Northern Light Strategic Research Portals

Northern Light provides strategic research portals for market research, competitive intelligence, business analysis, product development, and technology research.

Our client list reads like a "who’s who" in industry and technology. We serve the strategic research portal needs of the largest, most research-driven, most demanding and sophisticated companies in the world. Our clients are using our research portals to guide their corporate strategies and to invent the future we are all going to live in.

A typical strategic research portal from Northern Light might contain one or more repositories of internal primary research, dozens of licensed external secondary research subscription sources, business news, financial analyst reports, government databases, and content acquired from custom Web crawls.

Northern Light can deploy a strategic research portal like the one described above within 90 days of receiving the client go-ahead.

Our clients average 5,000 registered users of the research portal; though the smallest has 300 users and the largest over 70,000.

Our portal services are turnkey, with Northern Light responsible for the successful deployment and operation of every aspect of the solution. We provide content aggregation, search, text analytics, Web 2.0-style collaboration, and content security and authorization; all presented in a customized, best-practices user interface.

Northern Light also provides aggregation and search of business news for research portals, intranets, and Internet sites. Our news feed delivers 25,000 news stories a day from the world’s leading news sources.

Additionally, Northern Light provides consulting in the area of strategic research portals. We provide best-practices advice, brand reputation tracking, and custom editorially-populated portals for tracking competitors, industries, and product markets.