FreePint Report: Product Review of LexisNexis Company Dossier

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FreePint Report: Product Review of
LexisNexis Company Dossier
September 2014
Product Review of LexisNexis
Company Dossier
In-depth, independent review of the product,
plus links to related resources
“...the service contains information on around 80 million companies
and around 75 million business executives...”
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Contents
Introduction & Contact Details
4
Sources - Content and Coverage
5
Technology - Search, Outputs & Alerts, User Interface & Help
13
Value - Competitors, Development & Pricing
17
FreePint Buyer’s Guide: Company Information
20
Other Products
22
About the Reviewer
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Introduction & Contact Details
Introduction: Company and Product
LexisNexis Company Dossier is part of a suite of company, executive and industry
research services from well-known global information provider LexisNexis.
The service contains information on around 80 million companies and around 75
million business executives. It is sold as a standalone solution or as an add-on to the
company’s main research services, Nexis and Lexis.
Company Dossier is primarily used by researchers and analysts in information-intensive
organisations across a wide range of sectors, including banks, insurance companies
and professional services firms; media clients are also heavy users.
By Chris Porter
View author biography
A sister product, LexisNexis Prospect Portfolio, serves sales and marketing
professionals.
Contact Details
LexisNexis is a global company with headquarters in the US.
LexisNexis
230 Park Avenue, Suite 7
New York, NY 10169
USA
Tel: the primary US sales telephone contact is (US) 1-888-285-3947 or 1-888-AT-LEXIS
Email: Sara.Shaffer@lexisnexis.com
Website: www.lexisnexis.com
Twitter: @LexisNexis
Other contact details worldwide can be accessed via
http://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/contact-us/contact-us.page.
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Sources - Content and Coverage
LexisNexis Company Dossier combines proprietary information (especially legal,
intellectual property and corporate hierarchy information) with content from a wide
range of third-party publishers, including over 60 sources of company, industry and
executive information.
Additionally the service includes aggregated news from over 26,000 English-language
news sources, including titles such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN
and USA Today.
LexisNexis says in total there are around 80 million companies profiled on the service,
of which around 32 million are in the US; quoted companies account for around 35,000
of the total and the remainder are privately owned.
Figures supplied by the vendor indicated that the countries with the largest volume of
country coverage were as follows:
Country
Companies
USA
England
Italy
France
Germany
Argentina
Japan
Netherlands
China
Canada
Spain
Sweden
Brazil
Norway
Belgium
Switzerland
Australia
Denmark
Portugal
Russian Federation
32,318,491
4,644,291
4,459,835
4,299,857
3,948,027
3,005,521
2,902,263
2,388,367
1,974,067
1,822,086
1,692,863
1,338,241
873,830
826,436
724,227
618,326
560,750
557,958
548,025
546,116
Numbers, of course, are subject to change as additional information is added to the
service and as the corporate world evolves.
As is generally the case with company research databases, the vendor combines
information from multiple sources into a single “Company Snapshot” display.
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Sources - Content and Coverage | September 2014
Figure 1: Company Snapshot
Company Snapshot: the Company Snapshot is headed with brief summary
information about the company, augmented for quoted companies with recent stock
quotes in graphical form (sourced from SunGard).
By scrolling down, the user can see further details such as a business description,
yearly financials, top executives and data on the company’s auditor, legal counsel and
board of directors.
Again as is classic in this kind of service, links to the left take the user to more detailed
information such as brands, competitors, relevant news, further financials or relevant
legal or intellectual property coverage.
The level of information available will vary depending on the location of the company
and of course whether or not it is publicly quoted.
The Morningstar Institutional Database is the main source of quoted-company
financial data, though for some countries other providers are also used, such as ICC,
Worldscope and Reuters Knowledge Direct.
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D&B and LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations are the primary providers for private
companies, though again additional detail may be incorporated from other sources
such as national chambers of commerce or other locally based information suppliers for instance Creditreform for Germany, FBR Asian Company Profiles for Asia-Pacific, or
ICC for the UK.
The service seamlessly incorporates more specialised information from other providers
where appropriate.
