• November 26, 2007 Global Intelligence Alliance Group’s End User Survey Highlights the Benefits of Systematizing Corporate Market Intelligence Activities
• November 13, 2007 Global Intelligence Alliance Launches New White Paper on Market Intelligence for Innovation and Product Life Cycle Management
• October 23, 2007 Global Intelligence Alliance Expands in Germany
• October 1, 2007 Global Intelligence Alliance Rapidly Expands - New Business Model in Market Intelligence Gains Ground
• August 28, 2007 MAG Industrial Automation Systems Chooses the Intelligence Desk™ Service to Improve Competitive Advantage
• May 22, 2007 Global Intelligence Alliance Releases 2007 Study on Market Intelligence in Large Companies
• April 5, 2007 Taking Market Monitoring Beyond News Processing
• April 2, 2007 Global Intelligence Alliance Publishes New White Paper on Linking Market Intelligence with Strategy & Planning Process
• February 1, 2007 Global Intelligence Alliance Launches New Offering Highlighting the Linkage Between Market Intelligence and Strategic Planning
• January 23, 2007 KONE Adopts the Intelligence Desk™ service for Enhanced Market Intelligence
• January 11, 2007 Henkel Corporation Selects the Intelligence Desk™ Service to Provide Intelligence To Their Global Sales, Marketing and Business Development Personnel

KONE Adopts the Intelligence Desk™ service for Enhanced Market Intelligence

Global Intelligence Alliance is proud to announce that KONE Corporation has entered into an Intelligence Partnership with the GIA. Through the Intelligence Desk™ market monitoring service, coupled with internally produced reports and analyses, KONE will keep hundreds of corporate decision-makers and other employees up to date about business-critical developments in their global operating environment. As a delivery platform for the intelligence content serves the Intelligence Plaza™ software, branded internally as the “KONE Compass”.

Caroline Frumerie, Assistant Vice President, Business Intelligence at KONE highlights the benefits of systematic market monitoring: “This system brings Business Intelligence services in KONE to the next level. We now have a big part of relevant Business Intelligence information concentrated in one place for users to utilize around the world. The KONE Compass will also serve as a platform for sharing of Business Intelligence reports and analyses to targeted groups of people.”

Frumerie continues: “Most importantly, the tailored content that is distributed to users through email alerts from the KONE Compass will save the users’ time from searching for information. Indeed, according to a recent survey among our users, 94% felt that they are now better informed about our business environment.” 

About KONE
KONE is one of the world’s leading elevator and escalator companies. It provides its customers with industry-leading elevators and escalators and innovative solutions for their maintenance and modernization. KONE also provides maintenance of automatic building doors. In 2005, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 3.2 billion and about 27,000 employees. Its class B shares are listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.