SyndiGate provides licensed content to all of the top global aggregators and subscription database services including products owned by Dow Jones, Financial Times, Thomson Reuters and many others.
Content licensed to SyndiGate often needs to meet the business information needs of large enterprises from the following industries:
What the aggregator and database subscribers need
They are also demanding content that is:
SyndiGate provides content to certain customers who literally have hundreds of thousands of subscribers throughout the world. The end-users for this content are usually in knowledge-intensive professions. Some examples and the types of information they get from SyndiGate content:
Business Intelligence.
Corporate Role: Keeping executives apprised of competitive and market threats and new business opportunities.
Needs: In-depth knowledge about an industry and its players. Current news is critical. Information on markets and technology trends.
Consultants.
Corporate Role: At large consulting firms, are responsible for advising clients on appropriate business strategies.
Needs: In-depth information about many industries, companies, and markets, including information on strategies, growth, competitors, offices, people.
Corporate Finance.
Corporate Role: Responsible for assessing financial risk associated with a corporation's planned acquisitions, mergers and strategic direction.
Needs: Due diligence about a company and its financials.
Financial Analysts.
Corporate Role: Responsible for strategic planning process and evaluation of business strategies.
Needs: Financials, company news that appears in local newspapers, stock quotes.
Information Professionals.
Corporate Role: Professional searchers. Responsible for providing research relevant to almost any business topic. Also responsible for corporate-wide knowledge management, including providing employees with current news and research required to do their jobs. Often responsible for training end-users.
Needs: News and in-depth information about almost any topic or company.
Sales.
Corporate Role: Responsible for selling products and services and for maintaining customer relationships. Increasingly, they need to be well-informed not just about their own company - its products, services, and competitive market - but also about their customers and their customers' industries.
Needs: Prospecting lists and current news on companies and industries. Up-to-date information on key players at a company. Industry profiles, including latest news and trends.
Public Relations.
Corporate Role: Responsible for developing relations with the media and for issuing and assuring placement of press releases and articles about the corporation.
Needs: Tracking of press releases and mentions of the company or products in the media. Needs fast access to broad range of sources available immediately upon publication.