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For instance, useful quick summaries of recent merger and acquisition activity can
be found from Mergerstat and from the Experian Corpfin database.
Analyst reports come from a range of providers including Zachs, ReportLinker and
GMI Ratings, intermingled with summaries of key corporate events from S&P Daily
News; SWOT analysis of perceived strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
may be available from MarketLine (formerly Datamonitor); and for US companies, there
are links to regulatory filings from the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC).
Legal information is sourced from within LexisNexis, and is focused on recent US,
Canadian, UK, Commonwealth and Irish cases.
Intellectual property information is also sourced from within LexisNexis, with a focus
on recent US, European and Japanese patents, recent US and international trademarks
and US copyright.
Corporate hierarchy information is also proprietary to LexisNexis, coming from the
company’s Corporate Affiliations service. The vendor says this currently covers one
million companies and there is a project in hand which aims to expand coverage.
While the Company Snapshot initially presents an instant view of a company by
pulling together selected data elements from the various sources, it is also possible to
click through to the full original records from the various providers, thereby accessing
further detail not displayed in the snapshot view.
Frequency of Content Updates
The vendor provides a useful PDF document setting out how regularly Dossier
information sources are updated - see the section “Content Update Frequency for
LexisNexis Dossier” at www.lexisnexis.com/bis-user-information/dossier/.
This says, for instance, that Morningstar quoted company financials are updated
weekly, D&B private-company information updates are uploaded quarterly and other
sources at varying frequencies - typically weekly, monthly or quarterly for directorytype information but as often as daily or intraday for more time-sensitive sources.
Users should, of course, expect some elapsed time after a company publishes its
financial figures for the relevant information vendor to update its data records, then
push the changes through to LexisNexis for uploading.
FreePint saw many annual company financials figures which were as up to date as
could be expected, though isolated cases were seen where the annual data made
available by the provider did not yet reflect the latest numbers obtainable (see below
for further examples).
Source Content Detail - Company Financials
Financial information on quoted companies typically includes a good range of income
and balance sheet items plus a quite extensive list of valuation, operation and earnings
ratios, with three years of history.
The screenshot below gives a sample of as-reported annual income for a US-based
quoted company.
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Figure 2: Quoted company financials
On scrolling down, you may be presented with further information from other sources,
depending on data availability - in the case of Microsoft a list of products offered,
then information on major shareholders from Gale Group Company Briefs and the
Vickers Securities Report, and finally further earnings information from Worldscope
International Company Profiles.
Currency: a handy drop-down at key points lets you switch the display between US
dollars, Australian dollars, British pounds, Canadian dollars, Euros, Japanese yen or the
original reported currency, if it is different. Currency conversion rates are loaded to the
system once a month and are applied across all years of financial data, so give a nearcurrent view rather than reflecting historical exchange rates.
Harder to dig out is data on quoted-company performance by business segment or
geographic region; this does not appear to be systematically presented as a separate
set of data. The same is true of quarterly company financials.
Full company profiles: while the Company Snapshot initially presents an instant view
of a company, pulling together key data elements from multiple sources, it is also
possible to click through to the full company profile records from the various providers.
In digging through these more extensive records, you will sometimes light upon data
such as business segment breakdown. For US companies, further levels of detail could
also be found by following the left-hand links to the company’s SEC filings.
For unquoted companies, LexisNexis says it typically provides one year of financial
data where available (though of course in some countries, such as the US and Australia,
published financial information on privately held companies is extremely limited).
However in some cases, local providers will give more history on private companies.
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Example searches: during the review there were some good experiences of searching
on company financials, and some more mixed ones. Large- and mid-cap companies
from around the world were generally well-covered, but odd exceptions were
encountered.
For instance, for NASDAQ-listed US-based insurance data company Verisk Analytics, a
company with annual revenue of almost USD1.6 billion, very limited financials were
found, whereas much smaller Swedish media intelligence vendor Cision, with latest
annual revenue of around USD128 million, benefited from three years of detailed
history.
Searches on small- to mid-cap companies which had gone public over the last year or
two in Japan, India and Australia yielded in one case, one year of revenue history; in
the second case, records of the company only as a private entity, including alternative
records under a previous name which had been changed a couple of years earlier; and
in the third case, no record at all.
