Based on extensive customer research, Factiva.com offers users a powerful new set of tools for researching and monitoring the news and business information that affects their companies, ensuring that critical decisions are based on the most relevant, timely information available.

According to Clare Hart, president and CEO of Factiva, "Factiva.com redefines how corporate professionals locate the facts they need to make well-informed business decisions. It delivers on our promise to offer quality global content in a way that improves employee efficiency, and increases the overall competitiveness and organizational intelligence of any business."

Factiva's global content collection includes the Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Reuters Pictures and key industry and trade publications, plus more than 7,500 carefully selected, business-oriented Web sites. Factiva Intelligent Indexing, a powerful categorization scheme of industry, news topic and geographic codes plus more than 300,000 company codes allows users to find reliable, relevant information faster and more accurately.

News-tracking folders enable users to constantly monitor industries, customers, competitors or specific topics of interest and receive that news via e-mail. Users can personalize the product by building news pages to meet their specific business information needs - displaying their favourite news-tracking folders, sources, companies and industries. Administrators can control how information is used and distributed within the enterprise with group news pages to meet the information needs of specific departments or work groups.

Factiva.com will be commercially available in the third quarter of 2001.