Factiva
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| Founded | 1999 |
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| Owner | News Corp |
| Parent | Dow Jones & Company |
| Website | www.factiva.com |
Factiva is a business information and research tool owned by Dow Jones & Company. Factiva aggregates content from both licensed and free sources. Providing organizations with search, alerting, dissemination, and other information management capabilities.
History
[edit]The company was founded as a joint-venture between Reuters and Dow Jones & Company in May 1999 under the Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive name,[1] and renamed Factiva six months later. Timothy M. Andrews, a longtime Dow Jones executive, was founding president and chief executive of the venture.[2]
Andrews was succeeded by Clare Hart in January 2000, another longtime Dow Jones executive, who was serving as Factiva's vice president and director of global sales.[citation needed]
It developed modules with Microsoft, Oracle Corp., IBM and Yahoo!. Factiva has also partnered with EuroSpider, Comintelli, PeopleSoft, Media Map, Biz360, Choice Point, BTRadianz, AtHoc, and Reuters. Factiva has also been included as of March 2003 in Microsoft's Office 2003 program as one of the News research options within the Research Pane.[citation needed]
In 2005, Factiva acquired two private companies: London-based 2B Reputation Intelligence Ltd. and Denver, Colorado-based taxonomy services and software firm, Synapse, the Knowledge Link Corporation. 2B was a technology and consulting business, specializing in media monitoring and reputation management. Synapse provided taxonomy management software, pre-built taxonomies and taxonomy-building and indexing services.[citation needed]
This acquisition brought with it Synaptica, the taxonomy management software tool developed by Synapse, and Taxonomy Warehouse, a website developed by Synapse.[citation needed] Both Synaptica and Taxonomy Warehouse were developed by Factiva after the acquisition and are now owned by Dow Jones.[citation needed]
In 2006, Reuters sold its 50 percent share of Factiva to Dow Jones. Factiva was integrated into the Enterprise Media Group within Dow Jones.[3] Clare Hart was the executive vice president of this operating group.
In 2007, Factiva was included as a Dow Jones company sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.[4][5]
Factiva provides searching by free-text, as well as region, subject, author, industry and company metadata. Searches can be further filtered by publication, language and date range.
Factiva offers a number of enterprise integration options,[6] including a fully comprehensive web services API, the Factiva Developers Kit. This toolkit allows organizations to embed Factiva content and services within enterprise workflow applications.
In 2008 Dow Jones launched the website Synaptica Central to highlight the Synaptica tool and to discuss controlled vocabularies and semantic technologies.[citation needed]
In 2012, Dow Jones announced a new search platform for its digital network based on technology licensed from MarkLogic Corporation.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Dow Jones Interactive, Reuters Business Briefing Merged into Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive". Information Today, Inc. 17 May 1999. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
- ↑ "Factiva: The New Name for Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive". Information Today, Inc. 8 November 1999. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
- ↑ "Dow Jones to buy rest of Factiva for $160 MLN | FinancialContent Business Page". Archived from the original on 2014-05-28. Retrieved 2014-05-27.
- ↑ "FOXNews.com - Thumbnails of Dow Jones and News Corp. - Business And Money - Business News - Financial News". www.foxnews.com. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ↑ "Review Management". Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ↑ "Product Review of NewsEdge.com (Value - Competitors, Development & Pricing)". Jinfo. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
- ↑ Quint, Barbara (13 December 2012). "Dow Jones Moving to MarkLogic Platform; Factiva First". newsbreaks.infotoday.com.
