Lexis Search Advantage vs. Spekit

It is good for researching previous news stories on a subject and it can be helpful for tracking down people and their biographical information. If you're looking for academic studies on a subject, this is not the best place to go in my opinion. It is also not always current with addresses and phone numbers.

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Good situation: when you have way too many tools hosting content, Spekit is great at bringing everything together so I don't need to remember where things are hosted. I just need to know ish how to search. Bad: I feel like it still doesn't help people discover content nearly as much. The nice thing about a Confluence or other systems like that is that there are resources right in front of you, VS having to know what to search for. Also, I hate the extension, stop cluttering up Gmail.

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• Searching for news stories on a subject.
• Tracking down people.
• Tracking down previous residences of a person.

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• Spekit is quick and easy to install and start using.
• Spekit's customer support is second to none.
• Spekit offers a lot of flexibility for users to customize for particular situations.

• Not all address location information is accurate or up to date.
• The previous search function for news stories was easier to use than what was changed last year.

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• Wish it was easier to insert hyperlinks.
• Wish changes could be made once and duplicated to related pages.
• Would be nice to rearrange Speks on a user level.
• Do not seem to be able to share specific Speks.

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It's been several years since I called for help but when I did, Lexis was very helpful.

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Lexis is much more refined in its results. I use it because it is a newsroom standard and it is what is provided by the company.

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Spekit is fine, I just feel like it doesn't have the world's best upfront organizational tool. I like Atlassian Confluence due to the ability to have pages and have an organized thought. That does take significantly more effort to keep it organized and up to date which everyone doesn't really want to have. On the flip side, Spekit does have a great search tool, which is a lot like other enterprise search tools, this one just happens to be used by the sales team. Overall, I'm a fan, except for their chrome extension - stop invading my space.

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• No idea -- I don't deal with our finances.

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• I've only been in my position for a brief while, so I'm not sure yet.
• I know it's helped longer tenured members of my team do very well!

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