The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has acquired German-based AVEDAS, a company specialising in the development and implementation of current research information systems. AVEDAS will be integrated into the Scientific and Scholarly Research unit of Thomson Reuters.
AVEDAS' flagship research information system, CONVERIS® 5, supports universities, research institutions and funding agencies in collecting and managing data across the research life cycle. CONVERIS complements the Thomson Reuters InCites solution, the company's next generation Research Analytics platform for scholarly benchmarking and analysis, and will become part of that offering.
AVEDAS, founded in 2005, has several research management insight modules in CONVERIS, some of which include graduate student management, pre-and-post award management, research analytics, publications management and data integration. The company has a global client base with a concentration of users in Europe. Its headquarters are in Karlsruhe, Germany, with other office locations in Leiden, Netherlands, and Hyderabad, India.
