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FreePint Report: Product Review of
Factiva Companies & Executives
September 2014
Product Review of Factiva
Companies & Executives
In-depth, independent review of the product,
plus links to related resources
“...the product’s strong company and executive screening and
list-building capabilities makes it popular with those in sales,
marketing and business development roles...”
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Contents
Introduction & Contact Details
4
Sources - Content and Coverage
5
Technology - Search, Outputs & Alerts, User Interface & Help
13
Value - Competitors, Development & Pricing
18
About the Reviewer
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Introduction & Contact Details
Introduction: Company and Product
Factiva Companies & Executives is part of the Factiva business information service from
well-known global news and business information provider Dow Jones.
The vendor says the product’s strong company and executive screening and listbuilding capabilities makes it popular with those in sales, marketing and business
development roles.
Its integration of company and executive profile information with current and archive
news also makes it useful to researchers and analysts in many organisations, such
as financial services firms, consultancies and a wide range of information-intensive
businesses.
By Chris Porter
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Contact Details
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Sources - Content and Coverage
Source Content Detail: Company Profile and News Content
The primary providers of company and executive profile information for Factiva
Companies & Executives are FactSet, for information on listed companies worldwide,
and D&B, for privately held companies.
Dow Jones has augmented the coverage for some regions through agreements with
regional content providers, notably Hoppenstedt, for Germany, and First Independent
Rating Agency (FIRA), for Russia.
Some content is also added using proprietary web crawling and fact extraction
technology, stemming from the acquisition by Dow Jones of a company called
Generate Inc in 2008. Elements added or enriched in this way include company
business descriptions, executive profile details and business event “signals”, as
described later in this review.
Languages: additionally, the service integrates aggregated Factiva news content from
32,000 news sources in 28 languages, including those in more complex character sets
such as Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
Sources exclusive to Factiva include: Dow Jones and Reuters newswires; Dow Jones
print and online publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Financial
News; newspaper and online content from sister publications belonging to Dow
Jones parent company News Corp such as the UK Times and Sunday Times; and many
thousands of other licensed and online sources.
Regarding company content, Dow Jones says there are around 20 million companies
in total profiled on the service, of which over 46,000 are listed and the remainder
privately held.
Sample country coverage totals as found on the service were as follows:
Country
Companies
(approx.)
Country
Companies
(approx.)
United States
10.5 million
Brazil
155,000
United Kingdom
2,850,000
Turkey
143,000
Russia
1,174,000
Poland
96,500
Italy
1,275,000
Mexico
79,500
Japan
1,155,000
Indonesia
33,000
China
1,150,000
Malaysia
31,250
Germany
618,000
Singapore
27,700
France
392,000
Argentina
27,300
Australia
380,000
South Africa
22,000
Canada
329,000
Peru
15,000
India
327,000
Iran
12,500
Spain
245,000
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Sources - Content and Coverage | September 2014
“Company Snapshot” Data Coverage
As is the norm with services of this type, the vendor combines information from
multiple sources into a single “Company Snapshot” display.
Figure 1: Company Snapshot
The snapshot is headed with general and contact information, plus for quoted
companies a chart of recent stock price activity (sourced from Swiss-based information
provider SIX Financial).
In scrolling down the Company Snapshot screen, you see further information,
including:
“Corporate Signals” of recent events (described later)
A detailed business description
Industry classifications under various schemes including the proprietary Dow
Jones Intelligent Indexing
A list of key executives with links to their profiles
Latest financial highlights, with an attractive graphical display of key
historical data.
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Figure 2: Performance charts
To the left of the company snapshot, again as is usual in this type of service, the user
sees navigational links to specific types of information including:
Recent news
Key developments (sourced from Reuters)
Officers and executives
Peer comparisons (via FactSet)
Corporate family tree data (sourced from D&B)
Major customers (via FactSet)
Financials
Regulatory filings (for companies filing to the US Securities and Exchange
Commission) Analysis and profiles.
