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08/2009
nexxar

Survey of CSR Reports online.

For the first time we made a benchmark survey on presentation of yearly published CSR reports in Germany. Out of 30 DAX companies 26 (87%) published a CSR report 2008. Analogue to our yearly survey on online annual reports we classified into 3 main categories: PDF, JPG-show or full HTML report.

07/2009
Thomas Rosenmayr

First insights: Nexxar benchmark analysis.

In the last 4 weeks Gisi, Marco, Jürgen and I have gone through 378 corporate websites to find out the current status of online corporate reporting of big cap European and US companies. Since 2003 our survey includes companies of indices Dow Jones, EuroStoxx 50, DAX/MDAX, ATX, SMI and since 2005 FTSE 100 and AEX/AMX. Currently we are expanding this survey to include MIB, CAC and TSX. With this expansion more than 500 of the biggest companies in the world would be part of the biggest and most elaborate survey in the online corporate reporting industry.

06/2009
nexxar

Hosting: Flexibility is King!

The hosting of an online financial report is a key quality gate for the overall perception of your online reporting. Preconditions for engaging your users with your high end tools and online presentation range from simple high availability through useful analytic/statiscal tools up to complex security issues.

01/2009
Thomas Rosenmayr

Germany’s manager magazin tests accessibility.

In September Google released a new application called Sidewiki. It’s a browser plug-in that allows users to comment on any website he wants to do. I would be very much interested how this quite powerful tool develops. If you have any experience with Sidewiki, please share it here!

09/2008
Thomas Rosenmayr

Survey on HTML annual reports of 374 listed companies.

For the sixth time we examined annual reports online of 374 listed European and US companies included in DAX, MDAX, Dow Jones, ATX, EuroStoxx 50, SMI, FTSE 100, AEX and AMX. First we distinguish 3 options for annual reports offered on the internet: