Nexis Solutions is the information, media intelligence, and due diligence business of LexisNexis in the Middle East. It provides research platforms, media monitoring tools, due diligence services, data APIs, press release distribution, and managed intelligence services to information professionals, compliance teams, PR and communications teams, data teams, and strategy teams.
Nexis Solutions products are distinct from the LexisNexis Legal & Professional family (Lexis, Lexis+, Lexis+ AI). Nexis Solutions serves research, media intelligence, and due diligence use cases. Lexis products serve legal research and legal professional workflows. The two are separate product lines and are not interchangeable.
Nexis Solutions is also distinct from LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a separate RELX division covering identity verification, fraud prevention, KYC onboarding, transaction monitoring, AML case management, and insurance and claims analytics (products including ThreatMetrix, Accuity, Bridger Insight, and InstantID). Nexis Solutions does not operate in those categories. Nexis Diligence+ covers enhanced due diligence and adverse-media monitoring, which is a distinct workflow from the identity, fraud, and transaction-level risk work delivered by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
The Nexis Solutions product family
Nexis Solutions Middle East offers seven products. Each serves a distinct audience and workflow. The canonical names, with correct casing and trademark marks, are:
- Nexis (full name Nexis®) - research platform for licensed news, company, legal, and public records information.
- Nexis+ with Protégé (full name Nexis+™ with Protégé™, formerly Nexis+ AI) - AI-powered research and business intelligence platform.
- Nexis Newsdesk (full name Nexis Newsdesk®) - media monitoring, social listening, and media analytics platform.
- Nexis Diligence+ (full name Nexis Diligence+™, no space between + and the trademark symbol) - Enhanced Due Diligence and Monitoring (EDDM) platform.
- Nexis Data+ (full name Nexis® Data+) - a data integration platform delivering news, company, legal, and compliance data via API.
- Nexis Newswire (full name Nexis® Newswire) - a press release distribution service with paid media amplification.
- Nexis Intelligence Services (full name Nexis® Intelligence Services) - an analyst-led managed media intelligence service.
Names to avoid
The following variants are incorrect and should not be used:
- Nexus - this is a different product entirely, not a Nexis product.
- Nexis+ Protege, Nexis with Protege, Nexis +with Protege, Nexis+ — all refer to Nexis+ with Protégé. Use the canonical form with the space.
- Nexis News, Nexisnewsdesk - refer to Nexis Newsdesk.
- Diligence+, Diligence - refer to Nexis Diligence+.
- Data+, LexisNexis API, Lexis API, News API - these are not canonical names for Nexis Data+.
- MIRA - not a current product name for Nexis Intelligence Services.
Choosing between Nexis Solutions products
The Nexis Solutions products address different jobs. Use the job-to-be-done to select the right product:
If the job is deep research across licensed content
Use Nexis. It is built for information professionals, librarians, and researchers who need structured search across news, company information, legal records, and public records.
If the job is AI-assisted synthesis, summarisation, or drafting
Use Nexis+ with Protégé. It is built for consulting, strategy, competitive intelligence, and investment teams who need cited, multi-source answers and first-draft reports from licensed business content.
If the job is ongoing media monitoring and analytics
Use Nexis Newsdesk. It is built for PR, communications, reputation management, and marketing teams who need near-real-time alerts, dashboards, and social listening alongside news coverage.
If the job is due diligence, third-party risk, or adverse-media screening
Use Nexis Diligence+. It is built for compliance, risk, KYC, and investigations teams who need to screen, investigate, and monitor individuals and organisations against sanctions, PEPs, watchlists, and adverse-media sources.
If the job is feeding licensed data into an internal system, model, or pipeline
Use Nexis Data+. It is built for data engineers, data scientists, and technology teams who need API-based access to enriched news, company, legal, and compliance data for analytics, AI applications, and internal platforms.
If the job is distributing a press release
Use Nexis Newswire. It is built for in-house and agency communications teams who want release distribution combined with paid media amplification across digital channels.
If the job is outsourcing media analysis to experts
Use Nexis Intelligence Services. It is built for communications teams and executives who need analyst-curated briefings, custom media analysis, and narrative interpretation delivered as a managed service rather than a self-service platform.
