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Top Reasons for Universities to Use OneSource

OneSource Global Business Browser provides industry leading company and industry research tools for universities and libraries. We integrate global company, industry, and executive content and package it into a web based research tool. Through our Global Business Taxonomy (GBT), we link together company and industry profiles allowing students or professors to quickly conduct their research. Current subscribers to OneSource include

. Education / Libraries - University of Wollongong, Curtin University, University of Newcastle, Otago University, University of Crop & Food NZ, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, Ashridge Management College, National Library Board of Singapore, New York Public Library

. Financial - ANZ Bank, National Australia Bank, Macquarie Bank, AMP, JP Morgan, UBS Warburg, ABN Amro, KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, PwC

. Professional Services - Clayton Utz Lawyers, Mallesons Lawyers, Bain & Co., Accenture, Proudfoot, McKinsey

. IT&T - Fuji Xerox Australia, Google, Telstra, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, Sun, Motorola, Siemens Here are some of the reasons that universities and libraries license our Global Business Browser service: 1. Global Company Coverage – Within our standard global edition, OneSource provides rich coverage on 13

Million North American, 4 million European, 360,000 AsiaPac, and 150,000 rest of world companies. Integrated profiles are assembled from country specific and regional vendors such as Reuters, D&B, Xinhua Financial , DP Information , InfoGroup , ICC, IncNet, and Business Monitor International . Our expanded global edition spans 18 million firms and 25 million executives with very deep coverage of the US, Canadian, and British markets. European profiles include financials from registered filings.

Figure 1: A broad set of reports is linked to the Vodafone Group PLC profile


2. Corporate Family – The OneSource corporate family displays sizing and industry variables for each

subsidiary and branch. Users may also:

§ Download the family tree to Excel1 § Download executives across the family tree by job function to Excel (useful for job hunting or

identifying potential research contacts across an organization) § Load the subsidiaries into our prospecting module for additional reporting and analysis. § Review M&A flags in the family trees. § Link to corporate structure news articles concerning the firm.

Family Tree information is updated nightly by OneSource editors ensuring that the most current linkage and proposed transaction details are displayed.

Figure 2: The family tree for Rio Tinto PLC includes sizing and industry variables along with multiple M&A flags highlighting a proposed merger, a recent acquisition, and several asset purchases

1 Not all library editions support downloading features


3. News – OneSource provides a full year of global company news and a ten-year archive of journal articles.

Sources include newswires, newspapers, press releases, trade journals, and transcripts. Specialty content includes the Economist Intelligence Unit , Datamonitor Industry Views, Harvard Business Review , Gale Business & Industry , and the FT Intelligence Wires . AsiaPac coverage includes The Australian , Courier Mail , AAP, RWE (ASIC announcements), Singapore Press Holdings , Asia Pulse , Indo-Asian News, and Nikkei English News . Users may link from a company or industry profile to the news, perform basic news searches, or conduct advanced searches using our Global Business Taxonomy.

Figure 3: Gale Business & Industry Trade Journal articles go back to the mid-1990s.

Figure 4: Economist Intelligence Unit articles on Malawi.


4. Broad Company and Executive Search and Download -- OneSource provides over 100 variables for

screening against global companies. Screening variables include

§ Business Description § Financial Values and Ratios § Industry codes including US, UK, and ANZ SIC; NAICS; NACE 1.1; and OneSource Sectors § Geographic variables ranging from international regions to postal codes § Ownership – Public Parent, Private Subsidiary, etc. § Parent Name and Parent Country § Executive Job Function and Job Level § Rank Screening (e.g. Top 50 by Sales)

Recently, OneSource added US and Canadian radius screening which allows users to identify competitors within a fixed distance (up to 200 miles) of a company. This feature is also invaluable for assembling lists of potential employers within a fixed distance of campus or home. Users may download company or executive lists to Excel, generate a mailing list by job function, or define a Custom Table from hundreds of variables including five years of financial values and ratios.

Figure 5: Screening covers a broad set of firmagraphic, geographic and biographic variables


5. OneStop Report – The OneStop report provides a unified, customizable report which may be saved to PDF, allowing students and professors to store detailed company profiles for later review. Users may include family trees, significant developments, executives and biographies, ten years of financials, Significant Developments (Reuters material event synopses), Business and Geographic Segment reports, and up to 198 full-text articles.

Figure 6: OneStop Report Options for Vodafone Group PLC


6. Executive Insights – Global Business Browser provides integrated executive reports. Features include:

§ A consolidated executives and biography report § Biographies with news citations, work history, education, affiliations, and compensation data § LinkedIn closest three contacts along with a hyperlink to all company connections. 2

Figure 7: "Executive Insights" report for Macquarie Group Limited

Figure 8: "LinkedIn Connections to Macquarie Group Limited

2 Users must be logged into their free LinkedIn account to see their connections.


7. Industry Research – OneSource provides industry market research and other industry content:

§ Datamonitor (2,500 global market research reports) § BMI Industry Sector Reports (177 AsiaPac reports) § Industry Sector Analyses (2,500 industry profiles) from the US Intl. Trade Administration . § Freedonia Focus Reports (200 US industry reports) § US Private Company Industry Norms from RMA by NAICS and company size § Current Industry reports from the US Census Bureau § Government and association links from OneSource § Top Industry Participants screening § Industry news by topic from Gale Business & Industry

Figure 9: Insurance Industry market research

Figure 10: Sophisticated Industry code searching and filtering helps students locate research


8. Corporate Filings – The following corporate filing data is available:

§ Global Annual Reports Database – A ten year archive for 27,000 global listed firms. Available in full color PDF format, students can search within the report for specific topics. The archive also includes Corporate Social Responsibility reports for 1,000 companies.

