Featured digital content category: Best Solution Integrating Content into Workflow

Our final category in the 2011 CODiE Awards is Best Solution Integrating Content into Workflow. This category awards the best product, service, or application integrating content into a workflow application such as CRM, legal, scientific, financial planning and analysis, etc.

Finalists are:

  • Alacra Compliance (Alacra, Inc.) is a modular workflow tool in which users can view regulatory and risk requirements with a consistent process for Credit Investigation, Onboarding, EDD, KYC, and Remediation. Date-stamped audit reports of clients’ business rules and logic are created through searching regulatory watch lists, premium data, and news and web resources.
  • Cicero XM (Cicero, Inc.) simplifies workflow, automates tasks, and automatically share data between existing applications, data sources, and web services. By using a toolset, users can create a modular, customizable interface as well as user scripts, screen pops, and new composite applications.
  • Dow Jones Advisor (Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group) allows financial advisers to create fluid workflows by combining news and information from Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Smart Money with editorial analysis and fundamental data.
  • InsideView for Sales (InsideView) gives users accurate, up-to-date sales intelligence and content by bringing in information from more than 20,000 sources, including Twitter and Thomas Reuters.
  • Lexis for Microsoft Office (LexisNexis Group) integrates legal content and services from LexisNexis, the Web, and an organization’s own database within Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, and SharePoint.
  • LexisNexis Dossier Publishing Manager (LexisNexis Group) gives company, industry, and executive reports. General HTML links to favorite reports or selected components can be generated to include in internal sites.
  • BeGlobal (SDL Language Weaver) is a platform for real-time automated translation. Users can access it through a central, consumer-grade, web application (or API). Organization business users can publish multilingual content and communicate with global customers.

Winners in each category will be announced at the Information Industry Summit on Tuesday, January 25th.

Featured digital content category: Best News Service

Today’s featured CODiE Awards digital content category is Best News Service. This category awards the best online service focused on current awareness, as opposed to breaking news. The service may be from original publishers or distributors, and must clearly be focused on the delivery of news.

Finalists are:

  • Wall Street Journal Professional (Dow Jones & Company) combines news coverage and analysis of The Wall Street Journal with Factiva SmartSearch into one product.
  • LexisNexis Publisher (LexisNexis Group) allows users to publish or distribute current news and legal information through the platform of their choice including Internet, intranet, portal, extranet, email, newsletter, RSS reader, or mobile device.
  • NexisDirect (LexisNexis Group) is an enterprise search solution that searches content from LN’s collection of news sources, industry intelligence reports, company intelligence reports, biographical profiles, and retrieve reports from Company Dossier.

Featured Digital Content Category: Best Financial/Market Data Information Service

Today’s featured CODiE Awards category is Best Financial/Market Data Information Service. This category recognizes the best online service for providing financial and market data, information or news for professional markets. It includes real-time data services, financial news services, market analysis, credit services, merger and acquisition information, as well as accounting, banking, and regulatory information.

Finalists are:

  • Passport (Euromonitor International) is a syndicated global database focused on industries, and country and consumer market intelligence that is sold to educational institutions and multinational companies worldwide.
  • Mergent Online (Mergent, Inc.) delivers access to a historical financial database with intuitive search capabilities. It also has an easy to use interface, access to risk, ratings, credit information and recommendations.
  • PitchBook (PitchBook Data, Inc.) provides clients with information and analysis on thousands of private equity deals, investors/corporate acquirers, funds, service providers, limited partners, and industry professionals.
  • ProQuest Entrepreneurship (ProQuest) offers a central access point to a collection of scholarly and traditional resources along with multimedia tools. It combines full text and A&I resources with the integration of multimedia and new format content.

Winners for all digital content categories will be announced at the Information Industry Summit on January 25th in New York City.

Featured Content Category: Best Directory & Business Leads Service

Congratulations to the finalists in this 2011 CODiE Awards category!

Best Directory & Business Leads Service recognizes the best online service for accessing contact information for businesses and professionals in specific industries, areas of expertise, or geographic locations; or as part of a collection of prospective buyers in a certain market.

