Bloomberg Terminal vs. PitchBook

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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Finding a list of largest PE buyout firms and breaking it down. There's some good categories to break data into which makes it useful for some searches, so for example if we were looking for European focused large PE firms, it can create a really strong list we can use, because the data is there.

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• EMSX
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• PitchBook provides a very comprehensive database of not just companies and investors but also M&A activity, financials, funds and LPs.
• Pitchbook is multi-dimensional it how it can be used. For example, it can help to accomplish various business objectives, including deal sourcing, due diligence, private market intelligence and fundraising.
• PitchBook has an easy-to-navigate user interface. It enables the user to quickly find the data and information that he or she needs.

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• Limiting data use
• Cost of Bloomberg Terminal
• New user on-boarding

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• more accurate information about valuation
• If you can get PPS that would be amazing for further analysis
• Send me alerts
• I have had to change my profile quite frequently as it is in accurate so I imagine that is the case for others

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Easy to use but need to know commands

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The matching process is fairly simple and comprehensive. The search and filter functions are clear and easy to use. We are able to export all information so that we do not miss any details when consuming the information. The layout of the extracts is sensible and the data easy to consume.

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The overall support for PitchBook is about average. It is not excellent for two primary reasons. First, PitchBook can run slow from time to time, and I cannot copy and paste from the Chrome extension. I have found neither of those issues to be a function of the computer I am using. However, the PitchBook support team has proved helpful on several occasions.

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did not participate

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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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Certain regards, such as comprehensiveness and ability to store and export searches and data related to searches PitchBook performs better than the above and remains our go to tool. However we also use DealRoom to supplement some of that data to ensure comprehensiveness and accuracy. Crunchbase appears less sophisticated and hence less relevant for us

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we can give access to anyone interested

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• 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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• I'll pull ~25 company descriptions on occassion instead of writing them myself. Each time I grab one of those I'm saving myself 2-3 minutes. Easily save an hour+ on this simple / repetitive task related to a daily / weekly work product.
• If I want to understand other companies in the industry, PB's search function will save me from skimming the internet for hours. This can result in 4-7 hours of time savings across a more macro or industry-wide project.
• Quickly finding who invested in an asset can save sometimes 30-45 minutes of searching the internet. While I wish it provided more details on the specific fund that invested (i.e., Fund IV), it provides sufficient direction for me to begin searching internal databases.

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