Why You Need Forestweb

Every company in the forest product sector or its related industries needs Forestweb. Here's why...

Day in and day out, your company struggles with managing information. Information comes from a variety of sources—trade associations, industry newsletters, RSS feeds, Internet alerts, purchased content, colleagues. It comes through multiple channels—mail, email, fax. And it arrives in every type of format—print, digital, spreadsheet, text file, pdf, handwritten. To complicate matters even more it comes into different departments, to different people, at different times.

 

Here are 4 challenges Forestweb solves.

Information management

 

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Managing information is a nightmare.
It is never at your fingertips. Nothing is centralized. Nothing is standardized.

Forestweb solves the problem:
We manage and deliver forest product news and data and we centralize it on a single platform. We put the information you need—news, data, statistics, prices, opinion, at your fingertips. We make every piece of information easy to find, access, and use.

The Bottom Line: With Forestweb you become an information user—not an information manager.

“Effective information management is key for an organization to achieve high performance…”
-- Accenture, 2007


Information exists in isolation.
As such it remains unconnected to related events, content, data, opinions.
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Forestweb Solves the Problem: Forestweb developed and patented a technology that connects the dots and automatically gathers relevant information and pushes it forward. This puts information into context and connects facts to data.

The Bottom Line: With Forestweb, you get the information you need, when and where you need it.

“We could invest millions of dollars and recreate your services. But we would still be missing your applied learnings, your history of managing information, and your proprietary technology.“
-- President, large integrated producer


Information you have is 'raw'.
Raw means lacking in focus. Headlines you get from Web searches don't reveal the forest
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Forestweb Solves the Problem:Forestweb "processes" content, so the information we deliver has both meaning and context. We rewrite headlines to show the forest product focus. We sort news and data by content and context.

The Bottom Line: Forestweb delivers value-added intelligence. Nothing is raw.

“From Forestweb we get focused, real-tme intelligence. Everyone receives what they need at the same time. This has made us more proactive.“
-- Marketing director, mid-sized paper company


Information is meant to be shared.
To be proactive in business, everyone must get the same information at
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Forestweb solves the problem: Forestweb is the only information management company selling a service that enables users to share information with colleagues, clients, and prospects. We know that information must and will be shared. We eliminate your need to police by giving everyone access to share.

The Bottom Line: Forestweb encourages the flow of information.

“Information is useless unless it is shared.“
-- Peter Drucker

 

You need Forestweb because we solve these challenges and we are the only information management service that focuses exclusively on the forest products industry.

This means the content you get from Forestweb is only related to the forest products sector. Our technology was developed for this industry according to industry requirements. Our delivery software is used only by the forest products sector and meets its business requirements. Forestweb is 100% forest products. When it comes to content, IT, delivery, and service you will find no other information provider that meets your business needs like Forestweb.

"We could dedicate a person all day to information gathering, but we could never do it as efficiently, expeditiously or cost-effectively as it is being supplied to us. Forestweb has helped to be better information managers." -- Communications director, large integrated company

The Bottom Line: Everything you get on Forestweb is 100% relevant. A 100% forest product focused.

 

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