Conversely searches on small to medium-sized privately held subsidiary-branch
companies in the Netherlands yielded up to four years of detailed financials,
reflecting the vendor’s particular focus on that area; and searches on UK-based private
companies gave between one and three years of financials, generally with more data
the larger the company.
A search on a German quoted company with around USD20 million of annual revenue
produced one year of very limited top-level financial data; another on a private
German company of similar size brought three years of detailed historical financials.
Source Content Detail - News & Analysis
LexisNexis Company Dossier offers several options for searching news relating to
companies.
From the top left of a company snapshot view, a “Current News” link will bring back a
list of headlines relating to the company in question.
A little further down, the left-hand navigation has an “In The News” section which
allows the user to run more specific news-related searches.
The news archive available within this context stretches back over two years and
focuses on English-language content only.
Users can choose from:
A pre-built list of “Major Publications” - major newspapers, press releases,
magazines, transcripts or legal publications
Or they can invoke a “Topic” search, selecting from business activity, corporate
structure, financial, legal or marketing and product options
Or they can go to the “Region” section, choosing between the five options of
United States; Canada, Central America and Latin America; European; Asia and the
Pacific Rim; or Middle East and Africa.
There is not an option to combine the different kinds of filters at this point or to add
other more precise ones, though the user can drill down within the results screen by
adding free-text terms to their search. Figure 3 shows “Business Activity” news.
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Figure 3: “Business Activity” news
While the topic searching options guide users towards some of the major business
topic areas, there is no direct equivalent to the “business trigger” or “business signal”
event extraction features offered by some other providers. The vendor notes that
triggers are available in its solution aimed at sales and marketing professionals,
Prospect Portfolio.
The company news searching within the company snapshot environment leverages
the LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology categorisation system whenever possible;
the vendor tells FreePint that its news indexing system includes codes for several
hundred thousand companies.
Where a match with a company code is not available, the system will automatically
run a free-text search on the company name, restricting it to the headline and lead
paragraph of new stories in order to guard against irrelevant results.
Those who wish to do more detailed news searching on companies than is possible
within this context have the option of going to the main search screen within the
core Nexis or Lexis products, where they may also be able to search news content
with more advanced search options, such as the ability to search content in multiple
languages, depending on their product subscription.
They will be able to construct complex searches based on the full range of LexisNexis
“SmartIndexing” terms for company, organisation, topic, industry, region and people,
as well as further drilling down within their results set, using the most frequently
occurring index terms relating to the results.
The indexing works across content in English, French and German.
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Once the user is within the Dossier area, the top-level link to the main news searching
area in Nexis or Lexis is no longer visible, so they need to take an extra step to navigate
to the mainstream product.
More detail on that functionality can be found in FreePint’s reviews of the full
LexisNexis product offerings, such as Product Review of Nexis.
Source Content Detail - Executive and Industry Content
While the primary focus of this review is on company information, LexisNexis Dossier
also includes details on executives and industries.
A window towards the right of the main company snapshot gives a list of top
executives, with their name and job title and an icon to launch a search for the profile
on LinkedIn.
There are hyperlinks for each executive’s name; if the user has access to an add-on
Executive Dossier subscription, they will then be taken to a deeper executive profile,
though otherwise they will receive an error message explaining that this area of the
product is not available within their subscription plan.
The hyperlinks to LinkedIn generally worked well, in almost all cases tested going
straight to the correct profile. No links were found to other social networks, such as
Facebook or Twitter.
A “Download Table” link just below the list allows the user to export the list to a
spreadsheet application; the exported table will in some cases also contain email
addresses for the executives concerned.
Additionally in the left-hand navigation of the company snapshot page, there are
options to view a list of executive and professional contacts at the company. These
contacts may include telephone numbers (both switchboard and direct dial if
available) as well as email addresses. LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations, D&B Professional
Contacts and NetProspex are the primary sources of executive contact information.
As FreePint has remarked in reviews of other services of this nature, information on
the contacts associated with a company is a notoriously difficult thing to get right and
to maintain in a timely manner. On random sampling, some good current coverage
was found, though some names listed had in fact moved on from the companies
concerned.
