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An inside look at trends, issues and products in the world of suppliers and aggregators providing cross-sector B2B content capabilities.
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| Monday, December 22, 2003 |
Marie Giangrande Moves On from EDGAR Online
Heard in the wind this morning, Marie Giangrande has moved on recently from her senior marketing role at EDGAR Online, a supplier of business content and integration tools centered on SEC filings coming via their EDGAR feed. Marie took on the senior marketing role this spring in the wake of housecleaning at the Norwalk, CT based firm that took in its wake former President and COO Tom Vos. The reasons for Marie's departure are not under our fingernails just yet, but we'll keep you posted as information becomes available. Certainly EDGAR Online and other filings value-add providers have a tough row to hoe as the public SEC Web site has grown in its basic retrieval capabilites and filings information becomes integrated into broader workflow-oriented business and financial information products. It takes a broad array of contextual content and cutting-edge integration capabilities to make the most of freely available content; hopefully EDGAR Online can continue to refine their targeting to take advantage of the sweet spots left in this sector.
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posted by John Blossom at
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| Wednesday, December 17, 2003 |
Amazon's Shifting Role: A Lesson for Aggregators?
BusinessWeek reports on Amazon's ongoing transformation into a company that makes money as much on providing ecommerce technology and infrastructure to other companies as it does for its own sales - a trend that BW likens to a shopping mall that's developed and owned by one of its anchor stores. It's really the same aggregation business that majors such as Dialog, Factiva, LexisNexis and others have been providing for some time, a business that requires aggregators to provide a range of technology services to its publishing clients to enable content ecommerce. The emphasis on independent portal technology is perhaps a little more akin to the likes of ECNext, which services research providers with common infrastructure and independently designed and branded outlets for their content. And of course we pause for a moment of silence to remember Verticalnet...there, was that long enough? The difference between Amazon and all of these approaches is Amazon's willingness to take an "eat your own dog food", peer-like approach to providing the enabling technology, something that most publishers have been reluctant to do, given their historic reliance on aggregators who are supposed to simplify these matters for them. But in this world of "hands on" content ecommerce, the model to watch for premium content may be more akin to Amazon's as time goes on, bringing technological and content "co-opetition" to a new level.
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posted by John Blossom at
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