In the final part of her review, Eileen Steer looks at the value that D&B Hoovers delivers to customers and assesses the help and training available, as well as competitor products such as DiscoverOrg, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Hubspot Sales, Pipedrive and Scoro and what the pricing options are.
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In the third part of this review, we focus on the technology aspects of D&B Hoovers, a sales and marketing intelligence tool. Of particular note is its clear user interface, the wide range of output options, the vendor's support, and the options for site administrators that allow them to have a higher-level view of who, when and what is being used.
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In the second part of this review of D&B Hoovers, we look at this sales intelligence solution's sources, paying particular attention to how it validates its content, company coverage of the 190 countries covered, detailed company information, news coverage, as well as its people and industry data.
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Open source intelligence (OSINT) uses publicly available sources to gather intelligence for purposes ranging from basic recruitment checks on an individual to due diligence research for M&A purposes to in-depth fraud investigations and more. Search engines are the starting point, but deep web databases and social media searches are all part of the OSINT searchers toolkit. This article discusses approaches for finding open source intelligence with a focus on free sources.
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In part three of the Jinfo product review of the S&P Capital IQ platform, Andrew Lucas looks at the user interface and considers the advanced search and analytical capabilities along with the other "rich functionality" in the platform. He also looks at some of the changes that have taken place since the last Jinfo review.
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This report covers 16 subscription sources for people and executive information sources:
Artesian
Boardroom Insiders
CB Insights for Sales
Factiva
FirstRain
Globas-i
Hoovers (formerly Avention OneSource)
Leadership Directories B2B dataset
LexisNexis Corporate...
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We find out how new market entrant Emissary brings new insights to the sales intelligence process.
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Emissary, a new entrant to the sales intelligence space, matches recently departed high-level executives with account executives to assist in account planning. Michael Levy recently spoke to its CEO and founder, David Hammer, to discuss his thinking behind the creation of the company, the importance of tacit knowledge and the role of his "emissaries".
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The announcement was made in January that Dun & Bradstreet was acquiring Avention, provider of the well-known OneSource suite of services. Jinfo spoke to Dun & Bradstreet about what the acquisition means for customers of OneSource, users of D&B's previous Hoover's offering, and what it means for those who are currently using D&B data through other third-party services.
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Artesian made the jump into the North American market in 2015 and a look at its UK business shows why the move has been a success. In "Product review of Artesian" Andrew Grave puts this sales intelligence tool under the spotlight and focuses on how it works, what it has to offer and why it might just be right for you.
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In the final part of our product review of Artesian, we look at training, product developments, pricing and how this customer engagement and business intelligence tool shapes up to its competitors including Avention's OneSource iSell and Bureau van Dijk's Mint UK.
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In part 3 of the product review of Artesian, the UK- and US-based customer engagement and business intelligence tool, we drill into the technology behind the product's contextual insight into organisations & markets. Prospect lists can be filtered by factors such as credit risk and daily alerts set up. We include a look at how the mobile app, Artesian Ready, provides detailed information on the company and people in your meetings.
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In part 2 of our review of Artesian, we consider the reach of its content and coverage including subscription publications, Companies House filings, extensive social media sources, Experian credit information and news archive. Artesian has substantive coverage for the UK, USA and Canada; plus employee records; a taxonomy of more than 1,500 business topics and Market Sector News supplemented by Sector performance data in the UK. This review covers the UK version.
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Artesian is a comprehensive business development tool which is very intuitive to use. With strong coverage of the UK and of North America, it enables lists of prospects to be devised and news and social media on those prospects monitored for risks and opportunities.
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ReferenceUSA, from parent company Infogroup, is an online research tool that provides business and consumer data on millions of US and Canadian businesses, households, consumers, and doctors and dentists. It is made available to end users through 85% of large public libraries in the US, as well...
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Part two of Jinfo's product review of ReferenceUSA looks at the content and coverage of the online research tool that provides business and consumer data on millions of US and Canadian businesses, households, consumers, and doctors and dentists. The range of coverage drawn from public information and other sources is considered. It lists ReferenceUSA's databases and explains how the content is subject to verification through direct contact, and also gives instances in which the financial data figures are estimated.
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OneSource is the flagship offering from business information company Avention, last reviewed shortly after its launch two years ago. It combines profiles of 38 million companies worldwide and contact information on 58 million people with news and industry reports.
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Bureau van Dijk, global provider of highly structured company information, launched its new interface last month. Chris Porter continues his review of the new version of its Fame database, looking at coverage of financial information and news sources of companies based in the UK and Ireland.
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Avention recently launched DataVision, their first product designed specifically for marketers. Michael Levy interviews Avention's Lauren Bakewell to find out more about the new product and why they've extended from sales intelligence and business research tools into marketing technology, her views on account-based marketing, and what developments are in the pipeline.
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This report accompanies Shimrit Janes' article " Analysing the Market Landscape for People Information - Introduction " where she looks at seven different vendors which have specialist "people information": Avention/OneSource, Boardroom Insiders, Factiva, Leadership Directories, LinkedIn, Nexis,...
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