The pitfalls of permissions
The more you offer your customers in the way of new products, free trials, sample publications etc., the more you want back in return – it’s only fair after all! In return for nice shiny […]
Eurovision lessons for selling data quality
Many of our clients have recently raised the issue of how hard it can be to ‘sell’ data quality within their organizations. And, as we once again consider that special evening of sequins, glitter and deep […]
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 […]
Using MasterVision as a data hub
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 […]
Making multi-picks more user-friendly
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 […]
DataSalon, the Movie!
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 […]
Why OrgRef is free
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 […]
Simplifying searches with templates
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 […]
Introducing OrgRef
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 […]
Essential metrics for journal publishers
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 […]
