Dow Jones introduces CustomClips for Lotus Notes and Desktop Data's NewsEDGE; provides coverage of critical news and information throughout the day for companies using Groupware.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 1995--Dow Jones Business Information Services See Information Systems. announced at the Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. Symposium symposium In ancient Greece, an aristocratic banquet at which men met to discuss philosophical and political issues and recite poetry. It began as a warrior feast. Rooms were designed specifically for the proceedings. the introduction of Dow Jones' CustomClips(R) for Groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. -- a service of Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval. CustomClips provides automatic delivery of customized and targeted business news coverage to enterprise users of Lotus Notes(R), the leading platform for developing and deploying groupware applications, and users of NewsEDGE(R) from Desktop Data Inc. CustomClips is a powerful information tool that allows Lotus Notes and NewsEDGE customers to track breaking news from approximately 1,000 news sources -- including The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July exclusively, and Dow Jones News/Retrieval's text library and business newswires. Dow Jones' editors also have created a broad list of topics on more than 100 industries designed to monitor issues of great customer interest such as research and development, product introductions, pricing changes or late breaking business deals. With CustomClips for Lotus Notes, selected stories that match a customer's profile are e-mailed to the customer's database and automatically converted to the Lotus Notes format using software from Dow Jones. "Through CustomClips for Groupware, Dow Jones has created the premier news-monitoring product for workgroups," said Josephine K. Ottman, director of product marketing. "Customers get high-quality business information that lets them monitor competition better, follow new industry or product developments, and stay up-to-date on market strategies directly through their PCs. Companies can immediately act on information instead of spending time "Spending Time" is the first single released by Christian artist Stellar Kart. The lyrics describe the band members desire to spend "more time with God". "Sometimes it’s a real struggle to spend time with God. searching for it." Targeted Information Only Dow Jones Can Deliver To help customers maximize the full potential of CustomClips, a Dow Jones representative works directly with the customer using a "Topic Selection Worksheet" to create a specific profile that captures all the relevant news relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc a wide range of industries. The profile enables a breaking newswire story to be delivered to the corporate Groupware server minutes after it becomes available -- making it an invaluable tool to key decision makers and analysts. In addition to exclusive content from The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones' premier newswires including Dow Jones International News Service(TM), users receive articles from top U.S. newspapers, plus an extensive library of local, regional and major international business and industry publications. "CustomClips for Lotus Notes provides new incentives for companies to incorporate industry awareness into their daily communications," said Jeff Papows, vice president, Lotus' Communications Products Group. "With Lotus Notes technology and Dow Jones news delivery expertise, timely news is accessible seamlessly and effortlessly ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef  fort·less·ly adv. to companies world-wide."
Updated throughout the day, stories are delivered directly to enterprise Lotus Notes databases using Lotus Development's world-wide Lotus Notes Network(TM), WorldCom or directly through the Internet. "With the availability of CustomClips, NewsEDGE customers will have the ability to electronically monitor and access hundreds of additional information sources," said Don McLagan, president, Desktop Data Inc. "NewsEDGE customers in all industries, organizations and functions will be delighted with the extended information coverage this provides." About Dow Jones Dow Jones Business Information Services is the electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. arm of Dow Jones & Company Inc. which provides business news and information products to corporations, consumers and private investors through a variety of electronic media: computer, telephone, facsimile and radio. Dow Jones also publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international editions, Barron's(R) magazine and other periodicals, electronic information services, including Dow Jones Telerate and Financial News Services, and the Ottaway community newspapers Ottaway Community Newspapers (formerly Ottaway Newspapers, Inc.) is a subsidiary of Dow Jones and owns newspapers in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It is headquartered in Campbell Hall, New York. . About Desktop Data Inc. Desktop Data Inc. is the leading independent provider of customized real-time news and information delivered to knowledge workers over their organizations' local area networks. The company's NewsEDGE(R) service currently delivers up to 488 news and information sources to 297 leading corporate, financial and government institutions, representing approximately 60,000 authorized users authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal . Desktop Data is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. CONTACT: Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Princeton, N.J. Kris LeBoutillier, 609/520-4638 or dow.jonesPR@cor.dowjones.com |
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