The best detailed discussion to date on what’s happening with all the changes occurring with Thomson’s breaking up, moving, and selling some of its market research, analyst research, and news databases from its Thomson Business Intelligence (TBI) division can be found in Barbara Quint’s article in the January 22nd Information Today NewsBreaks here

That article closes with this quote from analyst John Blossom:

Unfortunately Thomson Business Intelligence never quite coalesced into the integrated offerings for market verticals and functional verticals that other business information offerings have formed over the past few years. Instead the individual cultures and architectures of each of the product offerings under the umbrella were never put aside in full and wound up being an ‘old’ Thomson division of stand-alone offerings under a common sales umbrella. … Best of luck to everyone in this deal, in the end better things are bound to happen as a result of this move.

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