Business Information Search

An overload of business information necessitates better search tools

In a business world dominated by information, companies and individuals with the best intelligence most often find the competitive advantage. But with employees at every level confronted by growing mountains of data from inside and outside the organization, the race to accumulate information has given way to the race to search, filter and understand it. Users need to be able to perform a business name search quickly, filtering out extraneous and irrelevant data, to get to the actionable nuggets that will allow them to make better decisions faster. That's why Dow Jones has added new and innovative capabilities to its industry-leading collection of products and services.

Factiva.com provides industry-leading business information search technology

Dow Jones products and services provide business information along with content delivery tools to search and analyze it. With the world's most comprehensive collection of business information, Dow Jones provides professionals with access to intelligence from more than 31,000 sources, many not found on the free Web, including D&B, Reuters, Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal and many more. With a wide variety of industry- and task-specific business intelligence research tools, executives, salespeople, marketers, and other professionals use Factiva.com daily to get the intelligence they need to make better and faster decisions. Highly customizable, Factiva.com can be easily integrated into a company's technology infrastructure to deliver search capability to the desktop of every employee.

An innovative approach to business information search methods

Factiva.com is the research tool in the Dow Jones business information integration technology product suite. This innovative product gives professional and non-professional researchers alike the power to find targeted intelligence quickly and efficiently. Providing results rich in quality and depth, Factiva.com's business information search tool delivers extraordinary utility and power.

  • Filters organize information by subject, industries and companies—reducing the time it takes to understand results
  • Results are displayed in charts and graphs with article timelines, news trends, most-mentioned companies and more
  • One-step alerts allow users to set preferences for targeted news to be delivered daily via e-mail
  • Key information hidden deep within search results is brought to light and filtered to quickly identify emerging trends
  • Visually interactive navigation lets users switch between perspectives quickly
  • Contextual "snippets" help to quickly judge the relevance of an article

Learn more about Factiva.com. Also visit www.dowjones.com for more information on Dow Jones products and services.