FactSet Workstation vs. Nitrogen Growth Platform

FactSet Workstation is great for equity research. It is very simple to use and has the most crucial items an analyst needs. Wish it can bridge some of the gaps a Bloomberg Terminal can provide such as the search function and most importantly the chat function. You can easily find an investor on Bloomberg and get the contact info to do more research, it's basically non-existent on FactSet Workstation. Also, I use the FactSet Workstation news function and a lot of times, the news are a repeat of the same thing through the day. I feel like reading the same thing. Better to send one less update if the customer/user already read it.

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From experience, be very careful of the sales department attempting to sell you autopilot or additional licenses that they will tell you, you dont have to pay for because your assets with one of their fund partners qualifes you for free licenses. In my opinion, I woudn't say we were scammed but were sold on this fact, and they over subscribed us licenses includding one Autopilot licensed which we didn't need. Now, that the fund drop out of the NTF program they are full boating us the $1300 per month for licenses. Their remedy was for us to sign a new 12 month agreement, and they dropped the Autopilot license. Since the CEO has left this year, the name and sadly the company has changed.

• 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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• Excel add-in formulas are not constructed in an intuitive way and too often require assistance from help desk
• No chat function for help desk, which means delayed assistance time or talking with non-native English speakers, some of whom can be difficult to understand
• There should be an AI chatbot that can answer routine queries; for more advanced questions, a human rep can be connected
• Portfolio performance metrics should be downloadable using Excel add-in rather than being available only on Workstation

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• More ethical sales team
• Autopilot trading license is way overpriced
• trading software slow upload times

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

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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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Trading software called Irebal which was part of TD and is now available for free at Schwab is a much superior trading platform than their autopilot which costs $500+ plus per month. Risk questionnaire is moderately priced but is of good value for a practice looking for efficient way of ascertaining clients risk tolerance

• FactSet Workstation is essential to my work - let's just say I use it daily and feel more comfortable having it on in the background
• Consensus info and transcripts are the go to feature
• Newsflow is a third I use FactSet Workstation for - but would like it more if they provide more details like Visible Alpha

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• Has greatly assisted in the risk questionnaire area