Alacra, a provider of business information solutions for financial institutions, corporations and professional service firms announced the launch of Alacra-On-Demand, a comprehensive research service provided by Alacra’s global team of business information specialists.

Alacra-On-Demand provides research and delivery of data and reports from hundreds of global business information publishers.

“As corporate library and support teams have been reduced it has become challenging for professionals to quickly find and acquire the research and information they need,” said Steve Goldstein, Chief Executive Officer of Alacra.

“Alacra has access to a tremendous range of business information and through Alacra-On-Demand we can make that content readily available to anyone with a credit card by phone or email. In the past we’ve handled occasional requests from hedge funds, attorneys and business development professionals. Now we’ve created a full-service offering to meet these needs.”

Information available through Alacra-On-Demand includes global corporate filings, M&A transaction data, ratings agency credit research, sell-side and independent investment research, earnings call transcripts, ownership data, earnings estimates and market research from dozens of publishers.

Alacra said that turn-around time is generally within a few hours.

Requests to the Alacra research team can be made by phone or email and payment can be made by credit card.

The service will operate 24 hours a day 5 days week from Sunday morning in Asia to Friday evening in the US.

Alacra develops workflow applications that enable 300,000 end users at over 200 financial institutions, professional service firms and corporations to find, organize, analyze and present mission-critical business information.

With almost 200 unique databases available, Alacra has under license the largest collection of premium business information in the world.