S&P Capital IQ vs. HG Cloud Dynamics

Cap IQ is well suited for analyzing security pricing and valuation, tracking stock performance over time, looking up comparable transactions, and analyzing valuations on an industry basis. The service is also well suited for charting and data analysis purposes.

Incentivized

Intricately works great for seeing if a company's site and/or app is hosted on Amazon Web Services. This is our target market so, this helps confirm we are using our time wisely when sourcing companies. Intricately still has some areas to grow in short cut views vs pulling up the entire view.

Incentivized

• Plugins that change and analyze analysis improve it.
• Capital IQ is user-driven, unlike other market participants, which helps streamline the dashboard and acquire accurate data.
• Any report or analysis delivers the most in fewest words. In this data-driven world.

Incentivized

• Giving you CDN vendors
• Giving the Alexa ranking
• Gives you information on SaaS platforms and video platforms

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• S&P Capital IQ's add-in slows down my Excel when I incorporate formulas into it.
• S&P Capital IQ's algorithms don't necessarily look in the footnotes of company filings, which can make for a less robust analysis of financials and multiples than desired.
• The user interface is not very user-friendly and thus makes maximizing the software's features difficult. It could be more intuitive to use and not so busy (e.g. not so many small icons on one web page). The S&P Capital IQ support team, however, is always available and very helpful.

Incentivized

• It doesn't always seem to be accurate with hosting readings.
• Not the best shortcut views when compared to other solutions.
• Searching and list building still has room for growth.

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[It's the] best ever.

Incentivized

We had Capital IQ in addition to Bloomberg. It was much easier for a new person to use Capital IQ than Bloomberg. The ease of use was a huge selling point for us. Yahoo finance on the other hand is free, but you cannot gather all the data you may need in one location like you can in Capital IQ.

Incentivized

Intricately stacks up pretty close to DiscoverOrg. Though DiscoverOrg is a lot more detailed on company information pertaining to changes in the organization and services used, Intricately gives a quick snapshot of company information available right at the point of presence to any website. It allows for quicker conversation whereas DiscoverOrg has a lengthier approach to finding company information.

Incentivized

• We were a boutique investment bank, so it helped multiple people doing their job at the same time instead of waiting for a turn on the Bloomberg terminal.
• Brought more interactive reports in PDF format to the table.
• Saved some money, if I have to go basic.

Incentivized

• Saving time on confirming we are spending our sourcing in the right areas (hosting provider).
• Saving time in getting to our target market quicker.
• It isn't 100% accurate, but the majority of the time it is accurate.

Incentivized