DGAP-News: Dow Jones Unveils New Innovations to Factiva
ID: 385627
12.04.2011 10:00
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Mobility via iPad App, More Global Content, Enhanced Ease of Use
NEW YORK, 2011-04-12 10:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
NEW YORK, April 12, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones&Company is unveiling a
series of innovations to Factiva over the coming weeks. These will include a
new iPad app, more global content and a more intuitive user experience through
its new interface, navigation and features. The tablet app and new features,
including customizable 'Snapshot' content views to illustrate key trends, will
be available in nine languages. These changes will provide professionals with
the ability to better access and utilize Factiva's global business
intelligence. Factiva is one of the largest digital business aggregators and
archives in the world. It offers sophisticated monitoring and search of 31,000
high-quality sources in 26 languages, thousands of which are not accessible via
common search engines. Scott Schulman, president of the company's Corporate
Markets group, said, 'We're an information-driven economy. Now more than ever,
professionals need the ability to access relevant business intelligence that
will support or prompt business decisions. They need that content to be global,
they need to have a high degree of trust in the information, and they need to
be able to access it anywhere.' He added, 'Factiva is at an important
intersection between business content and technology, and these changes address
the key trends influencing how our clients do business and compete.'
Factiva's new user interface and customized information Snapshots will allow
customers to monitor and find meaningful information more quickly. The new
Snapshots capture a personalized view of information and events on a specific
industry, company, region or topic in a single view with timelines, heat maps
and charts to uncover and analyze business risks and opportunities. Factiva's
new interface will also improve list and custom alert management as well as
assisted search features such as auto-complete. Factiva users will also be able
to rate preferred sources to give them higher prominence in search results.
Both the new Factiva interface and Snapshots will be available beginning April
30. Factiva's global content offering, with available auto-translation, will be
significantly enhanced with the addition of 100 Arabic sources, 19 million
company profiles and more than 3,000 selected blogs. These additions complement
the recent incorporation of 1,800 new sources in 16 languages, including Bahasa
Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu. The Factiva iPad app and new content features will
all be available in nine interface languages including Chinese, Japanese,
French, German, Spanish and Russian. The Factiva iPad app will be available in
May. Schulman added, 'The deep global information we can deliver across
established and emerging markets enables us to provide customers with
comprehensive news and information to guide their market growth. Factiva is
fueling the global information economy by giving companies the capability to
utilize the most critical information across increasingly complex markets.'
Continued enhancements to Factiva help business professionals efficiently and
productively drive their organizations. The U.S. industry-research firm Basex
estimates that the average knowledge worker spends about 25% of the day
searching for needed information and that the annual economic loss due to
information overload at work is $900 billion. Images of the Factiva iPad app,
Snapshots and restyled Factiva interface can be found at
www.dowjones.com/pressroom/SMPRs/FactivaToday.html. For more information about
Factiva, visit www.factiva.com.ABOUT FACTIVA
Factiva is one of the largest, most global digital business aggregators and
archives in the world. Geared for business decision making on desktop and
mobile environments, its global news collection includes more than 31,000
sources from 200 countries in 26 languages. Factiva's combination of global
content and search and monitoring technologies offers professionals timely,
reliable and relevant knowledge for business advantage.
ABOUT DOW JONES
Dow Jones&Company is a global provider of news and business information and a
developer of technology to deliver content to consumers and organizations
across multiple platforms. Dow Jones produces newspapers, newswires, Web sites,
apps, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, conferences, radio and
video. Its premier brands include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires,
Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch, SmartMoney and All Things D. Its information
services combine technology with news and data to support business decision
making. The company pioneered the first successful paid online news site and
its industry leading innovation enables it to serve customers wherever they may
be, via the Web, mobile devices and tablets. The Dow Jones Local Media Group
publishes community newspapers, Web sites and other products in six U.S.
states. Dow Jones&Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company
(Nasdaq:NWS) (Nasdaq:NWSA); (ASX:NWS) (ASX:NWSLV); (www.newscorp.com).
The Dow Jones&Company logo is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=2636
Media Contacts:
Shannon Sullivan
Dow Jones&Company
609.627.2312
Shannon.sullivan@dowjones.com
Michael Burns
Dow Jones&Company
+44 203 217 5434
Michael.burns@dowjones.com
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