§ US EDGAR (Securities & Exchange Commission) Database – Users may screen against the US EDGAR database by company name, ticker, form, SIC, exchange, date range, and keyword. The EDGAR archive goes back to 1994 and includes annual reports (10-K), quarterlies (10-Q), and material events (8-K) along with many other filings. Filings are delivered in PDF, RTF, XLS, and HTML formats.

Figure 11: Recent Annual, Interim, and Corporate Social Responsibility Reports for PetroChina

9. AP Module – Our optional AP module provides business and finance students with the ability to

§ Screen against 150 financial variables of global listed firms § Download five years and eight quarters of financial data to Excel § Perform global peer analysis § Build Comparative Financial reports, Valuation Tearsheets, Company Chartbooks, and

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Figure 12: Financial Leverage Chart from the PetroChina Company Chartbook


10. Company Financials – OneSource provides a broad set of financial tools including

§ Ten years and sixteen periods of standardized and as reported financials and ratios from Reuters spanning 50,000 global listed (public) companies

§ Three to five years of as reported European private company financials and ratios sourced from local registries by o ICC (Ireland) o RM (UK) o Experian (UK) o D&B (Germany, France, Netherlands, Portugal, and Italy) o Axesor (Spain) o EuroDB (Belgium) o Kompass (Norway, Sweden, and Denmark)

§ Reuters Significant Developments Reports covering material announcements going back to 1999. Users may filter by date range or key topic.

§ Reuters Business and Geographic Segment reports – Five years with charts § Reuters Financial Health and Ratio reports § One-click currency conversion between the as reported currency and US Dollars, Euros, or

British Pounds § One-click financial download to Excel § A financial glossary covering financial terminology and ratio definitions. § Quote.com link for global listed companies.

Figure 13: Boustead Singapore Interim Business Segments report


Figure 14: Babcock & Brown Significant Developments filtered for Divestitures / Spin-offs

11. Quality – OneSource selects leading country and industry sources and integrates them into a single view. We apply a “vendor hierarchy” for managing disagreements between vendors (e.g. differences in first name) To enhance quality, OneSource also

§ Leverages a set of editors for updating our content. These editors “override” executive listings,

company profiles, and family tree linkages based upon bi-annual audits of the top firms, continuous news monitoring, and client feedback. Thus, if a press release announces that the CEO is stepping down and the COO is assuming acting CEO duties, our editors can immediately remove the CEO name and update the COO title within a few minutes.

§ Cross-indexes industry codes. OneSource supports the US SIC 87, ANZ SIC 06, UK SIC 02, NAICS 02, NACE 1.1 (EU), and OneSource segments. Company profiles and industry research are mapped to each of these industry codes.

§ Displays multi-sourced lists of executives in a single executives report and multiple business descriptions in the Corporate Overview.

§ Employs period specific conversion ratios. For Balance Sheets, which are financial snapshots, we utilize the report date. For flow statements (i.e. cash flow statements and Income Statements), we utilize the average currency rate during the reporting period.

§ Provides both As Reported and Standardized Reuters financials. As Reported financials provide the original filing formats whereas standardized allow students to compare financials and ratios by converting financials to a common format.

§ Flags financials that have been restated since the original release.


Figure 15: Currency Rates for flow statements are based upon the average rate over the financial period. 12. Source Citations – Although we aggregate and blend data from many sources, we maintain source

citations throughout our service. A few examples:

§ When we present multiple company descriptions in a profile, we individually attribute each business description.

§ In our integrated family trees we provide citations alongside the size and industry variables for each subsidiary (see Figure 2)

§ When we integrate and de-duplicate our executive names, we employ a vendor hierarchy for displaying the most reliable vendor information along with a citation (see Figure 6).

§ OneSource editorial overrides are attributed in family trees and executive reports. § Currency Conversion ratios are displayed for each accounting period (see Figure 15).

13. Library IP Support – OneSource supports IP campus validation, allowing your students to access

Business Browser via university authentication processes. Except for the Adobe Reader (standard on most browser implementations), no special software is required.

14. Named User Option – OneSource also allows for the assignment of dedicated user ids for business

students and faculty. Dedicated accounts provide the following additional features:

§ E-mail news § Saved News Searches § Saved EDGAR (US SEC) Searches § Saved Company Lists § Saved Company Searches § Saved Executive Searches § Saved Preferences § Saved Custom Table Download formats § Recently Viewed companies saved between sessions

15. Help Desk Support Including Live Instant Messaging – OneSource provides 24x5 Live Instant Messaging

support. Other support and training tools include

§ E-Mail and Telephonic assistance § Online help § Pre-recorded tutorials § Online FAQ Knowledgebase § What’s New § Information Partners

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