Data
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Overview
Throughout Data Products, we apply the intellectual capital that makes Bloomberg data the most sought-after data source in the world.
Our Analysts produce and populate the numbers, figures, algorithms, research notes and analysis displayed on all Bloomberg products. Our teams deliver something tangible that 300,000+ subscribers can utilize in 30 seconds, versus taking three days to track down.
Bloomberg data has market-moving impact, leveraging transparency and accuracy to empower our clients. What intrigues our Analysts the most? Seeing their product live and in use on the Bloomberg Professional® network.
Case Study: Bloomberg Industries
Bloomberg Industries is our major Data Products launch for 2011. It’s a full-scale industry research solution, providing comprehensive views of industry segments and business units throughout the world.
Product Capabilities
The centerpiece of this product is industry dashboard functionality—presenting comprehensive data in customizable windows. Focusing on fundamental trend and thematic analysis, Bloomberg Industries streamlines the inefficient process of traditional maintenance research.
Changing the Game
There’s nothing like Bloomberg Industries in research today. Developed by industry experts, Bloomberg Industries serves both the investment and corporate communities. It identifies challenges and themes, highlighting upsides and downsides as reported in news, reports and white papers.
Business - Global Data
Global Data thrives in an era of commoditized information by upping the value chain through analysis—enhancing to the point where raw data and refined data aren’t the same product.
Our teams are immersed in all aspects of Bloomberg, throughout both the Bloomberg Professional® service and our Enterprise solutions. We’re even branching into industry research through the new Bloomberg Industries function.
Global Data provides the factual foundation that inspires news & analysis and runs every core Bloomberg function, piping scrubbed data into Bloomberg solutions every second. Our reach is extensive. Asset class expertise is critical, as is the need to comprehensively understand our products. Our Analysts infuse data into client workflows and make our clients informed decision-makers.
Who succeeds here? Mathematical, statistical minds with deep asset-class expertise. Successful Analysts are those who can leverage experience to continually improve our processes, finding relevant new data sets and searching for new answers in existing data.
When you take subject matter expertise, combine it with the context of the market and then add the context of the client, you get the triple value that sets Global Data apart.
Business – Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF)
Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) is the world’s leading provider of industry information and analysis in clean energy, carbon markets and low-carbon technologies. We provide market-leading analysis and research for new energy fields, including price forecasting, analytics and consultancy.
Subscription-based, BNEF delivers news, investment data, research, advisory services and executive events to a client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and advisors. What sets us apart is our ability to take evidence-based stances on the future of new energy markets.
Every day, our team of 150+ publishes reports on topics in new energy. Our Analysts offer well-documented opinions through data, analysis and assessment. Teaming across 10 offices in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Africa, we take policy, technology, value chain analytics and economics into consideration. Our professionals track who’s leading the low-carbon future and present a point-of-view.
BNEF leads a very young industry. Founded in 2004, we became a business around the time "clean energy" was entering the common vernacular. As one could imagine, opportunities to make your career in new energy are extensive.
Who thrives here? Academic experts. BNEF is, fundamentally, academic in approach. Our output is research notes, white papers and conference presentations. The educational requirements are substantial. Professionals come to us from top-ranked university Master’s and PhD programs—usually with a senior thesis that received significant attention.
Explore BNEF in more detail: http://bnef.com/ http://bnef.com/free-publications/podcasts/
Business – Data Acquisition
Data Acquisition thrives in the competitive field of acquiring market information. It’s the lifeblood of Bloomberg: raw data served up on every Bloomberg platform, device and solution.
Data Acquisition professionals live in constant competition. They establish working relationships with exchanges and third parties, acquiring the data feeds that give Bloomberg clients the advantage.
Core content is our core commodity: pricing information, news and research. But, to acquire core content, information vendors must be sold on the benefit of sharing information. These vendor relationships take months to establish, and often require our professionals to crisscross the world.
Data Acquisition professionals must explain how raw data lacks the value of refined data. Since the Bloomberg Professional® service is the ideal system for refining data, vendor transparency is rewarded through data enhancement and analysis.
Bloomberg content is acquired from more than 300 exchanges and thousands of third-party sources. Our ultimate measure of success? The quality and quantity of new data offered by Bloomberg.
In Data Acquisition, we also build the site-to-site technology that links the data to Bloomberg. This requires collaboration with Bloomberg businesses: Networking to set up the link, Installations to manage projects and Global Data to scrub and promote the information.
Who thrives here? Market people with market networks. Professionals with the innate ability to sell the benefits of Bloomberg—at the granular level.
We hire exclusively for deep expertise. We’re looking for walking, talking data sales machines. For example, sales people who know not only fixed income assets but also what’s happening, growing and trending with CDs trading in Africa.
Business – Data Solutions
Data Solutions is a data stream of unparalleled scope and depth—pure data that clients can use as the core foundation of their business. Data Solutions is a large operation, with 265 professionals and an R&D; group of 100.
What we do: deliver data feeds directly to clients. Clients can utilize this data to run programs and infrastructure anywhere from front to middle to back office. Our major data feed products—Reference Data, Data License and BVAL—offer reliable data at a cost savings.
Working in Data Solutions is, in many ways, being at the center of the financial market today. Consider the value of pure data: the crisis of 2008 was driven by inaccurate market data and mispriced assets.
Major firms take in tremendous amounts of data every second. The hidden challenge: they need to fuel systems internally with a data source they can trust. We provide that trusted source of data, from which clients can analyze, refine and profit worldwide.
Where does Data Solutions get revolutionary? Through the Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL), which sets a new standard for quality and data transparency in valuation.
BVAL combines unique market insights and quantitative models with data from more than 4,000 contributing sources to produce credible, transparent and defensible valuations for securities and derivatives. We put our data through a rigorous verification process and constantly monitor all market observation inputs.
Who thrives in Data Solutions? People with vast financial experience and firsthand exposure to market activity. In addition, professionals who are eager to revolutionize the financial industry through greater transparency. Large numbers are joining Data Solutions from the IB world, because Bloomberg offers not only a lifestyle change but also a way to change the game.
Business – Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law is the first real-time legal research solution that integrates innovative search technology, comprehensive legal content, company and client information, and proprietary news-all in one intuitive interface. It’s Bloomberg’s entry into the multi-billion-dollar legal information industry and the first web-based platform of its kind from the world leader in data and information services.
Bloomberg Law's sophisticated legal, regulatory and compliance resources, combined with Bloomberg's world-class news and company data, provide the legal profession with the tools for more effective legal analysis and client development. Bloomberg Law continually develops new product functions and enhancements for its suite of legal research tools, including integrated legal databases, a powerful dockets platform and Citator.
The Bloomberg Law team is changing the legal research playing field by providing clients with a comprehensive, competitive and unrestricted solution, with the transparent pricing they want. Bloomberg Law recently completed a successful pilot phase and is currently gearing-up for the next level of growth and development.
Who thrives here? Professionals with legal degrees and/or extensive legal expertise. We recognize that legal skill-sets cannot be creatively trained. They’re honed through years in the industry.
We’re also attracting proven performers in the legal research and legal publishing fields. That means talented legal professionals interested in applying their experience somewhere holistically new.
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