Client Comments

“Moreover Technologies has accomplished something quite remarkable with Newsdesk…Their great dashboard tool puts the user experience at the forefront and allows users of all experience levels to understand the tool.  From a development perspective the ability to export feeds in multiple formats means you can easily integrate the data into your existing systems with no need for complex workarounds or custom development.”-Evan Thies, Multimedia Specialist, ARC Resources Ltd., a leading Canadian conventional oil and gas company

"Waggener Edstrom was seeking a single source for content feeds into our products and services. Moreover has enabled us to build and identify new software applications and help our staff and clients manage [near] real-time news and information. Moreover has been a responsive partner and has provided high quality, reliable content for our products and services."—David Kohn, Vice President of Software Development, Waggener Edstrom

“It has been a pleasure working with Moreover and their client services team, they have helped to guide us through what was a seamless interaction between need, delivery and timeliness.  The product Newsdesk has great functionality and is flexible enough to adapt to the various needs of our business.” -Director of a Global Professional Services firm

"Easy to understand and master... access to a rich collection of global news and content..."—Comments from CODiE Awards judges representing the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), which voted Newsdesk "Best Information Solution" and "Best Content Aggregation Solution" in 2011

Partner Comments

“The global presence of Moreover Technologies will help drive our efforts to expand broadcast coverage from a current base in the US, UK, Middle East, Canada, Greece, and China. And, combining the two companies’ ability to monitor multiple languages as well as provide translation will facilitate understanding worldwide. It’s part of our mission to organize the world’s TV and radio broadcasts and make them universally searchable.” -David J. Ives, president and CEO, TVEyes

“By partnering with Moreover, DataSift adds to its network of analytics partners an established specialist in news aggregation, analytics and research insight.” -Nick Halstead, Chief Executive Officer, DataSift

“Other variants of Newsdesk have already proven themselves to be incredibly valuable media research tools elsewhere around the world, used by professional communicators, executives, and agencies alike. I’m excited to be able to bring this exceptional information platform to the Asia-Pacific Region. The combination of speed, ease of use, multi-lingual search capacity, and affordability makes Cubit-Newsdesk the logical media monitoring choice for any organisation in the region. And the ability to have your monitoring flow through to a proven media analysis system will make it even easier for organisations to apply this kind of advanced media intelligence.” -Warren Weeks, founder and CEO, Cubit

“We are delighted to be able to respond to client demand for immediate awareness of relevant online news, social media and micromedia. It is a significant challenge to rapidly pinpoint accurate and relevant results from millions of daily news articles and social media posts and we believe that Precise Profile’s intuitive, cutting-edge search and filtering tools answer this challenge in a groundbreaking way.” - Keir Fawcus, Managing Director, Precise

Comments from Reviewers, Media and Award Judges

Reviews

Excerpts from Outsell, Inc.'s Newsdesk review, authored by Heidi Longaberger and released September 30, 2011, follow: "Newsdesk offers a broad list of sources and appeals to just about anyone with constant information needs, including the Fortune 2000, public relations firms, media firms, marketing departments, researchers and consultants... Newsdesk aggregates content from social media platforms, trade and industry publications, consumer sources, press wires, local and national press, and licensed national print publications and broadcast... also robust in the amount of international coverage provided...

"This reviewer likes to jump in and start using a new data service much like a child wants to play with her new game... without reading the directions first. So initially the interface seemed almost an embarrassment of riches with all the filtering choices. But once this user entered searches and consulted the online Help menu when needed, the functionality became not only apparent, but also a lot of fun...

"Sharing the content between Newsdesk subscribers and non-subscribers, through e-mail, Alerts, Newsletters and export, is a valuable option... Targeted search features and refinement options are plentiful... Coverage from sources originating around the globe, plus many non-English language options, make this a truly international offering... Media options go outside the typical coverage of blogs and online new[s] sites, to include the lesser acknowledged photos, microblogs, podcasts and wikis. Analytics features are easy to use and provide a quick way to spot trends and provide comparisons...

