Company: Factiva, New York, USA

Company Division/Group: Factiva

Company Description: Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, provides essential business news and information together with the content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster. Factiva’s unrivalled collection includes more than 10,000 authoritative sources.

Nomination Category: Company, Office & Product Awards Categories

Nomination Sub Category: Most Innovative Company

Nomination Title: Factiva Innovation Positions Company for Continued Success

   1. Tell the story about what this nominated company achieved in the past year (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:

Factiva prides itself on constantly innovating and keeping one step ahead of the competition. As such, its business accomplishments over the last year

include new and enhanced solutions, acquisitions, its first patent and more.

Factiva launched Search 2.0 in December 2005 - a suite of search capabilities that leverage text mining technologies, advanced content visualization and Factiva’s patented taxonomy, so that users can quickly find the information they need to support critical business decisions. Factiva Search 2.0 significantly decreases the time spent locating information while providing more relevant and actionable results. It searches across Factiva’s more than 10,000 authoritative sources. This next generation of search for Factiva delivers relevant results that are organized by subjects, companies, industries and associated themes and presented in a graphical format for interactive navigation. Additionally, the discovery functionality identifies trends and themes around search topics and terms.

Factiva has focused on innovation by delivering role-based solutions that serve up information when and where it is needed. In January 2005, Factiva Company & Executives™ and Factiva SalesWorks™ were introduced. These solutions provide rich collections of business-critical information about companies, industries and executives in easy to use interfaces designed specifically for knowledge workers and sales professionals respectively. Later in 2005, Factiva Mobile was launched to provide time-pressed, mobile executives with access to business news and company information via mobile sevice, making it easier for professionals to keep abreast of the rapidly changing business environment.

The company continued its momentum with the business decision to acquire two companies that would help Factiva round out its offerings and forge new markets:  2B Reputation Intelligence Limited and Benchmarking Solutions Limited, a technology and consulting business specializing in media monitoring and reputation management, supporting Factiva’s role-based offerings in the marketing segment and Synapse, a taxonomy company - further expanding the company’s expertise in enterprise content integration.

Factiva broke new ground with the launch of Factiva Insight™: Reputation Intelligence, a powerful new tool that empowers executives to monitor known issues and discover emerging opportunities and threats from across the mainstream media, radio and television transcripts and consumer-generated content, including blogs and message boards, in one solution. The tool uses sophisticated text mining and visualization technologies to deliver decision-ready data via graphical reports.

Additionally, Factiva introduced two Factiva Consulting Services offerings; Factiva Select: Competitive Awareness and Factiva Portal Services: Executives, a customizable set of Web Parts enhanced with world-class Factiva content that enable professionals to view information from applications that they use everyday.

To further validate its approach to innovation, Factiva was issued its very first patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for Factiva

Intelligent Indexing™, the Factiva Industry, Region and Subject Taxonomy and Factiva Company Taxonomy as applied to all content, in all formats, in all languages, in Factiva’s business news information services.

Throughout 2005 Factiva strengthened its global content by adding nearly 1,200 publications, bringing the total content to more than 10,000 sources.

Additionally, Factiva remained committed to forming strategic partnerships that would extend its offering to new markets and create new business

opportunities. For example, though a partnership with Yahoo!, Factiva’s content is now available via Yahoo! Search Subscriptions, providing a wider

audience of web searchers with access to the best of the business deep web.

Other alliances formed include IBM, Microsoft, NewsGator and more to deliver content to businesspeople when and where they need it. Factiva has made a name for itself through innovation that addresses customer needs and a shrewd operating philosophy — a proven recipe for success.

   2. List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, http://www.youraddress.com:

http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060116-2.shtml

http://www.it-analysis.com/business/innovation/content.php?cid=8292

http://www.intranetstoday.com/Articles/?ArticleID=5661&ContextSubtypeID=58

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=LECYPUH3VOJJ2QSNDBCCK
HSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=178601677

http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2148704/factiva-launch-second

http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050509-2.shtml

http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2139055/synapse-snapped-factiva

http://www.webpronews.com/insidesearch/insidesearch/wpn-56-20050719FactivaAddedToYahoo
SearchSubscriptions.html

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050804-130542

http://www.webpronews.com/insidesearch/insidesearch/wpn-56-20050804FactivaKnows.html

http://www.mobilevillage.com/news/2005.09.30/factiva.htm

   3. Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader of this nominated company:

As President and Chief Executive Officer at Factiva through March 2006, Clare Hart drove the strategic vision and direction for the award-winning and

innovative content, technology, and services company that counts nearly 80 percent of the Global Fortune 500 as clients. Today Claude Green is Interim CEO and has overall responsibility for driving Factiva’s growth. Prior to this appointment, Claude Green was Deputy CEO and oversaw the human resource, finance, business development, and legal departments at Factiva. Mr. Green was also responsible for Factiva’s government relations team, which serves to implement strategies and strengthen relationships with the public sector.