StrategyEye delivers Microsoft keynote speech

StrategyEye, the innovative next generation business intelligence platform and consultancy, make presentation at the Search Symposium held by Microsoft for the latest release of Windows Live Search.

As part of a strong move to demonstrate its thought-leadership in the online search sector, Microsoft commissioned forward-looking independent analysis from StrategyEye, presented by Jeremy Phillips (COO of StrategyEye).

StrategyEye's presentation contained trends and predictions for the search sector based on an in-depth analysis of market activity, including investment patterns and profiles of emerging disruptive startups.

StrategyEye is uniquely placed to provide this analysis, using its proprietary technology platform to track and categorise thousands of industry news, blogs, rumours and research feeds every minute.

Attendees at StrategyEye's presentation heard trend predictions on portal differentiation, the future for collaboration, local and mapping search as well as the outlook for major players.

"The search market is developing very rapidly, with ever-increasing user expectations being addressed with innovation by the major players such as Microsoft and by a raft of emerging venture capital-backed start-ups. By visualising these patterns of innovation, StrategyEye is uniquely placed to help the audience to quickly understand the current state of play and to predict future trends." commented Jeremy Phillips.

The event was hailed as a success by Microsoft. Cynthia Crossley, Director of Search Microsoft UK, said: "StrategyEye is a leading voice in digital media. Its independent analysis has been an important part of providing real insight into the search industry. We hope that the symposium has broadened our attendees. vision of what they can expect from search products in the future and how Microsoft will be leading the way in innovation."

About StrategyEye

StrategyEye's flagship product is the StrategyEye real-time intelligence platform ( www.strategyeye.com ), designed to track high growth, complex, fast changing sectors using the company's unique market mapping methodology. StrategyEye Digital Media was launched in April 2006, followed by StrategyEye Cleantech in February 2008.

Launched in April 2006, StrategyEye has built up an impressive client list that includes Accenture, Arqiva, Microsoft, Google, BBC, BSkyB, Disney, AOL, Channel4, Virgin Media, MTV, ITV, Verisign, Avid Technology, Benchmark Capital, Atlas Venture, Close Brothers, Fidelity Ventures, Accel and 3i.