Content Aggregator Toolkits: Integrating Institutional and Vendor Content
Shore Communications, Inc.
November 17, 2003 13 Pages - SKU: DCEQ1149959
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| FOCUS |
An overview of the tools and services offered
by information aggregators for the integration of external sources of
information with a corporate customer's in-house content. The report focuses
on the products and approaches of Factiva, LexisNexis and OneSource. |
| AUDIENCE |
Corporate executives reviewing options for the
management of information assets, and their deployment to business-critical
processes and systems. |
| CONTENT |
12 pages of core text and tables, covering the
background to the toolkits' development, product overviews and basic pricing
information, descriptions of the associated taxonomies, an assessment of the
differences of approach among the three vendors and of the business issues
the products address. |
| USE |
To understand the context of the content
aggregator toolkits, the products' main functionalities and components, and
important considerations before implementation. |
| EXECUTIVE SUMMARY |
Major professional content aggregators are
offering tools and services to integrate their own premium content with an
institution's in-house information. The products claim to increase corporate
productivity by reducing both information 'glut' and 'overlook', and offer
the vendors an opportunity to commercialize taxonomies first developed to
manage their own vast databases. The toolkits are part of the continuing
effort to make content more valuable through closer integration with key
business processes and applications.
The paper provides an overview of three products - Factiva Fusion,
LexisNexis Content Organizer and OneSource Content Optimization Services -
and takes a closer look at the respective taxonomies associated with these
solutions. The ability to customize the taxonomies for individual customer's
needs will be particularly important for many users.
Aggregator-supplied tools and services to unite internal and external
information are still largely in their infancy. However, they address some
real business issues in the areas of efficient content discovery and
management. The aggregators' experiences of uniting large quantities of
disparate information sources under a single taxonomy may well be a unique
and exploitable asset. The paper highlights some of the significant
differences in the business models and products of the three vendors.
Potential buyers can have high confidence in the three vendors whose
products are examined in this paper. Where due diligence and preparation are
required is in defining the goals of a corporate content integration project
and, above all, in understanding the information and search needs of the
end-users. |
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- 1. Report Profile
- 2. Executive Summary
- 3. The Background
- 3.1 New Aggregator Tools and Services
- 3.2 A Solution to Information Glut and Overlook
- 3.3 Commercializing our Heritage
- 3.4 Workflow Integration
- 4. The Market
- 5. The Products
- 5.1 Factiva Fusion: Discover, Normalize, Categorize, Export
- 5.1.1 Product and Pricing Components
5.2 OneSource Content Optimization Services: A Different Emphasis
- 5.2.1 The "Virtual Information Warehouse"
- 5.2.2 Product and Pricing Components
5.3 LexisNexis Content Organizer: Using Partnerships
- 5.3.1 Taxonomies and "Concept Definitions"
- 5.3.2 Product and Pricing Components
- 6. The Taxonomies
- 6.1 Factiva Intelligent Indexing
- 6.2 LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology
- 6.3 OneSource Global Business Taxonomy
- 6.4 Taxonomy Maintenance and Customization
- 7. Conclusions
- 7.1 A New Idea
- 7.2 Some Significant Differences
- 7.3 Real Business Issues
- 7.4 Due Diligence
- 7.5 Closing Words
- 8. About the Author
- 9. About Shore
- 10. Report Upgrade Options
- 11. References
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