Business Information Services

Effective collection, management and utilization of available information are some of the biggest challenges that enterprises face today. The Business information sector has been growing rapidly, which can be attributed to:

• Increased M&A activity and growth in international investment fueling the demand
• Growing interest in emerging markets fueling the demand for industry information
• Rising investment and growth of hedge funds fueling demand for financial information
• Information providers are packaging their data with analytic tools to make their information more useful to subscribers and to distinguish their fee-based services from advertiser-supported services

Business Information Services (BIS) at HCL is a micro-vertical within Media & Entertainment vertical. It works over the management and operating philosophy of creating an extra edge for the clients and hence strengthening the existing and prospective relationships. BIS works for publishing clients dealing in STM (Scientific, Technical and Medical), LTR (Legal, Tax and Regulatory) and B2B (Business-To-Business) spaces.

At HCL, we understand that clients are driven by expectations/satisfactions of their own customers and in this arena of customer-driven business, performance is the key differentiator among competitors. Over 10 years of experience in Information Collection & Delivery in STM, LTR and B2B segments enables BIS to provide complete content workflow solutions.

BIS serves the specific needs of clients including Content Solutions, Central Content Repository, Content Aggregation, Content Transformation, Content Editing, Content Storage and Content Distribution.

BIS content solutions with business support offerings help clients in extracting the maximum from their content value chain:

• Enable companies in timely and relevant content delivery to end users
• Help publishing clients in extracting the maximum from their content value chain
• Help in optimizing the utilization of their organization wide control with the help of Central Content Repository solution
• Give content ownership to clients with greater control over content and ease to access and contribute
• Enable clients to deal with structured and unstructured content
• Allows content sharing and re-use across products, thus eliminating duplicity and high maintenance cost
• Uniform content development process across business units leads to reduction in development and tracking effort
• Help clients in establishing relationships among content of different types
• Help in providing role based access to content and content tracking and auditing