April 2003

NewsEdgeNewsEdge

NewsEdgeNewsEdge

• NewsEdge Refinery

• Content– NewsEdge Editors Picks

– NewsEdge Alerts/Smart Wires/Active Feeds

• Services– Dialog NewsEdge

– Live

– eContent

NewsEdge RefineryNewsEdge Refinery

• The Refinery is the key to the NewsEdge Value-Add proposition.

• Crude/unrefined news, just like crude oil, is of no use to anyone.

• Refined news, like refined oil, is a tremendously valuable commodity.

• The NewsEdge Refinery turns crude news into refined news….

………..here’s how

Refinery Process

Global news content

•Newswires•Newspapers•Trade journals•Business publications

Format TagFilter

Taxonomy•3,500 subjects•All listed companies•Source, geography, date/time etc

Delivery

Pure real-time

or

Editorially enhanced

for relevance

NewsEdge Editors PicksNewsEdge Editors Picks

• Every day the real-time output of the refinery is reviewed by a team of expert human editors.

• For each subject (Topic or Editors Pick) the Editors select which are the most relevant stories.

• They discard irrelevant stories, just selecting the best version of each.

• All stories are then ranked in order or relevance.

• Users are then presented with just the stories they need to read

• Read Less, Know more.

Alerts, SmartWires & Active FeedsAlerts, SmartWires & Active Feeds

• The real-time, refined output of the refinery BEFORE HUMAN REVIEW has different names in different products but is all basically the same.

• Alerts (eContent), SmartWires (Live & Insight) and Active Feeds (XML/XOD).

• Users benefit from a real-time but relevant stream of news from a large number of sources.

• Why pay for a single news source, 90% of which may be irrelevant, when you can get all the relevant bits from hundreds of sources?

Dialog NewsEdgeDialog NewsEdge

• Browser based customisable interface.

• Alerts/Real-Times News – up to the second.

• Editors Picks – highest relevance.

• Dialog NewsRoom – widest/deepest archive.

• Markets, Company Financial/stock information plus charting.

• E-mail alerts

• Publishing Facility

Customised Views

Customised Views

Modules for this view

Modules for this view

Stories matching criteria and real time update

Stories matching criteria and real time update

Stock Prices for Selected Companies

Stock Prices for Selected Companies

NewsRoom Archive

NewsRoom Archive

Customised Views

Customised Views

Companies to Track

Companies to Track

Stock Price Charting

Stock Price Charting

NewsEdge LiveNewsEdge Live

• Windows application

• Real-time scrolling news service.

• Ability to integrate any full-source news wire (Reuters, Dow Jones etc).

• Ability to deliver refined real-time content from the Refinery – SmartWires.

• Real-time sub-second alerting

• Fully user definable profiles, searches etc.

Full view with preferences flagging stories of interestFull view with preferences flagging stories of interest

Customised Workspace

Customised Workspace

Alert Banner can be viewed without NewsEdge being on the screen

Alert Banner can be viewed without NewsEdge being on the screen

Thank YouThank You

michael.larner@dialog.com