KONE Adopts Novintel's Intelligence Desk Service for Enhanced Market Intelligence

Novintel, an international pioneer in customized Market Intelligence services and solutions, is proud to announce that KONE Corporation has entered into an Intelligence Partnership with Novintel. 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 Viva Intelligence Plaza™ software, branded internally as the "KONE Compass".

Helsinki (PRWEB) January 24, 2007 -- Novintel (www.novintel.com), an international pioneer in customized Market Intelligence services and solutions, is proud to announce that KONE Corporation has entered into an Intelligence Partnership with Novintel. 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 Viva 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."

For additional information, please visit the Novintel website at www.novintel.com.

About Novintel
Novintel (www.novintel.com) is an international pioneer in customized Market Intelligence services and solutions with offices in London, Helsinki, and Toronto. Our consultative expertise covers continuous market monitoring, customized research and analysis, and intelligence software. Novintel's clients are primarily large multinationals and smaller, growth-oriented companies operating in a wide variety of industries. Novintel's international expansion has been supported by 3i Group, a world leader in venture capital and private equity. Novintel is a founding member of the Global Intelligence Alliance (www.globalintelligence.com), a global network of professional business research and Competitive Intelligence companies.

About the Intelligence Desk™
Novintel's Intelligence Desk™ is a solution that combines an optimized information source portfolio, a customized web interface, and professional analyst resources to monitor the external operating environment of a customer's organization. Decision-makers will receive regular, personalized email briefings and reports that meet their specific needs. The web-based delivery tool will also store the information, allowing end-users to easily search for past reports and business signals.

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.

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