Factiva is a business information and research tool owned by Dow Jones & Company. Factiva aggregates content from both licensed and free sources, and provides organizations with search, alerting, dissemination, and other information management capabilities. Factiva products provide access to more than 28,500 sources (such as newspapers, journals, magazines, television and radio transcripts, photos, etc.) from 200 countries in 25 languages, including more than 600 continuously updated newswires.

The company has been founded as a joint-venture between Reuters and Dow Jones in May 1999 under the Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive name, then renamed Factiva six months later. Timothy M. Andrews, a longtime Dow Jones executive, was founding president and chief executive of the venture.

It developed modules with Microsoft, Oracle Corp., IBM and Yahoo! [1]. Factiva has also partnered with EuroSpider, Comintell, Peoplesoft, MediaMap, Biz360, ChoicePoint, BTRadianz, AtHoc, and Reuters. Factiva has also been included as of March 2003 in Microsoft's Office 2003 program as one of the News research options within the Research Pane.