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What is Factiva?
Factiva from Dow Jones is a data service that helps companies identify opportunities, accelerate decisions and manage a business's reputation, that includes global news and data accessible via the Dow Jones' research platform, on mobile devices or integrated via advanced...
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Factiva from Dow Jones is a data service that helps companies identify opportunities, accelerate decisions and manage a business's reputation, that includes global news and data accessible via the Dow Jones' research platform, on mobile devices or integrated via advanced feeds and APIs.
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What is Factiva?
Factiva from Dow Jones is a data service that helps companies identify opportunities, accelerate decisions and manage a business's reputation, that includes global news and data accessible via the Dow Jones' research platform, on mobile devices or integrated via advanced feeds and APIs.
Factiva’s global news database, archives and research platform includes premium sources—according to the vendor 74% of which are not available on the free web—include access to The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and Reuters, plus licensed publications, influential websites, trade magazines and regional papers from around the world. For access it provides search, filtering, as wells as smart indexing and sharing tools.
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Factiva is being used by our Insight and Research departments as a content sourcing tool to fulfil client briefs and as a research tool to help us with our own marketing efforts, such as thought leadership pieces, sector reviews or to provide source material for opinion pieces. In these instances it helps address both an immediate client need but also acts as a very useful resource for answering ad-hoc requirements in house.
- Factiva has some quality news sources within its database. You know it's a robust, reliable and trustworthy source of content.
- The Boolean logic search engine can seem a little daunting at first, but it is a very powerful tool to help you get the most out of running searches. The syntax and query structure generally follows the same as most 'keyword search' engines, but it has some quirks that you need to be aware of - operators in lower case, or running multi word / phrase searches outside of quote marks.
- The filtering capability is simplistic but highly sophisticated. Filter content by source, region, language, company, industry and subject matter to really help hone results. The amount of back data readily available in the tool is impressive too meaning that running historical searches over large a timeframe is quick and easy.
- Results shown include a highlighted section to indicate where keywords have matched - a nice addition to help you quickly identify the relevant bits of content you need.
- You have the option to further tailor searches, and the ability to save individual searches for quick recall is a nice feature.
- The tool is fast. It can handle complex searches and mine data going back years very very quickly. Most impressive
- While the source list available is strong, there is limited if next to no social media in the tool. OK, it's Factiva, we know it doesn't do social media, but if it ran social media searches in the same way it handled news searches this would be a formidable tool for anyone to use.
- Export functionality is good but a little restrictive. While the tool exports a multitude of formats (headlines only, headlines and full text etc) the number of records you can export in one hit is relatively small if your initial search returns 1,000s of items. This is a shame given how powerful the tool is in running queries and building a deck of results.
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.
June 17, 2016
Excellent one-stop shop for credible news articles!
This is used primarily by expert testifiers who have experience with securities litigations. It is used frequently to help us understand what news events regarding a specific topic or company were known by the market and when they were known. Since Factiva combines a number of news contributors, this greatly reduces the amount of time spent trying to understand what information was in the market and when it was known by investors.
- 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.
- While timestamps are available on some news events, it is not available on all. For my purposes, timestamps are crucial and if they're not available on Factiva, we often have to search out the internet to see if this information is available elsewhere.
- Sometimes when narrowing news by the "Company" search function, Factiva can remove news that is still relevant to the company.
- Often times we may work for an international company so it becomes crucial to not only review English articles, but also foreign articles as well. It would be nice to have the ability to automatically translate (even if it is a rough translation) these non-English articles for ease of use.
I have used Lexis Nexus and Thomson One. I find Factiva to be the most user friendly of these services. I much prefer Factiva's layout on their website when I search for articles and I also prefer its search builder over Lexis Nexus and Thomson One.
June 10, 2016
Great for business news
At Law360, a NexisLexis-owned legal news wire, we used Factiva to keep on top of news in various industries or for specific companies we were following—often, I'd check the alerts we had set up every hour or so to determine whether there was anything that we had missed in our searches of PACER and other news organizations. Overall, it acted as a failsafe and news source.
- Putting broad swaths of news in one place
- Organizing information
- Constant updates
- The UX leaves room to be desired
- There are often repetitive entries
- The functionality can be confusing
I often used Twitter as an alternative to Factiva. Additionally, I used a number of link-gathering resources such as Google alerts.
June 09, 2016
What the Factiva?
It was used throughout the organization - both analysts and executives used it to conduct research on medical device companies, focusing on those companies headquartered in Eastern Asia, as well as the largest companies in the U.S. Moreover, we conducted research specifically on the competitor businesses to our client companies, to keep them abreast of developments and trends within the industry.
- Strong overall search capabilities
- Intuitive basis by which to refine a search
- Frequently updated
- Lengthy setup for searches
- Repeated articles appear frequently
- Unannounced interface changes were unpleasant surprises
- Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg
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.