ORBIS

Orbis contains comprehensive information on companies worldwide, with an emphasis on private company information. Use it to:

• research individual companies
• search for companies by profile
• analyse companies.

Orbis contains information on both listed and unlisted companies. Listed companies are in a more detailed format. Orbis has information on over 100 million private companies. Orbis includes:

• Company financials in a standardised format 
• Financial strength indicators
• Ratings 
• Options to create your own ratios and bring in your own data fields
• Directors and contacts
• Original filings/images
• Stock data
• Private equity data and portfolios
• Patents
• Detailed corporate and ownership structures
• Industry research
• Business and company-related news
• M&A deals and rumours

You can also access the Orbis database via our recently enhanced "end-user interface", on Mint Global. Mint products are designed for end users and desktop access with streamlined options.

REFWORKS

RefWorks has created language-specific sites to assist our end-users around the world with localized support and training documentation. The sites provide a variety of material developed by RefWorks as well as by subscribing organizations who have graciously agreed to share their resources. The types of materials found on these sites will vary to include such items as Quick Start Guides, tutorials, help documentation and our webinar schedule. Our International sites helps you get the most out of RefWorks.

CONNECT 4

CONNECT4 - ASX LISTED COMPANY INTELLIGENCE

Track and analyse takeovers and mergers, capital raisings, auditing and accounting practices, corporate governance and compliance

Get access to information on companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Connect 4 databases and analysis will help you understand the activities of publicly listed companies, give you the business intelligence and industry knowledge that you need to get deals over the line, provide better advice and services, and conduct successful litigation.

The Connect4 suite is designed for professionals in the legal, accounting and financial services industries and supports the needs of CEOs and CFOs making acquisition, investment and market intelligence decisions.

Connect 4 categorises and extracts key information, then presents it in a format you can understand, enabling you to spend more time providing real solutions to your clients and making fully informed business decisions.

• Access to the various Connect 4 databases gives you the tools to:
• Monitor and stay on top of market trends and activity
• Source a massive collection of full text documents as examples of how best to structure deals and draft documents
• Track competitors and their clients
• Benchmark services and price thresholds against competitors
• Identify and research acquisition targets.

DATASTREAM

Datastream offers access to an unrivaled set of historical financial content. The depth and breadth of data that you can analyze is truly remarkable. Access up to 50 years of history, millions of global instruments and indicators and coverage for 175 countries in 60 global markets.

With Datastream's vast reserves of historical financial content, you can research the correlations and relationships between global economic indicators and asset classes. The power of Datastream is available in the way that works best for you: as a powerful desktop application, through a web browser and lightweight, on-demand plug-in or a datafeed for integration into your own systems.

OSIRIS

Osiris is a comprehensive database of listed companies, banks and insurance companies around the world. It contains specific report formats for companies, banks and insurance companies and also has reports that reflect accounting procedures in the major world regions. Both standardised and "as reported" financials are provided.

Provides income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and ratios.

Includes news, ownership, subsidiaries, ratings, earnings estimates, stock data, additional industry codes (Dow Jones Global Indexes), and access to regulatory filings for U.S. companies. This database is produced by Bureau van Dijk.

AMADEUS

A database of comparable financial information for public and private companies across Europe.

Amadeus contains comprehensive information on around 19 million companies across Europe. You can use it to research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles and for analysis. Amadeus now has a new front end that makes it even easier and faster to use.

What information does Amadeus contain?

• Company information for both Western and Eastern Europe, with a focus on private company information
• Company financials in a standard format so you can compare companies across borders
• Financial strength indicators
• Directors
• Images of report and accounts for listed companies
• Stock prices for listed companies
• Detailed corporate structures
• Market research
• Business and company-related news
• M&A deals and rumours
• Maps

Amadeus is easy to use and helps you navigate company information quickly and easily.

META CRAWLER

MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search),Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. MetaCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, video, news, yellow pages and white pages. MetaCrawler hit its stride in the late 90's when the verb "metacrawled" was used by talk show host Conan O'Brien on TRL. It used to provide the option to search for audio. MetaCrawler is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc.