About Us
Alert Business Information – finding data solutions to business challenges since 2005
Pioneers in business intelligence delivering live data and insights
Alert Business Information is the UK’s most innovative business insight provider. With a history going back to August 2005, we are pioneers in business intelligence, helping thousands of clients to pinpoint new opportunities, research markets, reach the right decision-makers and close profitable deals – FAST.
We work with organisations of all sizes in the public and private sectors, ranging from start-ups and sole-traders to SMEs and global organisations, such as Barclays, Mars, Trinity Mirror, The Bank of England and Google.
£1.5 million invested in cutting edge data systems and technologies £1.5 million invested in cutting-edge data systems and technologies to create a ground-breaking services pipeline
Alert has invested over £1.5 million in state-of-the art systems and technology that is continually being up-dated and developed so as to best present selections from over 100 million pieces of data.. A constant flow of financial information is used to update 500,000 UK business profiles in the Alert Data online portal. To power the Alert business triggers service, over 50,000 news sources are monitored round-the-clock by Alert Bi systems and software to pinpoint information about organisations experiencing or facing impending change, including: mergers &
acquisitions, recruitment drives, premises change, high-growth performance, VC/PE and other external investment, management moves and international activity. We have built a passionate team of over twenty five professional researchers, IT experts and business-support-staff. The combined outcome is a string of ground-breaking services, of which 13 are unique to Alert Business Information, cementing our position as the UK’s most innovative data solutions provider; backed up by the highest level of customer service.
Our business insights and USPs give you the edge over your competitors
Alert has a number of valuable features, benefits and USPs that make us stand out from other business insight and data suppliers. This means we can help you in a variety of ways that they can’t.
About Ray Murphy – Founder of AlertBI
Alert BI was founded by Ray Murphy, an information professional with extensive knowledge in sectors ranging from pharmaceuticals and retail to business services and healthcare.
Ray’s hands-on senior operational experience in the UK, Europe and the United States has given him invaluable insight into the need for cutting edge, data-led solutions in an increasingly competitive world.
Read Ray’s publication Clued-Up, regualr articles on business issues and how data can shape an organisation’s position and outlook.
Or contact Ray for a chat about your data requirements: direct line 07814 770 621 or email him at [email protected]
Alert BI USP
Alert Business Information – the UK’s most innovative supplier of B2B company data and business intelligence.
User Scenarios
These scenarios are just a few examples of the many business opportunities and challenges that will benefit from using…
Alert BI USP’S
Alert Business Information is the UK’s most innovative B2B and business intelligence provider
Alert has developed a range of services and features that are unique.
High Growth 10,000
The UK’s fastest growing companies which are, by definition, expanding and needing more products and services than anyone else. Most of these are not household names and probably would never come onto a company’s radar without this data set. Contact us now to subscribe.
Corporate Health Checks
Detailed health checks on clients, competitors, prospects and suppliers. Find out how they are really performing. Are they in rude health or about to keel over? Bespoke data sets.
Departmental Drill-down
A list of the decision-makers and influencers who make up the key team within a specific area of a company – not just the department head – for a multi-pronged approach. Specialist research.
Bespoke Data Dashboards
For our online subscription service – filter out the data and insights you don’t need and pull everything you do need together in one place across your choice of business sectors, regions, job titles and business change topics.
Client Cloning
Client Cloning A bespoke list of organisations that match the criteria of your best clients. Bespoke research.
Management Moves
Identify new appointees and leavers to or from the posts that matter, with quarterly updates and regional focus. Contact us now to discuss.
Organisation Mapping
See at a glance who you should be talking to in any department or regional area in a large organisation that employs more than 1,000 staff. Specialist research.
Business Leads and Insights
Find out who’s hiring, firing, moving premises, receiving investment, winning awards, expanding, merging, acquiring and restructuring, and more. Covers 21 business sectors and 6 business-change topics. Contact us now to subscribe or to purchase a one-off data set.
