LexisNexis ® Corporate Information Professional Fourth Quarter 2009 update Welcome to … LexisNexis® Corporate Information Professional Update! This complimentary, quarterly newsletter is designed just for you—“power users” in businesses of all kinds, from competitive intelligence specialists to corporate librarians. Update gives you details on nexis.com® (and some lexis.com®) resources and/or shows you how you can use them to help solve the information issues that face your business. Plus, check the article archive for topics of interest. Back issues as well as other corporate information professional resources are available at www.lexisnexis.com/infopro In this issue: Statistics Speak! See What 14 Billion Data Points—in One Interface—Can Tell You Tap into more than 14 billion data points from public and proprietary sources at LexisNexis Statistical DataSets. Not only can you select and compare criteria on a wide variety of subjects—from employment to housing and economic indicators to crimes—you can build graphic-rich charts to tell your story. Now CisionPoint Customers Can Tap into LexisNexis Resources If your PR organization turns to CisionPoint PR software, you now have the option to search an extensive—and archived—collection of sources from the LexisNexis services from within CisionPoint. Do More—Download, Sharpen Results, etc.—With the Newest nexis.com Functionality Last quarter brought nexis.com power users more search precision tools, downloading capabilities, upgraded Fictitious Business Names and more options for finding vital facts via LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard. What’s New at nexis.com … Find more Public Records, Government and Health Care Sources. SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL What’s New at nexis.com … As the global economy expands, so are nexis.com news and business sources from outside the United States. Currently you can tap into more than 6,500 unique international sources at nexis.com. See what new sources are joining the international coverage. Have article ideas for future issues of LexisNexis Corporate Information Professional Update? Care to comment on articles? Contact Barbara Byrd, Managing Editor of LexisNexis Corporate Information Professional Update at [email protected] LexisNexis, Nexis, lexis.com, nexis.com and the Knowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. Other products or services may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2010 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. page 2 Statistics Speak! See What 14 Billion Data Points —in One Interface—Can Tell You Are you the numbers person … the one who hunts down the stats and puts them into perspective? Get access to more than 14 billion data points from public and proprietary sources within one, easy-to-use interface. LexisNexis Statistical DataSets gives you the Web-based tools to unearth vital facts—and uncover interesting relationships among 590 different sets of data. Select and compare criteria from a wide variety of subjects ranging from employment to housing and economic indicators to crimes—even the weather. There’s more. Use LexisNexis Statistical DataSets to build graphic-rich charts that track the trends, rank performance and map the statistics you find. Then export to PDF or other options. With the comprehensive subjects covered, you can address diverse questions such as: • How is crime related to unemployment in my state or city? • How much money did the government spend last year on immigration and customs enforcement? Did this figure trend up or down over the previous five years? • What is the impact of weather on U.S. airline on-time rates? • How does the percent change in the medical care component of the Consumer Price Index compare to the percent change in the overall CPI from 1947 to the present? What other statistics do you monitor? You can move from the big picture to granular details in a few clicks. For example, double-click Michigan in your map of the seasonal unemployment rate, and move to unemployment trends in that state. (See below.) (Continued) law.lexisnexis.com/infopro page 3 Power Users Need to Know … Where do the statistics available via LexisNexis Statistical DataSets originate? Are they credible sources? LexisNexis Statistical DataSets is fueled by the most credible sources, including data from: • Government agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics • Global organizations like the World Bank and the World Resource Institute • Academic groups including the China Data Center • Commercial sources such as Standard & Poor’s® and Easy Analytic Software Inc. There may be dubious sources of statistics on the Internet, but LexisNexis Statistical DataSets is vetted and reliable. But is the information current—preferably the latest? As soon as new information is released from a data provider, the site is refreshed. You get the most current statistics available—from one location. You don’t have to check multiple sites or vendors multiple times. How do I research LexisNexis Statistical DataSets? The information is organized logically