"Newsdesk shines when it comes to delivering almost real-time international news, opinion and data from both traditional and non-traditional online media sources..."

Excerpts from FreePint's independent review of Newsdesk, authored by Penny Crossland and released November 2010, follow: "... uses new technology, an improved search engine and incorporates several new features such as increased faceted search capabilities, more filters to refine searches and analytical tools... appeals to both end-users and experienced business searchers, by using standard search engine facilities and faceted search tools. It is a particularly useful tool for media monitoring, corporate marketing and marketing communications departments and can be embedded into corporate intranets...

"... social media coverage is impressive... news coverage spans numerous industry sectors... According to the vendor around 40,000 online news sources are monitored, however there is an overlap between sources when it comes to sector coverage. Analysed by industry sector, the number of sources is considerably more, reaching around 90,000... strength lies in its near real-time access to news... interface has an attractive layout and is easy to navigate...

"powerful search tool, providing users with links to global and authoritative sources on the web. One of its many strengths lies in the myriad of social media sources it aggregates. Searching is user-friendly and numerous filters result in targeted results—considerably more targeted than any web search engine could produce... The email and newsletter facilities make [Newsdesk] a useful tool for sharing information within corporations."

Media Reports

Newsdesk wins third 2011 award. Moreover Technologies' Newsdesk global news and social media monitoring, refinement and sharing service has won its third major award this year, a Silver in the Best Evaluation Process category at the second annual Digital Impact Awards in London. Categories included all aspects of digital communications, ranging from social media to evaluation. The Digital Impact Awards is a leading UK program to recognize and celebrate the best digital communications work for 2011. Source: sfgate.com (San Francisco Chronicle), 10.27.11

Twitter via DataSift. In an effort to expand its partner community and specialist industry services, DataSift, the real-time data filtering platform and licensed re-syndicator of Twitter…has joined hands with media monitoring application developer, Moreover Technologies. Under the terms of this partnership agreement, Moreover will be able to leverage DataSift’s platform. Precisely, Moreover’s applications can now have access to real-time Twitter feed and other social media via DataSift’s platform. Source: TMCnet.com, 9.21.11

3 versions of Newsdesk. Moreover Technologies has rolled out three versions of its Newsdesk media monitoring and news sharing solution to serve all types and sizes of business, starting at just $1995 per year. They are Newsdesk Alert, a streamlined Newsdesk offering focused on breaking news feeds and alerts, Newsdesk Corporate featuring advanced media monitoring and customized newsletters, and Newsdesk Enterprise for firms requiring company-wide deployment of media analytics with global coverage and news sharing capabilities. Source: newsbreaks.infotoday.com, 9.22.11

Rewarding performance. "Moreover Technologies' [Newsdesk] news and social media monitoring, refinement and sharing service won a Stevie® Award in the New Product or Service of the Year-Media & Entertainment-Up to 100 Employees category at the 9^th Annual American Business Awards^SM (ABA) gala June 20^th in New York City. A finalist from more than 2,800 nominations in 40-plus categories, Newsdesk 4 won out over five other category contenders and shared the stage with such high-profile winners as Jeffrey Bezos, Chairman of the Board, President & CEO, Amazon.com, Inc. (Executive of the Year) and Apple Inc. (Best Overall Company of the Year). Emcee Cheryl Casone, Fox Business Network anchor, addressed 600-plus executives in attendance." Source: sfgate.com (San Francisco Chronicle), 6.23.11

Growing influence. "Dan Schaible, 27-year major media company veteran, has been named Senior Vice President-Publishing of Moreover Technologies, a content aggregation and media monitoring firm. As leader of a newly-created publishing division, he will focus on helping publishers use technology to drive revenue in today's digital information environment... Schaible noted, 'Consumers, from enterprises down to individuals, no longer want to peruse an entire publication for relevant information. They're looking for a free article summary digestible in less than thirty seconds, and will pay for articles they deem worthwhile. Publishers willing to meet that consumer demand can open up major new revenue streams.'" Source: FreePint VIP, 6.8.11

