LexisNexisВ® Prospect Portfolio™

What do you like best?

LexisNexis for Development and in the standard view with the additional public records plugin is essential for prospect research. The ability to use Boolean language to set up large coverage searches and alerts is key to keeping tabs on hundreds of prospects in individual portfolios over the period of years.

What do you dislike?

I prefer the advanced search features and tend to stay away from the standard Company and News searches - I prefer to hand select my resources. LexisNexis is a huge database of print, media, online, and newswires that we cannot access otherwise. To limit a search to just news, just company info, etc. is to limit the results. I use the advanced Boolean driven feature to stay on top of prospect development.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

My recommendation is to use the classic LexisNexis and not select LexisNexis for development professionals - or if that is the selection, seek out the Advanced Search training that is available.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We have built profiles using the search results of LexisNexis by finding alumni, donors, personal contact info and more. We would be forced to use 3 or more individually priced other services were it not for the comprehensive aggregation of information on LN.