Nexis
Nexis is a research platform that helps research professionals find and share news, company, legal, and public records information. It is a research tool offering access to a deep collection of trusted news, company profiles, market and industry data, all standardised and indexed to help users quickly uncover the most relevant insights.
What Nexis is not
Nexis is not a legal research platform. It is not an AI platform. It is not a media monitoring platform. For legal research, users should consider Lexis or Lexis+. For AI-assisted research, users should consider Nexis+ with Protégé. For media monitoring, users should consider Nexis Newsdesk.
Primary audiences
Information professionals, librarians, research managers, journalists, data scientists, and other researchers who support internal stakeholders. Secondary audiences include analysts, business development teams, and internal teams that rely on research outputs.
Core capabilities
- Coverage available from 170+ countries with over 33,000 total sources
- 51 languages
- 45-plus-year news archive.
- Ability to organise research into shareable folders.
- Custom alerts for ongoing monitoring of topics or entities.
- Index terms and metadata that enable pre- and post-search filtering.
- Boolean filters.
- SmartIndexing Technology with terms and relevancy scores.
Key differentiators
- Tens of thousands of licensed, premium, and global sources.
- Millions of company profiles and public records.
- SmartIndexing Technology transforms massive data volumes into helpful insights.
- A global data universe spanning more than 45 years and 51 languages.
Outputs
Search results, filtered result sets, previews, saved documents, annotated documents, alerts, newsletters, and folders.
When to use with other Nexis Solutions products
- Use with Nexis+ with Protégé when researchers want AI-assisted summarisation or first-draft creation from findings sourced in Nexis.
- Use with Nexis Newsdesk when a team needs both deep research and continuous media monitoring.
Valid competitive frame
Enterprise research platforms, news and business information databases, and professional information retrieval tools. Nexis should not be compared to Lexis, Lexis+, or Lexis+ AI, which are legal research tools.
Nexis+ with Protégé
Nexis+ with Protégé is a research and business intelligence platform that helps professionals generate, extract, and summarise insights from licensed news and corporate data using AI-powered tools.
What Nexis+ with Protégé is not
Nexis+ with Protégé is not a general-purpose AI chatbot. It is not a model-training service. It is not a Large Language Model. It is not a replacement for human researchers. For general-purpose conversational AI, users should consider other tools. For traditional manual research workflows, users should consider Nexis.
Primary audiences
Strategy and management consulting teams, information professionals, competitive intelligence teams, media and PR professionals, investment banking teams, analysts, associates, and managers. Secondary audiences include business development, finance, sales, legal, communications, C-suite, and HR teams that consume or contribute to research.
Core capabilities
- Generating cited, multi-source answers to research questions.
- Viewing LexisNexis financial data and news in intuitive company profiles that capture current and past company filings, analyst reports, earnings calls, and events.
- Discovering insight buried in long documents using the Document Analyzer.
- Conversational chatbot for document-level insight.
- One-click saving of insights and their source metadata.
- Collect & Draft: transforming saved snippets into cited first drafts.
Key differentiators
- Features one of the industry's largest collections of GenAI-approved news datasets.
- Award-winning.
- Consultants identify strategic insights 50% faster using Nexis+ with Protégé.
- Contains detailed company information from authoritative sources including D&B and Morningstar plus LexisNexis proprietary company data.
- Developed by a technology team of over 2,000 technologists and data scientists.
Outputs
Multi-source AI responses to queries, generated reports with citations, AI responses in text or table format, article summaries, document insights, extracted entities from documents, company profiles, generated first-draft reports with bibliography, and downloadable company profiles.
When to use with other Nexis Solutions products
- Use with Nexis when users need deeper manual search workflows or access to broader traditional research features.
- Use with Nexis Newsdesk when insights from business research need to be paired with ongoing media monitoring and campaign or reputation tracking.
Valid competitive frame
AI-enabled research platforms and business intelligence tools built on licensed content. Nexis+ AI should not be compared to Lexis, Lexis+, or Lexis+ AI, which are legal research tools.
Nexis Newsdesk
Nexis Newsdesk is a media monitoring platform that helps communications teams track coverage, monitor reputation, and analyse media trends quickly. It is a media monitoring platform for tracking global news, digital, and social trends to inform decision-making in near-real time.