Finalists are:

  • Cvent Supplier Network (Cvent) allows meeting and event planners to search a free-web-based database containing over 100,000 worldwide venue profiles. Users can also send Requests for Proposals and compare bids through side-by-side reports.
  • Jigsaw.com (Jigsaw) is the world’s largest database containing company information. The directory contains over 22 million business contacts with a contact’s phone number, position, company, mailing address, and business email.
  • Leadership State-Muni Premium (Leadership Directories, Inc.) allows users to access contact and biographical information for over 140,000 government positions including city council members, state legislators and their aides, law enforcement personnel, and department and agency directors. Available information includes names, titles, phone/fax numbers, addresses, and emails.
  • ZoomInfo Pro (Zoom Information Inc.) is a SaaS application geared toward B2B sales, marketing, business development and recruiting professionals. Users can find up-to-date information on businesses and employees by searching any combination of more than 20 criteria.

Featured Digital Content Category: Best Content Aggregation Solution

Today’s featured CODiEs category is Best Content Aggregation Solution which recognizes the best product that gathers or collects information or applications from disparate online sources for reuse, resale, or distribution from, a single platform. Products may be developed for the broader market or customized based on user needs.

Finalists are:

  • Factiva.com (Dow Jones & Company) is a compilation of more than 28,000 leading news and business sources from more than 200 countries and in 23 languages. It provides a complete landscape of the information you need by giving both a global and local perspective.
  • Expert Profiling (Elsevier) provides institutions with an overview of their research experts. Each researcher’s entire research record is available through a Fingerprint profile. The information is updated daily so the institution has complete records.
  • Mobile Library (Infotrieve, Inc.) provides users with secure access to all corporate licensed electronic content and document repositories. Users can also access the world’s largest collection of STM content.
  • InsideView for Sales (SalesView) (InsideView) gives users accurate, up-to-date sales intelligence and content by bringing in information from more than 20,000 sources, including Twitter and Thomas Reuters.
  • Verdict & Settlement Analyzer (LexisNexis Group) is a tool attorneys can use to research and evaluate the level of risk or opportunity associated with a case by aggregating data from previous cases into a consolidated report.
  • All-New Newsdesk 4 (Moreover Technologies) is a Business Intelligence SaaS application for intuitive mining, and finding and sharing real-time relevant information. Information is pulled from daily news, social media and industry publications.

Featured Digital Content Category: Best Business Information Resource

Congratulations to the 2011 CODiE Awards Digital Content finalists! We’re excited to introduce the finalists in each category and are looking forward to announcing the winners at the Information Industry Summit next week.

Today’s featured category is Best Business Information Resource. This category recognizes the best online service that delivers comprehensive company, business and/or industry information. This includes company profiles, people, financial data, analyst reports, niche business-oriented publications, and market research.

Finalists are:

  • CisionPoint (Cision) is a CRM application for marketing and public relations professionals that automates the PR workflow. Users can monitor news coverage and social media buzz, engage top media using its integrated database, and distribute news via SEO website, social media, wire services and email. 
  • Dow Jones Supplier & Risk Monitor (Dow Jones & Company) assists supply chain and procurement personnel in monitoring and evaluating real time events that could disrupt a supply chain. Its tools help users manage supplier relationships, understand trends, and drive innovation. 
  • InfoDesk Solutions (InfoDesk) help integrate news, media and information resources on a single, real-time platform. Advanced queries and custom taxonomies filter and feed email alerts, briefings and newsletters, and replicate content instantly to work flow tools like portals, intranets and widgets. 
  • LexisNexis Due Diligence Dashboard (LexisNexis Group) examines corporations and individuals by searching thousands of databases in a single search. Databases include public records, news sources, company filings, sanctions and watch lists, and global regulatory web sites. 
  • PitchBook (PitchBook Data, Inc.) provides clients with information and analysis on thousands of private equity deals, investors/corporate acquirers, funds, service providers, limited partners, and industry professionals. 

Check out the rest of the finalists in the digital content categories!