• 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

MAG Industrial Automation Systems Chooses the Intelligence Desk™ Service to Improve Competitive Advantage

MAG Industrial Automation Systems (MAG-IAS) has chosen the GIA to provide a Market Intelligence system to support its international operations. Through the Intelligence Desk™ market monitoring service, coupled with internal reports and analyses, MAG-IAS is now able to provide relevant current awareness and in-depth analyses for its organization. MAG-IAS uses the Intelligence Plaza™ software as the central repository and dissemination tool for its market intelligence.

Noam Sahbti, Director, Business Intelligence at MAG-IAS highlights the benefits of systematic market monitoring and internal knowledge sharing: “This system allows our people to collaborate and share their knowledge. The GIA’s role as the service provider is to deliver regular insights on our business environment developments and help us save significant amount of time in gathering and analyzing information”.

Sahbti continues: “We needed a partner with global market intelligence support capability and the GIA was the only company able to provide both the international service coverage and software as a complete solution. We also wanted to partner with a vendor that has a proven track-record in implementing intelligence desk solutions rapidly enough to gain the expected business benefits”.

Victor Knip, Director at GIA, US, comments: “Winning the MAG-IAS account further validates our US east coast strategy and stresses the importance for any professional service company to have an office in New York City. MAG-IAS is an excellent reference client for us as the relationship includes several aspects of Novintel’s strategic offering.”

About MAG Industrial Automation Systems
MAG Industrial Automation Systems (www.mag-ias.com) is a group of leading machine tool and systems companies serving the durable-goods industry. Utilizing a comprehensive line of equipment and technologies, in combination with diverse process engineering knowledge, MAG provides tailored manufacturing solutions to key industrial sectors across the globe.

MAG has a large portfolio of highly-recognized and well-respected brands. With manufacturing and sales operations in the United States, Canada, Germany, China, Korea, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and India the companies of MAG Industrial Automation Systems rank among the leading companies in the global metal-working market.