An evaluation of UK credit ratings services
Describes a novel method for evaluating UK-based credit ratings services. Using a combination of timeliness, coverage, ease of use and accuracy of information, based upon a sample of 100 records added to the databases of six commercial companies’ information databases in autumn 2005, a framework for evaluation was developed and applied. The following services were evaluated: Creditsafe UK; Dun & Bradstreet; Equifax; Experian; Graydon; and ICC. Based upon the results of the evaluations, the services were graded overall with Experian coming out best. Equifax and ICC were next best, with Credit-safe after that. Dun and Bradstreet and Graydon performed the worst. However, changing the weightings of the various criteria would have produced a different outcome. Detailed explanations of the tests that were applied and the performance of each service are provided.
Forty years of information management
This issue of Business Information Review mixes case studies of good practice in Knowledge and Information Management (KIM), the value of KIM to small businesses with insight into the role of the CV in today’s tight recruitment field. Initiatives, as well as the usual round-up of product and service developments, discusses the growing interest in data management and explores the new data professions. The risks to information access posed by recent developments at Google (withdrawal of RSS news alerts and the synonym operator) are also explored. For this edition we have decided to devote most of our editorial space to:
On a New Subclass of p-Valent Close-to-Convex Mappings Defined by Two-Sided Inequality
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