A Participant's information can be accessed by performing a participant search. Specific participant searches available include person, employer, and information provider. Additionally, searches can also be performed for product provider, service supplier, external party, external party office and educational institute participants. When searching for a person or employer, the search also returns any prospect persons or employers. Prospect persons and employers have not been fully registered on the system.
For person/prospect person searches, the user can indicate whether or not the search by names should use a phonetic (sounds-like) search, the implementation of this uses the Double Metaphone algorithm.