by subject and by source. Select the indicators and criteria of most interest to you; the interface updates with every click. And, because LexisNexis Statistical DataSets offers data from many sources available within a single interface, you can select two or more variables and view them in relation to one another, a correlation capability not found in any other product. What kinds of analysis functions are offered? Just rudimentary? You can leverage the built-in statistical functions to calculate values such as sums, averages, standard deviations and percent differences. Or enter your own formulas to calculate and add entirely new dimensions to your customized results. I can download to PDF. What other options? You can also deliver your results to Excel®, SAS, RefWorks and other software packages. Even integrate with internal data via XML linking technology. Learn more about LexisNexis Statistical DataSets in available literature. Back to Table of Contents » law.lexisnexis.com/infopro page 4 Now CisionPoint Customers Can Tap into LexisNexis Resources If your PR organization turns to the CisionPoint PR software platform for tracking and analysis information, you may now gain worldwide access to an extensive—and archived—collection of sources from the LexisNexis services. Your Cision representative will have complete details. Cision (www.cision.com) and LexisNexis (www.lexisnexis.com) have just announced a strategic alliance that will provide targeted domestic and international news content. Cision clients will be able to search databases from the LexisNexis services, receive alerts as new content is posted, and quickly understand what’s being said about their organization, brands and competitors, or virtually any topic across the globe through CisionPoint’s online language translation tool. For example, through the CisionPoint dashboard, you will also be able to search for recent articles written by a specific journalist. Also gain access to outlet-related information, such as audience impressions and market data. “This is a perfect match between two industry leaders,” notes Hans Gieskes, president and chief executive officer of Cision. “Integrating best-in-class LexisNexis content with CisionPoint will deliver tremendous additional value to our customers, whose competitive edge relies upon their access to the best and most up-to-date media information.” Back to Table of Contents » law.lexisnexis.com/infopro page 5 Do More—Download, Sharpen Results, etc.— With the Newest nexis.com Functionality This quarter brought nexis.com power users more precision search tools, downloading capabilities, upgraded Fictitious Business Names and more options for finding vital facts via LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard. Take a look: Download Results Groups into Microsoft® Excel®—No Limits You can now download any displayed result groups in nexis.com directly to Excel. Downloading results sets is a great, efficient way to compile the names of publications where your company or client companies are mentioned. And you can identify other companies mentioned as well. Here’s how it works: You’ll see will see a new download icon in the left navigation pane when your nexis.com search results are returned. (See below.) Click and download any group displayed at that moment, including all results, to Excel or compatible program. (There are no limits on group numbers!) Expand your results functionality; capture and manipulate summary analysis of your search results easily. Best of all, this option is available for all nexis.com content offerings except Public Records. Exclude Content From Your Research—Before You Search Improve search precision, better manage the size of result sets, and reduce the occurrence of similar or irrelevant hits. Now, right on your Power Search (or Easy Search screen), under your selected source, you’ll notice three new exclusion links. Click to remove short articles (500 words or less), newswires (when you do not need cycle updates) and/or non-business articles, i.e., lifestyle and entertainment articles, obits, birth and wedding announcements, community events, sports, weather and similar articles. (Continued) law.lexisnexis.com/infopro page 6 It’s Still About People; Only the Tab Name has Changed The Search Tab once labeled People is now called Biographical to better reflect the content. Due Diligence Dashboard: More Options Now Available The premium version of Due Diligence Dashboard has just been enhanced to make your research session more effective—and efficient. For example, for more convenient log-in, a new Remember Me checkbox is available on the log-in screen. When you select this option, your ID/password will be stored on your local computer. Click for more details. Once in Due Diligence Dashboard, you’ll also notice: • Time Stamp for Improved Audit Trail: A time stamp is now available above your search results. When you use your print screen functionality, you can provide a time-stamped history of your search—particularly useful in providing an audit trail that a search was conducted when the search yields no results.