On April 15th IEI’s Matt Manning spoke at the CASE District 4 Conference in Houston where he addressed an audience of alumni relations professionals. He discussed IEI’s recent experience updating an alumni database with the same tools IEI uses on B2B lists—web monitoring, Internet research, crowdsourcing, and telephone verification. The
“Using your proprietary data in news stories is the best possible kind of promotion for your paid data products because it shows clearly how valuable and useful your datasets are.” Words of wisdom from Infocommerce Group. Data visualizations, particularly maps displaying data, are the latest fashion. These maps are only
IEI is proud to announce its latest technology partnership with local software firm Datafiniti. This four-year old company has the ambitious agenda of being the search engine for data on companies, people, and products. They spun off from the Houston-based 80 Legs project, which bills itself as the world’s most
Most open data — data that’s free to use, reuse, and redistribute — is public information that governments publish as a key part of “transparency” initiatives. It can be a boon to information services already skilled in curating and adding value to public information, though these companies often struggle with
On November 20th, 2013, Ian Greenleigh, social media and content strategist and author of The Social Media Side Door, addressed an audience of Austin businesspeople, students, and academics at the UT iSchool for the inaugural SIIA INFO Local: Austin event. IEI’s Matt Manning chatting with Ian Greenleigh before the presentation.
This tool from Crowd Computing Systems automates crowdsourcing projects. We use it at IEI to run campaigns on the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the world’s largest crowdsourcing platform. (More on WorkFusion.) We use WorkFusion for a variety of processes. It works for simple, low-end tasks such as appending URLs, email addresses,
Here are a few of my favorite moments from the DataContent 2013 conference, which was, as always, a unique opportunity to learn more about what’s going on in our industry. Marketing Subscription Data Services bootcamp—Russell Perkins and Minal Bopaiah did a great job of giving us a lot of interesting,
Guessing the size of a company in a given industry based on incomplete data is among the most common tasks in the information business. Salespeople, for example, need good “size” parameters to maximize their time and correctly identify their best prospects. Managers need the same information to help them make
As a long-term implementation partner of Stelae Technologies, Information Evolution, Inc. is proud to announce the introduction of Khemeia 4.0 at the Demo India 2013 event in Bangalore, India. Khemeia is a powerful tool used to extract large amounts of unstructured data from a wide variety of document types and
IEI to Deliver Real-Time Data Discovery to Customers Austin, Texas (March 4, 2013) — Outsourcing firm Information Evolution, Inc. (IEI) and Enlyton, the first cloud-based enterprise search and content discovery company, today announced that they have entered into a strategic relationship. Enlyton will be the exclusive solution used by IEI
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