Aylien vs. LSEG Eikon

Depends on the scenario. Overall it's a decent platform and gives me the features I'm needing for a great price.

Incentivized

Very likely to recommend to a colleague if he deals with researching companies on a day-to-day basis since it captures real-time market data, financial information such as income statements and balance sheet items, as well as news items around strategic updates and analyst reports from top investment banks.

Incentivized

• The API is easy to use.
• The documentation is clear to use.
• Customer support was also great at giving me a quick response.

Incentivized

• ESG ratings - allowing us to benchmark practices and reporting.
• Real time market data - allowing us to track target companies.
• Financial information - allows us to gauge companies' historical and forecasted performance.

Incentivized

• The news articles some times are not very relevant about the search query.
• The API responds with articles that are sourced from paid websites that cant is opened.
• It has problems sometimes with getting the right related stories, and the distribution of older media is not the best it could be.

Incentivized

• Not very easy to navigate - needs user to spend time.
• Should have an intelligent search option to enable targeted search.
• Should have more granular coverage in terms of financials.

Incentivized

Refinitiv Eikon is a wholesome product that scores over the above products in terms of the coverage universe, features, and credibility of data Refinitiv Eikon is a go-to source for financial and ESG data, whose credibility is well established in the industry and scores above other competitors in this aspect.

Incentivized

• Proposal tools increase efficiency across our sales platform.
• The timeliness in their customer support has increased our sales velocity.
• Changed our process by allowing us to focus on providing value more than validation.

Incentivized

• Negative - Tool is pricey so not everybody can afford.
• Positive - Coverage of real time market data is unmatched.
• Positive - ESG data coverage is very useful.

Incentivized