Technical Consulting, designed to ensure customers could get to Factiva services regardless of firewall, browser or other technical hurdles encountered at the customer site. Business Intelligence Tools are Factiva's way of responding to the needs of all employees in the enterprise. As I mentioned earlier, Factiva, through years of hands-on experience, understands the news and information needs of executives, sales, marketing, technology, employees as well as PR professionals and competitive intelligence professionals for whom the MediaMap and Competitive Intelligence Center have been built. The InfoPro Alliance program is a marketing affinity program designed to create community with our largest and most loyal customer base, the information professional. As of October, Factiva is on target to achieve high-single digit revenue growth in 2000.
Revenue is, strongest in the Americas and European markets.
The Americas, the UK and the Nordic region of Europe are clearly the most advanced in the area of intranet deployment and the commitment to providing knowledge workers with news and information to their desktops. These small accounts are served by our sales development and web based marketing and customer service initiatives. The investment in the business illustrated in the 2000 Expense Base pie chart. Factiva's focus on the Global 4000 has driven our business in 2000. I would like to thank you all again for taking the time to meet with us today and now, I will turn the meeting over to Jerry Bailey , CFO of Dow Jones and Factiva board member.