Greenfield Online Completes Transition to One Global Survey Platform for its Worldwide Survey Projects
July 10 2008 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Greenfield Online, Inc., (Nasdaq: SRVY) today announced that its
Internet survey solutions business has completed the transition to
one global survey platform for managing its panels and processing
its clients survey projects in North America, Europe and Asia,
considerably improving the company�s ability to meet clients�
project delivery requirements worldwide. First launched in North
America in 2006, the Unified Panel System (UPS) manages the
Greenfield Online/Ciao Surveys� worldwide panel databases, its
Real-Time Sampling� capability and processes the company�s global
survey projects; all on a single technology platform. �The
transition to one global survey platform represents the final and
full operational and technical integration of the Greenfield Online
and Ciao Surveys businesses, and we are proud and excited to
announce the completion of this massive project,� said Albert
Angrisani, President and Chief Executive Officer. �Our world class
UPS technology platform has not only helped us improve our data
quality, but with this worldwide implementation, we can now deliver
survey projects to clients based anywhere in the world off one
global platform. Continued Angrisani, �It is a credit to efforts
put forth by the hard-working teams of David St. Pierre, Global
Chief Technology Officer, Hugh Davis, Executive Vice President and
Co-Founder, and Alberto Abisso, Managing Director, Ciao Surveys
that we are now able to extend incremental technology benefits to
our worldwide clients.� Greenfield Online/Ciao Surveys� UPS
platform has enabled the company to better optimize its survey
production capabilities across all sample sources, including its
worldwide panels, as well as non-panel sample sources such as
Real-Time Sampling, while closely monitoring operational processes,
survey feasibility and panel capacity. This latest release also
includes the company�s recently launched patent pending Duplicate
Response Detection� technology. Commented Alberto Abisso, Ciao
Surveys� Managing Director: �With UPS, our clients benefit from our
improved global capabilities to execute international and
multi-country projects from one unified survey platform worldwide
that manages not just our panels, but other respondent supply
sources as well. Additionally, with the ability to more closely
monitor our survey processes and capacity, we expect to improve
project cycle times to better meet client delivery requirements.�
With UPS, the company has improved its ability to captures numerous
member profiles, produce more targeted samples, and streamline its
sampling process. In addition, UPS offers the company the ability
to perform real-time analysis of project feasibility so that
project directors can more efficiently schedule project delivery.
In closing, David St. Pierre, Global Chief Technology Officer,
said: �Our goals were to develop a platform that would help us more
efficiently manage our global survey business and improve client
satisfaction, as well as deliver competitive advantage for
Greenfield Online/Ciao Surveys through advanced technological
capabilities. I am proud to say that our engineering team met our
objectives.� About Greenfield Online, Inc. Greenfield Online, Inc.
is a global interactive media and services company that collects
consumer attitudes about products and services, enabling consumers
to reach informed purchasing decisions about the products and
services they want to buy; and helping companies better understand
their customer in order to formulate effective product marketing
strategies. Proprietary, innovative technology enables us to
collect these opinions quickly and accurately, and to organize them
into actionable form. For more information, visit
www.greenfield.com. Through our Ciao comparison shopping portals we
gather unique and valuable user-generated content in the form of
product and merchant reviews. Visitors to our Ciao portals use
these reviews to help make purchasing decisions and we derive
revenue from this Internet traffic via e-commerce, merchant
referrals, click-throughs, and advertising sales. For more
information or to become a member, visit http://www.ciao-group.com.
Through our Greenfield Online and Ciao Surveys websites and
affiliate networks, we collect, organize and sell consumer opinions
in the form of survey responses to marketing research companies and
companies worldwide. For more information, visit
www.greenfield-ciaosurveys.com. To take a survey, go to
www.greenfieldonline.com. Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking
Statements. Certain statements contained in this press release
constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe
harbor provisions of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. These statements include, without limitation, statements
regarding our Unified Panel System technology and its ability to
help us better meet client project delivery requirements, better
optimize our survey production capabilities across all sample
sources, improve our ability to capture member profiles, produce
more targeted samples, streamline our sampling process, perform
real-time analysis of project feasibility in order to more
efficiently schedule project delivery; as well as predictions
relating to our future financial performance; in addition to other
statements relating to our future operations, services and
products. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking
statements by terminology such as, "may," "should," "expects,"
"plans," "anticipates," "believes," "estimates," "predicts,"
"potential," "continue," or the negative of these terms or other
comparable terminology. We have based these forward-looking
statements largely on our current expectations and projections
about our business operations, future events and financial trends
that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of
operations, business strategy and financial needs but they involve
a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those in the forward looking statements.
Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks
related to our ability to consistently meet client project delivery
requirements, optimize survey production capabilities across all
sample sources, capture member profiles, produce more targeted
samples, streamlining our sampling process and perform real-time
analysis of project feasibility so that we can more efficiently
schedule project delivery, , as well as other important factors
detailed in the �Risk Factors� section of our Annual Reports on
Form 10-K and each subsequent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that we
file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and which are
available at http://www.sec.gov and under the Investor Relations
section of our corporate website at www.greenfield.com.You are
urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the
forward-looking statements herein and are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are
qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. The
forward-looking statements made herein speak only as of the date of
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to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect
subsequent events or circumstances.
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