Those who subscribe to the Executive Dossier add-on also benefit from additional
screening functionality, allowing them to create very targeted executive lists based for
instance on particular job profiles in a defined set of regions or even particular cities.
The Prospect Portfolio variant of the service, aimed at sales and marketing
professionals, also contains tools to help users to import leads and prospects into CRM
applications, as well as the business trigger alerts mentioned earlier.
For those who subscribe to the Industry Dossier add-on; additional industry
information and search capabilities are available, via an “Industry” tab in the top-level
navigation bar.
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To search for an industry, the user can enter a full or partial text string in a search box,
insert a two- to four-digit SIC code or browse an SIC industry hierarchy - with the usual
limitations of SIC in terms of granularity and responsiveness to the changing industrial
world.
Once they have selected their industry, they will see an industry overview description
and below it a list of top companies which the system sees as grouped within that
industry by sales.
Figure 4: Industry overview
By scrolling down, the user will also see a set of ratio components for the list of
companies, and share price and trading volume charts.
A “Recent News” link to the top left brings back a list of latest news headlines for the
industry, with the ability to search within the results using free text, as in a company
snapshot.
A “Reports” button also provides access to industry profile reports.
As in other products of this type, the industry snapshots available are for fairly highlevel industry classifications, so the level of usefulness will vary depending how
specific your industry interest is. The range of reports found was not wide, and several
were unexpectedly country-specific rather than global in nature. FreePint’s View: Sources
ü
Wide range of company-related
information sources
ü
Extensive collection of licensed news
sources
ü
ü
Large number of companies covered
ü
Easy access to additional details from
underlying company data sources
Easy-to-use tools for switching currency
units
û
Limited/uneven depth of financial history
for some quoted and unquoted companies.
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Technology - Search, Outputs & Alerts, User Interface & Help
Technology
The LexisNexis Dossier suite is built using the company’s proprietary technology. The
product has been on the market for over a decade and has a common look and feel
with the core LexisNexis research products.
As a general observation, the user interface does the job, though the overall look and
feel are not as fresh as in some other services on the market.
Search and User Interactions
The main starting point for a search in Company Dossier is the “Find a Company” tab.
At its simplest, the user can just enter a free-text search string and hit the search
button; or they can very easily refine the search at this point, using other supported
options including ticker symbol, D&B DUNS number, geographic location and/or type
of company, picking from the options shown below.
Figure 5: Finding a company
On clicking the “Find” button, the searcher is presented with the three most likely
matches, plus an indication of the total number of possible matches and an option to
view a list of all of them.
Once the user clicks on a company name, the snapshot for that company is displayed.
If the system contains only one match for the user’s search string, then the snapshot
record for that company is displayed immediately.
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Technology - Search, Outputs & Alerts, User Interface & Help | September 2014
Alternatively, the user can start with the “Create a Company List” tab - especially useful
for the creation of sales or marketing prospect lists.
This provides additional screening options, notably the ability to filter by company
revenue or employee numbers, by industry (both SIC and NAICS systems are
supported), by postal or ZIP code, or by free text against elements such as business
description, executive name, brands and products or competitors among other
options.
Figure 6: Creating a list
The wide range of filtering options allows you to build a very focused search, quickly
and easily.
After this step, the user is prompted to specify which elements they would like to
include in their results list - for instance, they may choose to see the web address, email
address and phone number but not the fax number, or the sales & revenue numbers
and market capitalisation but not the EPS growth figure.
While the company screening search can generate results sets containing up to
100,000 records, downloads are limited to 3,000 records at a time. Multiple downloads
can be performed to obtain lists with more than 3,000 records.
A search option which impressed FreePint is the “Compare Companies” feature.
Here you can select up to five companies, by entering either a company name or stock
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side data for each company relating to its income statement, assets and liabilities as
well as a ratio analysis. The system automatically calculates the percentage difference
between the numbers for the first company you select and the ones you wish to
compare it with.
Note that the data is presented in numeric form only, as is generally the case in the
service; an export-ready graphical display of the key data could be illuminating here
as at other points, though you can of course export the data into a spreadsheet
program and then generate your own charts using the standard functionality of that
application.
