Dialog Applications
Dialog can help business professionals in a number of tasks they perform every day. For example, you can use Dialog to:
- Monitor the competition—track articles in major business journals
and in thousands of specialized trade magazines.
- Plan your product introduction—locate articles on strategies,
production, shipments, state of the industry.
- Research industry development—keep up-to-date with the research
literature affecting your business; check for trademark and patent
applications and registrations with potential impact for your product
line.
- Develop marketing strategies—locate market share data and published
market research reports; print out detailed financial analysts'
reports.
- Find candidates for mergers and acquisitions—screen companies
based on a wide range of financial parameters.
- Locate the elusive company—from an unparalleled pool of over 12 million public, private, subsidiary, and international company listings.
These are only a few of the tasks you will be able to perform now that you have learned the basics of searching Dialog.
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