Analyst reports are sourced from the Thomson Reuters Analyst Collection. The reports
cover about 47,700 companies and 54 industries. Users have access to the three most
recent reports on a company or industry from banks and brokers, with a seven-day
embargo (in addition to any embargo required by each individual brokerage house).
Finally a “Reports” link provides various output templates, as well as a link out to D&B
to purchase further premium reports.
The level of coverage varies depending on the company concerned; listed companies
will typically have coverage from all the types of sources, whereas for privately held
ones, items such as major customers or analyst reports will not be available.
To the right of the company snapshot screen is a “Discovery Pane” of news relating to
the company in question, showing top-ten occurrences of most frequently mentioned
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companies, subjects, industries, regions and keywords relating to the company in the
news over the last 90 days. This functionality is described in more detail later.
Unlike in the Company Dossier service from Factiva competitor LexisNexis, there are no
links to legal or intellectual property information.
Company investor relations transcripts are available from licensed provider CQ FD
Disclosure (formerly Voxant) and through web crawling - though the user will have
to run a separate search in the Factiva Search Builder to get at them. A link to these
transcripts in the Company Snapshot left-hand navigation would be useful - the
vendor says it is looking into this as a possible future enhancement.
There is no link within the left-hand navigation to mergers and acquisitions
information - though some information on M&A may be found in the Company
Snapshot news area and via the Corporate Signals feature.
The left-hand navigation pane generally might benefit from some tweaks. Unlike in
some competing services, there is no one-click access to commonly retrieved company
financials such as annual or quarterly income; conversely there are some prominently
displayed options in the left-hand navigation, such as Multimedia or Peer Comparison,
which FreePint suspects may be rather less frequently used.
Corporate Signals: Recent Event Discovery
The Corporate Signals feature is a quick way of zooming in on recent events
relating to a company such as management changes, lawsuits, financial or product
announcements, mergers and acquisitions or funding changes. In total, 13 signal types
are supported.
These signals are based on proprietary event extraction technology, running against a
90-day archive of licensed and web English-language news content.
Figure 3: Corporate signals
A pie chart display lets you see at a glance what kind of events have been most
common.
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Clicking on a slice of the chart takes you through to a set of one-line summary
descriptions of each event; clicking on the summary then takes you through to the
underlying headlines.
Like other systems of this type, the feature can offer a good way of catching up on
some recent events, and could be particularly useful for a salesperson or account
manager looking for reasons to call a prospect or client.
For a researcher, it is likely to be one approach among several, not least due to its
relatively short historical perspective and the fact that it will not pick up on events
reported in non-English-language content.
Source Content Detail: Company Financials
FreePint was impressed by the coverage of company financials in Factiva Companies &
Executives - as much because of the consistency as because of the depth.
The FactSet-sourced financials for quoted companies typically give five years of history,
with a good range of income, balance sheet and cash flow data. An extensive range
of current ratio information is also given. Annual geographic and business segment
breakdown history is also present and correct, again with five years of history.
In addition to annual figures, interim or quarterly data is also available for income,
balance sheet and cash flow items, with figures for the last five reporting periods.
In all cases, the user can choose to switch between a table of the figures or a graphical
display.
Below is an extract from the annual income data display for a listed US company.
Figure 4: Annual income data display for listed US company, Google
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Spot-testing on a variety of big-name quoted companies found a very solid level of
coverage; and the rigour also extends well beyond the top end of the corporate world.
FreePint went in search of data on several small- to mid-cap companies which had
gone public over the last year or two in Japan, India and Australia and in every case,
found several years of financial history.
Even in the unusual instance of a privately held US company which had announced
its IPO, then pulled back from going public at the last minute, FreePint found via
Companies & Executives that FactSet had clearly combed through the offering
documentation and garnered several years of historical figures.
Speed of updating is also impressive. FreePint was testing Factiva Companies &
Executives in the thick of second-quarter earnings season, and was pleased to chance
upon some quarterly figures flowing through to the system within a few days of
announcement.
