Data Central vs. Morningstar Direct

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Data Central
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Morningstar Direct
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Morningstar headquartered in Chicago offers Morningstar Direct, an investment portfolio managment application focusing on financial and risk analysis.N/A
Pricing
Data CentralMorningstar Direct
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Data CentralMorningstar Direct
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Data CentralMorningstar Direct
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User Ratings
Data CentralMorningstar Direct
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Data CentralMorningstar Direct
Likelihood to Recommend
April Software
Well suited: 1. We use Data Central to run queries & fetch data. 2. It's an amazing tools where we create multiple profiles with Query & then create multiple job id's for each profile. & then we run the query for the jobs. 3. Its so customizable as we can fetch the data through query for a particular, day, week, month, year. Least Suited: 1. Its very complicated for new users. 2. Data integration with multiple tables is a challenging during any launches. 3. Implementation is very time consuming since it involves large amount of data. 4. The output from the query is stored for maximum of 1 year & can't be retained for more than a year.
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Morningstar
Morningstar Direct is great for classifying funds in order of performance and has a huge database to check against. Pretty much every category you can imagine is covered. It is best for research and analyzing before making big decisions. The interface is fairly clean and relatively simple to use.
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Pros
April Software
  • We use Data Central to run queries & fetch data.
  • It's an amazing tools where we create multiple profiles with Query & then create multiple job id's for each profile. & then we run the query for the jobs
  • Its so customizable as we can fetch the data through query for a particular, day, week, month, year.
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Morningstar
  • Best for research.
  • Analyst reporting is fantastic.
  • The ability to look at a wide variety of assets is great.
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Cons
April Software
  • Its very complicated for new users
  • Data integration with multiple tables is a challenging during any launches
  • Implementation is very time consuming since it involves large amount of data
  • The output from the query is stored for maximum of 1 year & can't be retained for more than a year
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Morningstar
  • The system is sometimes slow.
  • Glitchy and sometimes hard to use.
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Alternatives Considered
April Software
Haven't tried any alternatives to Data Central as what we were looking for was very unique & customizable solutions. So, we went ahead with Data Central only. As we were able to scale our operations & appplications through it.We use Data Central to run queries & fetch data. It's so customizable as we can fetch the data through query for a particular, day, week, month, year.
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Morningstar
Morningstar is slightly more buggy and laggy. But includes far more data and is more trusted.
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Return on Investment
April Software
  • We use Data Central to run queries & fetch data.
  • It's an amazing tools where we create multiple profiles with Query & then create multiple job id's for each profile. & then we run the query for the jobs
  • Its so customizable as we can fetch the data through query for a particular, day, week, month, year.
  • Data integration with multiple tables is a challenging during any launches
  • The output from the query is stored for maximum of 1 year & can't be retained for more than a year
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Morningstar
  • Returns not yet realised.
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