“Our enhanced collaboration with ProQuest Information and Learning supports Factiva’s dedication to empower organizations and government offices worldwide with information that users need to make better decisions faster,” said Greg Gerdy, vice president and director of channel marketing and strategy, Factiva. “Our partnership with ProQuest will bring a powerful business tool with robust and comprehensive content to the Latin American market. Combined with ProQuest’s ability to provide on-the-ground sales and support, corporate and government agencies in this region now have a high-quality solution for their information needs that will make them more competitive in today’s global market.”

“ProQuest and Factiva share the same standard of excellence,” said Simon Beale, senior vice president, Global Sales, ProQuest Information and Learning. “We are pleased to leverage our strong international customer relationships, including our direct presence in Latin America, to bring Factiva’s essential business content to a greater number of corporations and government agencies.”

Factiva.com provides a single point of access to a deep archive of news and business information not available on the free Web. Designed to help users find relevant information faster, the service also offers multiple ways to search, including its revolutionary new interface, Factiva Search 2.0, currently in beta. Factiva’s collection of more than 10,000 premium sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, and the Associated Press. Additionally, Factiva provides nearly 200 sources in Spanish and 50 in Portuguese. By providing full-text electronic coverage of the world’s most credible and authoritative sources, Factiva enables users to monitor and understand the challenges of today’s business environment.

Since 1997, ProQuest Information and Learning has partnered with Factiva to reach academic and public libraries. Last year, the collaboration expanded to include global distribution of Factiva.com, for the academic market, including for-profit and distance-learning institutions, and public libraries. Today the relationship expands further to include distribution to corporate and government sectors in Latin America.

To learn more about Factiva visit www.factiva.com. Information about ProQuest Information and Learning can be found at www.il.proquest.com.

More About Factiva.com

Factiva.com is an award-winning, next-generation news and business information service with powerful tools that allow users to monitor competitors, customers, and industry, while also conducting in-depth research, gathering company financial data, and more. Factiva’s content collection includes more than 10,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and newswires. It is available in nine language interfaces including Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Traditional and Simplified Chinese. All content is universally indexed with company, industry, geographical and news subject codes from Factiva Intelligent Indexing.

Factiva Search 2.0, introduced in beta in January 2006, is a suite of capabilities that leverages text mining technologies, advanced content visualization and Factiva’s patented taxonomy. Available as part of Factiva.com, Factiva Search 2.0 provides a revolutionary user experience so that users can quickly find the information they need to support critical business decisions. This next generation of search delivers relevant results that are organized by subjects, companies, industries and associated themes and presented in a graphical format for interactive navigation. Additionally, the discovery functionality identifies trends and themes around search topics and terms.

About Factiva®

Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company , provides essential business news and information together with the content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster. Factiva’s unrivalled collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times®, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals and D&B® company profiles.

Factiva’s innovative, XML-based and Web services-enabled technology platform provides access to this rich content collection via Factiva’s role-specific products or through customized enterprise, group or personal solutions. Executives, information professionals, marketers, salespeople, and other professionals can easily monitor and understand the latest news, market trends, and business challenges relevant to them – directly from the Microsoft® Office and job-specific applications they use every day.

About ProQuest Information and Learning

ProQuest Information and Learning, a division of ProQuest Company, is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information worldwide for researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 9,000 publishers worldwide. Users access the information through the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-Healey™ electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibrary®, SIRS® and Voyager Expanded Learning educational resources. For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.il.proquest.com.

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