Bloomberg Terminal vs. Reval

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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Reval is suited to a large number of transactions across a disaggregated business. It may not be well suited where especially complex derivatives and highly stylized reporting are required.

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• Automates liquidity management via bank account interfaces across a large number of global bank accounts
• Enables decentralized access and management at, local, regional, and global levels
• End-to-end tracking, reporting, accounting, and settlement of all derivative and financial trades.

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

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• The user interface is not as fresh or pretty as some competitors, but is nonetheless very functional.
• Advanced report-writing likewise is not as simple as some competitors, however once set up, reports are usually easy to modify.

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Easy to use but need to know commands

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They are usually prompt and reliable. Occasionally, we have time difference issues as support is often offshore some local staff turnover since ION acquired Reval, but this has been managed.

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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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GTreasury acquired Visual Risk (which was an alternative product), but we preferred Reval for processing grunt (albeit GTreasury/Visual risk had an easier user interface). Have used Sungard/Quantum previously, however, I haven't looked at it recently.

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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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• Excellent ROI in terms of being able to scale volume and complexity without adding headcount
• Excellent ROI in terms of automation
• Much more timely and effective management of key financial risks facing the business

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