At SIIA, identifying the next generation of game changers is as much our passion as it is our job. Join us as we take an inside look at six companies that are poised to make an impact on the content industry: BestVendor, Crowd Fusion, First Stop Health, Narrative Science, Praetorian Group and ReportLinker. Today we’ll be taking a look at 2012 SIIA CODiE Awards Finalist and Previews company – ReportLinker.
1. What problems does ReportLinker try to solve?
Any time you need to define a market strategy, work on a business plan or prepare a presentation, reliable, up-to-date industry data – such as market size, market forecasts, market share, demand drivers and technology trends – is key to supporting your arguments and convincing your audience.
Every day, thousands of market data updates are published by trusted public and private sources on the internet, but the information is often buried in different kinds of documents (court decisions, annual reports, investor presentations, trade association presentations, press releases and so on).
ReportLinker bridges the gap, using advanced search technology to find and filter the latest market intelligence available, presenting the results in a format that is easily viewable and usable. ReportLinker analyzes and organizes content by context, offering access to over 1.2 million public reports with key market data on 350 global industries – all in one location.
2. What advantages do you have that are unique to your company?
Unlike our competitors, ReportLinker:
- Uses targeted semantic technology to find and index 120,000 reports every day (most of which average about 50 pages in length) published online by trusted private and public sources –– and users can set up automated alerts to get the latest reports for selected industries as soon as they are available.
- Filters content according to 100,000 industry concepts across key global industries, including agriculture, consumer goods, technology, life sciences and many more.
- Offers global content coverage, with a catalogue containing reports published by more than 200,000 sources on over 350 industries in nearly 200 countries.
3. Where does your company fit in the business life-cycle and why?
Launched in March 2007, ReportLinker currently has 2,000 subscribers. We are growing at an annual rate of 40% and invest 15% of our revenue in R&D, with plans underway to add many new features and services in the next few months.
Our operating company Ubiquick SAS has both won and been nominated for several awards, including the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2010, Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2011, CODiE Award Finalist 2012 and two other leading French technology innovation awards.
4. What are your goals for presenting at IIS?
Online content – and the semantic technology that drives it – is our core business, and we value the IIS summit as an opportunity to strengthen our strategic partnership program with US-based companies as well as a chance to showcase our search engine and share ideas with industry experts. We are also interested in this year’s ‘Buyers and Suppliers’ focus so we can find out about current partnership trends and how information industry networks are evolving.
5. What’s something unusual about your company?
Though we (co-founders) are French and our company is physically based in France, our team of 21 is certainly international, representing 7 nationalities and just as many spoken languages. It definitely helps us keep a global perspective and more easily understand the specific requests of our clients – who (apart from 5% in France) are from all over the world.
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