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How can I use DBIC to:

• make more effective presentations and sales pitches? (industry profiles)
• improve business planning and market research?
• support product launch and marketing strategies?
• understand the business environment of clients and prospects?
• make more effective presentations and sales pitches? (company profiles)
• track competitors?
• generate new sales leads?
• put companies into context?
• help me enter new markets?
• research macroeconomic indicators?

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Datamonitor's Industry Profiles are a quick and reliable way to get data on key industrial and consumer sectors across the world's leading economies. The reports draw on extensive primary and secondary research, all aggregated, analyzed, cross-checked and presented in a consistent and accessible style.

All reports contain:

• 5 year historical and 5 year forecast market values and/or volumes
• market segmentations
• company and / or product market shares
• explanatory text identifying major trends and significant growth points
• analysis of each market's competitive landscape, including main players, distribution channels and regulatory issues

Each report offers sales people and account managers an in-depth understanding of the industry segments their clients and potential clients operate in, dramatically cutting research time for presentations and improving the team's ability to target and service companies in that vertical market.

View sample market segmentation

Datamonitor's industry profiles are a quick and reliable way to get data on key industrial and consumer sectors across the world's leading economies. Datamonitor's industry profiles provide market sizes and segmentations for key country and global markets, five-year market forecasts and analysis of current and emerging market trends to support research and planning activities.

View sample value and volume forecast

Datamonitor's industry profiles include detailed information on the industry environment, so you can improve your understanding of clients and prospects. It provides details on historic, current and expected market size, shape and developments. Each profile also highlights the most important players in each market, including their comparative positions and market shares.

View sample market share

Datamonitor's industry profiles provide background information for product launch and marketing activities across numerous industry sectors, highlighting market size, segmentation, key trends, competitors and industry growth prospects.

View sample competitive landscape

The Datamonitor Business Information Center contains 2000 Industry Profiles.

You can run one search across the entire Datamonitor Business Information Center, which includes company profiles, industry profiles, country profiles, news and comment. All content is universally indexed with company, industry, geographical and news subject codes.

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Datamonitor's Company Profiles provide insight into how the world's major companies are organized and function.

Each profile provides:

• Key facts
• Company overview
• Business description
• Company history
• Executive listings
• Product listings
• Locations

Datamonitor's company profiles provide insight into how the world's major companies are organized and function, allowing you and your team members to improve their pitches and better establish how they can meet companies' needs.

With so much information readily available through the Internet, companies expect people to have an in-depth knowledge of their business. Datamonitor's company profiles allow sales people, account managers and researchers to gain a full understanding of each company in a fraction of the time it would take to research it themselves.

View sample business description

DBIC's news coverage and regularly updated profiles keep you updated on the actions and strategies of players in your sector. Datamonitor's independent SWOT analyses allow you to understand your competitors better with strategic insight on the major companies in each sector.

View sample SWOT analysis

Datamonitor's company profiles include full details and biographies of 100,000 senior executives and key decision makers, including 15,000 C-level executives and more than 5,000 IT decision makers.

You can use these to easily find and target the right person within the world's most important organizations.

View sample executive listings

The company profile coverage includes the most important global companies on a number of parameters. Companies are prioritized for inclusion where they are constituents of major stock indices, Datamonitor industry rankings, or are covered by the major investment banks and financial community.

The Datamonitor Business Information Center contains 10,000+ Company Profiles.

You can run one search across the entire Datamonitor Business Information Center, which includes company profiles, industry profiles, country profiles, news and comment. All content is universally indexed with company, industry, geographical and news subject codes.

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Each Country Profile provides comprehensive industry, political and economic analyses plus macro-economic and demographic data for one of the major countries of the world.

Country Profiles contains:

• Introduction
• Key country facts
• Economic summary
• Political summary
• Economic analysis
• Political analysis
• Macro-economic, demographic and social indicators

Country profiles allow you to compare a company's historical and expected performance against economic changes in its main markets.

View sample economic analysis

Country profiles can support your research when you or your clients are considering launching a product or acquiring a business in a new geographic region. Each profile outlines the economic outlook for the country, highlighting key issues and trends.

View sample economic prospects section

Country profiles contain key macroeconomic data, including GDP, stock exchange performance, international trade, unemployment and inflation figures.

This sample contains just some of the data for Germany. View sample macroeconomic data

The Datamonitor Business Information Center contains more than 50 Country Profiles.

You can run one search across the entire Datamonitor Business Information Center, which includes company profiles, industry profiles, country profiles, news and comment. All content is universally indexed with company, industry, geographical and news subject codes.

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The Datamonitor Business Information Center is supported by a live feed of relevant news, comment and analysis to keep you up to date with current business issues. Datamonitor analysts provide their reactions to breaking industry news, including merger and acquisition activity, product launches and regulatory changes, and provide insight into how these issues will impact both companies and consumers.

Our specialist analysts add around 60 opinion-based articles to the service each week and our editors summarize continuously hundreds of news articles from thousands of sources including the financial and international press, online information providers, conferences and journals.

The stories are presented in date order with the most recent at the top of the page. If you wish to see articles relevant to a particular industry, click the relevant sector in the "Browse news and analysis by industry" option on the News and Comment front page. You can also find specific news and comment articles through the Search facility.

Clicking on any article title will allow you to see that article in full.

You can run one search across the entire Datamonitor Business Information Center, which includes company profiles, industry profiles, country profiles, news and comment. All content is universally indexed with company, industry, geographical and news subject codes.

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To run a quick search on the Datamonitor Business Information Center, enter the keywords for which you wish to search and click "Go". By default, quick search will only return profiles that have all the words you have queried (an automatic "AND" search). Higher relevance will also be given to those documents that have all the words you entered in the title.

To refine the search:

• Enter more specific keywords to refine your search results
• Restrict results by Sector
• Restrict results by Publication Date
• Sort by publication date or relevance

Selects documents that contain all of your keywords. For example, to search for documents that contain the phrase "pharmaceutical companies" and the word "hepatitis", enter the following search term:

pharmaceutical companies AND hepatitis

Because of the automatic and searching, this would actually be the same as entering

"pharmaceutical companies" hepatitis

Selects documents that contain at least one of your search elements. For example, to return documents that contain references to either "Intel or "computer processors", enter the following search term:

Intel OR computer processors

Because the operators group words automatically, this is the same as searching for:

Intel OR "computer processors"

Selects documents that include at least one of the search terms you specify. Documents will be relevance ranked higher if they contain both phrases. For example, if you want to select documents which reference either "Ford" and "General Motors", but you want to see document scored more highly if they include both, you could search for:

Ford ACCRUE "general motors"

Accrue can be a very powerful operator in certain instances. It brings relevant documents to the top of the list, but does not exclude items that may still be of interest.

You can use the following wildcards in the Datamonitor Business Information Center search engine:

• ? - Specifies one of any alphanumeric character, as in ?an, which locates "ran," "pan," "can," and "ban".
• * - Specifies zero or more of any alphanumeric character, as in corp*, which locates "corporate," "corporation," "corporal," and "corpulent".

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