• Scope of the Report
• Structure of the Business & Professional Online Services Market
• Definition of Business & Professional Online Services
• History of the Online Information Industry
• Web Commercialization Begins in 1991
• Worldwide Online Service Sales Reach $47.1 Billion in 2001
• Brokerage Services Make Up 26.5% of Business/Professional Online Services
• Electronic Information Revenue Increases 8.9%
• Online Paid Subscriptions Top 71.87 Million in 2001
• Online Services Market to Top $59.77 Billion in 2006
• Online Services Subscribers to Reach 100.3 Million by 2006
• Conclusions

Chapter 2: Brokerage Information

• Overview
• Growth for Leading Players Is Forecast to Drop in 2002
• Top Players Feel Effects of Heavy Consolidation and Cutbacks
• Reuters Strengthened Its Global Position with 2001 Acquisition of Bridge
• Financial Data Providers Forced Into Strategy Adjustment
• Once Booming Retail Market Continues to Struggle
• Reuters Takes Instinet Public in 2001, but the Company Struggles in 2002
• Online Brokerages Go Global to Seek New Subscribers
• Demand for Wireless Services Slows
• Forecast Assumptions
• Financial Forecast

Chapter 3: Credit Information Services

• Overview
• Cosumer & Business Credit
• Growth Moderate for Market Leaders in Credit Information Market Space
• Consolidation Key for Leaders
• Risk Management Software Demands Increases
• Consumer Market Serves as Source of New Revenues
• Terrorism Threat Creates New Role for Credit Information Providers
• Smaller Players Make Inroads on Leaders
• Forecast Assumptions
• Financial Forecast

Chapter 4: Current Awareness News & Research Information

• Overview
• High Unemployment Impacts Sales of Current Awareness News & Research
• Aggregators Post Strong Revenue Growth
• Contract Subscriptions Tally Jumps 37.6%
• Top Line Takes Beating in First Half 2002
• Vendors Keep Customers by Lowering Contract Values
• Smaller Players May Have Edge in Down Economy
• Forecast Assumptions
• Financial Forecast

Chapter 5: Financial News & Research Information

• Overview
• Financial News & Research Services Struggle with Rough Economy
• Thomson Financial Overtakes McGraw-Hill for Lead
• Subscribers Growth Flat for Financial Segment
• Companies Slim Down to Weather Economy
• Advertising-Based Companies Seek New Revenue Lines
• Analytics Offers Growth Area for Content Vendors
• Forecast Assumptions
• Financial Forecast

Chapter 6: Legal, Tax and Public Record Information

• Overview
• General Law
• Tax Law
• Environmental Records
• Real Estate Information
• State Commercial Records
• Federal Gov't. and Agency Documents, State Legislation and Regulations
• Legal, Tax and Public Record Market Growth Outpaces Other Sectors
• LexisNexis Retains 38+% Market Share, Wolters Kluwer Comes on Strong
• West, Reed Grapple with New Products, Kluwer Boosts Global Presence
• Global Online Content Is a Long-Term Gold Mine in the Legal Sector
• Loislaw, LexisNexis and Others Think Small
• Forecast Assumptions
• Financial Forecast

Chapter 7: Marketing Information

• Overview
• The Three Segments Within Marketing Information
• Audience Rating Services
• List Compilers
• Product Marketing Information Services
• Like Other Sectors, Marketing Information Was Hit by Bad Economy in 2001
• IRI, ACNeilsen Expands to Seek New Revenue Streams
• Internet Measurement: ComScore Quickly Wrests Lead from Pioneers
• Courts Say "No" to Selling Consumer Marketing Info from Credit Records
• Forecast Assumptions
• Financial Forecast

Chapter 8: Health Care Information

• Overview
• WebMD Tops the List of Leading Online Health Care Information Providers
• WebMD
• Ovid Technologies
• MedSite
• A.D.A.M. Inc.
• MD Consult
• Health Care Information Providers Successfully Target Professionals
• WebMD Survives by Focusing on Professionals
• Established Publishers Expand Presence in Electronic Health Care Market
• Economy Is Down, but Subscriptions Are Up
• New Wireless Health Care Information Products Continue to Emerge
• Forecast Assumptions
• Financial Forecast

Chapter 9: Vertical Markets Information

• Overview
• They Built It, but No One Came
• McGraw-Hill Hits the Right Niche
• Many Vertical Marketplaces Close or Adjust Business Models
• Forecast Assumptions
• Financial Forecast

Chapter 10: Company Profiles

• Acxiom Corp.
• Bloomberg L.P.
• Business Wire
• D&B
• Dow Jones
• Equifax
• Hoover's Inc.
• IHS Group
• Interactive Data Corp.
• MarketWatch
• McGraw-Hill
• Multex
• OneSource
• Pearson PLC (Financial Times Group)
• PR Newswire
• Reed Elsevier
• Reuters Group
• Thomson Corp.
• Track Data Corp.
• Value Line
• Verticalnet
• VNU Inc.
• WebMD Corp.
• Wolters Kluwer