Latest Dow Jones Product Integration Keeps Users 'In The Know'
17 September 2008 - 11:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Dow Jones's business research technology and personalized content
arms users with the news and intelligence needed to excel in
building business relationships NEW YORK, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ --
Dow Jones & Company today announced its Business and
Relationship Intelligence group's first combined product release
since the acquisition of Generate in April, bringing together
innovative business research technology and rich content. The
enhancements create a powerful means to keep business professionals
on top of their game through rich news analysis, critical business
information and industry news. The new offering encompasses; -- The
addition of the Dow Jones gClick toolbar for Dow Jones SalesWorks
and Companies & Executives users; -- Dow Jones gDaily industry
newsletter available for Dow Jones SalesWorks and Dow Jones
Companies & Executives; -- Expansion of the content library in
Dow Jones g2 to include content from The Wall Street Journal and
Barrons. "Most business professionals are constantly on the phone,
on the road, or in front of customers," said Tom Aley, senior vice
president and managing director, Dow Jones Business &
Relationship Intelligence Group. "They have little time to conduct
in-depth research -- yet they're under constant pressure to stay on
top of the industries they are targeting. With this novel
combination of extraction technology and business intelligence,
we're empowering users to stay on top of the latest market
knowledge without slowing them down." The Dow Jones gClick Toolbar
Dow Jones SalesWorks and Dow Jones Companies & Executives users
can now benefit from the Dow Jones gClick toolbar. Utilizing
powerful extraction technology to weave together subscription tools
with Internet content, the Dow Jones gClick toolbar provides users
with critical business intelligence on companies of interest from
anywhere on the web. While reading virtually any Web page,
including news stories, press releases, blog posts, SEC filings or
corporate web sites, the user simply clicks the toolbar, which
extracts the companies mentioned on the page and enables users to
drill down to detailed company profiles within the Dow Jones
SalesWorks or Companies and Executives products. By taking
advantage of the gClick toolbar, users are able to benefit from
reliable, contextual information for faster, more informed decision
making about prospects they're pursuing or competitors they are
tracking. Additionally, gClick received a prestigious 2008 Codie
Award for content aggregation. Dow Jones gDaily Industry
Newsletters Dow Jones gDaily industry newsletters have been
extended to the Dow Jones SalesWorks and Dow Jones Companies &
Executives products. Filtering content in 25 different industry
categories from more than 25,000 unique media sources and more than
three million blogs, gDaily combines the most important industry
news of the day, which is editorially selected, with direct links
to in-depth information on the companies mentioned in news
articles. With regular email delivery of the newsletters, Dow Jones
gDaily is a simple, effective solution for monitoring customer
activities, identifying lucrative new sales opportunities, or
tracking competitors. Dow Jones Content Integration The Wall Street
Journal, the world's leading business publication -- and Barron's,
America's premier financial weekly are now part of all Dow Jones
Business & Relationship Intelligence products, including Dow
Jones g2, expanding the content library and giving users more
timely content to explore. The additional content expands the news
coverage and will also help improve Dow Jones g2 sales trigger
results due to the high quality content. "CSO Insights most recent
study of 1,600+ sales organizations worldwide found that 48% of
companies surveyed reported that they needed to significantly
improve the ability of their sales teams to thoroughly research the
accounts they are calling on," said Jim Dickie, analyst and
managing partner at CSO Insights. "Innovative solutions like those
from Dow Jones, Business and Relationship Intelligence group are
providing a cost effective way to leverage technology to provide
each sales person with a 'digital research analyst' to help them
accomplish that key selling task." ABOUT DOW JONES Dow Jones &
Company (http://www.dowjones.com/) is a News Corporation company
(NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; http://www.newscorp.com/). Dow
Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information
services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street
Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review.
Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones
Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow
Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group
operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50%
of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to
radio stations in the U.S. ABOUT DOW JONES Business &
Relationship Intelligence Dow Jones Business & Relationship
Intelligence provides leading customer intelligence solutions that
enable organizations to identify and connect to the best business
opportunities. The combination of next generation technology with
actionable information powers the performance of sales and research
professionals plus media organizations. Dow Jones Business &
Relationship Intelligence's award-winning solutions include the
most up to date and accurate global intelligence on millions of
companies, the executives that manage them and the relationships
that link them. Integrating these tools and content behind your
firewall -- connecting vital internal and external customer
information in context for salespeople -- provides a single,
complete view of a customer further increasing your effectiveness.
DATASOURCE: Dow Jones & Company CONTACT: Adrienne MacWhannell
of Dow Jones, +1-212-659-2486, ; or Alexis Gordon of PAN
Communications for Dow Jones, +1-978-474-1900, Web site:
http://www.dowjones.com/ http://www.newscorp.com/
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