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SIIA Announces 2013 DataContent Models of Excellence

September 26, 2013 By

Six data companies designated as Models of Excellence by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and InfoCommerce Group will present their products and services at the upcoming DataContent conference in Philadelphia, October 15-17. All of the firms selected are innovative data companies pioneering new business models and practices. DataContent is the only conference devoted solely to producers of commercial data products.

DataContent will spotlight the Models of Excellence throughout the conference. CEOs of the companies will provide candid insights on what has made the products successful, and will host a private dinner for high-level networking.

This year’s Models of Excellence presenting companies are:

Enigma
Enigma has created consolidated access to over 100,000 public domain databases to provide unparalleled access to data that is often valuable, nominally free, but difficult to source and use effectively. Think of Enigma as a search engine for public data, and the enigma here is why no one has done this before.
MOE Profile | Website

Equilar – Atlas
Equilar takes public domain data and normalizes and enhances it so that it can become premium-value content. Equilar Atlas takes this data and flips it into a variety of new applications and markets, something not many publishers do successfully.
MOE Profile | Website

FindTheCompany
FindTheCompany represents an impressive step-up in the arms race to use a mosaic-style strategy to build out deep company dossiers by aggregating data from a wide variety of sources. By aggressively mixing harvested, public and licensed data, it is an excellent showcase both for what’s possible and where things are heading.
MOE Profile | Website

Relationship Science
Relationship Science is all about networking for business development and fund-raising, using an innovative relationship mapping approach and backed by a huge research team to build and maintain deep, structured profiles on over 2.5 million influential individuals. While its concept is  “sort of like” what other data companies are already doing, it’s approach is distinctive, and it’s huge commitment to editorial research puts the company’s emphasis right where it should be: quality data.
MOE Profile | Website

Segmint
Segmint is real life example of Big Data at work, with real-time analytics and predictive models. It is executing on the fundamental goal of every marketer: to make customer data actionable by creating and delivering targeted, relevant messages customers want to see, remember and act upon.
MOE Profile | Website

Stella Service
STELLAService  provides customer service ratings to companies based on its independent analysis of over 200 customer service metrics and random customer service calls to companies by its analysts. It provides a clean, intuitive and powerful tool to retailers focused on an area – customer service – that increasingly drives online success and failure, and its neutral market positioning gives its trustmark program added weight and value.
MOE Profile | Website

Infocommerce Group continually scans the data landscape to identify products that are pioneering or perfecting business models, exhibit best practices or offer technological innovation. Those that are re-setting the standards for the industry are named each year as Models of Excellence, based on content, utility, functionality, revenue, viability, ambition, and market readiness. It will discuss what distinguishes each of this year’s winners in a webcast at noon on Oct. 2.

Kathy Greenler Sexton is Vice President and General Manager for the SIIA Content Division. Follow the Content Division team on Twitter at @SIIAContent

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2013 Model of Excellence Companies Unveiled

September 23, 2013 By

For 10 years, the Model of Excellence program has answered one question: who is re-setting the standards for data excellence?
Each year, the InfoCommerce Group, reviews the data industry landscape to identify the data products that are pioneering or perfecting new business models, exhibit best practices or offer technological innovation. The results are the Model of Excellence that are honored throughout the DataContent Conference.
During the “Excellence in Action” showcase session, we’ll present to the audience both examples of companies with intriguing business models that can offer insights and inspiration to other publishers, as well as new ways to think about and apply data. The session is designed as a showcase, so presenters are encouraged to provide a brief overview of their products and talk about their businesses generally. Here are a few teasers to get started:

  • Equilar is based on public domain data, and will describe what’s involved in normalizing and enhancing it so that it can become premium-value content.
    Equilar MOE Profile
  • Segmint will  highlight the power and value of this real life example of Big Data at work, with near-real-time analytics and predictive models (and how this technology can be applied to other markets and databases). Segmint MOE Profile
  • Enigma provides consolidated access to thousands of public domain databases whose owners generates immense amounts of high-value data at little or no cost, but have no real incentive to make it easily accessible. Enigma MOE Profile
  • FindTheCompany mixes public domain,licensed and harvested data, yielding deep profiles and insights that many publishers have talked about but few have delivered.

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Excellence Revisited: Past Models of Excellence speak at DataContent 2013

September 18, 2013 By

During the “Excellence Revised” Session at DataContent 2013, we will hear from past Model of Excellence honorees on how these companies adapted to industry-changing trends. BrightScope, DemandBase and WAND were among the first to be singled out for producing exemplary data products over 5 years ago. That was pre-cloud. Pre-social. Pre-crowd. Pre-analytics.

 

  • BrightScope took public domain data, but rather than simply selling it as sales leads like so many others, it flipped this data to make a useful and valuable benchmarking product that helps companies and their employees compare the quality and performance of their 401(k) plans.
  • DemandBase was billed the “iTunes store of business contacts,” aggregating data from a number of reputable data providers, adding several layers of value including prospect scoring, and allowing user to buy just the number of records they needed – no need to buy access to the entire database.
  • WAND sold a database publishing platform but with two unique twists: clients add listings and sell enhancements in their own markets, creating a vertical market online directory that also becomes part of WAND’s global directory. And to add a further level of value, all companies were coded against a sophisticated product/service taxonomy developed by WAND.