Outputs and Alerts
LexisNexis Company Dossier has several useful output options.
Links enabling you to print, download or email selected articles or reports are
conveniently to hand at the top right of each screen, with various formatting options
including the ability to include a cover page or add a brief note.
When viewing multi-year, multi-column financials for a company, it is possible to select
and copy the data and paste it easily into a spreadsheet.
There are also many points where links are provided to help you download tabular
information into spreadsheet format - for instance in the sections for yearly financials,
top executives and executive changes on the company snapshot page.
The “Custom Report” tool, available low down in the left-hand navigation bar, has very
extensive options to help you specify exactly what items you would like to appear in
your company reports.
Figure 7: The “Custom Report” tool
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There are plentiful points within the product where you can save a search, after which
it becomes available on a “Saved Searches” sub-tab under the “My Research” tab at
the top of the screen; that area also has a handy history page, showing your last 100
searches, so that you can easily re-run them or save them for future use.
There are no alerting options within the Company Dossier area of the service; the
vendor says that users typically take advantage of the alerting options available within
the Nexis and Lexis product areas.
Special Software Functionality
One special feature worth noting is the ability to integrate information directly into an
intranet, portal, wiki, email, document or other internal application by pasting in an
HTML link.
LexisNexis says that any authorised Dossier user in your organisation will then see the
content displayed in context, wherever you have published the content. The reports
update automatically, always providing the most recent information available.
This feature is known as LexisNexis Dossier Publishing Manager, and is available as a
subscription add-on.
There is also a neat feature to allow the user to import lists of companies or executives
into the service, using ticker symbols in a comma-separated values (CSV) format. This is
handy if you already have lists of companies you are tracking, and want a quick way of
recreating those lists within Company Dossier without manually adding them one by
one
Administration and Support
User preference information is accessed from a “Preferences” tab at the top of the
page. Here you can choose to show only headquarter locations in your search results,
limit your results to a particular country or region or a particular company type, will
determine whether to show current news in the company snapshot view.
Each product screen has a “help” questionmark icon to the top right, giving contextsensitive help tips as well as links to an index of help topics and to a LexisNexis Dossier
tutorial; a “Contact” link both here and at the bottom of each screen provides a US
customer helpdesk telephone number (FreePint was trialling the product through a US
contact).
While there are no other customer service options indicated within the product,
LexisNexis is very much a global vendor and its region-specific sites indicate many
further support options such as local phone numbers, email addresses, online forms
and web chat. FreePint’s View: Technology
in your FreePint
Subscription:
(Technology - Search, Outputs & Alerts, User
Interface & Help)
ü
Easy filtering to create custom company
lists
ü
Good range of export options, including
custom report formats
ü
Option to integrate current data directly
into intranets,
CRM etc
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û
More focused drill-down into companyrelated news requires switching to the
LexisNexis/Nexis.com research product
û
No alerting options specific to changes in
company data
û
Interface could benefit from more
graphical representations of data.
Value - Competitors, Development & Pricing
Purchasing and Value
LexisNexis says that Company Dossier and associated products from the Dossier
product suite can help users to:
Prepare for meetings with prospects and clients
Identify and pre-qualify potential customers based on specific criteria including
industry, sales, geographic location, earnings and position titles
Explore competitors
Research industries and executives.
It says Company Dossier is also a natural add-on for those who are already using
its main research databases, and who also want additional company information
coverage.
LexisNexis also says a significant benefit of Company Dossier is time-saving for
researchers, due to the way that it brings together relevant information from multiple
sources within a single context.
Initial product research found that users were previously doing as many as 70 different
searches to find the content that is now brought together in a company snapshot view.
Product Maturity and Development Plan
The LexisNexis Company Dossier product is a well-established one, having been on the
market for over a decade.
The vendor says it is nevertheless continuing to work on enhancements. For instance,
it is looking at ways to expand coverage of regulatory filings beyond the current USspecific focus on the SEC.
Generally it is looking at increasing its emphasis on non-US information, for instance
working on enhancements to coverage of companies in emerging markets.
