San Francisco, Calif. – Sept. 12, 2005 – OneSource Information Services, Inc., an infoUSA (NASDAQ: IUSA) company, and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the global leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced Account Intelligence for AppExchange. Built on salesforce.com''s Appforce on-demand platform, Account Intelligence for AppExchange integrates the industry’s most comprehensive and accurate repository of business information, which includes company profiles, executive information, financial data, account profile data and contact information directly with Salesforce.  Account Intelligence for Appforce is available immediately, and will be generally available via the AppExchange with the Winter ’06 launch. Account Intelligence for AppExchange was announced today in San Francisco at Dreamforce ‘05, salesforce.com’s third annual user and developer conference. 

OneSource Account Intelligence for AppExchange is one of 70 launch applications that are available through AppExchange, salesforce.com’s new on-demand application sharing service.

"We decided to make our Account Intelligence product available through AppExchange because of the commitment we share with salesforce.com to make our customers more focused, knowledgeable, and effective in their selling processes,” said Yvonne Cekel, president of OneSource Information Services. “We are delighted to provide them the best of both worlds: the most comprehensive, relevant and accurate business information available within the leading on-demand CRM system.”

Account Intelligence for AppExchange, part of the OneSource CatalystSM line of integration modules, embeds key business information covering millions of companies and executives directly within Salesforce, putting vital information at the fingertips of Salesforce users. Account Intelligence for AppExchange raises sales effectiveness by improving territory planning and prospect targeting, slashing call preparation time, sharpening value propositions, accelerating account penetration, revealing new opportunities and competitive threats, and keeping CRM data current and consistent at all times.

"Account Intelligence for AppExchange is designed to deliver accurate and comprehensive business information for CRM rollouts so that sales and marketing teams can target accounts, develop account plans, prepare for calls and monitor accounts—all without leaving Salesforce,” said Adam Gross, Director of Product Marketing, salesforce.com. “By choosing to leverage AppExchange, OneSource was able to quickly develop an excellent new application and make it immediately accessible by all of salesforce.com’s 308,000 users.”

With AppExchange, companies now have access to new applications that bring the benefits of salesforce.com to their entire business, letting them manage and share all of their company information on demand.  Using AppExchange, companies can easily add new applications to their existing Salesforce deployments, extending their success and making the full power and creativity of the salesforce.com customer and partner community available with just a click.

Account Intelligence for AppExchange integrates OneSource’s industry-leading company information including detailed business profiles, key executive contacts, financials, corporate family structures, analysts’ reports, up-to-date company news, and more. Individual users control which OneSource information items to populate within their familiar Salesforce interface, and have instant access to rich OneSource information.

OneSource’s Account Intelligence for AppExchange provides benefits to many customer-facing professionals. Some examples include:

• Sales Management – Managers can create productive sales territories, optimize sales staff assignments, and deliver consistent information across teams and geographies.
• Sales Professionals – Sales reps can perform faster, more targeted prospecting, account planning, and call preparation. They can stay well-informed on key developments, identify and avoid no decision situations earlier, and show consistent insight into their customers’ businesses. Account executives can penetrate organizations through executive relationships and corporate structures to uncover new opportunities.
• Sales Operations – Giving sales reps the information they need to be effective raises the value the CRM system and increases usage. Sales Operations groups can provide a consistent view of customers across all sales teams.
• Marketing Departments – Marketers use OneSource data to perform faster, more accurate market analysis and segmentation. Timely, accurate company information improves targeting, generating higher campaign response rates and more qualified leads.

AppExchange is the world’s first on-demand application sharing service.  Launched at Dreamforce ‘05, AppExchange features dozens of pre-built applications created by salesforce.com customers and partners. AppExchange enables all of these on-demand applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with one click into any salesforce.com account. AppExchange can be found at www.salesforce.com/appexchange .
 
Appforce is a complete on-demand platform that includes Appforce Builder, Appforce DB, Appforce API and the Appforce OS for development & deployment of multiple on-demand applications.  Appforce provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration for Salesforce deployments, as well as enabling a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM.

Pricing and Availability
Account Intelligence for AppExchange requires either Professional Edition or Enterprise Edition from salesforce.com.  Customers can choose from four content packages of increasing depth and a variety geographical options including US, UK, Europe, Asia, or all of the above.  Pricing starts at $600 per user/year and volume discounts apply.
About OneSource Information Services, Inc.
OneSource, an infoUSA company, 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, 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! (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and America Online (NYSE:TWX). Nearly 3 million customers use infoUSA''s proprietary database of 250 million consumers and 14 million businesses to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes.

About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). The company’s Salesforce family of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on demand. Appforce, salesforce.com’s on-demand platform, allows customers to customize and integrate the Salesforce family to meet their unique business needs, and build whole new powerful applications quickly and easily. Appforce applications are available via AppExchange, salesforce.com’s on-demand application sharing service. Customers can also take advantage of salesforce.com’s world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.

As of July 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 16,900 customers and approximately 308,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all.  Customers who purchase salesforce.com services should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available.  Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com , or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.

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Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and Appforce and AppExchange are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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 infoUSA 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 infoUSA’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 infoUSA’s business and financial results are described in infoUSA’s recent filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission including its most recent Form 10-Q.

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Contact:

Media Contact:
Patrick Pecorelli
OneSource Information Services, Inc.
978-318-4334
patrick_pecorelli@onesource.com

Press Contact:
Jane Hynes
Salesforce.com, Inc.
415-901-5079
jhynes@salesforce.com