One-click CI
Factiva announces a relationship that will deliver critical news and business information from Factiva into the heart of the Microsoft Office 2003 suite. The two companies say the integration provide information workers with quick and convenient ways to gain a view of the external business environment from within their daily workflow.
Factiva’s first solution for Office 2003, Factiva News Search, will allow users to conduct research on Factiva’s collection of nearly 8,000 sources directly from a report or presentation they’re creating. For example, the companies explain, while drafting a brief in Word 2003, competitive intelligence professionals can use Factiva News Search to quickly look up important industry trends from influential newspapers, journals, and newswires from around the world and easily insert that research into their document.
Factiva News Search will be integrated into the Research Task Pane of all Microsoft Office 2003 applications, including Word 2003, Excel 2003, Access 2003, Outlook 2003 and PowerPoint 2003. Factiva News Search is currently available as part of the Microsoft Office 2003 Beta 2 trial.
Microsoft Office 2003 customers will also have one-click access to a new Web-based online service offered by Gale that will enable them to purchase individual reports or subscribe to a database of more than 450,000 company profiles covering public and private companies from around the world.