Northern Light Launches Research Management Module

Research portal provider Northern Light has launched an application called Primary Research Manager, embedded within its SinglePoint Strategic Research Portal, helping research managers to set up, track and control primary research projects.

The firm says the package reduces overheads and improves time to publication. Staff at client companies can use it to create projects with custom metadata, control publication to appropriate groups, manage milestones with research vendors and accomplish workflow steps such as approving vendor payment, approving report publication, or automatically provisioning projects from an organization's accounting and purchasing systems. External suppliers working on a particular project can be given secure access to the system to upload documents directly.

CEO C. David Seuss comments: 'When you're spending millions of dollars annually conducting primary research that will drive critically important decisions, speeding these projects to completion and giving the research staff the ability to manage more of them is an organizational imperative. Having a research project management tool that works within the established framework of their enterprise research portal - the place where the organization's research assets live and its research professionals routinely spend their time - makes all the sense in the world.'

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Boston, MA, the company is online at www.northernlight.com .

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