Concord, Mass., 27 February 2006
-- OneSource Information Services, an infoUSA (NASDAQ: IUSA) company, announced today that Oracle® (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world’s largest enterprise software company, has expanded its use of OneSource Business Browser across the organization. Based on the return on investment and positive feedback company executives received as a result of using Business Browser in North America and the UK, Oracle will now extend its use of OneSource to cover all of its lines of business across the globe.
"OneSource Business Browser has provided us with the insight we need to better understand our clients' business and provide them with the solutions they require," said Keith Ryland, Consulting Group Vice President for Oracle. "By deploying Business Browser across the entire organization worldwide, we’re able to further build our value proposition and credibility with our clients and prospects, enabling us to gain even greater market share in the months to come."
Oracle and OneSource collaborated over the past several months to enhance and expand the OneSource content for all regions globally. To date, OneSource has enabled employees within the Oracle sales, marketing and financial organizations to:
- Improve Prospecting Strategies – Oracle is able to better select markets and targets through in-depth industry data, analyst reports, company profiles, precise targeting and screening and competitive intelligence.
- Shorten Customer Acquisition Cycle – Through detailed prospect profiles, executive biographies, corporate family structure, account location and relevant company and industry news, Oracle personnel are able to benefit from more effective planning and profiling.
- Create Holistic View of the Customer – By using OneSource industry reports, financial comparatives, fiscal health metrics and analysis capabilities, Oracle is able to benefit from a truly comprehensive view of a client and gain the insight necessary to improve the quality of the recommendations and information delivered to its client base.
- Increase Customer Satisfaction – Oracle is able to better retain its customers and build on existing opportunities within the extended customer organization by anticipating ongoing needs, staying on top of personnel changes, financials and significant company events such as mergers and acquisitions.
"We are thrilled that Oracle has deployed OneSource Business Browser on a global scale and I believe it is a testament to the value companies get from the information we provide," said Phil Garlick, President for OneSource Information Services, Inc.
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About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at www.oracle.com
About OneSource Information Services, Inc.
OneSource, an infoUSA company, delivers products and services to support a company’s sales and marketing efforts including serving customers better, identifying and leveraging new sales opportunities, and creating stronger marketing campaigns. OneSource combines and organizes content from over 2,500 information sources supplied by more than 35 world-class content providers, creating an unequalled business information resource encompassing company profiles, corporate families, industries, executives, financials, news, analyst reports, and trade and business press articles.
OneSource is headquartered in Concord, MA, with offices located in North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. Product information is available at www.onesource.com
. Customers include JP Morgan Chase, Chubb, Citigroup, Deloitte & Touche, i2 Technologies, Orange, SAS Institute, and Sun Microsystems.
About infoUSA
infoUSA (www.infoUSA.com
), founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions. The infoUSA database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites, including Yahoo! and America Online.
infoUSA has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own a proprietary database of 250 million consumers and 14 million businesses under one roof. Nearly 3 million customers use infoUSA's products and services to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes.
Note to editors: For further information please contact:
Patrick Pecorelli
OneSource Information Services
978-318-4334
patrick_pecorelli@onesource.com