Competitive Intelligence Marketplace

MarketResearch.com and Spectra Intelligence Announce Deal

From the press release:

As the leading distributor of market intelligence, MarketResearch.com is pleased to announce a business partnership with Spectra Intelligence which allows for the marketing and distribution of Spectra's proprietary market analyses through the MarketResearch.com website.

The new relationship offers business professionals throughout the world easy access to complete product descriptions and tables of contents from research publications authored by market experts at Spectra Intelligence. At the same time, visitors to the MarketResearch.com website have the ability to purchase the material directly through MarketResearch.com's secure server...

Spectra Intelligence provides consistent high-quality market and management reports for the global industry and receives commissions from leading multinational pharma giants to provide competitive intelligence across product and therapy areas. Recent publications include The World Market for Gynaecology, 2007-2017, which provides unrivalled analyses of markets, products, challenges, and opportunities.

For further information about Spectra Intelligence reports, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/redirect.asp?progid=8418&vendorid=3417.

BI as CI?

In an article entitled "Intelligence Quotient" Mike Davis writes the following:

Last week I was asked: ‘What is the definition of business intelligence (BI)? Is it about a company’s own operations, that is, information about itself, or an understanding of what are your competitor’s strengths, weaknesses and market positioning?’

The second alternative is probably the most appropriate definition. But the first is how the term is regarded by most organisations, and until recently much of the vendor community.

Collectively we have bounded our understanding and expectations of BI, and if we wish our businesses to become more productive and competitive, with BI technologies as supporting tools, that has to change.

Does this mean that BI proponents are starting to see the future of "BI" as a kind of CI-light?

Directory of Analyst Firms

Tekrati also has a directory of analyst firms.  You can get to it here, but you need a subscription to get to the detailed data on each firm.

List of Analyst Blogs

There's a site called Tekrati that has a list of analysts' blogs, about 115 of them.  You can find it here.

Blogs, Wikis, RSS and Competitive Intelligence

Arik Johnson, founder of AuroraWDC (SCIP Premier Partner), has a very good article that explains what blogs, wikis and RSS mean for competitive intelligence practioners. 

The article is appearing in Competitive Intelligence Magazine.

Business Intelligence Resources

This site, www.biresources.info, is a weblog with links to literally dozens of business intelligence resources.  The blog is run by Marcus Zillman.