The challenge

Companies simply can't cope with the increasing volumes of news they need to track and distribute to their employees.

And with so many sources of information available, and so many needs to meet internally, traditional in-house news alerting services have become cumbersome, error-prone and unable to handle large distribution networks.

Our clients needed a solution to enable their information professionals to take control of their news resources and to efficiently and reliably manage company-wide distribution.

The solution

Magus was enthusiastic about the challenge of syndicated news distribution, viewing it as a perfect compliment to our existing portfolio of web-based current awareness services.

To extend our technical range in this area we acquired NewsTracker - a leading syndicated news alerting product from Vrisko. NewsTracker was integrated within the Magus technology platform and our existing current awareness applications.

The result was a state-of-the-art news delivery solution, which:

• Enables information managers to create and schedule news alerts through an intuitive, user friendly interface.
• Uniquely combines news from multiple sources in one alert, including the major proprietary sources: LexisNexis, Factiva, FT.com, and web content via Magus current awareness.
• Provides a variety of flexible distribution channels, including email alerts and intranet feeds.
• Is robust and globally scalable, delivering large volumes of customised alerts with ease and speed.
• And the technical infrastructure is fully managed by Magus, so clients get unparalleled levels of support and reliability, with no need for dedicated IT personnel or resources.

NewsTracker has become the alerting solution of choice for information managers at magic circle law firms.