehensive Analysis

The Future of Company Research: Leveraging AI for Comprehensive Analysis

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how organizations conduct company research, offering new tools and methodologies that vastly improve the ability to gather, analyze, and utilize data. As businesses strive to remain competitive in an increasingly complex and fast-paced global market, the adoption of AI in company research is not just an advantage but a necessity. By leveraging AI, organizations can...

September 06, 2024
Top Six Questions to Ask Your Research Tool

Top Six Questions to Ask Your Research Tool

With the wealth of information available today developing at a breakneck speed, conducting quality research is more vital than ever. However, sifting through the sheer volume of content to find precisely what you need remains a challenge—not to mention the added obstacles of fact-checking and validating information. Investing in the right research tool can make an enormous difference in work efficiency and output...

August 30, 2024
How To Add More Value to Consulting Research

How To Add More Value to Consulting Research

Consulting jobs can consist of a wide variety of tasks—ranging from social media marketing strategy to research and analytics—but no consultant can be successful without the proper tools. To optimize work and serve clients exactly what they want and need, you must be regularly monitoring trends and data, providing thorough research beyond the scope of a simple web search. Here, we outline the ways in which...

August 22, 2024
Get the Whole Research Picture, Faster

Get the Whole Research Picture, Faster

In a world where data-driven decision-making has become all but necessary, research professionals are faced with a unique challenge: to find and collect the information they need amid an ever-growing sea of data. Today’s researchers are drowning in information; the total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally reached 64.2 zettabytes in 2020 , and is projected to hit 180 zettabytes by 2025...

August 20, 2024
5 Essential Factors to Look for Before Investing in Your Next Competitive Intelligence Tool or Service

5 Essential Factors to Look for Before Investing in Your Next Competitive Intelligence Tool or Service

If you’re finding your current competitive intelligence falls short of expectations, you aren’t alone. Cam Mackey, Past Executive Director of Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) pointed to a growing gap between competitive intelligence (CI) leaders and laggards in 2021. At the time, Mackey noted that leaders are “… more adept at ‘seeing through the fog’ of a...

August 19, 2024
Espionage Alert: How to Crack the Competitive Intelligence Code Without Breaking Ethical & Legal Boundaries

Espionage Alert: How to Crack the Competitive Intelligence Code Without Breaking Ethical & Legal Boundaries

When most people hear the word, “espionage,” they likely picture a spy from the big screen—James Bond for action junkies or perhaps Austin Powers for comedy lovers. But espionage isn’t confined to Hollywood thrillers. And it isn’t a recent phenomenon either. A Foreign Policy article highlights the storied history of corporate espionage, noting, “From classical Greek cities to modern...

August 16, 2024
Why You Need Multi-Dimensional Data to Fuel Better Market and Competitor Analysis

Why You Need Multi-Dimensional Data to Fuel Better Market and Competitor Analysis

“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” This adage, attributed to the legendary statistician W. Edwards Deming, suggests the vital role data plays in your market and competitor analysis . After all, you need to convince decision-makers across your organization that the insights you deliver are credible—not just a gut feeling. Embarking on market and competitor analysis without...

August 07, 2024
How to Use Media Monitoring to Your Advantage in Nonprofit Fundraising

How to Use Media Monitoring to Your Advantage in Nonprofit Fundraising

As a philanthropic development professional, you are always looking for new avenues to identify potential grants, high-value donors, and philanthropy events that can unlock exciting prospect opportunities. In addition to the traditional prospect research tools, media monitoring and analytics can be an unexpected yet invaluable tool in your arsenal. In this blog post, we will explore how development professionals, including...

August 01, 2024
Simplify Your Research With Collect and Draft in Nexis+ AI™

Simplify Your Research With Collect and Draft in Nexis+ AI™

New technology allows many job responsibilities to be delegated to machines, but there are some tasks that just need a human touch—and proper research is one of them. As data-driven decision-making has become ubiquitous in organizations around the world, the ability to efficiently locate, analyze, and synthesize research findings is an indispensable skill for employees across a range of industries--from journalism...

