CONCORD, Mass., October 18, 2004 -- OneSource Information Services, an infoUSA company (NASDAQ: IUSA), today announced two innovative business information offerings that provide instant access to expert evaluations of company strengths and weaknesses, important corporate relationships, and in-depth backgrounds on hundreds of thousands of executives.
Company Insights and Executive Insights are two premium add-ons for OneSource’s Business Browser and AppLink product families. 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, they 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 web sites, 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 web sites
• 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 Web sites 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, partner, 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 as a framework.

Pricing and Availability
Both the Strategic Profiles and Contact Center 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.

OneSource, Business Browser, Synergy, Catalyst, Global Business Taxonomy, and/or other OneSource product and service names referenced herein are either trademarks or service marks or registered trademarks or service marks of OneSource Information Services, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

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CONCORD, Mass., March 29, 2005 -- OneSource Information Services, a Donnelley Group company of info USA (NASDAQ: IUSA), announced today that Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance, part of the Lloyds TSB Group, is using OneSource business information to help manage business risk through more accurate company assessments, and to conduct “Know Your Client” checks on new customers, as required by the Proceeds of Crime Act.Lloyd’s TSB Commercial Finance also uses OneSource to improve prospecting effectiveness.

A UK market leader in asset-based lending, Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance is employing the Professional and Financial Services Edition of OneSource Business Browser UK to access company profiles, news, business and trade articles, research reports, executive profiles, industry intelligence, and financial and stock price data on 400,000 public and private UK companies.

“In today’s competitive market, it’s more important than ever for us to be able to fully appraise and understand the businesses we are lending to,” says Richard Daley, Sales Director for Corporate Business at Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance. “We have to look at a spread of current and historical company information, quickly understand a company’s performance and management, and make an accurate assessment of the potential relationship. OneSource is excellent in terms of helping us do this.”

The Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance team uses OneSource Business Browser to obtain business information on customers and prospects across a variety of industry sectors.

“As a prospecting tool, OneSource helps us target the right industries and companies,” says Daley. “For example, I can research the engineering sector to understand the trends and market drivers, identify the major players operating in this sector, and use this to help identify market potential. If required, I can then download a complete list of executive names, titles, and addresses of those businesses with whom I wish to make contact.”

“Instant access to financial data is critical,” says Daley. “With OneSource, I can look at financial performance, conduct ratio analyses, and determine how consistently a company has performed over time, all without leaving my desk.”

The fact that OneSource Business Browser offers web-based accessibility eases the research task for the entire team, regardless of their location throughout the country. In fact, Daley says his managers often have Business Browser on their computer screens while talking to prospective clients on the phone.

“With OneSource right in front of them, they can often find a hook that helps establish faster credibility with the person on the other end of the line,” says Daley.

The Professional and Financial Services Edition of Business Browser offers companies in the legal, financial, banking, audit, accountancy, consulting and insurance sectors rich information to improve sales and marketing effectiveness and reduce business risk.

About Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance

Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance, part of the Lloyds TSB Group, is the UK market leader in asset-based lending. For over 40 years the company has offered businesses the flexibility that comes with asset based financing. Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance currently provides funding to over 14,000 UK businesses of all sizes. Additional information may be found at http://www.lloydstsb-commercialfinance.co.uk/corporate_profile.html

About OneSource Information Services, Inc.

OneSource, a Donnelley Group company of info USA, 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.

About info USA

info USA (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. Content is the essential ingredient in every marketing program, and info USA 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. The info USA database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites, including Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and America Online (NYSE:TWX). 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. info USA headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127 and can be contacted at (402) 593-4500.

OneSource, Business Browser, AppLink, Synergy, Catalyst, Global Business Taxonomy, and/or other OneSource product and service names referenced herein are either trademarks or service marks or registered trademarks or service marks of OneSource Information Services, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements in this announcement regarding info USA other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to, those regarding OneSource’s competitive position and the functionality and effectiveness of OneSource products. Because such statements involve risks and uncertainties, actual actions and strategies and the timing and expected results thereof may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, and info USA’s future results, performance, or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, any such forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and factors that could affect info USA’s business and financial results are described in info USA’s recent filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission including its most recent Form 10-Q.