MyICC personalises tracking to business.

Byline: daniel griffin

MyICC personalises tracking to business

ICC, a provider of business and financial data, including shareholder and director details, has launched MyICC to integrate much of its current product suite into a single portal.

It provides access to 6.7 million company details in the UK and Ireland, although information on a range of other countries is also accessible. Sister products Plum and Juniper will be added to the platform along with their current client base over the course of 2007. At present MyICC users tend to be in the legal and financial markets although the user base is expected to be far more varied once integration of the legacy products is complete.

MyICC grabs its data from scanned documents supplied by -- and originally filed at -- CompaniesHouse. By law, all limited companies in the UK must register and supply their business details with the agency.

What MyICC does is to give users access to these company reports as fully bookmarked PDFs via a search. The level of detail and information that a user has access to is determined by the package purchased from ICC.

The interface itself is a pretty austere affair, but on the whole this works to the site's advantage. Customising the extensive setup options can become a detailed affair, and when you are dealing with an array of financial reporting acronyms, tick boxes and dropdown menus, an absence of pretty buttons and icons leaves enough white space on the page to stop the user feeling overwhelmed.