Intelligence Plaza is a leading market intelligence tool from M-Brain that facilitates collaboration and information sharing through advanced features like personalized alerts, modular information architecture, and integration with other business systems. It is designed for ease of use, quick implementation, and continuous development based on user feedback. M-Brain offers additional customized intelligence deliverables and services to meet specific organizational needs.

1. Intelligence Plaza –
World leading MI tool
Contact details:
Mr. Carsten Gayer
Managing Director
carsten.gayer@m-brain.com
+49 (0)172-7543331

2. Intelligence Plaza® - the world leading MI tool
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Intelligence Plaza® is where external
and internal information meets. It is
also where M-Brain delivers their
services and where your colleagues
will meet to share and collaborate
around market intelligence.
• The complete market intelligence
engine.
• Intelligence via email alerts, online
dashboards as well as tablet and
smartphone interfaces.
• Great collaborative features to promote
MI community building.
• Integrates with other information
systems, such as SharePoint (special
edition available).

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Key Benefits
What our customers say:
“Very easy to implement and use.”
“Great customer service.”
“Value added services beyond just the software
capabilities.”
“Constant development to evolve with our needs.”
• Easy-to-use and personalized - The end user
interface is intuitive and very easy to navigate, allowing for
time savings in finding information.
• Quick and easy implementation - Implement a
stand-alone Intelligence Plaza® from scratch, or turn your
existing SharePoint into a complete world class intelligence
platform in just a few weeks - with only minor time and
resource investments from you and your IT department.
• Integrates with other systems. Work optimally with
other business process tools such as CRM systems.
• Robust and scalable technology - Easily modified
according to your changing needs and growing
organization.
• Continuous support & development - The
Intelligence Plaza® is being continuously developed based
on the experiences of its global user base.

4. Intelligence Plaza’s delivery interface makes
Market Intelligence available to your end
users anytime, anywhere
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Advanced search function
enables to search news articles,
reports, field intelligence and
attachments such as PDFs or
Excel files in one go.
Intelligence Modules:
• Market Insights
• Field Intelligence
• Research & Analysis
• Profiles Modules
Information Architecture
Enables user friendly and
intuitive browsing for
information. The structure is
customized and can also be
modified according to
changes in your operating
environment
Collections is a great for collecting articles
you spot in the plaza and through your daily
email alerts. Collections also enables you to
build good looking newsletter with just a few
clicks – no editing needed.
Advanced Dashboard Functions
enables further customized
presentation of information. Both
shared and individual dashboard
can be set up.

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Automated Personal Alerts and Newsletters
enables you and the system to push out MI
Personal Alert Newsletter

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Personal Alerts – push information to end users
according to their interests
Communication from MI team
The new editorial at the top of
an alert (a recurring message
until changed) enables the MI
team to communicate more
with the audience: for example,
remind users to share insights.
Enhanced structure
• Organize content into topical
sections
• Add introduction to each
section to clarify the scope
Example:
Create a ”Competitor alert” and
a ”Technology alert” and
combine the two into one daily
alert with these sections.
Advanced Alerts
• The new design gives the
alerts a modern appearance
and increase user engage-
ment and experience.
• Visual elements as images
and tables in intelligence
items are now also included
in alert e-mails.
• Alerts facilitate knowledge
sharing and increase Plaza
traffic.
Enriched Alert Design
The improved design is compa-
tible with more e-mail clients
than ever before, including
mobile phones and tablets.
Wider e-mail client support

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Newsletter generator – editorial picks and
commentary
“Collections” allows you to make a
selection of intelligence and send it
out as a Newsletter. The “Send as
Newsletter” tool has many advanced
functionalities.
Editorial header
The editorial header at the beginning of the Newsletters enables the MI
team to share their analysis of current events.
Sections with headers
Selected Plaza items can be tagged to different Newsletter sections.
An editorial header can be added to each section and it may contain
images, tables, and additional analytical text.
Enhanced structure
As in the Newsletter displayed on the right:
The MI team shares its view on the market developments of the previous
month. An editor’s pick of intelligence items is added to two geographical
sections.
Enhanced structure

8. Profiles – store structured information on e.g.
companies, products or markets
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9. Profiles – display any quantitative data visually
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10. Profiles: compare companies or market
neck-2-neck in the benchmarking view
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11. Profiles: Aggregation View – combine
numerical data from separate profiles in 1 view
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12. Social collaboration and dialogues effectively
strengthens your MI culture
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Comment, Rate, Like and
Follow articles
Receive notifications and
feedback

13. The mobile interface extends the reach of your
MI activities to include colleagues on the road
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Computer Interface Tablet Phone

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Optional: Customized Intelligence deliverables
that will serve your organization’s intelligence
needs with precision
Industry Key Developments Monitoring
(customized abstracts)
Industry Monitoring
Local Languages Monitoring
Social Media Monitoring
Macro-economic Monitoring
Monthly Summaries / Review Report
M-Brain Analysts monitor your business
environment and process scattered data into
relevant insights
Competitor Profile Updates
Market Profile Updates
Rapid Response Research
Hand-picked
sources
Dedicated
analyst team
Fees to be discussed
separately

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Optional: Dedicated analysts can complement
your Market Intelligence operation with custom
deliverables
Each service is unique and will be customized to match the Market Intelligence needs of the Customer, who also
decides which components will be produced internally vs. what will be outsourced.
 Managed News Flow
 Scheduled Newsletters
 Sales Leads Monitoring
 Key Customer Profiles
 Social Media Monitoring
 Patents Monitoring
 Business Area Review
reports
 Competitor Profiles
 Macro Economic
Monitoring
Additional scope an /or
deliverables and resulting
fees can be discussed

16. About M-Brain
www.m-brain.com

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We offer relevant, timely external intelligence that helps
make the right decisions, efficiently. We call it
Informed Leadership

18. We help you to…
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We offer relevant, timely external intelligence that helps make the right
decisions, efficiently. We call it Informed Leadership.
…stay aware of all
developments in your
business environment
…understand what
these developments
mean for you
…decide on your
optimal strategy for
success
www.m-brain.com

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We cover 3 million social media
platforms
100 000 news outlets in 71
languages in 23 regions
450 professionals around the
globe conducting industry reports
and market analyses
20 years of giving strategic
advice and recommendations to
global companies
Complete Suite of Offerings

20. Our experience
spans across industries
www.m-brain.com

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M-Brain is a global information, technology and consulting services company. We
help our clients to navigate the turbulent and ever expanding business environment.
We offer crucial external business information, and advise in its efficient management
and utilization. We turn information into actionable insights for daily decision-making
and strategic planning. We call it Informed Leadership.
Global Intelligence Alliance was acquired by M-Brain in September 2014.
Carsten Gayer
Managing Director, Germany
carsten.gayer@m-brain.com
+49 (0)172-7543331
www.m-brain.com