Every day, HolonOS reads half a million signals from over 50,000 sources in 100+ countries. In real-time, we identify the key strategic developments, organizations and people shaping the global impact economy.
A Development is a real-world event or incident, at a particular time, that marks a strategic milestone or strategic development for an organization, market, sector or geography.
Every Development on the platform includes
A short machine learning generated summary of the development
Classifications on the development type, significance and sentiment
Industry and Geographic Classifications
An image from one of the sources, HolonOS inferred this Development from.
Organizations and People who are mentioned by the source signals as related to the Development.
Key Quotes and Numbers identified by HolonOS when reading through the sources
The source Signals including press releases, wires, news articles and company announcements but not including opinions, editorials or other non-event-based documents.
Development Types
HolonIQ classifies each Development into one of the following categories and types.
Category | Type | Description |
Event | Conference | An industry conference or summit. |
| Meeting | A government or non-government meeting. |
Finance | Acquisition | Mergers and Acquisitions |
| Investment | Public and Private Funding |
| IPO | Initial Public Offerings |
| Rating | Credit and Institutional Ratings |
| Results | Financial and Non-Financial Results |
Growth | Contract | Award of a major contract |
| Initiative | Launch of a major initiative |
| Market | Entry or exit from markets |
| Partnership | New partnerships |
| Product | Announcement of a new product or service |
Negative | Closure | Closure of a business |
| Fraud | Fraud incident |
| Incident | General negative incident |
| Layoffs | Staff layoffs |
| Legal | Legal event |
People | Appointment | Senior executive appointment |
| Resignation | Senior executive resignation |
Recognition | Award | Industry Award |
| List | Announced on a List |
| Rankings | Ranking Announcement |
Research | Market Size | Estimate or Forecast of a Market Size |
| Report | Launch of a Report or Study |
Policy | Policy | Launch of a new policy |
| Regulatory | Launch of new regulations |
| Sanction | Sanctions applied |
Other | Other | Other |
Significance and Impact
Each development is currently assigned an 'impact' rating by our Intelligence Unit of Minor, Medium or Major. These ratings are absolute global ratings and are not relative to each market. The following general guide applies to impact ratings:
Major. Major development are often considered significant events across more than one region and/or sector. They have global or multi-region impact either directly or indirectly.
Medium. Medium developments are significant within one region or sector.
Minor. Minor developments impact certain countries and sectors or sub-sectors specifically. They may mark a small but important milestone.
We are now moving to HolonOS calculated Significance scores between 0 and 5 which quantitatively score the significance of the development.
Sentiment
The general market sentiment of a development is classified as positive, negative or neutral. This reflects overall sentiment, given that specific sentiment will vary for different parties e.g. a regulatory development can be positive for some and negative for others.