Providing sales, credit and market reports to the order and/or specification of others; providing general business and credit information concerning sales, size and position; conducting marketing studies; providing business information services pertaining to marketing, demographics and statistical fields; assigning and supplying identification numbers for use by business enterprises for the purpose of facilitating the automation of the payment of accounts payable and other business purposes and the obtaining of business statistics and information; supplying sale and marketing information concerning the business community according to the requirement of customers, mailing lists preparation services; computerized marketing consulting services rendered to businesses, namely, providing information that identify corporate lines of business and relationships between national and international companies, providing demographic information on different businesses in specific geographic areas, gathering and dissemination of advertising matter of others, preparation of lists of companies for others; providing business information by means of telephonic prerecorded messages; evaluation of suppliers of goods and services with regard to overall financial, operational and risk level; providing business information, namely, financial, credit, identifying, historical and operating information to business entities via a global computer network