Strategic Uses for Federated Search, Part 2

Last month, I wrote Strategic Uses for Federated Search, Part 1, which discussed how federated search in marketing and brand management creates a strategic advantage for an organization. Now I’d like to talk (briefly, at least for me) about another area where federated search represents a key strategic advantage: Intellectual property research and litigation. I [...]

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This post was written by Larry Donahue on July 21, 2009 Comments (0)

Westlaw Without Dialog: What’s An Attorney To Do?

Until 2008, Dialog was formerly part of Thomson Scientific, itself a unit of financial information giant Thomson Reuters. Westlaw, a part of West Publishing, itself another unit of Thomson Reuters, had therefore been able to provide Dialog’s powerful database of sources (which include 900 databases of intellectual property), to its large group of professional subscribers. [...]

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This post was written by Larry Donahue on May 20, 2009 Comments (4)