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Searching Made Easy with Dialog Company Profiles

Dialog Company Profiles (DCP) is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, company histories, chronologies, news, and trade journals. DCP was designed for use not only by traditional users of business information, but also for researchers throughout an organization, including sales, marketing, finance and management professionals. The interface is built around the inquiries of professionals, requires minimal user training to become productive quickly.

Why should you consider Dialog Company Profiles?

• Easy to use by all staff who need company and industry information.
  
  
• Excellent for generating and researching sales leads and business development opportunities.
  
  
• Easy to research and identify corporate structures. Navigation provides a quick way to locate corporate parent and subsidiary companies.
  
  
• Seat-based subscription pricing. DCP can be searched extensively for a flat rate.
  
  
• Usage reporting available to monitor your investment.
  
  
• Can be set up for access by network IP address to bypass the login screen. This eliminates the problem of managing passwords for user groups and provides easy access.

An example illustrates one of the special features of Dialog Company Profiles. DCP indexes company profiles and news articles by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes and North America Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes. These codes are used by the U.S. and other governments to classify businesses into industries or lines of business. A search by SIC or NAICS code makes developing an industry profile a very simple task. DCP provides a convenient SIC and NAICS lookup function. In addition, you can look up a company and investigate its ranking within its industry.

First, select a company of interest (e.g., Allegiance Healthcare Inc.); then click Industry Overview. The search (Company="Allegiance HealthCare Corp.") found the following three industries:

5047 — Medical Dental Hospital Equip & Supply
3842 — Surgical Appliances and Supplies
8741 — Management Services

Simply select the industry of interest, click the link, and a list of companies with these SIC or NAICS codes will be displayed, sorted by revenue.

For more information about Dialog Company Profiles, including content and prices, contact your Dialog sales representative or the Knowledge Center.

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