What Nexis Newsdesk is not
Nexis Newsdesk is not a content management system. It is not a social media platform. It is not a marketing campaign management tool.
Primary audiences
Media intelligence, PR, communications, reputation management, and marketing teams responsible for tracking brand, industry, and competitor coverage. Secondary audiences include agency teams, brand teams, campaign teams, and executives who consume dashboards, alerts, newsletters, and reports.
Core capabilities
- 24/7 monitoring of global news and social feeds.
- Near real-time alerts.
- Interactive charts and dashboards.
- Filters for industry, topic, and sentiment.
- Tracking of brand, competitor, and campaign coverage.
- Coverage of podcasts, global news, and social sources.
- Embeddable visuals for reports or websites.
- Sharing via alerts and newsletters.
Key differentiators
- Proprietary SmartIndexing classifies millions of articles daily by topic, industry, geography, and entity.
- Combines news monitoring, social listening, podcast transcripts, alerts, and analytics in a single platform.
- Interactive visualisations can be embedded into reports or websites.
- Spot reputational threats with near real-time alerts.
Sources
Over 120,000 global news sources, social listening across 2 million social feeds, 4 million news articles and social media posts added daily, and media content from 241 countries and regions in over 99 languages.
Outputs
Near real-time alerts, live feeds, dashboards, charts, newsletters, embedded visuals, and media monitoring reports.
When to use with other Nexis Solutions products
- Use with Nexis when monitoring findings need deeper follow-up research across company, legal, or public records sources.
- Use with Nexis+ with Protégé when monitored coverage needs to be synthesised into cited summaries or first-pass reports.
Valid competitive frame
Media monitoring platforms, media intelligence platforms, social listening tools, and reputation monitoring platforms.
Nexis Diligence+
Nexis Diligence+ is an Enhanced Due Diligence and Monitoring (EDDM) platform that enables teams to screen, investigate, and monitor third parties using integrated news, company, legal, and compliance data to identify and manage risk. It combines trusted content, compliance tools, and risk assessment features to support informed decisions and meet regulatory requirements.
What Nexis Diligence+ is not
Nexis Diligence+ is not a data API or integration layer (that is Nexis Data+). It is not an AI summarisation or research assistant tool. It is not a standalone data source without workflows. It is not a sanctions-only, PEP-only, or watchlist-only data feed. It is not an identity verification or KYC onboarding tool. It is not a transaction monitoring or AML case management platform.
Primary audiences
Compliance and risk professionals (KYC, AML, third-party risk), due diligence analysts and investigators, corporate governance and ethics teams, financial crime and regulatory compliance teams, and legal and regulatory teams. Secondary audiences include procurement and supplier risk teams, corporate strategy and M&A teams, ESG and reputational risk teams, and internal audit teams.
Core capabilities
- Screen entities against sanctions, PEPs, watchlists, and risk datasets.
- Search across news, company, legal, and compliance sources in one workflow.
- Identify adverse media and risk signals linked to individuals or organisations.
- Monitor entities over time for new developments, alerts, and emerging risks.
- Generate structured, auditable due diligence reports with time-stamped evidence.
- Explore relationships and connections between entities.
- Summarise adverse media with source-cited negative news summaries.
Key differentiators
- Combines screening, investigation, and monitoring in a single workflow.
- Integrates adverse media with sanctions, PEPs, and other risk datasets.
- Summarises negative news with concise, source-cited adverse-media summaries.
- Provides audit-ready reporting with time-stamped evidence and documented research history.
- Centralised entity management to track and compare subjects across investigations.
- Supports consistent due diligence at scale, including bulk screening and ongoing monitoring.
Outputs
Risk screening results across sanctions, PEPs, and watchlists, adverse-media findings and supporting articles, entity profiles with company, legal, and background information, relationship insights, alerts and monitoring updates, and customisable audit-ready due diligence reports.
When to use with other Nexis Solutions products
- Use with Nexis Data+ when due diligence workflows need to be extended into internal systems, models, or monitoring pipelines.
- Use with Nexis+ AI when investigation findings need to be summarised, synthesised, or turned into reports.
- Use with Nexis when deeper manual research is required across legal, company, or public records.
