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Dialog Breakfast Bratislava 2003. Overview of Profound. www.profound.co.uk www.profound.com. April 2003. Profound. Established 1987 in London Business intelligence service Easy-to-use graphic interface Archive has over 110 million pages of information
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Overview of Profound www.profound.co.ukwww.profound.com April 2003
Profound • Established 1987 in London • Business intelligence service • Easy-to-use graphic interface • Archive has over 110 million pages of information • Divided into Key areas (called ‘Lines’) • Specialist areas of coverage include…. • Marketing research • International news (newspapers and journals) • Brokers research • Company information • Geoeconomic reports • Brand information
Which Industries Use Profound • Banks and financial institutions • Companies from all industry sectors • Consultants • Government departments • Academics • Law firms
Who uses Profound • Chief Executives • Managing Directors • Marketing Directors, Managersand Executives • Knowledge Managers • Information Specialists • Librarians • Research Professionals
ResearchLine • A 10 year merged archive of over 90,000 market research reports • 78 publishers, many exclusive • Seamless searching to exact criteria bring back most relevant reports • Offers customers the ability to buy individual parts of reports • Few reports have time embargoes
New Content Launches • Gartner World’s foremost provider of IT related research • Yankee Research Specialists in Telecom and IT related reports • Communications, eCommerce: Internet, Wireless: computing and enterprise applications • Aberdeen Monitors user’s needs; technological innovations and market developments • Computers; Information Technology
New Content Launches • ARC Advisory Group • Focus on technology planning for manufacturing industries including supply chain management • Cahners In-Stat • Specialists in Vendor analysis within IT providers • Tower Group • IT reports for the Financial services Industry • Semico Research Corporation • Global Semiconductor industry
New Content Launches • Simba Information Inc • Information Industries; Media, IT, etc • Veronis Suhler • Communication companies; media • Lafis • Latin American reports on 27 industries • ADIS and Wintergreen • Pharmaceutical • SecuritiesInstitute • Financial services
ResearchLine & CountryLine Publisher Lists on Dialog.com Available via the Dialog Profound link on the Sources dropdown menu
ResearchLine & CountryLine Publisher Lists via Dialog Profound Available via the Sources link on the Dialog Profound product interface
ResearchLine Publisher List on dialog.com • Search for ResearchLine publishers by: • Publisher name • Country • Market Sector
ResearchLine Publisher List on dialog.com Results show publisher name and country
ResearchLine Publisher List on dialog.com Publisher Detail includes a brief description of the content
ResearchLine Publisher List on dialog.com Results show publisher name and country
ResearchLine Publisher List on dialog.com Publisher Detail includes a brief description of the content
CountryLine • Merged file of reports from the world’s leading publishers • Comprehensive geopolitical, economic and demographic information for over 190 countries • Offers customers the ability to buy individual parts of reports
NewsLine • Comprehensive global news from over 7,000 sources: • Newspapers • Magazines • Trade industry journals • Broadcast transcripts • Newswires • Corporate news releases • Academic journals
BrandLine • A unique combination of content covering • Brand News • Brands by Company • Company by Brand • Trademark • A must for all Marketing / Advertising Executives
CompanyLine through QuickSearch • Investment Research – Investext • Mergers and Acquisitons – Thomson Financial • Company Profiles – Dun and BradStreet • Company Financials – UK, USA and Japan • Company Product Lines - Kompass
Other QuickSearch areas • Intellectual Property • Trademarks • Patents • TableBase – magazine and newspaper articles with tabular content
Profound for the Internet • Easy to use point and click interface offering command language (Worldsearch) searching or menu driven (Quicksearch) searching • Customers may access service wherever they can use the World Wide Web • Offers customers the ability to buy individual parts of reports • Email alerting facility • Quicksearch option offers access to information from Dialog data files
Briefings Additional reports compiled for Profound available as *.pdf files Market Briefings compiled by Euromonitor • Graphically illustrated snapshot information and essential information for hundreds of markets includes • Quick links to latest news and additional research • Free of Charge Investment Briefingscompiled by MarketGuide (part of Multex) • Summary financial, performance and share price information for over 9,000 companies • £5.06 for each report
Briefings Additional reports compiled for Profound available as *.pdf files Country Briefings compiled by VBI (Virtual Business Information) • Available for over 100 countries and contain economic, population and business indicators as well as political information • Includes quick links to latest news and additional research • Free of Charge Company Briefingscompiled by Disclosure • Contain essential facts at a glance for thousands of companies • £2.00
Profound Alerts Profound has an email alerting facility • Newsline, Researchline Simply create alerts from a search picklist • Alert titles delivered to searcher by email • Alerts can be delivered daily, weekly or monthly • Alerts charges per occasion per delivery
Profound USPs • Precision searching with InfoSort (categorisation & Indexing of data) • Seamless searching across ALL databases • Easy to use graphic interface • Largest Electronic collection of Market Research anywhere in the world • Each report assigned its own table of contents • Briefings • In EMEA Profound may be positioned as a ‘One Stop Shop’ for it’s content, ease of use and breadth of coverage • Profound may be positioned to compliment other information services including Dialog and DataStar • Profound is the most comprehensive solution for Market Research information