Enhanced Version of GIA's Intelligence Plaza Adopts Best Practices from the Web

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 21, 2009

Global Intelligence Alliance Group (GIA), a global strategic market intelligence and advisory company, announces the release of Version 6.0 of the GIA Intelligence Plaza™, a popular collaborative software that allows businesses to automate and structure their Market Intelligence operations. More than 25,000 decision makers around the world currently rely on Intelligence Plaza™ on a daily basis.

In a survey conducted by GIA in February 2009, business planning and market intelligence professionals rated 'Ease of Use' as the most important attribute for any Market Intelligence software.

For the rankings table, please refer to http://www.globalintelligence.com/news/news/latest/enhanced-version-of-gia-s-intelligence-plaza-adopt/

While the GIA Intelligence Plaza™ is rated very highly in being 'easy to use' (Table A), the company has sought to further enhance this aspect in the software, by adapting best practices from popular websites and online forums. The new features aim to help organizations utilize internal insights better, and include:

1. Enhanced user interfaces
The GIA Intelligence Plaza™ v 6.0 now includes additional navigation options, a layout redesign and a new action toolbar.

2. Greater personalization
New features allow users to choose to include RSS feeds, highest-rated information or most-read information on the front page, for example.

3. Easier collaboration
A Content Rating tool allows further collaboration among the intelligence network. Users can publish their own information as well as rate or comment on information published on GIA's Intelligence Plaza™ v 6.0.

Says Mr. Markko Vaarnas, CEO of GIA, "With the advent of web 2.0, we have noticed a growing demand for market intelligence software that is highly visual and interactive. The latest features in GIA's Intelligence Plaza™ are a response to this. Our aim is to provide a robust system that allows our customers' market intelligence teams to collaborate with the end-users of the system, and capture unique insights from the field and share them among key decision makers within the company."

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About Global Intelligence Alliance:
Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA, http://www.globalintelligence.com) provides clients with a single source for customized Market Intelligence services: market monitoring, business research and analysis projects, the Intelligence Plaza™ software, consulting and training. Through its full-range service offering, GIA helps customers set up and conduct Market Intelligence activities that serve both strategic and operational decision-making. The GIA network consists of GIA Group companies and independent Member and Research Partner organizations that operate in more than 100 countries. GIA Group was founded in 1995 and is owned by management and private investors. Venture capital funding to support international expansion was obtained in April 2007 from CapMan (http://www.capman.com).

More About Intelligence Plaza™:
Intelligence Plaza™ is state-of-the-art Market and Competitive Intelligence software for organizations seeking a sophisticated tool to automate routines and bring structure to their intelligence operation. For end users, this customized application provides a personalized and easy-to-use web interface with collaboration, search and email alert features. The Intelligence Plaza™ is available to clients either as a license-based purchasing model or as a hosted solution.

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