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Ovid Technologies, Inc.
 PROFILE
Ovid Technologies' databases cater to medical warriors on search and heal missions. The company provides electronic information retrieval services to the academic, medical, and scientific markets. Ovid offers its 5,000 institutional customers a collection of databases, licensed from third parties, that are bundled with the proprietary Ovid search and retrieval software. The databases are offered on stand-alone CD-ROMs and networks and through the Internet. Ovid also provides online access to full-text versions of more than 450 journals and dozens of textbooks. Ovid was founded by Mark Nelson as CD Plus in 1988; it adopted its present name in 1995. Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer acquired the company in 1998.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
1997 Sales (mil.): 27.30
1-Yr. Sales Growth: (18.8)%
Employees: 189
Revenue per employee: $144,444.44

 KEY PEOPLE
• Dean Vogel
    CEO
• Mark McBride
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
333 Seventh Ave., 4th Fl.
New York, NY 10001
US
Phone: 212-563-3006
Fax: 212-563-3784
Online: Web Site

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