Standard & Poor's Research Insight® is a powerful analytical engine built upon the foundation of the Compustat® database. Placing a wealth of financial data and insightful company reports, performance graphs and textual documents at your fingertips, Research Insight gives you the perspective you need to determine a company's true value, as well as identify buy/sell opportunities. The powerful graphical interface allows you to build, modify, generate and print multiple reports simultaneously, allowing you to focus on your results rather than programming.
With Standard & Poor's Research Insight, you can:
Customize your analysis—build complex screens or quickly create basic queries using the thousands of data items, ratios and concept calculations available
Maximize your time—use the built-in wizards to save time generating your models so you can focus on analysis and results
Import your own data—create custom expressions and import your own proprietary data and models
Integrate with Microsoft® Excel—create your own spreadsheets or use the extensive library of predefined reports and templates in Excel using all of the features and data available in Research Insight
Run reports and charts—access an extensive library of predefined reports and charts, including the most commonly used income statement, balance sheet reports or design and build your own
Create custom models and templates with the assistance of our application consultants—to support your modeling or spreadsheet creation needs, Standard & Poor's has a team of dedicated application consultants
Built-in Reports and Templates to Simplify Your Analysis
With over 300 predefined company and industry reports, Research Insight is a great resource for detailed, insightful company and industry financial information. These reports are easy to access, saving you time and adding depth to your analysis. Keeping up with the latest market needs, this vast collection includes reports for commonly-used presentations, comparative, composite, growth and trend analytical reports, and combined industry reports and more. All are available through the Open Report and Open Template menus within the Research Insight desktop and Excel add-on.
Following are examples of the predefined reports and templates included in Research Insight:
Company Fundamental Analysis
Compustat Analysts' Notes*
Industry Specific
GICS® Aggregate
Pension
Debt Analysis
Global Coverage Template
Snapshot of Company Overview
Global Comparables Model
Market Performance
*This term refers to Standard & Poor's Compustat data analysts, who are financial researchers unrelated to, and independent from, any Standard & Poor's credit or equity analyst.
System Requirements
A personal computer with a minimum of an Intel Pentium® III processor or higher and 512 MB of RAM
Operating systems supported include Microsoft® Windows® 2000 (SP4 of higher), Windows® XP (SP2 or higher), or Windows® Vista
Spreadsheet support available for Microsoft® Excel® 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007
TCP/IP protocol required for Internet Downloads
Delivery options include DVD or HTTP delivery of the databases over the Internet.
Analytic services and products provided by Standard & Poor’s are the result of separate activities designed to preserve the independence and objectivity of each analytic process. Standard & Poor’s has established policies and procedures to maintain the confidentiality of non-public information received during each analytic process.
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