Competitive Intelligence Marketplace

New White Papers and CI Technology Requirement Workbook from Cipher Systems

Cipher Systems has a couple of new white papers and a technology requirement workbook available on their site. "Ten Steps to Selecting the Right CI Software" and "Content Syndication Technologies: RSS Unmasked" are the white papers; "The CIpher Systems CI Technology Requirements Workbook - A step by step guide to help you select ad implement the most effective CI software platform in your organization" is the workbook.  All are available for free download here.    

Related: 10 Steps to Selecting the Right CI Software also appears in the July/August 2007 issue of Competitive Intelligence Magazine from SCIP.  The magazine is free for all SCIP members.

New Fuld Software Survey Out

Fuld & Company's new software survey is out.  From the press release:

In its latest survey of 17 competitive intelligence software packages, Fuld & Co. urges executives to match packages based not only on their features, but also on how they fit with a company's approach and progress in utilizing competitive intelligence techniques.

Technology serving the competitive intelligence arena has exploded in recent years. These technology tools come in all types and approaches, including: competitive intelligence (CI)-specific tools, text mining packages adapted to this market niche, new visualization tools, ERP technology, a raft of ASP offerings, custom solutions, as well as products designed for broader market intelligence applications.

Comintell Launches New Version of Software

Comintell announced the newest release of its Knowledge XChanger software, V4. 

"This is the most significant release of Comintell KXC since its inception almost 6 years ago," says Jesper Martell, CEO at Comintell. "We will always continue to develop our software to allow our customers to achieve higher productivity, increased idea generation and an improved capability to identify business threats and opportunities."

Profile: Spotfire.com

From their "about" page:

Spotfire, Inc. provides interactive, visual data analytics applications and services that empower enterprises and their end-users to improve operational performance and gain an information advantage over the competition. Over 25,000 users in close to 1,000 organizations around the world use Spotfire DecisionSite to drive confident decision-making by quickly and easily spotting trends, outliers and unanticipated relationships in critical business data. The company, founded in 1996, maintains U.S. headquarters in Somerville, Mass., and European headquarters in Göteborg, Sweden.

Customer segments:

• Life sciences
• Energy
• Manufacturing
• Academics

Developing: Government segment due to In-Q-Tel investment.

Products:
DecisionSite
DecisionSite Posters
DecisionSite Statistics
DecisionSite Developer
Functional Genomics
Lead Discovery
DecisionSite MapConnect

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