Our latest Content Publisher Spotlight introduces— BBC World Service . Content from the internationally recognized multimedia broadcaster complements the extensive news, company, and legal sources already available in Nexis® . BBC’s award-winning language services deliver a wealth of news, information and analysis. Covering political, social, and cultural issues, science, technology, and sports around...
Gregg Thaler, Director of Strategic ISV Alliances at Adobe, and confessed CRM data quality junkie, has said that “Contact data ages like fish not wine…it gets worse as it gets older, not better.” The quote might earn a few chuckles, but no one can deny the point he’s making. Whether you are depending on B2B contact information to power sales or are gathering competitive intelligence to inform...
When Harvard Business Review surveyed competitive intelligence professionals, 45 percent of respondents said their analysis wasn’t having an impact on major decisions. What’s more, 33 percent said their reports were simply used to “ratify” a course of action that had already been decided on. As a researcher, half the battle is finding the right information to support sound decisions, and the...
If you’re looking to get the most relevant search results from Nexis ® Uni , you’ve come to the right place. Take advantage of our academic search engine’s top features to give your research a boost. Feature #1: Single-click search across all content types Nexis Uni lets you conduct broad searches across all content types. With a single click, you can search the entire Nexis Uni academic database...
If we’ve learned anything in 2020, it’s that we live in an unpredictable, rapidly changing world. As an information professional, your knowledge, and skills—combined with data and emerging technologies—can help you prove AND expand your value to your colleagues or customers. How? That’s the question we asked in our recent SLA webinar—now available on demand. During the hour, we took...
Let’s face it: people—especially millennials— love nostalgia . Just look at the reboots, remakes and repeats that dominate television and cinema to see that consumers find comfort in revisiting the familiar . That’s why we couldn’t resist taking another peek into the Nexis database to look at more headlines that have defined the worldwide human experience through the teen years of the 21...
What a decade it has been. Across the planet, major stories broke in politics, culture business, sports, entertainment and science. Here are just a sampling of some of the news items from the past decade—capturing humanity at its best and its worst¾that garnered attention around the world. (Our apologies if an event that you found particularly heartwarming or heartbreaking isn’t referenced here in this...
As with other areas of business, the “business” of conducting research changed significantly since the advent of the internet. Yet despite the numerous and varied advantages afforded by cloud research platforms, info pros still struggle to achieve research zen—that is, the ability to filter out the noise and focus on the meaningful—because the digital universe grows larger every day. Whether...
The economy has been on a roller coaster the last few years—and that includes in the arena of mergers and acquisitions. But the projected economic downturn doesn’t necessarily mean M&A activity—or the research needed to support M&A deals —will come to a standstill. However, research takes time--and if you're busy negotiating the ever-changing financial environment, you may not have...
1. Cast the widest net possible The most important part of conducting research is having access to the information you need. In real estate, this can range from property records and deeds to news, industry, and company information. Nexis® for Real Estate puts more than 40,000 news and business sources , plus 82+ million public records , at your fingertips. Instead of a time-consuming scavenger hunt across the open...