Factiva Announces New Personalization
and Company Research Functionality in Reuters Business Briefing
Factiva, a company jointly owned
by Dow Jones & Co. and Reuters Group, has added new personalization
and company research functions to Reuters Business Briefing. This Web-based
application provides browser access to top business news, industry publications,
and Web sites, with an emphasis on content that covers all areas of the
world, including the Americas, Europe, and Asia. According to the company,
subscribers can get the facts on any business subject, via keyword search,
by mining the millions of articles stored in Factiva’s archives.
The newly expanded application sets the standard in the business information
industry for personalization and relevance. Reuters Business Briefing provides
subscribers in more than 6,000 corporations access to newswires, more than
10 years of information from Reuters news services, and more than 4,000
other sources from around the world. The information can be searched using
free-text terms and/or items chosen from lists of companies, industries,
topics, sources, or financial instruments. The service also provides delayed
market prices and news photographs. Ten language interfaces provide access
to content in 20 languages.
Subscribers can also view the latest five results of their favorite
five searches in a new area of the product NewsPoint, which can be easily
customized as their Reuters Business Briefing home page to display the
latest headlines or financial prices in five areas of their choice, with
easy access to all results. In addition to NewsPoint, other new Reuters
Business Briefing features include the following:
Advance free-text searching terms, including proximity searching (words
near to other words or at the top of the article) and number searching
Information on 3 million public and private companies in the Dun &
Bradstreet European Reports database, which covers 17 countries
A Reuters Business Briefing graphing facility to compare company share
prices, popular trading indices, and currencies
Suggested Internet Web sites that are easily reached from the new Reuters
Business Briefing Links area
Existing features of Reuters Business Briefing include the following:
Millions of articles, wires, and reports including those already organized
by country, topic, industry, source, or personal company lists (including
the versions of Reuters Business Briefing that have been developed
for advertising and media, energy, European Union, and insurance sectors)
Personal or group-saved searches
Associated company news and articles, which are linked from appropriate
articles when search results are displayed
Premium data from market, corporate, and country research sources
News from Dow Jones
Company share prices, index and foreign exchange data, and Reuters Company
Background Data that covers Corporate Information, Profit & Loss, Balance
Sheet, Share Capital, Earnings Dividends, Sector Breakdowns, and Key Financials
Easily set up cost-center accounting and other product administration features
for group use
According to the company, independent research indicates that there is
a vast potential market of corporate users worldwide. Factiva is well positioned
to lead revenue growth in this market.
“We are unique in the global breadth of our news and research sources,
integrating into corporate systems, and dedicated customer support around
the world,” said Tim Andrews, president and CEO of Factiva. The company’s
business information suite is supported by sales and customer support staff
in more than 30 countries.
“The new tools in Reuters Business Briefing set the standard for personalization
and relevance,” said Greg Gerdy, executive director of product marketing
for Factiva. “They are a result of hundreds of interviews with customers,
who are increasingly asking for a Web-based product that efficiently delivers
just the right facts, on demand. Those who access the service can see the
entire up-to-date collection of opinion and factual information on any
business subject.”
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