Financial coverage of unquoted companies also proved to be impressively thorough.
In some cases, due to the limitations of local filing requirements, no revenue
information is to be found, or the user will find a one-year revenue estimate by D&B;
but in very many cases, FreePint was pleased to see a full five years of private-company
financials in Factiva Companies & Executives - a level of coverage at least equalling and
not infrequently exceeding what FreePint has seen recently in competing services.
Other vendors may claim to carry much larger numbers of company or executive
profiles; but those profile numbers should be subjected to close scrutiny, to determine
how useful the level of data coverage actually is.
A couple of minor niggles relating to Factiva Companies & Executives company data
should be noted. Unlike in several competing products, there is no quick option
to switch the display of a company’s financials to another currency. Also, company
financials are generally shown to only two decimal places, which is less than in some
other vendor services.
Source Content Detail: Executive Content
The executive profile information in Factiva Companies & Executives, like the company
profile data, is now included as part of the standard Factiva package.
Dow Jones says there are around 40 million executive profiles on the service.
The level of detail varies depending on the person concerned; as a maximum, users
may find:
Contact details (at least to the level of address and general phone number)
Biographical information from FactSet and/or from the “Generate” proprietary Dow
Jones web crawling technology
Compensation details, again gathered via Generate web crawling
Lists of (where appropriate) fellow board members and senior management,
with job titles and links to the relevant profiles, culled from a variety of sources
(examples from FactSet, D&B, MarketLine, Generate and Hoppenstedt were seen)
Finally, links to news stories mentioning both the person and company concerned.
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The level of detail varies; when the user does a search for an executive, the results
screen gives a visual indication of the depth of detail available.
For quoted-company senior executives, extensive data may be found; for officers of
unquoted companies, the service typically provides only general contact details, a
name and job title, and a list of fellow-officers.
The vendor says it has put substantial efforts into cleaning up executive profiles,
working to eliminate duplicates and incorrect or outdated records.
During testing, FreePint found that the level of accuracy was not at all bad and no
out-and-out horrors were encountered. One example was seen of dual profiles for
someone in both their old post and their current one, presumably indicating that the
provider record for their old company had not yet been refreshed.
It was also noted that there are generally separate records for the same person,
reflecting the different roles they hold at different organisations, for instance as officers
of subsidiary companies.
Hyperlinks to the people information service LinkedIn are available alongside
executive names at various points in the display, for instance when accessing the
“Officers and Executives” link in the left-hand navigation of a company snapshot
page or viewing a results set via an executive screening search; a LinkedIn icon is also
available at the top of an individual executive profile.
Clicking on the LinkedIn icon has the effect of opening up a search in a new tab on the
person’s first and last name and their company name; generally this approach works
well.
No links were seen to other social media profiles such as Facebook or Twitter.
Based on random sampling, FreePint did not get the impression that coverage of
individual email addresses is a major part of the value proposition.
Source Content Detail: Industry Profiles
Industry background information is also available, via an “Industry” option under a
Companies/Markets tab in the top-level navigation bar.
Dow Jones sticks to its strengths in this area, bringing to the fore its news coverage
and industry classification scheme.
Searching via the SIC, NAICS and NACE industry schemes is possible; however,
the default is the company’s proprietary Dow Jones Intelligent Indexing industry
classification, which is applied both to the news coverage and the company records in
the service.
Compared to the other classifications, this scheme appears far more in tune with
the current business world, for instance easily supporting differentiation between
internet search engine companies and portals - a distinction which is beyond the other
classifications, if indeed they acknowledge the existence of the internet at all.
Industry-related results are then grouped into the three areas of news, peer
comparison (as described elsewhere) and “analysis and profiles”, with source options of
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the Thomson Reuters Analyst Collection, Business Monitor International, MarketLine,
Mergent Industry Reports, MarketResearch.com and Standard & Poor’s Industry
Investment Reviews.
