S&P Capital IQ vs. ReportWa

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

Provide self service capability for financial advisors to build highly customizable dashboards and reports. Out of the box template for sales, marketing and audit related templates for reporting makes it easier to get started with reporting. Ability to export reports as pdfs , imbedding reports to Microsoft Excel and Word

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

• Automate generation of reports
• User Intuitive customizable dashboard
• Drag and drop ability for cutomization
• one click publish and distribute reports
• Integration with Microsoft Word and Excel
• Marketing and Sales report
• Distribution through email
• Role based access to dashboards

Incentivized

• 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

• Provide support for custom script
• Self service for business users can be improved
• Support to configure data models to be consumed by ML

Incentivized

[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

Light weight and cheap compared to other vendor solution. Does the job.

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

• Improved productivity by 60 percent
• Monetization of data
• Insights through proper Visualization and reporting
• Multiple data connectors
• Report distribution

Incentivized