Factiva vs. Sumdata.me

Factiva is particularly useful when I work on securities litigations involving shareholder lawsuits -- i.e. shareholders who bought and sold shares during a specified class period when the company was misrepresenting, for example, its financials. Specifically Factiva is quite useful in helping me understand what company events were known by the market and when they were known. Factiva has also been useful in helping me on various research studies. It is less relevant for other types of litigation that I work on (i.e. Patent litigation, etc).

Incentivized

Easy to use, easy to start, very budget - wise, especially for micro and small business

• Putting broad swaths of news in one place
• Organizing information
• Constant updates

Incentivized

• Discover similar business to your existing customers data base
• Show business information and comparison based on location, industry, and many more factors
• They showing the contact person in the business and way to connect

• Lengthy setup for searches
• Repeated articles appear frequently
• Unannounced interface changes were unpleasant surprises

Incentivized

• I think it will be helpful to get more "live" data
• I am waiting to see the future marketplace feature

it really helped me in getting engaged with new potential customers and also increased my conversion rate

Each of the tools I have described share the same kind of premise: the main thing they do is source and collect media content. Then to varying degrees they run filters against this content and produce a range of data visualisations and ways of slicing the data and content. Factiva's strength lies more in the sourcing of content than in the manipulation of the results (much like the others do with more sophisticated dashboards and visual interpretations). We chose it because of the integrity of its sourcing breadth. It doesn't matter so much about the display of results because the source material you're working with isn't as dynamic as say social media.

Incentivized

It is more beneficial to small businesses and much easier to use. In the micro/small business market, it is all about connecting the right people with their specific needs and communicate in person with potential customers, and in this, SumData.me specialize

• Positive, for the low cost for user, I discovered much more customers than before