Company Insights and Executive Insights are two premium add-ons for the OneSource® Business BrowserSM product line and AppLinkSM Software Development Kit. They are the first of a new wave of information modules employing pattern recognition and linguistic technologies to distill valuable but hard-to-find information from unstructured sources. Now sales, marketing, financial services and consulting professionals can easily uncover key insights buried within thousands of unstructured text reports and web sites.

Having this quick and easy access to highly relevant information prepares OneSource users to establish a unique rapport with their prospects and customers. Using the Company Insights and Executive Insights modules, users can gain a more potent understanding of the issues, background, and connections that create competitive advantage, and can quickly earn trusted-advisor status with their customers and prospects.

“A lot of worthwhile data is locked inside of analyst reports, company websites, and online HTML pages, but it normally takes many hours of searching, reading, and distilling to obtain—and it’s often missed completely,” said Yvonne Cekel, President of OneSource. “We are the first business information service to employ content mining technologies that let our users get at such hard-to-reach material. We’ve added a new layer of value to the aggregation and integration that OneSource uniquely provides for company and executive information.”

Executive and Company Insights
The Executive Insights module adds over 400,000 VP and director-level contacts to OneSource’s existing repository of 2 million US executive contacts to address a sales organization’s need to quickly identify executives at multiple organizational levels and responsibilities. In addition, the Executive Insights module employs web-mining technology to add enhanced biographical information such as work history, professional affiliations, attributed articles and quotes, education background and compensation for many contacts. This fielded, searchable data enables sales professionals to build familiarity with key decision-makers, and to uncover connections within multi-level decision-making groups.

"The complexity of decision chains within organizations is increasing," said Mike Haines, Research Vice President of Gartner Dataquest. "Business and sales professionals need to know everything they can about backgrounds, track records and relationships before they initiate a sales call, client meeting or proposal. That capability raises the standard for providing valuable insights and revealing connections that are critical to success."

The Company Insights module provides insight into the strategic initiatives, strengths and weaknesses, and key corporate relationships of major publicly-traded companies. Using advanced language-processing technology to distill data from trusted objective financial analyst reports and other key resources, the Company Insights module enables sales organizations to better apply their products and services to specific customer business challenges, and to be smarter about preparing for strategic client meetings.

Key Features

Executive Insights
• Additional names and titles of over 400,000 VP- and director-level executives at the largest 75,000 organizations, on top of the core set of 2 million US executive contacts available from OneSource
• Richer biographies sourced from company websites
• Links to recent ‘sightings’ on the web including attributed articles, quotes, relevant press coverage and bios

Company Insights
• Actionable, relevant insights derived from 150,000 objective analyst reports covering over 17,000 global companies, and websites for over 70,000 companies
• Summaries of strategic initiatives highlighting key areas of company focus and investment
• Objective assessment of a company’s strengths and weaknesses to speed sales call preparation and account plan development
• Information on key corporate relationships such as competitors, partners, auditors, and customers

OneSource product lines include Business Browser information subscriptions, SynergySM embedded content offerings and Catalyst SM 3rd party integration modules. OneSource aggregates and integrates information on over 3.2 million public and private companies and 7 million executives worldwide. It pre-links business profiles, financial data, industry reports, executive information, and comprehensive business news coverage to relevant companies using the proprietary OneSource Global Business TaxonomySM system as a framework.

Pricing and Availability
Both the Executive Insights and Company Insights modules will be available as add-ons to OneSource Business Browser and AppLink Software Development Kit subscriptions in Q4 2004. Pricing is on a per-seat annual subscription basis, with volume discounts.

About OneSource Information Services, Inc.

OneSource, a Donnelley Group company of infoUSA, and a recognized leader in business information solutions, delivers unparalleled company, executive, and industry intelligence that makes business professionals more effective and productive in completing their critical daily tasks. OneSource products and services support a company's vital business processes, including serving customers, finding and leveraging new opportunities, and managing suppliers and partners.

OneSource combines and organizes content from over 2,500 information sources supplied by more than 35 world-class content providers, creating an unequalled 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 Bank One, Chubb, Citigroup, Deloitte & Touche, HP, i2 Technologies, Orange, Royal & SunAlliance, SAS Institute, and Sun Microsystems.

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