Invest In France Agency

"We have to dig up information that is meaningful for our work and get it to the right people. TEMIS helps us with the job of finding and sorting data."

David Cousquer, Director of Studies & Marketing, AFII.

Invest in France Agency (AFII) is the french government agency responsible for promoting, prospecting and welcoming foreign investments in France.

The Studies & Marketing Branch supplies AFII with the elements required to orient its strategy and focus its prospecting efforts. AFII then provides foreign investors with specific information for their plan to invest in France: business, legal and tax environment, conditions for market access, labor costs and productivity, technological and scientific environment, social legislation issues, national and regional assistance, additional financing, etc.

To produce and update all this data, the agency relies on the flow from paid news sources (LexisNexis, Factiva, D&B) and feedback from the field, yet mainly on select websites that are monitored daily.
The data is so voluminous that AFII Studies & Marketing wanted to simultaneously automate data collection, sorting and analysis. For this, they were looking for a tool capable of finding and organizing information dealing with production transfers, factory closures, and business developments or new plants.

 
The Studies & Marketing Branch then decided to opt for a comprehensive competitive intelligence software solution based on TEMIS Insight Discoverer™ Extractor combined with a Skill Cartridge™ dedicated to international investments.

The information sources are analyzed daily by the system which generates every morning an HTML report containing strategic data for analysts.  

www.investinfrance.org