World-Check announces the acquisition of IntegraScreen's Enhanced Due Diligence Division
London, 04 February 2009. World-Check today announced the acquisition of IntegraScreen, a leading provider of due diligence services to corporations and governments worldwide.
With the addition of International Enhanced Due Diligence (IEDD) reports to its existing portfolio, World-Check is positioned to provide an end-to-end risk management service providing Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Employee (KYE) identity authentication, reputation screening, customized country risk assessments and comprehensive due diligence reports for in-depth analysis, reporting and monitoring across multiple industries.
EDD reports are specifically designed to cater to market needs and provide KYC and business partner screening that meets Anti Money Laundering (AML), Anti Corruption and Counter Terrorist Financing (CFT) compliance obligations such as those required under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and the USA Patriot Act. Due diligence reports are essential when: conducting pre-merger and acquisition inquiries and pre-IPO research; entering into a new international joint venture; engaging a critical business partner in an emerging market; reviewing international hedge funds and implementing best practices for regulatory compliance and corporate governance.
Mr. Daniel Peak, Chief Executive Officer of World-Check said, "This acquisition was made possible through our continued success and ongoing quest to provide our clients with best-of-breed tools to cover all aspects of risk management. IntegraScreen's Due Diligence reporting service is a perfect addition to our existing product offerings, and will enable us to deliver enhanced value to clients who require 360 degree in-depth reporting before making essential business decisions. With offices in 19 locations across 10 countries and over 400 employees, our wider global research network and expanded coverage of emerging markets including the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe and Latin America will undoubtedly provide us with a leading competitive edge".
Friday, February 27, 2009
R-Techno congratulates our colleagues in the acquisition!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Russian Innovations in Business Intelligence
Recently in a new sector of business intelligence there has been an unusual example of the state and business understanding, moreover, actual fulfillment of the state priorities at the private professional level.
Less than half a year ago Dmitry Medvedev, the First Vice-Premier at that time, defined four “I”-priorities to be concentrated on during next few years: institutions, infrastructure, innovations, and investments.
At the first sight it is hard to connect these priorities with a new sector of competitive intelligence. But they appeared to be closely related.
During several years one of the well-known Russian competitive intelligence experts Evgeniy Yuschuk has been reporting on the problem of professional internet usage for valuable information search. He is regularly giving problem-oriented workshops. Being a member of SCIP, he is constantly interchanging his experience with foreign colleagues. He alone, and in cooperation with other authors, has published a number of books in Russia.
One of his boos is titled "Internet Intelligence Manual" and is a kind of reference book on this topic. Author’s great experience and knowledge of the existing tools at that time let him describe real professional problem in detail. That was the question to think over for a person involved into business intelligence.
As it was expected, it appeared to be impossible to gather information about this professional. Intelligence agents do not always intend to be recognized. He is known to be registered at the Business intelligence forum online as “MOS.”
Closely monitoring online-search discussions he addressed a soft developer with questions compiled as a task to design absolutely new and specific functions on the basis of the developer’s program. “MOS” chose to be a tester. Actually, MOS found solutions for problems described by Yuschuk in his books and suggested a highly efficient developer to take part in their solving.
Alexey Mylnikov agreed to be a designer of the program with non-standard and non-existing functions. Being a student of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, a designer in Soviet military defense bureaus and having a great creating desire Alexey started working on the project at once. Already in a month SiteSputnik had its first unique functions for information online search.
In other words, Mylnikov “taught” his program to search a number of objects in several languages simultaneously getting the most precise and full result as well as to find connections between the objects. That is, the program searches for a needle in a haystack without demanding constant presence of the user.
Every new version of the SiteSputnik is tested by “MOS” and assessed by Evgeniy Yuschuk who checks Mylnikov’s creation in his work. Thus, the product goes through the whole chain of procedures: from ideas to fulfillment and usage in work. That makes an innovation different from an invention.
Today the program is being discussed by many other professionals in business intelligence on several other professional forums. One professional group is taking part in working out product’s characteristics. Very often new ideas appear while discussing the product.
That is why their implementation finds customers at once and they are tried in real life with real tasks. Actually, the innovation product is being designed in an innovational way.
The notable part is that together with all new strategic priorities, professional traditions are also observed. In fact, design of absolutely new product is developed according to the classical principles of cooperation between intelligent agents and developers. According to them, agents give orders to scientists and laboratories to develop absolutely new products meeting their specific needs. The only difference is that state intelligent services make such products secret in comparison to business intelligence which does not.
Alexey Mylnikov, the developer:
Who and what purposes did you design SiteSputnik for? What reasons did you have?
The aim of the program design was to create a robot to shift rough information search online. What kind of user? As we see, among users there are market managers, teachers, managers, directors and of course, intelligent agents.
As for the reasons, for me it is very interesting. Developing process is closely related to users; very often new ideas appear while communicating online.
How useful was the experience of working together with intelligent agents?
Our cooperation influenced greatly the program development itself.
Great quantity of information they work with, high requirements for its accuracy and comprehensiveness demanded new qualities of the program.
Due to this cooperation SiteSputnik got a lot of useful, unique, and needed functions.
What are the difficulties in the program development and its prospects?
Despite the fact that only a part of numerous tasks has been fulfilled, I am satisfied with my performance and users are satisfied with the result. The financing problem is solved by selling the program itself. In the nearest future I plan to improve information search, analysis and monitoring tools.