It is also aiming to increase the number of companies covered by its proprietary
Corporate Affiliations database. (Find out more in FreePint’s 2014 review of Corporate
Affiliations.)
The vendor says it is also listening to its users regarding feature enhancements, for
example by making it easier to restrict default searches to a particular country or
region.
Pricing
LexisNexis Company Dossier pricing is on a per-user basis, with discounts for larger
numbers of users. In common with other similar vendors, LexisNexis declined to
disclose actual price points.
The service is generally sold as an add-on to one of the core LexisNexis
research products.
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Value - Competitors, Development & Pricing | September 2014
A lower-cost variant, Company Dossier Snapshot (PDF), is available which provides
only the data within the company snapshot. This is sold at a significant discount, due
to the much more limited information available.
Company Dossier is offered as a global package, without regional sub-sets; while
historically LexisNexis has offered some country-specific versions, notably for the
Netherlands and Germany, it is now moving towards a single offering on a common
platform.
The Executive Dossier and Industry Dossier components are optional add-ons, as is the
module to enable integration with intranets and other internal systems.
LexisNexis Prospect Portfolio, aimed at sales and marketing professionals, is sold as a
standalone product.
Competition and Alternative Offerings
LexisNexis regards its integration of company profile data with very extensive licensed
news content as a key differentiator against most of the other providers in this space.
This case could certainly be argued in comparing it with a Bureau van Dijk, Hoover’s or
Avention (formerly OneSource) service - though it should be noted that both Hoover’s
(through its integration of content from FirstRain)and Avention (through in-house
development) have made notable moves in recent years to improve the coverage and
display of their company-focused news content.
The Dow Jones Factiva service provides LexisNexis Company Dossier with the most
obvious competition on the company data/news integration front, notably covering
more content languages and providing access to Dow Jones and Reuters financial
newswire content (only available to LexisNexis customers at law firms).
Dow Jones has made steps to improve the integration of company data and news
within Factiva, as well as providing various ways of quickly drilling down within
company-related news. The Companies & Executives area of Factiva will be the subject
of a separate FreePint product review.
LexisNexis says that its inclusion of its proprietary legal, intellectual property and
Corporate Affiliations data is a unique differentiator.
Another argument to note in its favour is the very large number of companies which
it claims to cover - far more than you would find, for instance, in the Companies &
Executives component of Dow Jones Factiva or in a country-specific variant of Bureau
van Dijk.
Conversely the Factiva Companies & Executives area, Avention and BvD would all offer
strong competition to LexisNexis Company Dossier if the user is interested in deep
company financials, going back over several years.
FreePint’s View: Value
As FreePint has previously noted in other reviews of company information providers,
different vendors have different strengths in this area.
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Value - Competitors, Development & Pricing | September 2014
In FreePint’s view, LexisNexis Company Dossier is worth considering as a company
information source for users who are:
Interested in wide-ranging coverage of companies around the world
Looking for extensive news coverage as well (and are prepared to spend some
time digging into that news)
Not focused on deep historical financials (or happy to obtain them from other
sources, such as free or low-cost company filings services)
It is also particularly worth considering for those seeking coverage of companies in
the Netherlands, where it has extensive coverage.
Those who also need to look more deeply into legal and intellectual property issues
may also be particularly attracted to the Company Dossier service, provided that their
areas of geographic interest match with the LexisNexis coverage areas.
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Featured
Featured
Arachnys
Compliance Catalyst
Arachnys is a subscription-delivered, web-based research service
with a focus on helping organisations to undertake risk and
compliance checks in emerging markets. Data is based on open
source information enhanced through smart technology and
covers extensive local language resources.
Customised analysis for risk assessment and documentation for
on-boarding and AML processes. Our new Compliance Catalyst
has been created to help you get to the ‘compliance critical data’
in our global information solution, Orbis, quickly and easily - and
to help you on-board new customers more efficiently.