 What this session has come to underscore is the pace of change and innovation. It is also known as our “open the kimono” session, where the top executives from past InfoCommerce Model of Excellence companies review both the intervening years since they received their recognition, and their entire company history to answer some of these burning questions:

  • Is the product you initially came to market with the same one you are offering now and if not, what changed and why?
  • Just how easy or hard is it for an online start-up to compete with legacy print publishers and/or create entirely new product categories?
  • How has your mix of revenue sources changed over the years?  Is it much the same as at launch or have you found the mix is dramatically different from first envisioned?
  • As you built your business, did you discover unexpected revenue opportunities? If yes, did you pursue them, are they material to your revenues now, and what are the trade-offs involved in being opportunistic? 
  • What kinds of curveballs did you encounter along the way, and how did you deal with them?
  • What are the most important “lessons learned” you can draw out of your years at this venture?
  • What were the easiest aspects of launching your business and what were the hardest?
  • Could you start the same business you have now from scratch in 2013, or are things too competitive, too developed, too risky, etc.?
  • What’s your advice to both start-up entrepreneurs and established companies looking to launch new products in the near future?

What we’re interested in bringing out in this session is not just “what went right” but what went wrong, what didn’t pan out, what turned out surprisingly (either good or bad), how your business has evolved since it was started. Our goal is to leave the audience with useful insights and lessons they can apply to their businesses and new product launches.

During DataContent 2013, you will also have a chance to meet the 2013 class of the Models of Excellence program, network and have some fun at our annual Models of Excellence Networking dinner held at Cuba Libre.

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The Future Is Not Free

September 16, 2013 By

Russell Perkins, ICG

Post by: Russell Perkins, ICG

In a speech at the D2 Digital Dialogue conference yesterday, a top Macy’s marketing executive, in a true “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore” moment, made the following statement:

“Consumers are worried about our use of data, but they’re pissed if I don’t deliver relevance. … How am I supposed to deliver relevance and magically deliver what they want if I don’t look at the data?”

This question speaks directly to the larger issues facing the publishing industry today: how to make money in a world where today’s consumer wants everything … and nothing. Consumers want their content free of charge, free of advertising and free of tracking. And what do content providers get in return for all this freedom? Well, freedom from revenue.

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DataContent Early-Bird Registration Ends Today: Save $300

September 9, 2013 By

At DataContent 2013, we will identify best practices and trends in Data Content and Publishing, providing you with an insider view of what is working and where things are heading so you can leverage data in your business to deliver new products and services to your customers.

Russell Perkins and the InfoCommerce Group have partnered with the SIIA to present DataContent 2013, October 15-17, in Philadelphia. Over two days, teams from media, publishing and information services companies will learn how to turn data into successful new data products.

Early-bird registration ends TODAY. To save $300 on your DataContent 2013 registration.
To register and receive your Early-bird Discount, please register at: www.siia.net/datacontent/2013/register.asp

For your convenience, here are other relevant links to learn about the event:

On behalf of everyone at the SIIA and the InfoCommerce Group, we hope to see you in October!

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Do not be Embarrassed

August 26, 2013 By

Russell Perkins, ICG

Post by: Russell Perkins, ICG

”If you’re not at least a little embarrassed by something you just launched, you probably waited too long to start it.” So says Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit and a number of other high profile web media products.

This statement, provocative as it is, actually is little more than a smart synthesis of the current state of play in the world of online product development. You no doubt hear variants of this theme regularly, sometimes expressed as ”minimum viable product,” ”rapid iteration,” and even ”fast fail.” They all embody the philosophy that it’s more important to launch a new product quickly than launch a really good new product. I credit Google for raising this practice to high art by teaching users that the word ”beta” appended to any product name excused the product from delivering much value, or even working properly, for an often extended period of time.

I certainly agree that there is an imperative for speed in the world of online content. We’re surrounded by hordes of competitive start-ups, many of them explicitly attempting to disrupt market incumbents. But before we decide to emulate these companies, it’s important to note their typically distinctive business models.

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DataContent 2013 The Science of the Deal

August 7, 2013 By

Can the art of the deal be turned into the science of the deal?

Neal Goldman has raised nearly $90 million to prove it can be done and his newly minted company, Relationship Science is off to a fast start. Debuting less than a year ago, it has already built a database of almost 2.5 million influential professionals at over 1 million organizations, and already has landed 150+ clients. During The Science of the Deal session at the DataContent 2013 conference, that will take place 15-17 October, Neal will describe his philosophy and his methodology and convince you why and how Relationship Science is redefining the culture of business development.

Relying on 500+ employees and 30 patent pending technologies, the company compiles deep handcrafted data sets and then uses analytics to map paths among people and organizations to pinpoint a connection that users didn’t know they had. 

  • Neal Goldman, Chairman & CEO, Relationship Science. Neal is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Relationship Science (RelSci). Previously, Neal was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital IQ, Inc. until its sale to McGraw]Hill/Standard & Poor’s, and prior thereto a banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Lehman Brothers. Neal is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a Member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Young Presidents Organization and a board member of Hatzalah and the Jerusalem Foundation. Neal received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School where he has also served as an Adjunct Faculty Member.

Learn more about Relationship Science and their innovative business development culture by attending DataContent 2013. Early bird registration rates expire on September 9th so register today.

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