“MOS”, the professional
What is the practical value of the program, its efficiency in your work?
Value is an economic notion, efficiency is a managerial one.
$ 30-100, which you spend once, are paid back very quickly.
The program saves time reducing duration of work in search-engines. It can fulfill several computer operators’ work because necessity for human presence is minimal.
The program makes work arrangements easier, it can fulfill tasks during non-working hours and results are presented by a report that does not really need editing.
Is it necessary to have special knowledge or skills to use the program?
It is not necessary. The program let a person not acquainted with search-engines peculiarities do almost professional search in Internet. However, if you have some special knowledge you can get the best, nearly the ideal results.
How often do you refer to developers and other professionals with specific orders?
Often, but we got the real result of cooperation with a developer for the first time.
Evgeniy Yuschuk, the expert:
Can you confirm that this program has unique functions not present anywhere else?
I do not know any counterparts, at least at such a low price. Besides, during usual search you have to wait for every site with results to open while SitSputnik let a professional do other things and return to the computer when the program downloads all necessary information. It saves the result into the build-in data base available for later research.
Is it fair to refer to cooperation of competitive intelligence agents and a developer as a special case of innovational activity in business intelligence?
I think so. The program has been created together with competitive intelligence agents from the very beginning. Everyone added something. For example, the universal language of requests making search online easier was built in the program by Alexey Mylnikov after he, me and some more members of the Business Intelligence Agents’ Forum had gathered in real life and drawn schemes of required SiteSputnik work.
Would you like to change anything in the program or add other functions?
Actually, we are constantly suggesting something. Alexey can start developing something at once, the rest he postpones. I can say definitely that professional community is working with the program testing it and giving tasks. I suppose, this is the reason of the program success.
It is evident that the innovation product can be used not only by business intelligence agents but other professionals using information from open resources without special training at that. It means that any community which work is based on Internet information can become a participant of creating a program meeting their needs.
No wonder, Evgeniy Yuschuk is going to introduce the new product to participants of the 2008 European Competitive Intelligence Summit, held 20-22 October, in Rome, Italy.
It is true that Russian professionals have a lot to be proud of.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
R-Techno in Switzerland
Michael Alkalay (Director of AySEC Services Ltd.) has been appointed as the representative of R-Techno in Switzerland.
Presentation "What is the business of companies providing competitive intelligence services at outsourcing basis?"
Yeugeniy Yuschuk issued a presentation based on real cases from R-Techno experience.
25 minutes. File 24 Mb.
Appointment
Victor Ivanovich Tarusin has been appointed as R-Techno deputy general director on international projects.
R-Techno is a reliable partner!
“Interfax – AKI” agency increased credit rating of R-Techno company, keeping common assessment as “Company capable in time and in full to meet its obligation"
Duemarx – the best innovative product of 2008!
In 2008 R-Techno company detached a new line of business – marketing intelligence as separated brand – Duemarx. Due to its innovative product Duemarx gained respect and credibility with clients. Special interest to this product was ignited by Global financial crisis. Under crisis conditions demand for marketing intelligence has grown in times.
Duemarx activities could not be left unattended by Security market players and due to positive responses of the clients and market participants, it was nominated in the industry competition for the award “Appreciation of Security market 2008.” Among other serious participants the jury selected Duemarx as the winner in nomination “The best innovative product of the year.
Yelena Rogacheva, Duemarx General director says, “Business intelligence opens incredible opportunities for marketing research. Non standard approach provides higher authenticity and allows to get an insight view on the situation, supported by facts, but not only open sources information and expert opinion".
DUEMARX is the first marketing company at Russian market that combines technologies of due diligence and marketing. Its operation is based on technologies of economic intelligence in marketing researches. Successful combination of two technologies for the sake of one target has provided higher authenticity and to elaborate non standard approach to task execution.
Research on mobile content market. Analytic report on Russian market (VAS) in 2008
Duemarx Company has completed marketing research of Russian VAS market (mobile content) 2008.
R-Techno Company - has completed development of "it2b.bloginformer 3100+" system
"it2b.bloginformer 3100+" - automatic system of posts placement in blogs. Field of application:
— Combat blogging, information wars;
— Company services promoting;
— PR;
— SEO.
Russian market of computer games 2008
Duemarx successfully completed market research on Computer games market 2008.
Note. Special offer - 25000 RR!
Additional English version of the report - 5000 RR.
The best search solution for competitive intelligence in 2008
Expert Board of Internet project "Intelligence 2 business" http://it2b.ru approved as the best search soft ware for competitive intelligence in 2008 software designed by Alex Milnikov - SiteSputnik
Data base “Mass media in Russia 2008"
Within data bases serial “Invisible Internet” a new edition was issued “Mass media in Russia in 2008” . Base fields: Name of mass media, founders, contact details, license reg. number, etc.
— DB format - CronosPlus;
— Number of records – about 65000;
— Price – 1500 RR VAT 18% included.
Russian apple market in 2008
Duemarx has completed market research "Russian apple market in 2008". This research as all others conducted by Duemarx, is a symbiosis of classical market research and business intelligence. This fact has positively increase authenticity of information provided and create unique product!
Data bases “Invisible Internet"
In January 2009 in Data bases serial “Invisible internet” were issued the following information products:
- "Interpol search 2008"
- "Bankrupts in Byelorussia 2008"
- "US companies condemned in fraud in 2008"
- "Unconscionable suppliers FAS 2008"
- "Debtors in metal industry 2008"
