CUSTOMER
INFORMATION
The services provided under annual
subscription agreements with our customers include:
- DIRECTORY ACCESS -
Access to our complete global directory of the
financial services industry's web sites. The current size of this directory
is approximately 20,000 sites and is expected to reach 30,000 sites
by year end. Every site has been individually observed and classified
to ascertain that it is part of the financial services industry and
has been placed correctly in our organization type, line of business,
and geographical taxonomies.
- INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL LIBRARY
ACCESS - Access to our complete global directory
of best documents about financial services. This includes white papers,
position papers, academic papers, congressional testimony, tables of
statistics, conference presentations and other valuable resources for
a diversity of sources. We estimate the size at about 1,000 documents
currently and quickly growing to about 10,000 during 2003.
- SEARCH CAPABILITY -
Complete ability to search a full-word index of
all objects in our directory, including web sites, best documents, "Fiducitations,"
and, importantly, any other document types that we may jointly decide
to incorporate in our business model.
- FIDUCITATIONS - Access
to all Fiducitations (Custom Web Reports) in our directory on all topics.
Each FIDUCITATION is a synthesis of all relevant documents or pages
from the web on a particular topic. Each FIDUCITATION has a statement
of purpose or query and a succinct summary or synthesis of what the
evidence, opinions, or documents on the web say about the query. Each
FIDUCITATION may have 30-50 supporting documents and each citation will
be annotated to show why the reader should go there. The
gist of a FIDUCITATION can be gained in two hours but the supporting
material may take 10-20 hours to read if needed.
- CUSTOM FIDUCITATIONS
- The ability to request up to a dozen or more
"on-demand" FIDUCITATIONs per year that are not part of our
directory and to have them performed, communicated, and added to the
directory. Our standard process includes a discussion with the customer
requestor, a confirmation statement of the request, and 24-hour turnaround.
- PERSONALIZED ALERTS
- Customers may set personalized alerts on any
topic, web site, directory category, or search terms. If any new material
being indexed by Fiducite triggers these alerts, the customer may elect
to have the new materials sent to them via e-mail and/or deposited in
their personalized portal hosted by Fiducite. Alerts may be set for
daily, weekly, or on-demand delivery.
Advantages
A few specific advantages
of our approach for financial services customers should be pointed out:
- Global coverage: We've
defined our charter from the beginning as covering all international
territories. In our site directory, we include a financial services
industry player no matter what language the site is in. About 70% of
all words on the web are in English and many sites of corporates and
banks have English versions. Our directory lists the English URL separately
in such cases.
- Industry coverage: We
include all financial services, including banking, brokerage, insurance,
consumer credit, leasing, and so forth. Our line of business taxonomy
actually includes about 60 different lines of business. As financial
institutions increasingly merge and deregulate, the advantage of such
an approach becomes obvious.
- Comprehensiveness: There
is no comprehensive web directory of the industry. For example, Allianz
has 106 web sites from 49 different countries, covering 15 distinct
lines of business, written in 14 different languages and including about
50 subsidiaries. The Yahoo directory, despite its 2 million listings,
has only 5 of these Allianz sites. Yet, knowing these sites constitutes
a valuable resource. Our objective is to have all financial institutions
of any type, a number that should reach above 50,000 within 2-3 years
as web sites reach 100% penetration of the market.
- Industry knowledge: We
filter everything we do through Guides, who are knowledgeable about
the industry. They perform the discovery, evaluation, coding, and synthesis
of all our web informational services. They are backed by a combination
of proprietary technology and approaches to make their work efficient.
Guides are experts on where to get any of the relevant information that
is on the web.
- Valuable material: With
time, the web has matured and expanded enough that it now contains an
archive of valuable professional material, an archive that will continue
to grow. Not everyone realizes how much valuable material is out there.
Terms and Conditions
The following terms and conditions
are dependent on the level of service requested by the customer organization.
- Fiducite has
prepared on-line training materials for our clients and also sponsors
training sessions if needed.
- Each customer organization
provide Fiducité with a defined list of
staff who are authorized to access the information and to request FIDUCITATIONs
and other services.
The following table shows the service levels currently
offered to Fiducite customers:
| Level of service selected |
Platinum |
Gold |
Silver |
| Full access to Global Financial
Services Directory |
Included |
Included |
Included |
| Full access to Financial
Services Best Document Library |
Included |
Included |
Included |
| Full access to historic file
of Fiducitations |
Included |
Included |
Included |
| Number of Fiducitation requests |
60 |
30 |
15 |
| Individual web
IDs for online access |
24 |
12 |
6 |
For more information, please
contact our Sales Manager at
bizdev@fiducite.com
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