As in other products of this type reviewed by FreePint, the industry reports available
are not always particularly relevant or helpful, as they tend to roll up to much broader
industry classifications, or else zoom in unexpectedly on very particular regions or subtopics.
More useful is the industry snapshot page. This is headed by the familiar Factiva news
“discovery pane”, which displays news for the industry concerned plus Dow Jones
indexing-based filters by company, industry, subject, region and keyword. Clicking on
a term in any part of the display will instantly narrow the results.
Further down the snapshot is a definition of the industry; a listing of leading
companies ranked by sales, with hyperlinks off to their profiles; a set of ratios and
averages for the industry, based on quoted-company data for the latest fiscal year;
and a graphic showing the distribution of companies in the industry by size. All of the
financial elements are driven by FactSet data. FreePint’s View: Sources
ü
High-quality, well-maintained quotedcompany data, including for small- and
mid-caps and recent IPOs
ü
Good historical financials for private
companies (subject to availability under
national filing regulations)
ü
Granular proprietary industry indexing
scheme
ü
Extensive collection of licensed and webbased news sources, in multiple languages
ü
Access to Thomson Reuters Analyst
Collection reports.
û
Limited detail on executives, especially at
private companies
û
Limited granularity and relevance in
industry reports
û
Left-hand navigation links to content in
company snapshots could be improved.
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Technology - Search, Outputs & Alerts, User Interface & Help
Technology
Factiva Companies & Executives, like the rest of Factiva, is built using the company’s
proprietary technology, though leveraging underlying third-party components where
appropriate for things such as search and categorisation.
The product was launched as far back as early 2005 and had been starting to look
a little dated. However it has undergone a significant facelift over the last year and
now has a common look and feel with the main Factiva database, with a crisp, clean,
modern appearance.
The service is now fully integrated with Factiva, so its functionality is always accessible
via a “Companies/Market” tab on the main navigation bar at the top of the product.
This tab has further sub-options for Quotes, Charting, My Companies, Company,
Industry and Executive.
Search and User Interactions
The main starting point for a company search in Factiva Companies & Executives is the
“Company” sub-tab.
A drop-down lets the user pick between “smart lookup”, company name, stock
exchange ticker code, D&B DUNS number or registration ID. Smart lookup has an
autocomplete function which will start to suggest the most likely matches as soon as
the user begins to type - a handy timesaver.
Figure 5: Company lookup and autocomplete feature
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Technology - Search, Outputs & Alerts, User Interface & Help | September 2014
Below that search box, a “quick company screener” lets the user search from a selection
of leading stock exchange, index membership and other group lists (e.g. FTSE 100,
Dow Jones Industrials, DAX 30, Fortune 500), or from their own personal or group
saved lists of companies.
Below that is a “Find Companies” section with expected screening options such as
ownership type, industry, geographic location ratios and financials; but also a “Discover
Companies in the News” option which lets you build a list of companies mentioned in
recent news coverage based on your own keywords, or on a pre-defined Dow Jones
subject list.
On launching the search, the user is shown a list of potential matches, or is taken
straight to the Company Snapshot if there is only one match.
As well as the traditional list view of company names and key attributes, you can
choose to include pie charts showing results grouped by aspects such as sales,
employee numbers locations and ownership type, as well as (if you choose to filter also
on news) top publications.
Figure 6: Company screening results - charts
Clicking on any chart segment further narrows the results; by navigating to the top of
the screen, you can see a build-up of your search strategy and can further edit, modify
or save it or click “Get List” to generate a list of the results.
Clicking on an individual company record of course takes you to the Company
Snapshot for the organisation.
Executive screening functions on a similar principle, with options either to search by
name or to screen by elements such as keywords, subjects, company, ownership type,
position, industry, location or company size.
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The Company, Industry and Executive search areas also have handy links to your five
most recently searched companies at the top right of the screen.
