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Northern Light Expands Consulting Services

Northern Light Group, LLC (www.northernlight.com) announced MI Insights, a new service that unifies a company's tracking of product markets, competitors, events, and trends in one easy-to-deploy, turnkey solution. Each MI Insight is customized to the client's specifications, populated with content, and editorially supervised by Northern Light research professionals. MI Insights can be integrated into a SinglePoint strategic research portal or a Northern Light Business News portal or can be deployed as a MI Insights portal.

Northern Light's editorial team works with each client to create a framework within the MI Insights portal to capture, organize, and present all of the key knowledge elements the client requires to support its strategic initiatives. Then, Northern Light researchers scour internet resources, news, and licensed research for the content required to populate and update the portal. The result is market intelligence that can be easily used by all the client's employees. MI Insights portals are tuned to the client's industry.

MI Insights is the latest in a range of consulting services from Northern Light, which is best known for providing custom strategic research portals for some of the world's leading companies. MI Insights incorporates Northern Light's widely deployed enterprise search and text analytics capabilities, specifically tuned for business research, and content from Northern Light Business News, a full-text index of more than 8,000 sources, including business news wires, leading business publications, industry news sites, and editorially selected industry authority blogs.

MI Insights is available immediately from Northern Light. The service is available to an unlimited number of users within a client organization. Pricing is based on the number of industries and companies surveyed, starting at $48,000 per year.

Source: Northern Light