Business Trends data and Insights
Business Trends data and Insights Business trends across 21 sectors, 12 UK regions, a range of specialist business lists AND across your client, competitor and prospect groups
Hot List Tracker
Track the activities and health status of your current clients, prospects, competitors and suppliers. Available within a subscription.
Clued-Up
Clued-Up Data, insights and unreported stories are part of an extensive range of specialist B2B data services provided by Alert BI across 12 business sectors. We interpret the figures, spotting trends as well as opportunities and threats, pinpointing upcoming new businesses and those that are struggling or static. We then deliver the information in a digestible and meaningful way so that it can be acted upon.
Together, these supply options provide solutions to the many challenges faced by businesses today.
User Scenarios
Salesperson of the Year!
“Congratulations on winning Salesperson of the Year again. What’s your secret?”
“I use Alert’s specialist research to find new niche markets. Then I follow the clients on our bespoke Hot List Tracker so I know as soon as there are any signs of change – good and bad.”
Struggling to get orders!
“We’re really struggling to get enough orders to cover our overheads. Any ideas?”
“Sign up to Alert’s full range of services – they have everything you need to find the right connections in the right regions, across 21 business sectors -FAST!”
Salesperson of the Year!
“I don’t need more information – I’ve got too much already! I want a small but tightly focused number of hot leads that I can work with before any more are delivered.” With Alert’s stop-start subscription, John could get exactly the information he needs, then take a service holiday while he follows up his new leads. Or he could buy ready-to-go data sets one at a time by city, town or region.
No more excuses
“No more excuses.With Alert’s subscription service I can see 25 potential leads in the South East which you could have followed up and didn’t, plus information on the sectors that would have given you warm calls.”
“With Alert’s help, I have taken back control.”
It worked! They responded!
“Wow, we’ve had three responses from the JR Group who are notoriously difficult to infiltrate. How did you do it?”
“I used Alert’s Organisation Mapping and Departmental Drill-down Reports which showed us who to contact to raise our visibility in a multi-pronged approach across all their branches.
New International Markets
“We need to find new international markets for our engines post-Brexit or we’ll be struggling to compete with our European competitors.”
“Get on to Alert and ask about their specialist international research. It will find companies in the market for our products and give us all we need to open conversations with them.”
We need new clients
“Jane, I’ve just used Alert’s and found that half of our clients have been losing profits over the last fiv e years. We need to find prospects in new sectors fast!”
“I’ll sign up to Alert’s Hot List Tracker so I can keep tabs on the rest of our clients and I’ll ask Alert about their Client Cloning service to find me clones of our best client profiles. Don’t worry – their data really works!”“I’ll sign up to Alert’s Hot List Tracker so I can keep tabs on the rest of our clients and I’ll ask Alert about their Client Cloning service to find me clones of our best client profiles. Don’t worry – their data really works!”
Life is so much better now
“Life is so much better now I don’t waste large parts of my day trawling through information to find new contacts.
“Instead, I combine the most relevant of Alert’s services for my business and get accurate information in seconds through a bespoke Customer Interface, enabling me to focus my time and energy where it matters.”
Marketing Campaign
“Right, we’re ready to start our next big marketing campaign using the most up-to-date, accurate and relevant mailing list ever – thanks to Alert’s Business Lists with Key Contacts, detailed Company Profiles and Departmental Drill-down reports.
“By reducing mailing costs, clever targeting and less wasted time, I expect our budget to stretch that much further.”
Client’s gone bust
“Our best client has just gone bust. Why didn’t you know it was coming?”
“We should be using Alert’’s specialist research to find new niche markets. Then follow our clients on their tracking service, so that we know as soon as there are any signs of change – good and bad.”
These scenarios are just a few examples of the many business opportunities and challenges that will benefit from using Alert’s B2B company data and business intelligence services.
You might be surprised how many could be applicable to your organisation, and what substantial competitive advantage could be achieved as a result.