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CEO, Alacra
Steve Goldstein and Mike Angle started Data Downlink Corporation in July of 1996. The name of the company was changed to Alacra in June 2001. Don Roll joined the company in July of 1997 as Managing Director for Europe. Steve, Mike, Don (who have worked together on and off for over 20 years) and a handful of other Alacra-ites are refugees from Knight-Ridder's Business Information Services division which at one time included Dialog, Knight-Ridder Financial, Technimetrics and The Journal of Commerce. Alacra provides a variety of information services to financial institutions and professional service firms.
June 7, 2006
Knowledge Management
Alacra Director of Ecommerce Jarid Lukin (who coined the term “Freemium”) noticed that yesterday’s Feedburner-Geffen Records press release doesn’t mention “RSS” once.RSS feeds are simply called “feeds” and Feedburner talks about their “leading feed management services.”This must have been done...
May 19, 2006
alacra / Knowledge Management
Over 200 people have registered and edited pages on the Alacra Wiki since it went live late last year.We get about 600 visitors a week, compared to about 300 a week in December.The most popular page is the Industry Spotlight...
May 17, 2006
Knowledge Management
Since the mid-90’s, KM companies have been trying to solve the “expert finder” problem, that is, finding the experts within your organization for a given topic or problem. While finding the internal expert is critical for all large companies, it’s...
May 12, 2006
aml and compliance / Knowledge Management
In the March/April issue of Online Magazine, Marydee Ojala has written an article called Due Diligence Research, which asks why information professionals are not more involved in the compliance process. I asked the same question last year after attending the...
April 20, 2006
Knowledge Management
EBIC regular and digital photo expert Kathleen O'Connell from AstraZeneca sent me this photo from the Wednesday night Alacra dinner. Thanks, Kathleen!...
March 20, 2006
Money Laundering Alert drew over 1500 delegates to Hollywood, Florida last week to their 11th Annual International Money Laundering Conference and Exhibition.Alacra was there, demonstrating our new Compliance Solutions.The conference was extremely well run and there was an impressive roster...