Superior Technology Takes JOC Group From Waterfront to the Forefront

The JOC Group, a provider of global intelligence for trade, transportation, and logistics professionals, was facing a challenge in providing its clients with better Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics to make critical business decisions. As the competitive landscape for data services evolved, decision-makers at JOC Group realized they needed to improve the company’s BI capabilities to preserve market leadership. They examined offerings from several software vendors and chose Information Builders for its complete spectrum of technology and services for data integrity, data integration, and BI.

The JOC Group is the authoritative provider of global intelligence for trade, transportation, and logistics professionals worldwide. Its brands include The Journal of Commerce, PIERS, and a number of directory databases covering the international trade, railroad, and trucking markets. PIERS’ roots reach back to 1827 with the founding of The Journal of Commerce. Headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, PIERS issues trade intelligence reports that are commonly used by its customers to generate sales leads, obtain competitive intelligence, identify buyers and suppliers, conduct market research, and monitor contractual compliance. PIERS gathers raw data from carrier manifests for all waterborne cargo vessels that enter and exit ports in the U.S. Additionally, PIERS staff reporters manually collect export Bills of Lading from each U.S. port not otherwise made available electronically. These import and export records account for 17 million bills of lading collected by PIERS each year.