An excellent tool presenting practical information about companies and the industries in which they compete, Business Insights: Essentials is a “fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.”

Business Insights contains nearly 500,000 company profiles, nearly 25,000 industry reports, more than 1,000 reports on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing individual companies (updated quarterly), over 2,500 market research reports, more than two million investment research/brokerage reports, and over 10,000 company histories. It also contains a “robust glossary with thousands of business terms” as well as more improved, interactive search capabilities for more relevant search results.