Your Feedback hen Laura Fase began her career as an information specialist eight years ago, she found herself in the midst of a transition. No longer did researchers need to dig through volumes of library books or microfiche to find information. Instead, they could rely on CD-ROMs, because a number of vendors had consolidated enormous amounts of information onto the disks. Co. Things have improved drastically since then because the Web offers quicker and more timely desktop access to more content than CD-ROMs can store.
Free services give good, though limited, information primarily on public companies.
Fee-based services can provide detailed information on everything from an individual's credit to world economics, but these are usually directed toward advanced research specialists and not the average sales rep. Also, various information aggregators duplicate many sources, actually giving users too much information. What's unique about the company is that it strictly targets sales and marketing professionals, using an appropriate interface that displays data drawn from about two dozen sources, including its own research subsidiary, formerly Corp Tech. We don't pretend to have every piece of data. OneSource has won customers.