Read more
http://www.arachnys.com/
Featured
Featured
LexisNexis Bridger Insight XG
Avention for Research
LexisNexis® Bridger Insight™ XG strengthens compliance by
keeping you in front of evolving global regulations. Using
a single interface, the solution delivers rapid screening by
leveraging a best-in-class matching algorithm and access to the
latest global watchlists.
http://www.lexisnexisrisk.co.uk/bridger-insight.php
Avention for Research: With Avention you can purpose Big Data
with timeliness and precision to uncover insights and ideas for
increased confidence in your decision-making. Only Avention
can provide you the ability to search the explosion of data and
relate it to the businesses, people and topics you care about so
you can dig deeper to uncover opportunities for prospecting and
partnering.
Featured
Read more
LexisNexis SmartWatch
Anticipate and manage supplier risk, minimise supply chain
disruptions, prevent litigation and protect your reputation.
LexisNexis® SmartWatchSM is a visual dashboard and alerting
tool that leverages a wide range of market intelligence you won’t
find on the open Web.
http://www.lexisnexisrisk.co.uk/smartwatch.php
Featured
Avention for Sales
Avention for Sales: Avention harnesses the power of Big Data
for identifying more targeted prospects and knowing when to
engage for more effective selling. Only Avention can provide
you with the ability to search Big Data, relate it to the businesses,
people and topics you care about, and help you uncover the
best insights and opportunities to grow your business and outcompete your competition.
Featured
Nexis
Nexis draws on an extensive database of online news and
business information to deliver relevant information to users
through a variety of platforms, including Nexis, Nexis Direct,
Nexis Analytics, and Nexis Publisher.
Read more
http://www.nexis.co.uk/
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Featured
Featured
iSell
Orbis
OneSource iSell transforms sales by understanding the ideal
targets for each sales professional and then continuously
delivering the most timely and relevant opportunities
personalized by their profile. With iSell, sales professionals can
focus their efforts where there is the greatest opportunity,
resulting in greater revenue and improved sales productivity.
http://www.avention.com/products/isell/
Orbis contains comprehensive information on companies
worldwide. You can use it to research individual companies,
search for companies by profile and create your own analyses.
Read more
Featured
Featured
Mint Global
PharmaCircle
Providing information on companies across the globe with a
streamlined interface, Mint Global is ideal for quick look ups and
company-wide desktop access.
PharmaCircle™ is an online resource for professionals in the
biopharmaceutical industry.
It provides both information and analysis on all aspects of the
research-based and generic biopharmaceutical business with
global coverage of research, development, regulatory, clinical,
and business activities.
You can use it to research individual companies, find companies
with specific profiles and analyse individual and groups of
companies. Mint Global is easy to use and helps you navigate
company information quickly and easily.
Read more
Read more
Other products in this category include:
Featured
Academic Search R&D
Alacra Connections
Alacra Current Awareness
Alacra Pulse
Audit + Compliance
Benchmark
Bloomberg Law
BMO
BoardEx
Boardroom Insiders
Business Owner Background
Report
Business Profile Report
Business Source Corporate Plus
Capital IQ Platform
CatalystTracker
CEIC Data
Company Analysis
Company Check
Company Intelligence
Company Watch
Corporate Linkage
Cortera PULSE
Country-Check
Credit Catalyst
CRUSH Report M3 Database
CRUSH Reports
Custom Data Solutions
D&B FATCA
D&B Onboard
D&B Supplier Risk Manager
D&B360
Data.com
Datamyne
Dealreporter
DealWatch
Debtwire
Decisioning as a Service
DNBi
NewsEdge v8 Real-time News
NewsEdge v8 streams real-time scrolling news and alerts rapidly
and efficiently to the desktop. When the speed of information
matters, professionals use NewsEdge v8 to stay on top of the
companies and industries they monitor each day. Filtered news
is delivered into the product with near-zero latency and highly
customized functionality allows its users to be notified when
news breaks.
Read more
Featured
NewsEdge.com Enterprise
Really simple information solutions to meet the needs of your
users where they work.
NewsEdge Enterprise brings a business relevant content catalog,
comprehensive proprietary taxonomies, graduated search tools
and information sharing capabilities right to your fingertips.
