Software provides online trade intelligence.September 16, 2009 -
With data gathered directly from ship manifests and uploaded daily, PIERS TI v3.0 provides single interface for conducting targeted searches of online database on U.S. waterborne trade for all imports and exports. Program delivers bill of lading details and lets users review, rearrange, manipulate, and refine search results on-screen before downloading spreadsheet-compatible files. It also offers at-a-glance visual presentations of findings and customized reports in PDF format.
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PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions
33 Washington Street, 13th Floor
Newark, NJ, 07102-3107
USA
PIERS TI® New Release Enables Customized Searches of Import-Export Trade Database
PIERS TI 3.0 provides one interface for bill of lading details on transactions in both directions - plus a vast set of options for precision-control searches, results analysis and report generation.
NEWARK, N.J., Sept. 8 /-- PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions, a UBM Global Trade company, today unveiled the third generation of its industry-leading online trade intelligence product, PIERS TI.
PIERS TI 3.0 provides a single, integrated interface for conducting highly specific targeted searches of the most comprehensive database on U.S. waterborne trade for all imports and exports. With fresh data gathered directly from ship manifests and uploaded daily, the PIERS database is the only online source for bill of lading detail on both import and export transactions. Subscribers can access records online as recent as this week's and as far back as 60 months ago.
PIERS TI 3.0 also introduces new capabilities to review, rearrange, manipulate, and refine search results on-screen before downloading as spreadsheet-compatible files.
PIERS TI's report-creation function has been enhanced. Where the previous generation product offered a menu of report templates, the new generation provides the menu of templates plus a second menu of options to customize the layout and content of the end-product, a report in PDF format. For example, users can group results by a category of their choosing -- commodity or destination -- and order results within each group by a choice of measures.
Users may also opt for at-a-glance visual presentations of their findings. A choice of graphics show top rankings or month-by-month trends for parties to the trade, commodities traded, and markets or sources as measured number of shipments, their estimated values, weights, or TEUs (twenty-foot-equivalent units -- the standard measure for container shipments).
"TI 3.0 leverages best-in-class database design, search, reporting and web technologies, for the superior performance our customers rely on us to maintain," says Lenny Corallo, PIERS President and COO. "Our users don't need and we certainly don't want them to spend time picking through data dumps and fiddling with opaque statistics. Users want timely, detailed information that is on-point when it comes to their strategic business decision-making."
Since its launch in 2004, PIERS TI has been a consistent market leader in providing online access to the latest available U.S. trade data, down to transaction detail -- including names and addresses, detailed cargo descriptions, and estimated value of shipments.
Now, PIERS third-generation TI, with its single interface to U.S. import and export data and expansive set of options for customized database research, redefines and raises the standard for online trade information products.
"We set out to enable our users to customize every aspect of their experience of PIERS TI," explains Corallo, adding that PIERS drew extensively on customer feedback on product functionality at every stage of development.
"We have a unique resource in the PIERS import-export trade database," Corallo says. "Now PIERS TI 3.0 empowers our customers to access, search, retrieve and dissect information from our database on their own terms and in doing so, turns our unique resource into their unique insight into new business opportunities."
Learn more about PIERS TI at www.piers.com/piersproducts. Demonstrations may be arranged by calling 1-800-952-3839, ext. 7175.
About PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions
PIERS is the primary source of U.S. waterborne trade information and a leader in global trade solutions. Launched over 30 years ago by The Journal of Commerce as the Port Import Export Reporting Service, its first venture in electronic information, PIERS quickly became the standard reference on container trade for the maritime industry.
A roster of over 6,000 private industry, trade association, and domestic and foreign government clients, representing more than 40 countries, relies on PIERS to translate trade data into meaningful intelligence that guides their global business strategies. For more information visit www.piers.com.
About UBM Global Trade
UBM Global Trade, formerly Commonwealth Business Media, Inc., has been the leading provider of proprietary data, news, business intelligence and analytical content supporting commercial maritime, rail, trucking, warehousing and logistics industries worldwide since 1827. The company's portfolio of more than 100 online, print and interactive workflow business solutions includes The Journal of Commerce, The Journal of Commerce Conferences, PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions and an array of international trade and transportation databases and directories. UBM Global Trade, a subsidiary of United Business Media Limited, is headquartered in East Windsor, NJ, with offices throughout the United States and in Canada and Hong Kong. For more information, explore http://www.ubmglobaltrade.com/ or call 800-221-5488 (+1-609-371-7700 outside the U.S. and Canada).
About United Business Media Limited
UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries is organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/.
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