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Weekly News Digest
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October 11, 2004 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Wolters Kluwer Launches New Pharma Services
The Wolters Kluwer Health Pharma Solutions business unit has launched Adis Online (http://www.adisonline.info), a new Web portal that provides access to all Adis' drug review journals and newsletters, including the ability to search more than 50,000 drug-related articles and register for updates. Abstracts are free to all; subscribers can link to the full text and non-subscribers may purchase articles on a pay-per-view basis. The new site provides links to the detailed home pages of Adis' 33 drug-related journals and publications as well as the ability to subscribe to each online.The new Adis eTOC Alert notification service provides registered users with an electronic table of contents (eTOC) from journals and newsletters in the Adis drug library. Users can sign up to receive monthly alerts from one or all publications including Drugs, CNS Drugs, and Drug Safety. The free service is available to individuals who want to keep current on articles pertaining to drug development, including both Adis subscribers and nonsubscribers. The Wolters Kluwer unit (http://www.wkhealth.com) also launched Adis Reactions Pharmacovigilance Service, a user-customizable alerting service that monitors current literature and provides timely notification of case reports of adverse drug reactions. The new service is designed to help pharmaceutical companies comply with regulatory agency reporting requirements. Source: Wolters Kluwer Health
EDGAR Online and Hitachi to Provide Company Data
EDGAR Online, Inc. and Hitachi America, Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced an alliance through which the companies will make financial information from U.S. and Japanese public companies available throughout the U.S. and Japan. For the first time, customers of EDGAR Online will have access to Japanese company data and customers of Hitachi will have access to U.S. company data.Hitachi and EDGAR Online will provide fundamental company data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), which enables importation of fundamental data into a common platform (such as popular spreadsheet applications) for unfettered comparison and analysis. The companies say the combination of U.S. and Japanese data will increase the value of an add-in tool for Microsoft Office 2003 that EDGAR Online is currently developing. The Information Division of Hitachi America, Ltd. provides a range of solutions and services to the information technology marketplace. For more information on XBRL solutions, visit http://www.hitachi.us/xbrl. EDGAR Online, Inc. (http://www.edgar-online.com) provides value-added global business and financial information via online subscriptions and enterprise licensing. Source: EDGAR Online, Inc.
FAST Launches eCommerce Application
Fast Search & Transfer (FAST; http://www.fastsearch.com) has announced FAST ImPulse, an enterprise search, navigation, and merchandising software solution for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce applications. FAST ImPulse is an easy-to-deploy, out-of-the-box solution based on FAST's Enterprise Search Platform (FAST ESP). The company says that by using the FAST ImPulse Dynamic Merchandising features, business managers can create promotions, deliver a superior shopping experience for buyers, and increase customer loyalty to their sites.The search and navigation features of FAST ImPulse include advanced product search, including sophisticated linguistics analysis; flexible, multidimensional navigation that allows buyers to rapidly find what they are looking for; personalized merchandising to provide individually relevant promotions; and dynamic, location-sensitive promotions. Extensive reporting and real-time analytics give business managers and executives critical insights into what people are doing and not doing—business managers can then quickly and easily "tune" the system. Source: Fast Search & Transfer
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Brandi Scardilli
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