Dow Jones Anti-Corruption
Dow Jones Companies &
Executives
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance
Dow Jones Watchlist
EMIS (Emerging Markets
Information Service)
EMIS Compliance
EMIS Corporate
Eureka.cc
Europresse.com
Factiva.com
Financial Times Corporate
FINTEL Business Analyzer
Enterprise
FINTEL Business Analyzer
Professional
FINTEL Business Scorecard
FINTEL Industry Metrics
Reports
FirstRain Business Monitoring
Engine
HighBeam Business
Hoover’s
IDU AML (Anti-Money
Laundering)
IDU KYC (Know Your Customer)
IDU Sanction - PEP and
Sanction Checks
IFIS (Islamic Finance
Information Service)
Industry Almanac and Online
Research Center
InfoArmy
Inform Direct
Intelligence Plaza
Intelliscore Plus
J.D. Power
Key Business Ratios on the
Web
Law360
Leadership Lists and Datafeeds
Leadership Online Directories
Leadership Profiles on Demand
Loan Connector
M & A Analysis
Market Branch Analysis
Market Insight
Marketsensus
Mergent Archives
Mergent Intellect
Mergent MDDI
Mergermarket
Morningstar Direct
News and Alerts
PI Private Company Data
PlacementTracker
Platts
Plunkett Research Online
RDC AML EDGE
RDC AMLxp
RDC GRID
RDC Risk Check
RDC Vendor Protect
S&P Capital IQ
S&P Dow Jones Indices
SECAnalyzer
SeeNews
Silobreaker Premium
Skyminder
Standard & Poor’s Ratings
Services
ThomsonOne
Tools and Analytics
World-M
World-ZL
ZoomInfo Pro
Learn more »
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Product Review of Avention
Review published June 2014: http://web.freepint.com/go/sub/report/2340
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Wide range of company-related information sources
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Clear, crisp layout
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Innovative technology, especially for quickly searching across
multiple content types
Excellent level of detail and deep history for quoted-company
financials
Easy-to-use tools for switching display units
Access to full-text PDF for quoted-company annual and
interim reports and selected UK Companies House documents
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Extensive change notification options
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Provides a secure environment (utilises SAS 70 Type II
certification)
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Limited financial history for many unquoted companies
Useful exporting capabilities
24/7 access ensures data can be processed quickly &
effectively to retain its value
English-language-only news content.
Product Review of Factiva.com
Review published December 2012: http://web.freepint.com/go/sub/report/2164
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Vast global news database of 36,000 sources from 200
countries going back up to 50 years
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Comprehensive search, alert, distribution and storage
options
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Extensive training options
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Needs of informational professionals and general users are
neatly met by having two search options
Source rating tool hidden
Training materials not easy to locate at time of review but
matter is being addressed
Quotes function does not seem to have a look up table for
company codes at first glance but in fact there is a symbol
lookup tool on the Quotes page.
iPad application and mobile versions available
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Other Products
FreePint Report: Product Review of LexisNexis Company Dossier | September 2014
Product Review of BvD Mint
Review published October 2012: http://web.freepint.com/go/sub/report/2141
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Clean and simple, uncluttered user interface
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Copyright warning appears every time you inadvertently
right click on a page. (This can be disabled once the trial
period is over and a licence is purchased).
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More context-sensitive help on Boolean searching would be
welcome, along with a description of exactly which search
fields are affected.
Very intuitive to use
Good range of search and viewing options
Good range of output options
Quick and easy viewing of search results displayed as
dashboard (‘Segmintation’).
BvD has clearly invested a great deal into creating Mint, and it shows. I don’t know of any other product that offers the
same level of flexibility with this amount of data. It’s the combination of detail, power, flexibility and ease of use which
combine to make it a very impressive product indeed.
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About the Reviewer
Chris Porter is director of Porter Walford Consulting, an organisation which specialises in market research, market size
and share and competitor analysis relating to the information industry. Clients include some of the world’s leading
information-intensive companies.
Chris is the co-author of a forthcoming report on global market size and share for Media Intelligence information and
software services.
Chris previously worked for Dow Jones, Factiva and Reuters, analysing B2B and consumer information markets
worldwide. Expertise includes corporate and legal, risk and compliance, financial and business and public relations
and corporate communications markets.
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