Shoring Up Traditional Online
Some days it seems to me that the traditional online vendors have become invisible. When they were new, 30 years ago, information professionals were eager to learn every possible nuance of their features, content, and future plans. Today, I fear, we take traditional online for granted and have turned our eager attention to the Web search engines. So I was delighted to read John Blossom’s post yesterday Business Valentine: LexisNexis and Factiva Up the Romance for Business Content Users which talked about “new sources, functionality and market targeting” from LN and Factiva. Also mentioned in his analysis were OneSource, now owned by infoUSA, and D&B. Although I understand the necessity for the traditional vendors to go after new markets, I hope they don’t take their information professional customer base for granted.