Innovative information experience. Moreover Senior Product Manager, Brian Mackie, got a chance to weigh in on the quality of the information experience in the June issue of EContent Magazine. In an article by Nancy Kho headlined, "On the Road to Improved Information Experiences," Mackie discussed the importance of information experiences that don't disrupt work routines. Mackie pointed out that information categorization is key to users being able to find what they need and want to share without having to go to great lengths to get it. The article explained that Newsdesk 4 users can share customized newsletters and emails straight from their dashboard, and set up direct feeds to corporate intranets or other information products. Mackie emphasized that Newsdesk 4 users can share stories of potential interest with groups they set up, including product team colleagues or a marketing department.

Faster finding. Advanced semantic tagging helps find crucial intel faster, providing a competitive edge; Moreover Technologies deploys OpenCalais semantic tagging for social media. Companies are drowning in data. Yet, insightful information is key to smarter decision-making and competitive edge. Finding the “sweet spot” between information overload and relevant intel is one of the hottest topics in today’s data-driven decision-making realm. Global media aggregation and monitoring company Moreover Technologies is moving aggressively to meet data-driven market needs—including use of advanced semantic tagging. Recently, Moreover inked a multi-year contract that extends use of Thomson Reuters’ OpenCalais semantic tagging processes to social media. Source: vivavip.com, 5.18.11

Partnerships proliferate. "Precise and Moreover Technologies Partner to Offer a Global Online News and Social Media Intelligence Platform... Precise, the UK's leading media intelligence provider, and Moreover Technologies, a global leader in media aggregation, today announced a strategic partnership that offers a unique news and social media intelligence capability to the UK market. Precise Profile, powered by Moreover Technologies' [Newsdesk] engine, will provide users with the first single platform access to global online news, social media and micromedia, enabling them to track an unlimited number of topics, to intelligently refine results and efficiently share them." Source: Outsellinc.com, 1.19.11

Superior search. "Thomson Reuters today cited four innovative companies that are pioneering the large-scale and commercial use of its OpenCalais service to enrich and optimize digital content. They include Moreover Technologies, a world-leading media aggregation and monitoring provider...One of the original news aggregators on the Web, Moreover provides companies with 'news and views' in a comprehensive solution for business intelligence, mainstream media and social media monitoring... Moreover Technologies uses OpenCalais to categorize and tag news..." Source: Marketwire, 6.24.10

Case Studies

Single-source discovery of all content. "Moreover has enabled us to build and identify new software applications and help our staff and clients manage [near] real-time news and information. Moreover has been a responsive partner and has provided high quality, reliable content for our products and services." - Waggener Edstrom Worldwide

Save millions and consolidate. "Utilizing Moreover's Newsdesk, we've been able to stop and consolidate a number of contracts with external agencies providing media monitoring for us. $4M saved and another $1M avoided in a single year—do I need to say more?!" —Royal Dutch Shell

See millions of social media. "They're constantly looking for new social media sources and integrating them into their offerings. In turn, we're able to pass on these vital conversations to our clients. This improvement allows clients [near] real-time access to the voices they care about; connecting them with influencers across Twitter and other social media sites." —dna13, media monitoring company

Confirm client commitment. "... personnel were clearly very customer focused and interested in working with us to achieve a better solution. Of great importance were the anticipated cost savings that we were able to make, and the fixed, predictable cost structure." —Lisa Wright, Commercial Director, Zephus Ltd.

White Papers

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Prolific content provider. According to a paidContent:UK June 28, 2010 report, "the BBC is already the number-five giver of readers to UK commercial newspaper websites. The BBC News site sent nearly two million unique visitors to the papers in April, and over 100,000 more clicked from other BBC.co.uk sites..." Where does that content come from? The "Moreover powered Newstracker module, which points readers to related news stories elsewhere... BBC Online will be transformed into a window on the web with, by 2012, an external link on every page and at least double the current rate of 'click-throughs' to external sites.'" MORE

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