DM Review picks up on business content soultions provider
OneSource's new quality control initiatives using multiple techniques, including automated monitoring, parsing and tagging of news, content vendor management, corporate Web site reviews, primary research and rapid data correction. As OneSource finds its content increasingly a part of institutional portals that need this information as up to date and accurate as possible for immediate action, the initiative places it in a good position to leverage its strategic use of Web services integration to make those portal presences a seamless and highly reliable part of their clients' operations. It comes also at a time when D&B-backed rival Hoover's is stumbling with data quality issues and when flashy online alternatives such as Eliyon are failing to prove that they have industrial-strength content integrity. As content distribution technology advantages fall away from aggregators, cost-effective quality control is one of the primary strengths on which any enterprise-level distribution strategy must rest - and perhaps becomes the core function for content that may come from licensed sources, public sources and client-supplied sources. Many have promised strong QA for business information, but few have delivered to their clients' needs and expectations, so OneSource is placing themselves in a strong position for improving their market penetration on the top end. Now if only they can do something about the bottom end of the market...