MEDICAL & SCIENTIFIC INFO PROVIDER & ITALIAN CO. SOLD TO WOLTERS KLUWER.In related news, Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. division Ovid Technologies Ovid Technologies (or just Ovid) is part of the Wolters Kluwer group of companies. It provides access to online bibliographic databases, journals and other products, chiefly in the area of health sciences. (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) has acquired SilverPlatter Information (Boston, MA), a provider of scientific and medical databases and related software. No terms were given. SilverPlatter had 2000 annual sales of about $70 million. The company provides search and retreival technology to medical, academic, corporate and educational researchers worldwide with access to more than 250 online reference databases. Its "SilverLinker" product provides more than 2.5 million links to over 6500 journals and 2 million articles. The company has over 11,000 institutional customers, including a "strong market presence" in the academic library market. Ovid Technologies is a provider of online information to the scientific, technical and medical markets. It has over 5000 institutional customers and provides links between bibliographic and full text resources. Wolters Kluwer has also acquired OSRA OSRA Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 OSRA Office Systems Research Association OSRA Oil Spill Response Atlas (Australia) OSRA Ontario Snow Resorts Association (Canada) OSRA Oil Spill Risk Analysis (Milan), a provider of tax compliance and human resource software in Italy. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. OSRA develops tax compliance, general ledger General Ledger A company's accounting records. This formal ledger contains all the financial accounts and statements of a business. Notes: The ledger uses two columns: one records debits, the other has offsetting credits. and payroll software to professional tax advisors and corporate enterprises. It has over 15,000 customers. Also, Kluwer has sold its Financial Training Co. Ltd. (London) operations to that company's management. No terms were given. Financial Training is a part of Kluwer's Professional Training Company and is active in the field of providing training services and training solutions to corporations, nonprofits and professionals in the accountancy, tax and financial markets industries. It has 2000 sales of EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 47 million and has offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. |
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