At its core, market intelligence depends on capturing relevant information from multiple sources to build out a comprehensive view of an existing market, trends over time, its customers, and competitors—all to gain insights into potential risks or growth opportunities. With the addition of IRN Research to our portfolio of research platforms, including Nexis® and Nexis Uni® , you have access to market research...
(Please visit the site to view this video) Super sharers usually earn their reputations on social platforms like Instagram and TikTok. While it may not qualify as “insta-famous,” knowledge professionals can win followers and build a real fan base too. How? By sharing news within organizations so that the C-suite and colleagues have the information needed to make informed decisions. The research you conduct...
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” It may be a time worn expression, but in this case, it comes with a fresh perspective. Our flagship Nexis® research solution —ideal for use cases ranging from investigative journalism to donor prospecting—recently underwent a visual redesign . The new look, which streamlines and organizes information for easy scanning, complements critical...
There’s nothing like hands-on experience with research and analytics tools for giving your students the practical knowledge needed for the data-driven careers awaiting them. Data discovery and analysis, however, can be riddled with challenges that slow their progress. Whether you’re considering our exciting new research tool for students or are already taking advantage of Nexis® Data Lab , these research...
You need to know what journalists are saying about your company—the good and the bad. But with so many journalists and websites writing and publishing articles every single day (sometimes seemingly by the minute), it’s far too difficult to stay on top of which ones impact your company’s perception. But what about journalist outreach? After all, understanding your company’s reputation is one thing...
For more than 150 years, The New York Times has been one of the most trusted news sources in the United States. It’s for this reason that LexisNexis has extended our 40-year relationship by expanding our global licensing agreement with the newspaper. The agreement continues the availability of news sources and editorial coverage from The New York Times via Nexis, LexisNexis’ flagship news and business product...
The path to optimized and beneficial media intelligence can be a difficult one to find. The avalanche of incoming news and social commentary grows bigger by the way. And the more media you’re expected to monitor and analyze, the less effective your media intelligence efforts can become. Unless, of course, you have a solid media analytics foundation in place with the tools and capabilities needed to overcome the...
A digital platform for the next generation of academic and professional researchers Our Nexis solutions excel at making relevant and enriched data quickly and easily accessible to anyone who needs it. And when we say “anyone,” we don’t just mean business decision-makers and lawyers; we provide reputable sources of information to students, educators, and university faculty members for all kinds of academic...
Whether you’re looking for business insights into the latest trends, commentary from the national and local Washington D.C. political desk, or cultural context about an event in the past, National Public Radio (NPR) deserves a spot on your go-to source list. In describing its “mission to work in partnership with Member Stations to create a more informed public – one challenged and invigorated by deeper...
Companies today thrive on the strength of their intellectual property (IP) portfolio. And if you want to outpace everyone else in your market, you need an in-depth and accurate understanding of not just your own patents—but those of your competitors as well. To do so, you’ll have to find a way to access and consume high-quality patent datasets that you can use for thorough patent and competitor analyses. In...
What comes to mind when you think of LexisNexis? If I were to ask you to describe our solutions, you might sum them up as research platforms used by colleges, law firms and corporations for academic, legal, or enterprise research. And you’d be right. But did you know that our research platforms also benefit from our expert leadership in search technology and content aggregation? Because they do! While it’s...
Nexis for Competitive Intelligence , is a next-level competitive analysis platform that allows users to quickly and easily compare key business indicators—such as financials, news, M&A activity and more—for up to six companies, all in a single workspace and with a few clicks. It doesn’t replace your carefully crafted workflow, but it does complement it, allowing you to collect findings, add context...
What’s the one thing everyone in your academic institution—from professor and student to faculty member and researcher—have in common? They all rely on data. Coursework, lesson planning, research projects, fundraising campaigns, and a myriad of other academic and educational applications demand access to unique, historical content. Nexis Data as a Service (DaaS) excels at providing academic institutions...
This time last year, many non-profits and foundations anticipated major fundraising shortfalls given the economic turmoil caused by the global pandemic. Many individual organizations did struggle due to a decline in donations or increased demand—sometimes both. Yet when 2020 wound down, the numbers told a different story. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that giving rose by more than 10% over 2019 numbers,...
A key part of protecting your brand requires knowing when negative news is about to drop. After all, the more heads-up you get, the more time you have to plan a response and coordinate your efforts. To make the most of that time, you need a quick and efficient way to know about negative news the second it happens. Of course, that’s easier said than done. We live in a 24/7 world of never-ending news cycles and...
Our latest Content Publisher Spotlight introduces— BBC World Service . Content from the internationally recognized multimedia broadcaster complements the extensive news, company, and legal sources already available in Nexis® . BBC’s award-winning language services deliver a wealth of news, information and analysis. Covering political, social, and cultural issues, science, technology, and sports around...
Gregg Thaler, Director of Strategic ISV Alliances at Adobe, and confessed CRM data quality junkie, has said that “Contact data ages like fish not wine…it gets worse as it gets older, not better.” The quote might earn a few chuckles, but no one can deny the point he’s making. Whether you are depending on B2B contact information to power sales or are gathering competitive intelligence to inform...
When Harvard Business Review surveyed competitive intelligence professionals, 45 percent of respondents said their analysis wasn’t having an impact on major decisions. What’s more, 33 percent said their reports were simply used to “ratify” a course of action that had already been decided on. As a researcher, half the battle is finding the right information to support sound decisions, and the...
If you’re looking to get the most relevant search results from Nexis ® Uni , you’ve come to the right place. Take advantage of our academic search engine’s top features to give your research a boost. Feature #1: Single-click search across all content types Nexis Uni lets you conduct broad searches across all content types. With a single click, you can search the entire Nexis Uni academic database...
If we’ve learned anything in 2020, it’s that we live in an unpredictable, rapidly changing world. As an information professional, your knowledge, and skills—combined with data and emerging technologies—can help you prove AND expand your value to your colleagues or customers. How? That’s the question we asked in our recent SLA webinar—now available on demand. During the hour, we took...
Let’s face it: people—especially millennials— love nostalgia . Just look at the reboots, remakes and repeats that dominate television and cinema to see that consumers find comfort in revisiting the familiar . That’s why we couldn’t resist taking another peek into the Nexis database to look at more headlines that have defined the worldwide human experience through the teen years of the 21...
What a decade it has been. Across the planet, major stories broke in politics, culture business, sports, entertainment and science. Here are just a sampling of some of the news items from the past decade—capturing humanity at its best and its worst¾that garnered attention around the world. (Our apologies if an event that you found particularly heartwarming or heartbreaking isn’t referenced here in this...
As with other areas of business, the “business” of conducting research changed significantly since the advent of the internet. Yet despite the numerous and varied advantages afforded by cloud research platforms, info pros still struggle to achieve research zen—that is, the ability to filter out the noise and focus on the meaningful—because the digital universe grows larger every day. Whether...
The economy has been on a roller coaster the last few years—and that includes in the arena of mergers and acquisitions. But the projected economic downturn doesn’t necessarily mean M&A activity—or the research needed to support M&A deals —will come to a standstill. However, research takes time--and if you're busy negotiating the ever-changing financial environment, you may not have...
1. Cast the widest net possible The most important part of conducting research is having access to the information you need. In real estate, this can range from property records and deeds to news, industry, and company information. Nexis® for Real Estate puts more than 40,000 news and business sources , plus 82+ million public records , at your fingertips. Instead of a time-consuming scavenger hunt across the open...