The value of user testing

Many of our recent developments have been aimed at making our core product MasterVision even easier to use. As part of this, we recently completed a round of user testing which highlighted some further areas […]

Earlier this year we launched a full API for MasterVision. This means that the complete single customer view which MasterVision provides can now also be accessed automatically via another program. This powerful new feature effectively […]

by Jon Monday
Posted on February 2, 2015February 3, 2015
Technology Topics

As part of our ongoing quest to make MasterVision even easier to use, we’ve been taking a look at how multi-pick lists on our search forms could be made more user-friendly. Up until now, we’ve […]

by Nick Andrews
Posted on January 22, 2015January 22, 2015
Customer Insight

Since launching the business back in 2006, it has been amazing to see MasterVision grow into an enterprise cloud platform, now used by over 20 of the world’s biggest scholarly publishers to clean & join over 1 billion […]

by Nick Andrews
Posted on November 25, 2014November 26, 2014
Data Integration & Cleansing

Recently we launched OrgRef: an open dataset of academic and research organizations which is free for anyone to use. It certainly takes a significant amount of effort to create and maintain it, so it might […]

We aim to make our core product MasterVision as easy to use as possible, whilst still enabling users to perform complex tasks to get the most out of their customer data. We currently offer two […]

Last month we were very proud to announce the launch of OrgRef – a completely free dataset sharing open data about the most important academic and research organizations worldwide. Reference data about organizations is important because it […]

by Andy Dobson
Posted on August 27, 2014October 23, 2014
Customer Insight

The whole purpose of metrics and charts is to help answer two fundamental questions: “how are we doing?” and “what should we do next?”. For journal publishers, there are several different ‘vital signs’ to track […]

It’s the summer holiday season – a time to get away, relax and forget about all those recurring data tasks you have lined up. If you have those jobs automated, you can happily switch off […]

The term ‘market’ is often used in relation to academic journals (“what’s our market share?” and so on), but it’s not always entirely clear what that means, or how big ‘the market’ actually is. It’s […]