American Lawyer Media engages Scope for mining high quality market data

CHENNAI, India - May 7, 2014 - PRLog -- Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of  business process outsourcing  services and a Quatrro Global Services company,  is pleased to announce an ongoing engagement with American Lawyer Media (ALM), the leading provider of specialized news and business information to the legal and commercial real estate industries.

As a part of this engagement, Scope will support ALM’s platform RivalEdge, an online service for finding, filtering and delivering relevant news and information directly into the hands of legal professionals. Scope will leverage its highly automated data tracking and mining capabilities, along with  a dedicated team of data and quality analysts, to ensure rapid delivery of data at a high quality level of across all data points available in the RivalEdge platform.

Kevin Iredell, Vice President, Legal Intelligence at ALM, commented, “The latest version of ALM’s online service RivalEdge features a number of innovative enhancements that allow users to create robust reports on lateral partner moves, produce customizable infographics and export data filtered according to specific geographic locations. Our engagement with Scope’s team of data and quality analysts helps us ensure we deliver very current and accurate information to our clients.”

Commenting on this partnership, Tram Venkatraman, President of Scope, said, “We are very excited about this new level of engagement with ALM.  Scope has previously executed a number of market research and data assignments, and their confidence in Scope for supporting RivalEdge is a huge validation of our unique capabilities.”

Joseph Ranjan, Scope’s Vice President of Data Services & Business Research commented, “There were a number of key challenges to be addressed with this assignment, including the processing of high volumes of unstructured data. Our data analysts were able to develop a highly efficient validation process involving proprietary web crawler platforms which minimize the level of manual intervention.”

About ALM

ALM is a global leader in specialized business news and information. Trusted reporting delivered through innovative technology is the hallmark of ALM’s award-winning media properties, which include Law.com (www.law.com).The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The National Law Journal and The New York Law Journal. Headquartered in New York City with 16 offices worldwide, ALM brands have been serving their markets since 1843. For more information, visit www.alm.com.

About RivalEdge

RivalEdge enables legal professionals to leverage data faster empowering them to win more clients, streamline their business and take advantage of market opportunities. Acquired by ALM in September 2012, RivalEdge’s innovative technology served as the foundation for one of the pioneering ‘listening platforms’ in the legal industry. Legal professionals rely on RivalEdge to deliver current information they need to stay on top of their practices, industries and competitors in a much more efficient way. Together with ALM Legal Intelligence, the industry’s leading resource  for decades of deep legal research and business data reporting. ALM RivalEdge completes ALM’s competitive intelligence toolkit; providing invaluable insights through its industry-transforming solutions. For more information about RivalEdge, visit www.rivaledge.com.

About Scope e-Knowledge Center

Scope, a Quatrro Global Services company, is an award-winning provider of outsourced, cost-effective Content Enhancement Services, Data Management Services, Business Research Services and Patent Analytics for various clients across the globe. Scope, a niche knowledge services provider, has employees from various educational backgrounds and experience delivering knowledge solutions across multiple industry verticals and domains. Scope fulfils customer needs by leveraging its experience and capabilities using in-house developed proprietary technology solutions and platforms for service delivery as well as its internal needs. Scope is also the publisher of the daily newsletter  Knowledgespeak, a comprehensive news service focusing on the STM information industry.

For more information, please contact:

Richard Kobel

Vice President,

Business Development,

USA

Scope e-Knowledge Center

+1 516 462 3555

rkobel@scopeknowledge.com

www.scopeknowledge.com

John Camarano

Associate Vice President,

Business Development,

USA

Scope e-Knowledge Center

+1 301 538 6034

JCamarano@scopeknowledge.com

www.scopeknowledge.com

Deborah Harman

Associate Vice President,

Business Development,

UK & Europe

+44 770 203 6704

Scope e-Knowledge Center

Deborah@scopeknowledge.com

www.scopeknowledge.com

Joseph Ranjan

Vice President,

Scope e-Knowledge Center,

India

+91 44 2431 4201 Ext 228

eswaran@scopeknowledge.com

www.scopeknowledge.com