1. Gale Business Insights: Global By: Ryan Schugart

2. What is Gale Business Insights: Global?  The first online resource that empowers students and business professionals alike to not just research topics, but to interpret their research  Deep business intelligence powered by statistical data means less time spent searching for data – and more time connecting their discoveries to practical applications.

3. Menu Bar  Home  Compare Countries: Generate statistics for a single country or compare multiple countries.  Compare Companies: Generate statistics for a single company or compare multiple companies.  Compare Industries: Generate statistics for a single industry or compare multiple industries.  Case Studies: illustrate a business situation and teach practical business skills and decision-making strategies  Saved Items: allows you to “star” articles for later  Search History: Keep track of the last 20 searches you have performed  Glossary: Displays a searchable list of business terms

4. Major Features  Detailed company and industry profiles including SWOT reports, market share reports, and financial reports  Thousands of company histories and industry essays from Gale's core business collection  Case studies, scholarly journals, and business news for deep research coverage of global economies  Plus, articles are in both HTML and PDF formats, for easy highlighting or the original print look.

5. Industries Tab  Browse or search hundreds of industry overviews that include detailed information as well as interactive rankings and statistics, with quick links to associated content.  Displays industries in alphabetical order  Displays number of companies  Displays number of employees  Displays the industries annual revenues

6. SWOT Analysis  Also displays companies in alphabetical order  Provides a company snapshot, company overview, performance chart, and financial performance  Discusses a company’s Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats in great detail

7. Search and Advanced Search  Basic Search  You can search by article, company, country, industry, or keyword  Advanced Search and  Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT)  Search limiters include content type (case studies, academic journals, magazines, SWOT reports, etc.), publication title, industry (NAICS code), and Start Date/End Date,  Can either choose between peer review, full text, or articles and reports

8. Full-Text Content Includes:  More than 2 million investment research/brokerage reports  Thousands of detailed financial reports (including fundamentals data and comparison tools)  More than 1,200 business executive video interviews for classroom learning  More than 1,000 unrestricted case studies  More than 2,500 market research reports  Hundreds of country economic reports  More than 1,000 SWOT reports (updated quarterly)  More than 3,500 full-text periodicals  Nearly 25,000 industry reports