Alumni offices can locate alumnus and update their addresses. Admissions offices can find businesses to donate items for welcome packets and develop lists for community outreach programs. Offices of development can find businesses that might donate to the school. Search for businesses to bring to career fairs. Find alums that run home-based businesses.

Use to research geographic areas and selection criteria before purchasing large lists. For example, they will find out how businesses with selected SIC codes are in an area prior to sending requests for OSHA training to contractors.

Conduct market research when trying to win a new plan in competition with other cities or to lure an existing business from another city. Use to compare population in comparison to number of similar businesses.

Search by Yellow Page heading, median household income, home value and public filings to find businesses and residents that match their client base. In the HealthCare database, they can find doctors who have been out of school for 7 years. These young professionals often are done paying off their student loans and are ready to begin making investments.

Communicate instructions and information to citizens in the event of a natural disaster or emergency Run a search to find out how many people and/or businesses were affected.

Look for companies that match your degree or interest. Find businesses close to you. Conduct research about industries and companies. Find executives, corporate families and company descriptions. Follow the link to a company’s website for deeper details. Use research to send personalized inquires and avoid filling inboxes with automated resumes.

Before taking a case, check the legitimacy of a business or person who wants to retain their services. Use public filings and UCC filings to find out if a business is being sued and find other parties to join the lawsuit. Check a corporation’s family tree to find the headquarters and branch locations, and to halt business with all associated companies. The HealthCare database can help locate experts in certain types of injuries.

Use to answer a wide variety of questions and help students with research papers. For example, a patron may want to file a letter of complaint and needs to find a corporation’s headquarters and CEO’s name. Other common uses are finding toll-free numbers, websites and fax numbers.

Find schools, childcare, churches, doctors and other services. Use to find the type of neighborhood they want to move into. Locate households the area they wish to live in, and check home value and median income to see how they will compare to their new neighbors.

Use to find maps and driving directions. Plug available latitude/longitude coordinates into mobile devices. Search around a client’s office, museum or hotel to find restaurants, shopping centers and entertainment.

Conduct powerful market research. Select a location and do a radius to look up the number of similar businesses in the area. Check the strength of the competition with years in business and credit rating. Look for businesses to buy out or establish a support network with fellow business owners.

Find articles for research on businesses. Perform complicated searches to assist in research for papers and class projects. Use data summaries to profile an entire neighborhood, city or state by type of business, size of business or household median income.

Use the Data Summary to run a matrix and find certain characteristics of a neighborhood. Poll all businesses and /or residents on a street to ask how a change in service would affect them.