Factiva vs. Nitrogen Growth Platform

A large part of our work depends on the ability to source quality media content from a breadth of dependable sources globally. This is Factiva's bread and butter: it has a very comprehensive list of 'quality' media sources such as nationals, dailies, business journals and magazines from around the world that are easily mined for the content they hold. If you're thinking about anything other than these 'traditional' media sources then Factiva probably isn't your thing. It doesn't do social media.

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From experience, be very careful of the sales department attempting to sell you autopilot or additional licenses that they will tell you, you dont have to pay for because your assets with one of their fund partners qualifes you for free licenses. In my opinion, I woudn't say we were scammed but were sold on this fact, and they over subscribed us licenses includding one Autopilot licensed which we didn't need. Now, that the fund drop out of the NTF program they are full boating us the $1300 per month for licenses. Their remedy was for us to sign a new 12 month agreement, and they dropped the Autopilot license. Since the CEO has left this year, the name and sadly the company has changed.

• Factiva offers excellent search builders so that I am able to narrow my search to specific companies or topics very easily.
• Factiva combines a large number of credible sources into one place and allows me to search all of these sources.
• Factiva's use of timestamps helps me understand when the news was known by the market which allows me to analyze how (if at all) that particular piece of news impacted the company's stock price.
• Provides an excellent starting place for learning about a company and/or industry.

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• The UX leaves room to be desired
• There are often repetitive entries
• The functionality can be confusing

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• More ethical sales team
• Autopilot trading license is way overpriced
• trading software slow upload times

At the time, Factiva was already being used by the company I worked for - they had developed procedures specifically for using Factiva, so there wasn't really an option. I've used Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg exclusively for legal research, so there wasn't really an overlap with Factiva.

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Trading software called Irebal which was part of TD and is now available for free at Schwab is a much superior trading platform than their autopilot which costs $500+ plus per month. Risk questionnaire is moderately priced but is of good value for a practice looking for efficient way of ascertaining clients risk tolerance

• Has greatly assisted in the risk questionnaire area