Searching and Filtering - News Content
As part of the recent user interface improvements to Factiva Companies & Executives,
Dow Jones has brought much of the power of Factiva news filtering to the Company
Snapshot environment.
The news discovery pane on the right of the snapshot screen lets the user instantly
filter the company-related news by the most frequently occurring companies, subjects,
industries, regions and keywords relating to that company. Further filters can be easily
or added or removed.
Dow Jones applies company codes to news for as many as 1.5 million companies. The
coding functions across all the content on the service, in all languages.
FreePint saw the benefit of this on many occasions, picking up on timely extra detail
about a company through, for example, Reuters news reports, profile-type information
or local-language news coverage.
The ease of filtering on company-related news in the Company Snapshot area is
currently best-in-class - though this is not an area in which to rest on one’s laurels,
as other providers such as D&B Hoover’s and Avention have clearly been devoting
attention to this area.
A few further refinements could still be made here. For instance, it would be useful to
have the ability to filter news content in the snapshot discovery pane by source or by
language, as you can within the Search Builder area of Factiva.
A smoother transition to the Search Builder area would also be handy, carrying over
the knowledge of the company you are researching - currently you have to start your
company search again as you move from area to area.
A briefing by the vendor made FreePint aware of another neat link between a
company and news, accessible via the “Quotes” tab of the service: the ability to click
on a point on a company share-price graph and instantly see the news relating to that
time period, so helping you to understand a sudden peak or trough in the share price.
Again, this is useful, but is currently a little tucked away.
Multiple Language Support
Unusually for offerings in this segment, Factiva Companies & Executives is a truly
multilingual product, in its user interface as much as in its content - the tools and
settings icon at the top right lets the user instantly toggle the display between any of
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Traditional and Simplified
Chinese language interfaces.
Outputs and Alerts
Factiva Companies & Executives has a good selection of output options.
Links at the top right of a Company Snapshot let you add your company to one of your
own company lists, or else to a “watchlist” which will give you email alerts on related
news subjects or (where appropriate) on the lodging of an SEC filing.
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A few more alerting options could be handy, for instance to tell you that updated
financials have been loaded - the vendor says it is considering this as a possible
enhancement.
The customary “Reports” link in the left navigation of a Company Snapshot lets
you generate an HTML or PDF summary report for a company based on a series of
templates, including your own custom report format.
As in other services of this type, when viewing multi-year, multi-column financials
for a company, it is possible to select and copy the data and paste it easily into a
spreadsheet.
Target lists of companies or executives, generated via the company or executive
screening functions, can be downloaded in spreadsheet format, again with options for
you to customise the data elements included.
Icons are available at appropriate points to print, download or email selected articles
or reports. For email distribution, there are options for HTML or plain text output, plus
the ability to add a covering message and/or cost code.
Also, a “Company Radar” option, accessible via the “My Companies” sub-tab, gives an
at-a-glance view of relative volumes of coverage for a group of companies against a
list of news topics such as performance, management moves or new products and
services.
Figure 7: Company Radar
The radar can be driven by pre-set lists of companies or subjects, or users can
customise the displays to meet their specific needs.
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A little disappointingly, there are no tools other than standard browser functionality to
aid export of the various graphs in the service, for instance the financials overviews in a
Company Snapshot or the pie charts at the head of company screening results.
Administration and Support
User preferences are accessed from an icon at the top right of the page. The options
specific to company and market data allow you to set and change defaults such
as the currency used for company screening; the sort order for a Company Radar
display; or the default format to be used when generating reports on listed or unlisted
companies.
The tools and settings icon also links to various customer service options. You can fill
out an electronic enquiry form; phone customer support, via a wide range of local
numbers; start a live chat session with a customer service representative; or share
thoughts via a feedback form.
There is also a vast library of FAQ material, as well as self-help tutorials and learning
documents and options to sign up for face-to-face or online training. A “Content
Watch” area provides highly detailed information on source coverage, including alerts
on additions and deletions and information about loading delays for key sources.
