Astragy releases Astragy Professional Edition - the world's first on-demand Competitive Intelligence solution.

Astragy officially launched its new Astragy Professional Edition at the SCIP Europe summit, held in Rome. The powerful ‘plug and play' CI solution is based on the already successful Astragy Enterprise Edition - with implementations in an increasing number of multinational companies covering many industries, including fast moving consumer goods, industrial manufacturing, financial services and the non-profit sector. Astragy Professional Edition is a web based Competitive Intelligence platform that allows organizations to collect, structure and analyze information about competitors, products and markets. It is easy to use and cost efficient. Astragy Professional Edition allows organizations to set up their competitive intelligence environment in a matter of minutes and tailor it to their own specific needs. More >>

Click here to register for a 30-day free trial.

Click here to view the online flash presentation ‘Astragy at a Glance'.

Free Webinar - Effective Competitive Intelligence with Astragy

As a valued Astragy contact, we offer you a free online seminar on how to maximize your CI effectiveness with Astragy. This 45 minute webinar will take place on Thursday, 15 January 2009. It will show you how you to set up your CI strategy, and to effectively implement this strategy within your organization:

1. Start small and expand on success to build expertise and corporate support
2. Focus on efficiency and productivity to increases the practical value of CI analysis
3. Use standardization to map the ‘business need' for corporate intelligence

To register, please visit our website at http://www.astragy.com/en/events.html and fill out the registration form. You will receive the details for participation by email in due time.

Get the whitepaper - The relevance of Competitive Intelligence

Arent van ‘t Spijker, CEO of Astragy, in collaboration with Egbert Philips, CEO of BC Intelligence, released a whitepaper on the relevance of competitive intelligence. This whitepaper sheds light on the way in which organizations in CI can deal with the problem of increasing data availability and how they can translate this into pragmatic solutions. Four main questions will be answered:

1. What can organizations gain by solving the data overload problem?
2. How can the concept of relevance contribute to the solution of the problem?
3. Which organizational measures should be implemented?
4. Which requirements must be met by IT tools to support the solution of the problem?

To get a free copy of this whitepaper, visit
www.astragy.com/news/whitepaper

Astragy and Deputy IT sign partnership agreement

Astragy, market leader in Competitive Intelligence solutions, and Deputy IT, a Dutch Service Provider specialized in Business Intelligence solutions, have joined forces in a partnership designed to increase the sales and implementation power of the Astragy Competitive Intelligence solutions, as well as broaden the portfolio of Deputy IT.

For more information about Deputy IT, please visit their website at http://www.deputyit.com.