ITI Bloggers June 17th, 2009

I had a chance to meet with several executives in the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group for a briefing on what’s new and upcoming. Apparently the financial crisis hasn’t slowed the rate of innovation at Dow Jones. The company says it has been moving its products to focus more on the specific job roles of research/knowledge workers. Future product development will target specific market segments and will be geared to fit within business processes and workflow.

The company is introducing Dow Jones Idea Share, an interactive community where you can add your thoughts, ideas, and feedback about Dow Jones Factiva. It was due for June release but now will be available July 1 at www.dowjonesideashare.com.

And, there are a lot of other developments promised for July availability-we’ll be covering them in more detail as they are rolled out. Factiva.com will be adding Executives to the Discovery Pane. It will also add a Concept Explorer, a semantic tool to help narrow a search. Dow Jones Companies & Executives for the Enterprise will be available as an add-on module for Factiva.com. It provides deep information on 17 million companies as well as additional industry reports and data.

Available in July, Dow Jones Daily Intelligence will deliver two exclusive daily newsletters from Dow Jones Newswires: Tomorrow’s News Today and Dow Jones Morning Briefing.

Dow Jones Insight helps public relations and corporate communications professionals measure media coverage. In July, Dow Jones will enhance Media Monitor with a number of new features and will offer seamless integration with Factiva. It will also begin offering custom research prepared by its media analysts to meet ad hoc needs.

Sometime this fall, the company will introduce a new product targeting knowledge workers that will bring together content from WSJ.com with some capabilities from Factiva.com. It won’t be for heavy-duty researchers who need the full strength of Factiva.com. The working name for it is Wall Street Journal Enterprise Edition, though this may change before launch.

Paula J. Hane

News Bureau Chief, ITI

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