FactSet Workstation vs. Risk Proof

FactSet works for all my IR needs. I do not see a function for which I use it for that it would be less appropriate. I believe that the tool's efforts towards becoming more integrated with AI are strong and that in time the Mercury offering will be just as competitive as some of the other AI offerings out there today such as AlphaSense

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Risk proof is well suited for quickly finding out potential money laundering [clients] and how much risk would it pose to get into a deal with the client. Risk proof is less suited around some ethical practice assessment of an organization. Such a scenario needs more manual intervention rather than tool assessment.

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• Easy/clear UI for navigation
• Easily find and sort through financial filings to get to the data
• Document search functionality seems to be improving consistently with more robust features

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• Data based visualization
• Open source for data gathering
• Thorough risk assessment

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• The user interface on stock monitor needs work - sometimes I wish to clone the same fields to another tab/watchlist and it appears the best way to do so is recreate it form scratch
• transcript to be more timely and more accurate
• on the consensus financial forecast tab, have more segment breakouts like Visible Alpha

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• More market reach
• More tools for decision making by boardroom
• Lesser price for more client base

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We need the FactSet data and capabilities to complete 75% of the financial analyses that we complete for both internal and external purposes. It is invaluable and I am not aware of any other provider that would be able to fill this gap that FactSet does

Incentivized

It does everything I need. It is pretty user friendly and easy to work with whatever technology interface I am using (desk top, notebook, tablet, or mobile phone). I am able to get work done whether I am in the office, at home, or traveling. The user up time is very good. They are rarely doing maintenance when I need to use the platform

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I think the data delivery could be improved, but it's a good data set.

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Product is magnitudes more affordable and provides 80% of the functionality that Bloomberg has and is working to build out the remaining. The workstation is more user friendly than bloomberg but still not perfect. Not as robust as a Bloomberg Terminal and doesn't have the chat/trading features.

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It was the tool used in the organization for risk assessment of any potential leads and deals. Before the tool, we used to analyze any risks using manual effort and approach which used to take a lot more man-hours and less reliable quantitative analysis for similar kinds of deals and scenarios.

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• hard to quantify, bc i havent brought any new business bc of it, so the ROI would be 0%. I use other systems for proposals.
• However, I use it for everyday work and equity/fi analysis and portfolio construction research at ticker level, and that part works 100%.

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• Helped determining risks for ongoing deals
• Helped in Decision making process in board meetings
• Negative: Added some cost to the project

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