Reference data enthusiasts will be pleased to learn that AMADEUS, a European company information database owned and managed by electronic publishers Bureau van Dijk, holds detailed information on a hundred thousand European companies from sixteen countries.
Currently, records for six million companies spanning thirty-four countries and two principalities are available. Even with the significant increase in company numbers strict inclusion criteria are still applied to ensure even coverage across Europe, eliminating any bias towards countries where company information is more prevalent. BvD’s financial template consistently reflects European accounting formats to facilitate cross-border searching and analysis.
Leading information suppliers are sourced for each country – rather than relying on one source with potential weak areas. Thirty providers are now involved in the production of AMADEUS, including BvD. Finding there was no comprehensive source of pan-European ownership information BvD set out to research its own. This exclusive data set now includes four and a half million ownership links for AMADEUS alone and has been extended across BvD’s global product range.
“Our philosophy is one of continual product enhancement and avoidance of complacency,” says Tony Pringle, manager of BvD’s UK office, adding, “Existing plans for AMADEUS include increasing the number of countries covered – an information provider has been sourced for Cyprus – and we are looking to add some more countries including Malta and the states that are missing from the former CIS. Software enhancements are also on our agenda. AMADEUS has evolved from a DOS CD-ROM to a progressive internet product that includes two search methods to suit different user experience with sophisticated analysis options that utilise integral graphics, maps and tree diagrams.”
AMADEUS is available on CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, on the internet and as an intranet feed. Users can subscribe to the top 200,000 companies, top 1 million companies or all companies.
Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing owns BANKSCOPE and ISIS, which provide detailed information on banks and insurance companies worldwide, as well as AMADEUS (6 million European companies), FAME (2.5 million UK and Irish companies), OSIRIS (listed companies worldwide with both “as reported” and standardised information plus ownership, ratings news, earnings estimates and stock data) and ORBIS (10 million companies worldwide with one-screen searching and a choice of report detail).