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CIS management is highly skilled, well educated, and very experienced in the competitive intelligence field.  We take a conservative approach to competitive research -- and reject any potential client that would have us do otherwise.    

CIS management insures that our company stands apart from other competitive intelligence practitioners in our strict adherence to ethical guidelines, adherence to client-approved research plans, expertise in primary research, and smart, thoughtful analysis of findings.

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 Sophisticated Research for Leading Companies

As a service to researchers who might be interested in using the vast resources of the Internet, we are pleased to include a number of information sources for your review.  There are, of course, many other valuable information sources on the Internet, but we have found that those listed below best meet our research needs.

We suggest that you bookmark this site and visit occasionally to see what's new in the world of Internet research.   See disclaimer statement at bottom of page.  

To access these information sources, simply copy the link information into your Internet browser.  We regret that we are unable to list these as hotlinks, as one-way links tend to hurt our company's ranking in the search engines. 

  • RESEARCH

BigBook:  www.bigbook.com 
Yellow pages. 

Britannica Online: www.eb.com 
Encyclopedia 

CenterWatch: www.centerwatch.com 
Clinical trials listing service. 

CIA Publications: www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html 
Country information 

CompaniesOnline: www.companiesonline.com 
Companies on the Web. 

Corptech: www.corptech.com/
America’s technology manufacturers and developers.

DIALOG: www.dialog.com 
Over 450 online databases. 

Disclosure: www.disclosure.com 
Real-time and historical financial and business information, including Edgar data. 

Dow Jones Interactive: www.djinteractive.com 
Custom news tracking tool, with access to 3800 sources. 

FedWorld Information Network: www.fedworld.gov 
US Government information products. 

Financial Data Finder: www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/osudata.htm 
Extensive listing of financial data sources. 

555-1212: www.555-1212.com 
Phone number lookup. 
 
Hoover's Online: www.hoovers.com 
Company profiles 

iMarket: www.imarketinc.com 
Prospect lists, business information, etc. 

Internet Public Library: www.ipl.org 
Annotated list of Internet research services. 

LEXIS-NEXIS: www.lexis-nexis.com 
Legal, news, business information services.

Library of Congress: www.loc.gov 
Access to library catalogs, etc. 

MapQuest: www.mapquest.com 
Interactive atlas, etc. 
 
MarkIntel: www.investext.com 
Investext research reports from over 500 investment firms, brokerage houses, market research organizations, trade groups. 

MicroPatent: www.micropat.com 
Patent and trademark information. 

NewsLink: www.newslink.org 
American Journalism Review features, links. 
 
People Search: www.yahoo.com/search/people 
Yahoo's phone number, e-mail address lookup. 

PPPP.net: www.pppp.net/links/news 
Newspapers worldwide. 
 
Profound: www.profound.com 
Knight-Ridder's comprehensive information source. 

ProQuest Direct: www.umi.com/proquest 
Summaries of articles from over 5,000 publications, etc. 

Thomas Register Online: www.thomasregister.com/index.html 
Industrial buying information on over 150,000 companies. 

Universal Currency Converter: www.xe.net/currency 
Foreign exchange rates 

US Postal Service: www.usps.gov/search/welcome.htm 
Zip code lookup 

WhoWhere?: www.whowhere.com 
Lycos service for lookup of phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc. 
 

  • SEARCH ENGINES 

Alta Vista: www.altavista.digital.com 

Excite: www.excite.com 

Google: www.google.com

Go.com: www.infoseek.com 

Lycos: www.lycos.com 

MetaCrawler (Go2Net): www.metacrawler.com

Northern Light: www.nlsearch.com

Yahoo: www.yahoo.com 
 

  • NEWS 

CBS Market Watch: cbs.marketwatch.com/news/newsroom.htx 
Business news and portfolio tracking. 

CNN: www.cnn.com 

MSNBC: www.msnbc.com  

My Yahoo: www.my.yahoo.com 

US News & World Report: www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
 

  • NEWSPAPERS 

Associated Press: www.wire.ap.org 

Boston Globe: www.boston.com/globe 

Chicago Tribune: www.chicago.tribune.com 

Christian Science Monitor: www.csmonitor.com 

Los Angeles Times: www.latimes.com 

New York Times: www.nytimes.com  

San Jose Mercury News: www.mercurycenter.com 

Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com

  • NETWORKS 

ABC: www.abcnews.com 

CBS: cbs.com 

Fox: www.foxnews.com 

NBC: www.nbc.com 

National Public Radio: www.npr.org 

PBS: www.pbs.org/newshour 
 

  • BUSINESS 

Barrons: www.barrons.com 

CNNfn: www.cnnfn.com 

PR Newswire: www.prnewswire.com 

Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com
 

  • COMPUTERS & INTERNET 

InfoTech Trends: www.cif1.com 

PC World: www.cif1.com

Internet.com: www.internet.com 

NewsHub: www.newshub.com 

NewsLinx: www.newslinx.com 

Wired: www.wired.com/news 
 

  • WEATHER 

AccuWeather: www.accuweather.com/web/welcome.htm 

National Weather Service: www.nws.noaa.gov

USA Today: www.usatoday.com/weather/wfront.htm 

Note that the above list of other Internet sites is provided for informational purposes only.  This is not an endorsement of any products or services offered in such sites, and no information in such sites has been endorsed or approved by this site.  We cannot guarantee the accuracy or currency of any information available through the sites listed here.   Information provided here is provided as is without warranty of any kind, either express or implied.  The user  assumes the entire risk as to the accuracy and use of information provided in the above sites. 

 

 

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 CIS Highlights

These are the essential elements of the competitive intelligence services we offer: 

  • Comprehensive research on competitors, markets.

  • In-depth executive interviewing specialists.

  • Systematic secondary research.

  • Professional management.

  • Honest, experienced researchers.

  • Smart, thoughtful analysis.

  • Use of only legal and ethical means.

We accept and work with only ONE CLIENT PER BUSINESS CATEGORY to pursue answers to tough questions, avoiding all potential conflicts of interest.

All competitive intelligence assignments we undertake share the objective of obtaining ACTIONABLE BUSINESS INFORMATION.  

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 Project Examples

CIS undertakes a range of research projects for many prestigious companies. 

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 Sophisticated Research for Leading Companies

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