FreePint found, when contacting Factiva customer support on highly detailed content
and user interface issues, that staff were extremely knowledgeable, very courteous and
very quick to respond. FreePint’s View: Technology
ü
Clear, modern, easy-to-use product
interface
ü
Vast company coding coverage, including
for unquoted companies
ü
Strong integration between company
profile content and related news
Extensive language support
ü
Extensive company and executive
screening options
ü
û
Could be easier to download graphical
representations of data.
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Value - Competitors, Development & Pricing
Purchasing and Value
Factiva Companies & Executives offers value in the same areas as other services of this
type:
Helping users to generate and protect revenue
By assisting with sales, prospecting and customer care
Helping users to save time, by bringing information together from multiple sources
in easily digestible format.
Dow Jones particularly emphasises the value that customers derive from the close
integration of profile data and news in the product, thus helping users to gain a
fully up-to-date picture of the state of a company, rather than relying on a historical
snapshot.
The vendor is not the only one to stake this claim, but does have a particularly strong
case, given the global and multilingual nature of its content collection and the
tight integration of its news searching functionality into the company, industry and
executive profile areas.
Product Maturity and Development Plan
As mentioned previously, Factiva Companies & Executives has been on the market for
almost a decade.
Recently it has benefited from a very substantial makeover to improve its user interface
and integrate it fully with the mainstream Factiva service.
Other recent enhancements include addition of an “Altman-Z” score, a formula used to
predict the likelihood of bankruptcy.
Dow Jones says future plans focus on even tighter integration with Factiva. Regarding
sources, the vendor says it is broadly happy with the content coverage that it
has for the product, though it is always open to customer suggestions for further
improvements.
Competition and Alternative Offerings
Obvious potential competitors to Factiva Companies & Executives include the Hoover’s
service from D&B; Avention (formerly OneSource); Company Dossier from LexisNexis;
and potentially Orbis and other regional variants from BvD.
Key strengths for the Dow Jones product are its company data/news integration;
and the strength of its business and financial news coverage, notably through the
profusion of content languages (not a strong point for most competitors in this space)
and the near-real-time access to Dow Jones and Reuters financial newswires.
On the question of company financial data, if you need very deep financials, including
distinctions between normalised and as-reported numbers and history going back in
excess of five years, then an Avention or a BvD solution would offer you more on those
fronts.
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Value - Competitors, Development & Pricing | September 2014
If five years of financial history is sufficient and tight integration of extensive global,
multilingual news content matters to you, then Factiva Companies & Executives is
worth serious consideration.
Pricing
Factiva Companies & Executives pricing is on a per-user basis, with discounts for larger
numbers of users.
While the product was previously available as a standalone or add-on service, it is now
systematically included as part of the subscription to the flagship Factiva database.
It is offered as a global package, without regional sub-sets.
In common with other similar vendors, Dow Jones declined to disclose actual price
points.
Value: FreePint’s View
In FreePint’s view, Factiva Companies & Executives is a worthy contender in its field.
Testing of the Dow Jones service reveals that it delivers very respectable coverage
of both listed and unlisted company financials - perhaps surprisingly so, for a vendor
whose traditional primary focus has never been in the company data area.
Couple that decent financial coverage tightly with easily searchable global,
multilingual news and add solid screening and list-building capabilities and you have
potentially a very useful service.
This reprint was created from
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September 2014 and was
accurate as of that date.
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About the Reviewer
Chris Porter is director of Porter Walford Consulting, an organisation which specialises in market research, market size
and share and competitor analysis relating to the information industry. Clients include some of the world’s leading
information-intensive companies.
Chris is the co-author of a forthcoming report on global market size and share for Media Intelligence information and
software services.
Chris previously worked for Dow Jones, Factiva and Reuters, analysing B2B and consumer information markets
worldwide. Expertise includes corporate and legal, risk and compliance, financial and business and public relations
and corporate communications markets.
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