Bloomberg Terminal vs. Morningstar Advisor Workstation

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomberg Terminal
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Sitting on the desks of 325,000 of the world’s most influential decision makers, the Bloomberg Terminal is a modern icon of financial markets. Launched in 1981, long before PCs and the internet became ubiquitous, the Bloomberg Terminal connected market participants to data, analytics and information-delivery service.N/A
Morningstar Advisor Workstation
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Morningstar headquartered in Chicago offers the Morningstar Advisor Workstation, an investment portfolio management application.N/A
Pricing
Bloomberg TerminalMorningstar Advisor Workstation
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bloomberg TerminalMorningstar Advisor Workstation
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Bloomberg TerminalMorningstar Advisor Workstation
Financial Research
Comparison of Financial Research features of Product A and Product B
Bloomberg Terminal
6.7
4 Ratings
10% below category average
Morningstar Advisor Workstation
-
Ratings
Private Company Data4.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry-Specific Information7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Independent Research Access6.34 Ratings00 Ratings
M&A Analysis5.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain Data6.34 Ratings00 Ratings
ESG Data6.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit Ratings Reports7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Macroeconomic News8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Search Tools7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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S&P Capital IQ
Score 7.8 out of 10

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Enterprises
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Score 7.8 out of 10

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User Ratings
Bloomberg TerminalMorningstar Advisor Workstation
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(4 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bloomberg TerminalMorningstar Advisor Workstation
Likelihood to Recommend
Bloomberg
Well-suited as a monitoring tool for market prices, economic indicators, and news. Less appropriate for fundamental research and analysis. Other tools, such as AlphaSense and Visible Alpha, are better/more user-friendly for research usage or manipulation of financial statements, either because the platform itself is easier to use or because the Excel add-in function is simpler, less confusing.
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Morningstar
If a client is shy about investing or wants portfolio comparisons, Morningstar really hits the mark. Being able to show real-time data is great for putting a client's mind at ease. The downside to this product is, that if a client isn’t as financially literate, it takes some explaining to show them what’s going on, and they can get lost in all of the data.
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Pros
Bloomberg
  • EMSX
  • Graph
  • port
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Morningstar
  • Amazing Comparisons
  • Easy to read charts
  • Diverse database
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Cons
Bloomberg
  • Limiting data use
  • Cost of Bloomberg Terminal
  • New user on-boarding
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Morningstar
  • Ease of use
  • Data sync
  • Bond Database can be lacking
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Usability
Bloomberg
Easy to use but need to know commands
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Morningstar
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Alternatives Considered
Bloomberg
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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Morningstar
In terms of diversity, Morningstar is the best on the market. The way they display data, and since many financial institutions use this software, it is easy to show clients how their money is doing outside of our institution. Also allows us to show portentously clients in-depth comparisons of different investment strategies.
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Return on Investment
Bloomberg
  • The terminal is an important part of our research process. We use the supply chain function for example when researching new companies.
  • The terminal allows us to have a quick overview of past performance for stocks during earnings season (ERN function).
  • The terminal is very good at synthesizing the main industry indicators in the Bloomberg Intelligence functions for each industry.
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Morningstar
  • Gets Clients to Move their money to us
  • Let’s you track portfolio performance to a variety of benchmarks
  • The historical data is great
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