Beta Availability of First Product For Proactive Business Intelligence

Panorama Software, a global leader in Proactive Business Intelligence (PBI) solutions, announced availability of the beta version of the first product developed specifically around its recently introduced PBI vision. Panorama NovaView Spotlight embeds key metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) into Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Office task pane that acts as a smart personal dashboard. NovaView Spotlight enables information workers to focus on the relevant insights that impact and drive business decisions and successes, and empowers information workers to take context sensitive structured actions based on these insights, without requiring complex BI tools or expertise.

New Competitive Intelligence Benchmarking Report

The Competitive Intelligence
unit plays a vital role by providing senior management and key decision
makers with actionable information they need to respond strategically to
external change. However, CI is a relatively new corporate function, often
underdeveloped and undervalued; at most companies the CI group was
established only in the last five years.

To be effective, a CI group needs an environment that includes
proximity to key customers and/or executives, opportunities for frequent
interaction with stakeholders, direct management by an executive champion,
functional independence and a seat at the decision table.

Insights and metrics were collected from surveys and in-depth
interviews with CI leaders across industries, including Amgen,
Boehringer-Ingelheim, Boeing, Citigroup, Eli Lilly, Fidelity Investments,
IBM, Kraft, LexisNexis, Merck, Motorola, Novartis, Procter & Gamble,
Raytheon, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, SAS, and Wyeth. Data is presented for the
full benchmark class and the pharmaceutical segment.
Sample findings around structure and alignment of the CI group include:
-- 64 percent of benchmarked companies have standalone CI departments.
-- 26 percent of CI groups report to either strategic planning, 26 percent
to marketing and 22 percent report to market research.
-- On average, there are only 2.7 levels of management between the CI head
and the CEO, which helps achieve greater proximity to company decision-
makers.

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Hitwise Launches Election 2008 Data Center To Provide Online Insights Into Its Candidates and Politics Category

Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced the launch of its new Election 2008 Data Center, providing online usage data surrounding the 2008 US presidential election. This new feature to the Hitwise Data Center highlights which candidates are the most visited online and which candidates generate the highest volume of searches. This sample of Hitwise data is publicly available to political enthusiasts, marketers, bloggers, academics, and the media.


Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced the launch of its new Election 2008 Data Center, providing online usage data surrounding the 2008 US presidential election. This new feature to the Hitwise Data Center highlights which candidates are the most visited online and which candidates generate the highest volume of searches. This sample of Hitwise data is publicly available to political enthusiasts, marketers, bloggers, academics, and the media.

Hitwise Election 2008 data is based on the online usage and search behavior of how more than 10 million US Internet users interact with more than 1 million websites across more than 160 industry categories.