Bloomberg Terminal vs. FactSet

Depending on which area of the finance sector you may work in, the Bloomberg Terminal will have plenty of helpful functionality for you. Two specific scenarios for myself in the Structured Finance area are tracking the pricing benchmark and following outstanding deals in the market. You can follow progress of the deals, how well they are advancing, and final pricing details

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Often has data where other sources would not have Well suited for large sets of data and analyses on public company data with a lot of public companies, getting the formulas to pull data is very helpful and saves a lot of time. Less appropriate for pulling investor data and co-investment data that PitchBook seems more suited

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• Communicating with investors, banks, partners, etc
• Tracking key market metrics
• Monitoring existing and previous structured finance deals

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• curating outside in intelligence
• enabling account plans target addressable market estimation
• competitors tracking
• value proposition pitching
• RFP deal support

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• Visual user interface
• A lot of functionality, need tutorials and lessons to narrow down
• Expensive!
• Some information may be delayed

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• Faster load time
• API integration

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The technical support motivates us to continue using FactSet, we will not stop using the advantages that this software offers us.

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FactSet is great because it has a plethora of data, so much so that it is often hard to even find a company that I am looking for. However, sometimes this can make it more difficult than normal because you need to sift through tons of data. The webpage often glitches out.

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I think the data delivery could be improved, but it's a good data set.

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While there are a lot of competitive services in the marketplace, each good in its own right, the Bloomberg Terminal is considered the top product. It has key fast information and can help individuals make fast decisions. It also has a top-tier support desk that can answer questions for you and teach you functionality to apply to your role

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Global Data, AlphaSense, Hoovers, S&P, etc.

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• Appropriate pricing of deals due to market comparisons
• Instant communication with key stakeholders
• Top and quick newsbreaks

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• improved time to complete an analysis
• Often data is incorrect or no source provided
• Only source we've found to support a rights plan and takeover defense analysis

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