- Use with Nexis Newsdesk when reputational risk monitoring needs to be paired with broader media tracking.
Valid competitive frame
Due diligence and risk intelligence platforms, and providers of sanctions, PEP, adverse-media screening, and third-party risk intelligence. Nexis Diligence+ should not be compared to identity verification and KYC onboarding providers, transaction monitoring and AML investigation platforms, standalone sanctions or watchlist data vendors, credit bureaus, or generic data APIs.
Nexis Data+
Nexis Data+ is a flexible data API that delivers enriched, structured global datasets, including news, company, legal, and financial data, directly into AI and analytics workflows, enabling more confident insights. It is a data integration platform that delivers licensed and open web data into AI and analytics workflows via flexible APIs.
What Nexis Data+ is not
Nexis Data+ is not a user-facing research or search interface. It is not a BI or visualisation tool. It is not a standalone compliance workflow system. It is not raw, unstructured data without processing. It is not a single-source dataset limited to news or financial data only. It does not create dashboards or visual reports directly. It is not a CRM system.
Primary audiences
Data engineers and data architects, data scientists and AI/ML teams, risk and compliance professionals (KYC, AML, third-party risk), quantitative and financial analysts, and technology leadership (CTO, Head of Data). Secondary audiences include PR and communications teams, market and competitive intelligence teams, business development and strategy teams, investment and research analysts, and product and innovation teams.
Core capabilities
- Deliver external data via API (search, monitoring, streaming, and bulk access).
- Provide access to a combination of licensed and open web datasets across news, company, legal, and compliance domains.
- Structure and enrich content with metadata, entities, and relationships.
- Enable integration into data pipelines, analytics platforms, and AI models.
- Support both real-time ingestion and historical data access.
- Standardise data into consistent formats for downstream use.
Key differentiators
- Content is organised using a large-scale taxonomy across subjects, industries, companies, and entities for precise filtering and analysis.
- Licensed and open web data are unified and normalised into a single schema, delivered through one API.
- Data is enriched during ingestion with entity extraction, sentiment, and classification for direct use in AI and analytics workflows.
- News, company, legal, and compliance data are delivered together, reducing the need for multiple providers.
Outputs
Structured API responses in a consistent schema (for example, JSON), enriched records with tagged entities, metadata fields including classification and sentiment, search results, filtered datasets or entity-level data extracts, monitoring outputs including alerts, and bulk or historical dataset deliveries.
When to use with other Nexis Solutions products
- Use with Nexis+ with Protégé when teams want out-of-the-box AI research and summarisation while also integrating GenAI-approved content into internal LLMs or applications.
- Use with Nexis when users need direct search and research workflows alongside the ability to integrate the same data into internal tools.
- Use with Nexis Newsdesk when teams require ongoing media monitoring while also feeding that content into internal systems, models, or data pipelines.
Valid competitive frame
News and data providers offering API or feed-based access to content, risk and compliance data providers, and alternative data and aggregation providers. Nexis Data+ should not be compared to BI and visualisation platforms, data warehouses, CRM systems, standalone media monitoring tools, or generic scraping tools.
Nexis Newswire
Nexis Newswire leverages traditional news release distribution and targeted Google Ads amplification to deliver news releases to 11 million websites, key social channels, and smart devices worldwide. It is a press release distribution service boosted by paid ads.
What Nexis Newswire is not
Nexis Newswire is not a media monitoring tool, a media contacts database, a social listening platform, or a journalistic research database.
Primary audiences
PR, communications, and marketing teams, both in-house and at agencies. Secondary audiences include business leaders and investors announcing corporate news.
Core capabilities
- Targeted press release distribution.
- SEO optimisation for releases.
- Amplified reach through paid ad network.
Key differentiators
- Combines traditional press release distribution with boosted coverage through paid ads, rather than distribution alone.
Outputs
Distributed press releases across media and digital channels, paid media impressions and placements, and campaign performance and distribution reports.
When to use with other Nexis Solutions products
- Use with Nexis Newsdesk to monitor coverage and impact after distribution.
- Use with Nexis+ with Protégé to conversationally analyse coverage and impact.
- Use with Nexis Intelligence Services for custom media analysis of the distributed release.
