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| Factiva Offers New Tools for MS Office |
| Author: | Factiva |
| Date: | Tuesday, 16th Nov 2004 15:00 |
| Views: | 795 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Product announcements | | URL: | http://www.vivavip.com/go/w437 |
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Factiva Offers New Search and Workflow Tools for the Microsoft Office System
Business News and Information brought to life through expanded Office Research Task Pane, Web Part and Smart Tag Suite
London - November 16, 2004 - Factiva®, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, today announced the availability of a new suite of solutions for Microsoft Office 2003 and SharePoint(tm) Products and Technologies.
The new solution pack for Microsoft Office 2003, Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enables information workers to quickly and easily find, organise, read and act on business news and information from inside their most used applications.
Many companies, from industries such as telecommunications, insurance, oil, toy and computer hardware, have recently committed to surface Factiva's content and services within Microsoft Office 2003. Using Factiva, these executives are now better informed about industry events and have a better base for collaborative decision-making.
Demonstrating commitment to the broad objectives of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Factiva has released solutions that address multiple business workflow needs:
* Web Parts for searching and monitoring news and information - Factiva has released two new Web Parts for SharePoint Products and Technologies. Track Web Part allows groups to view news about specific interest areas, while iWorks provides an innovative search tool for information workers that utilize Factiva's XML platform and extensive indexing to tailor results. It can also be used in the Office 2003 Research Task Pane.
* Daily news summaries for busy executives - Using Factiva content and tools and Microsoft Office 2003, information experts can easily create summaries of top news items for executives, departments or teams.
* Group news feed for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 -- Factiva has developed a new tool to make it easy for a company's portal administrator to facilitate news delivery into SharePoint Portal Server 2003
* News anywhere and anytime using Smart Tag technology - Using the power of embedded Smart Tags, Factiva users can easily get more information about a company directly from any Office 2003 document.
* A toolbar for convenient access to Factiva from Internet Explorer - The new Factiva Toolbar makes it easy for Factiva customers to search the rich Factiva archive of 9,000 global sources.
The new solutions represent the second phase in Factiva's plan to embed content into the workflow of Microsoft Office 2003, Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 customers. The first phase involved close cooperation between Factiva and Microsoft so as to imbed Factiva search technology within the Office 2003 Research Task pane.
"Factiva believes that our customers want to have information available to them at the point of need," said Clare Hart, president and CEO of Factiva. "Thus we are very committed to surfacing Factiva content in broad-based and role-specific applications where that need might take place. Microsoft technologies are a big part of that commitment given their considerable presence on desktops worldwide, and our collaboration with Microsoft brings our mutual customers one step closer to a truly streamlined workflow."
"Factiva is a leader in building on the Office System as a platform to give information workers new tools for finding and using the information they need through the applications they already know how to use." said Chris Capossela, corporate vice president Information Worker Product Management Group, Microsoft. "Like Microsoft, Factiva believes that powerful software is the key to meeting the evolving needs of information workers, who need faster and easier access to relevant, reliable content."
As a leader in providing world-class global content, Factiva's capability to integrate with Microsoft Office 2003, Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 accelerates competitive advantage by delivering role-specific solutions within mission critical applications for collaborative and actionable decision-making.
About Factiva
Factiva®, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides world-class global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and The Wall Street Journal - unduplicated in a single service elsewhere. Factiva offers the only single content solution with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering nearly 9,000 sources.
Factiva's products and services help companies integrate news and business information into their daily workflow to increase organizational intelligence and leverage external and internal content within the knowledge management function. Factiva's content management and integration services are used by leading organizations around the world.
Built on industry standards and open architecture, Factiva products deliver flexible, extensible, customizable solutions to enable easy integration and use in the enterprise. Editorial and technical consulting, taxonomy application, integration expertise and e-learning programs reflect Factiva's innovative approach to delivering solutions beyond the content.
Factiva is one of KM World Magazine's "Top 100 Companies in Knowledge Management" and part of EContent Magazine's "Top 100 content companies to watch." Factiva is also recognized as a winner of the 2002 Software & Information Industry Association's Codie Awards in the Best Online Business, Corporate or Professional Information category.
For more information visit: www.factiva.com/press.
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