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VeriSign Enables Competitive Decision-Making To Be Based On Real-Time News

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Overview

Spoornet, a major transporter of freight in the southern African region, maintains its competitive edge by relying on VeriSign Real-Time Publisher Services to provide access to newly posted news on the African commodities market to help predict the rail transportation needs of these goods.

Key Challenges

Needed a reliable solution to provide access to a much wider array of local new web sites in real-time
Wanted to be alerted to relevant commodities-based articles as soon as they are posted
Required source information to be received electronically

“VeriSign Real-Time Publisher Services makes me aware of the most up-to-date information available to me in real-time, which gives the opportunity to provide our executives with unprecedented access to the latest news on commodities.”

                                                                     Natasha Havenga
                                                                  Information Specialist
                                                                Spoornet

Solution

VeriSign® Real-Time Publisher Services:

VeriSign® Connected Intelligence Services from Moreover Technologies, a VeriSign company

Results

Unprecedented, reliable, real-time access to relevant English-language articles
Data is not overlooked— as new web sources come online the VeriSign service quickly includes them
Huge time-savings in the preparation of the daily bulletin
Executives now receive comprehensive real-time information for decision-making
Electronic preparation of bulletins now possible with alerts highlighting relevant web-based data

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