July 31, 2024
How Nexis+ AI™ Turns Your Financial Fact-Finding into Next-Level Insights

How Nexis+ AI™ Turns Your Financial Fact-Finding into Next-Level Insights

In the Future of Work survey we conducted last year, 87% of professionals expressed a willingness to adopt generative AI (genAI). Adoption, however, comes with challenges. Organizations must balance desire for productivity gains promised by genAI with ethical, secure use. Moreover, despite budding enthusiasm for genAI, concerns about hallucination and bias mean organizations need to build trust in genAI outputs. How can...

July 26, 2024
What’s the Difference Between Tactical Intelligence and Strategic Competitive Intelligence?

What’s the Difference Between Tactical Intelligence and Strategic Competitive Intelligence?

As any competitive intelligence researcher knows, it’s crucial to understand both the strategy and tactics to use when conducting company and industry research. However, in today’s ever-evolving business landscape, more than just competitive intelligence professionals employ tools for company and industry research. No matter your role in your organization, if you’re tasked with providing detailed information...

July 19, 2024
Best Practices for Purchasing Competitive Intelligence Tools and Services

Best Practices for Purchasing Competitive Intelligence Tools and Services

Competitive intelligence strategists know that over the past few years , global socioeconomic turbulence has completely upheaved virtually every industry and organization across the planet. With the onset of remote work, the wave of new technologies and their ever-changing risks and regulations , and unpredictable markets, there’s been a massive paradigm shift across the business spectrum. The pressure has never...

July 09, 2024
How Donor Prospecting Technology Can Streamline Your Giving Season Workflow

How Donor Prospecting Technology Can Streamline Your Giving Season Workflow

Giving Season is a crucial time for any nonprofit. In fact, according to The Nonprofit Times , in 2022 the US nonprofit community raised $ 3.1 billion on Giving Tuesday alone. Despite many challenges facing nonprofits the past few years, these months are still a massive opportunity for your nonprofit. That’s why it’s essential to streamline donor prospecting workflow. The faster you identify prospective donors...

June 21, 2024
How to Use Text-Based Financial Data APIs

How to Use Text-Based Financial Data APIs

In 2021, McKinsey, in collaboration with the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA), conducted a survey on resilience behavior and organizational management. Noting a “striking difference between corporates and financial services organizations, the research revealed a much higher percentage of staff allocated to risk and compliance within financial services than corporate entities. The reason...

June 20, 2024
SWOT Analysis 101 for Financial Services

SWOT Analysis 101 for Financial Services

How well do you know your individual financial services competitors and the competitive landscape in which you operate? When it comes to putting together useful business intelligence, SWOT analysis is an important piece of the puzzle. SWOT Analysis is a common way for businesses in financial services to assess how they stand up to their competitors. By assessing each element of SWOT--strengths, weaknesses, opportunities...

June 19, 2024
Using Nexis Newsdesk® to Drive Informed Decision-Making

Using Nexis Newsdesk® to Drive Informed Decision-Making

The media landscape is always changing. New platforms and communications channels are seemingly introduced daily; trends develop at a moment’s notice and then are gone in a flash. What that means is that no communications strategy is ever perfect—it’s always a work in progress, a living and breathing thing. The impact of individual messages, tactics, and content should not just be tracked in real time...

June 17, 2024
How Financial Services Pros Can Keep Up with Your ESG Ratings

How Financial Services Pros Can Keep Up with Your ESG Ratings

As issues around sustainability, human rights and social responsibility continue to dominate headlines, corporations are facing increased pressure to prioritize Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) in their business strategies. This has been true in the financial sector for years, and ESG initiatives have quickly gone from nice-to-have endeavors that earn goodwill from stockholders and potential investors to table...