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New Capabilities in Factiva SalesWorks Offers Visual Navigation, Increased Functionality and Additional Content

New York (April 5, 2006) Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, today announced that Factiva SalesWorks will leverage Factiva Discovery Technologies, a suite of capabilities that uses text mining technologies, advanced content visualization and Factivas patented taxonomy. Factiva SalesWorks is a powerful information tool that helps sales professionals to understand their clients and prospects better, leading to improved relationships and increased sales.
The addition of visualization to company screening results provides an enhanced user experience and allows users to understand opportunities at a glance within their search results. Five charts, displaying results broken down by sales range, employee range, location, industry, and ownership grouping are included in company screening results. Interactive, visual navigation enables users to click any section of a chart to navigate to companies within that section and see prospects in a new light.

Online Stock Market Trading Sales professionals spend an average of 33 percent of their time searching, gathering and analyzing information on companies and executives according to industry analyst firm, IDC. Alan Scott, Chief Marketing Officer of Factiva said, Factiva SalesWorks is designed to help sales professionals sell more. With these new enhancements and content additions, weve taken a considerable leap in offering our users the ability to spot opportunities and threats by simply glancing at a chart. In a marketplace in which most sales professionals are competing, SalesWorks gives them a significant advantage over their competition.

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Stock Market Game * A completely D-U-N-S-numbered database of companies, enabling companies to easily integrate Factivas information with their internal customer records
* Addition of more than 175,000 corporate family trees covering 4.3 million entities globally
* Increased company information to include details on nearly 500,000 private US companies and broader coverage for Europe and Japan, bringing total company global coverage to 2.3 million
* Increased executive coverage at both public and large private companies worldwide from ZoomInfo and Whos Who in France, enabling sales professionals to target decision makers within prospects and existing customers
* Addition of 50,000 UK directors from the Hemscott Group Limiteds Directory of Directors database
* Wireless alerting where users can select mobile format for the delivery of any company, industry or executive watch list via their BlackBerry device

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Stock Market News To learn more about Factiva SalesWorks visit www.factiva.com and to request additional information contact www.factiva.com/solutions.

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