Nathan Gilliatt has an interesting model for using RSS to “aggregate and redistribute market intelligence,including analyst research subscriptions, inside the corporate firewall.” He calls it IDS, or Intelligence Delivery System. Analysts are just one source category.
What I like most about his IDS model is that it enables an organization to bring together diverse information in a stable repository and strip out the costs and chaos of things like internal portals, applications and multiple 3rd party content aggregators. To be sure, I’m a fan of these tools and services today. Whatever limitations they present, they provide capabilities that many organizations simply could not justify building for themselves.
Where I disagree with IDS is the emphasis on importing and RSS for herding analyst research content. Some of the most valuable analyst content is delivered in formats that are not RSS-friendly — such as graphics, spreadsheets, databases, video, and interactive tools. Increasingly, content will be delivered in mutiple languages and with role, industry, and regional context.
Robust search applications seem the more promising way forward, for analyst research consumers and analysts alike.
Hat tip to Vinnie Mirchandani for starting this discussion.
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