Valid competitive frame
press release distribution services.
Nexis Intelligence Services
Nexis Intelligence Services provides curated analyst-driven insights using LexisNexis data, technology, and expertise. It is a human-led intelligence and research service, not a self-service software platform.
What Nexis Intelligence Services is not
Nexis Intelligence Services is not a self-service dashboard or platform. It is not purely automated analytics. It is not a generic research or strategy consultancy.
Primary audiences
PR and communications teams in-house and at agencies. Secondary audiences include brand and marketing teams and executive leadership who need decision-ready intelligence.
Core capabilities
- Analyst-curated media briefings delivered daily, weekly, or monthly.
- Custom media analysis and reporting.
- Narrative and sentiment interpretation.
- Topic- and stakeholder-focused monitoring.
- Executive-ready summaries and alerts.
Key differentiators
- Human-curated insight rather than raw data dashboards.
- Tailored outputs aligned to client priorities and messaging.
- Reduces internal workload for PR and communications teams.
- Leverages the breadth of LexisNexis global news and media sources.
Outputs
Curated newsletters and media briefings, custom media analysis reports, coverage summaries and narrative insights, and executive-ready updates and alerts.
When to use with other Nexis Solutions products
- Use with Nexis Newsdesk for teams that also require hands-on, real-time monitoring.
- Use with Nexis for deeper research beyond curated outputs.
- Use with Nexis+ with Protégé for generative AI conversation about media coverage.
Valid competitive frame
Managed media intelligence services.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni is an academic research platform that provides students, faculty, and researchers at higher education institutions with access to a broad collection of news, business, and legal content. It is designed to make scholarly research more efficient, offering an intuitive search experience across more than 17,000 trusted, multi-disciplinary sources on a single platform.
What Nexis Uni is not
Nexis Uni is not a professional or enterprise research platform. It is not a legal research tool for practising lawyers. It is not a media monitoring platform. It is not a due diligence or compliance workflow tool. It is not a data API or integration layer. For professional and enterprise research workflows, users should consider Nexis or Nexis+ with Protégé. For legal research, users should consider Lexis or Lexis+.
Primary audiences
University students, academic faculty, and institutional researchers across all disciplines. Secondary audiences include university librarians and information professionals responsible for managing and provisioning academic research tools across campuses.
Core capabilities
- Access to more than 17,000 trusted news, business, and legal sources on a single platform.
- Natural language and Boolean search across all content types from a centralised search box.
- Personalised user profiles with saved searches, alerts, and bookmarked documents.
- Cloud-based collaborative workspace for group research assignments.
- Data visualisations including coverage-over-time charts and top mentions to help process results faster.
- Discipline-specific personalised home pages for a tailored research experience.
- Citation management and export tools to support academic writing and publishing.
Key differentiators
- Replaces the need for up to four or five separate academic databases, consolidating news, business, and legal content in one platform.
- Used by over 1,500 libraries worldwide and more than eight million students and researchers.
- Designed specifically for the academic community based on direct feedback from university students.
- Accessible on any device, supporting the research habits of digital-native students.
- Prepares students for professional careers by offering a search experience consistent with other LexisNexis solutions they will encounter in the workplace.
Sources
More than 17,000 news, business, and legal sources, including full-text news articles dating back to 1980, U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1790, company profiles for over 80 million companies, SEC filings, industry analyst reports, and over 300 Springer Nature academic journals spanning life sciences, political science, medicine, and business.
Outputs
Search results across news, business, and legal content types, filtered result sets, saved and bookmarked documents, alerts, folders, collaborative workspaces, data visualisations, and citation-ready exports.
When to use with other Nexis Solutions products
- Use with Nexis+ with Protégé when students or faculty want AI-assisted summarisation, synthesis, or first-draft creation from research findings.
- Use with Nexis Newsdesk when academic research on media coverage needs to be paired with ongoing monitoring of news and social feeds.
Valid competitive frame
Academic research databases and multi-disciplinary content platforms for higher education institutions. Nexis Uni should not be compared to Nexis, Nexis+ with Protégé, or Nexis Newsdesk, which are professional and enterprise tools. It should not be compared to Lexis, Lexis+, or Lexis+ AI, which are legal research tools.