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Subject: 13 COMPANIES THAT I NEED INFORMATION ABOUT..CAN YOU HELP ME??
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: joel1357-ga
List Price: $100.00
Posted: 12 Jun 2002 17:30 PDT
Expires: 19 Jun 2002 17:30 PDT
Question ID: 25031
Lets try this question again. I want to find/determine the website's,
types of products offered, ticker symbol if any of the following are
publicly traded companies, as well as the value of the company and
their current and projected
revenues. The companies I need this information for are: Brimstone AB,
C-4-U Ltd, Caesius Software, Inc, Cipher Systems,  ClearForest
Corporation, Docere Intelligence, Intelliseek, Inc, Megaputer
Intelligence, Inc, NexLabs Pte Ltd, Strategy Software, Inc,
Thoughtshare Communication, Inc, Wincite Systems LLC and WisdomBuilder
LLC.

Thank You,
Joel
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Subject: Re: 13 COMPANIES THAT I NEED INFORMATION ABOUT..CAN YOU HELP ME??
Answered By: studboy-ga on 12 Jun 2002 23:14 PDT
 
Dear Joel,

The companies you requested are all private, business competitive
intelligence
management software companies.  Their products can be found under the
"Product" section on their respective web pages:

http://www.brimstone.net/  
  Intelligence: a relational database of products and companies.
http://www.c4u.com/
  Scout: a webpage content change monitoring tool.
http://www.caesius.com/
  WebQL: a query language to data-mine info from the internet.
http://www.cipher-sys.com/
  Knowledge.Works: a package to automate collection of
internal/external info.
http://www.clearforest.com/
  ClearSearch Suite: a package to analyze and identify relationships
between
  people, companies, and events from collected data.
http://www.docere.se/
  Market Signal Analyzer: a tool to analyze and identify trends in
sets of data.
http://www.intelliseek.com/ http://www.planetfeedback.com/biz
  BrandPulse: a benchmarking and monitoring tool to alert potential
problems.
http://www.megaputer.com/
  TextAnalyst: a tool to analyze unstructured text to come up with
summaries
  (hey try this tool on the paper :)
http://www.nexlabs.com/
  TrackEngine: a webpage content change monitoring and tracking tool.
http://www.strategy-software.com/
  STRATEGY!: a organization, benchmarking, and comparison tool for
data.
http://www.thoughtshare.com/
  PlanBee: a packager for web-based information.
http://www.wincite.com/
  (e)Wincite: a database for competitive intelligence data.
http://www.wisdombuilder.com/home.htm
  Wisdom Builder: an integrated tool for identifying relationships
among
  collected data.

Since these are private companies, they do not have ticker symbols and
their valuation in terms of market cap is, well, zero.  
http://sbs.dnb.com/ provides the current estimated annual sales
figures for
teh following US companies:

Caesius $1,700,000
Cipher $0 <-- this is not a typo!
ClearForest $1,400,000
Intelliseek $5,200,000
Megaputer $400,000
Strategy Software $1,200,000
Wincite $1,000,000
WisdomBuilder $500,000

I cannot find sales figures for the Sweden, Israel, Singapore, Canada
companies
(Brimstone and Docere are in Sweden; C-4-U is in Israel; Nexlabs is in
Singapore;
ThoughtShare in Canada) from this website, but I did get the revenue
figures from
elsewhere for ThoughtShare:

Thoughtshare: $1,200,000
http://www.thoughtshare.com/company/investor_relations/ts_irpresentation112002.ppt

You can probably get the revenue/sales figures for Brimstone, Docere,
C-4-U, & Nexlabs
from an investment banker (Merrill Lynch, etc) who has access to a
private
company database, or try http://www.skyminder.com/.

Last but not least, given the current economy, I'd think these sales
figures
would probably remain pretty much the same (projected).

Hope this helps.

PS If you're looking for a CI solution, I'd recommend Wincite or
WisdomBuider--
they are very well-rounded in all five of the CI stages as pointed out
by the
report you referenced (the .pdf one--the .doc one is outdated).  In
terms of
costs, I would go with Wincite if I've a lot of users; WisdomBuilder
if I've
a few users: the reason being the license terms for Wincite is a lump
sum
($15,000) for an unlimited number of users, whereas those for
WisdomBuilder
is a per user charge ($2500 per user).  Both of these are
Windows-based and
are excellent for analyzing web-based data.
Comments  
Subject: Re: 13 COMPANIES THAT I NEED INFORMATION ABOUT..CAN YOU HELP ME??
From: davidsar-ga on 12 Jun 2002 17:36 PDT
 
Joel -- Please see my clarification of your original question...thanks.

David
Subject: Re: 13 COMPANIES THAT I NEED INFORMATION ABOUT..CAN YOU HELP ME??
From: missy-ga on 12 Jun 2002 17:56 PDT
 
As much as I would love to take a crack at this one, I would feel
absolutely dreadful and unethical doing so, knowing how much time and
effort my colleague has already put into it. I would hope that other
Researchers leave this be until he can  post his work.

missy-ga
Subject: Re: 13 COMPANIES THAT I NEED INFORMATION ABOUT..CAN YOU HELP ME??
From: mother911-ga on 12 Jun 2002 17:59 PDT
 
I currently can't answer yet (utility belt where art thou?) but I will
offer a further assitance to Joel and the other Researcher in question
who worked all day on this very question. If any help is needed I am
more then happy to do any and all research to complete this
answer...you know where I can be found folks...or just post
clarifications here if needed.

Hope I can help
Mother911-ga
Subject: Re: 13 COMPANIES THAT I NEED INFORMATION ABOUT..CAN YOU HELP ME??
From: wengland-ga on 13 Jun 2002 08:28 PDT
 
Actually, one of them is public.  Here's the info I got:

Company			Status		Value		Revenue		
Brimstone AB		Private		N/A		N/A
http://www.brimstone.se/

C-4-U Ltd		Closed -- eMail out to last known contact 
http://www.c-4-u.com/

Caesius Software	Private		N/A		N/A
http://www.caesius.com/

Cipher Systems		Private LLC	N/A		N/A
http://www.cipher-sys.com/

ClearForest		Private		N/A		N/A
http://www.clearforest.com/

Docere Intelligence	Private		N/A		N/A
http://www.docere.se/
http://www.docereintelligence.com/

Intelliseek, Inc	Private		N/A		N/A
http://www.intelliseek.com/

Megaputer		Private		N/A		N/A
http://www.megaputer.com/

NexLabs 		Private		N/A		N/A
http://www.nexlabs.com/

Strategy Software, Inc	Private		N/A		N/A
http://www.strategy-software.com/

Thoughtshare Communication, Inc		55.3 mil.	-7.6 mil
			Public
Symbol: THO
Trades on TSX Venture Exchange.
http://www.thoughtshare.com/
March 7 2002 Financial Statement:
http://www.thoughtshare.com/company/investor_relations/archive/a1201.pdf

Wincite Systems		Private		N/A		N/A
http://www.wincite.com/

WisdomBuilder		Private		N/A		N/A
http://www.wisdombuilder.com/

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