DataTimes unveils Business Analyst, new online financial info service; takes information from top financial, investment & credit reporting services & integrates into easy-to-use online resources; "Wall Street Tools At Main Street Prices".NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 1996--Business Analyst(SM) -- a powerful new online financial information service that packages company financial data, company reports, market updates and other investment-oriented data drawn from top financial information services See Information Systems. -- was unveiled by DataTimes Corp. today at the National Online Show here. The Business Analyst(SM) service, now available exclusively through the EyeQ(SM) business information network from DataTimes Corp., provides financial planners Financial Planner A qualified investment professional who assists individuals and corporations meet their long-term financial objectives by analyzing the client's status and setting a program to achieve these goals. , professional money and asset managers, investment counselors, investors, lawyers, accountants, and others with the same type of financial information management resources long enjoyed by big brokerage and investment firms, but at a fraction of the cost. EyeQ(SM) is a leading online network for business professionals. It combines affordability, total ease-of-use and comprehensiveness, with more than 5,000 sources available online for monthly fees starting at just $39. Business Analyst(SM) compiles financial and market information drawn from such financial information powerhouses as Standard & Poors, TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc (R) Business Credit Summaries, American Business Information(R), Investext(R), Disclosure(R), Media General Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. (R), IDD (1) (International Direct Dial) Long distance dialing between countries without operator intervention. Also known as international standard dialing (ISD). Information Sources/Tradeline(R), PC Quote and others, and packages relevant nuggets Nuggets can refer to several branches of interest:
Unlike financial and investment information services available through the World Wide Web or other online networks, Business Analyst(SM) users need not jump among electronic services or home pages to compile the data they need to be more astute investors or financial managers. Much of the information is delivered automatically to the online user as part of ongoing, automated and user-defined tracking reports. All of the Business Analyst(SM) information is retrievable in immediate response to a user's specific request. Because Business Analyst(SM) is a component of the larger EyeQ(SM) network, users can seamlessly and quickly move, under one electronic umbrella, to access more than 5,000 different sources of business news and research that might provide insight into trends, and background on financial developments or performance results. For example, an investor in Boston who is tracking a small publicly-traded company in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and notices unusual trading activity could, in seconds, review a story from that morning's edition of a Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, metropolitan daily, even without having to know what sources to search. No other electronic information service -- either on the Web or another online network -- offers that marriage of in-depth financial reporting and current business news culled from so many sources. Web search services might point a user to a specific site, but they do not indicate the articles and reports that might be retrieved from them. Among the reports available through Business Analyst(SM) are: -- Executive Reports(SM): on-demand and thorough company profiles of more than 25,000 publicly traded and privately owned companies in the U.S. and around the world, which may be delivered online or via fax or courier; -- TRW(R) Business Credit Summaries credit reports on more than 1.5 million companies; -- A directory of more than 11 million private and public U.S. companies, supplied by American Business Information(R); -- Quick Reports: financial results for U.S. publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. ; -- Company Reports: detailed financial and performance reports on publicly traded companies; -- Comparisons: comparative results between companies and their industries; -- Analyst Opinions: expert investment opinions on thousands of individual companies and 55 major industry categories provided by leading investment firms; -- Market Master: market quotations and technical analysis of U.S. and Canadian publicly traded companies and financial markets, including indexes, debt, option and exchange rates, plus price and dividends, and capital changes; -- Quick Quote: 15-minute delayed quotes on virtually all U.S. publicly traded companies and many from leading international exchanges; and -- Portfolio Manager, through which users can set up real or hypothetical portfolios of investments owned, with automatic and continuous updating. Additional performance information and analytics on specific companies and financial instruments (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and others) available through Business Analyst(SM) include Capital Changes, Issue Screening, Exchange Rates, Stock Price Histories, Dividend Histories, Beta Analysis, and Profit/Loss Reports. Business Analyst(SM) is included in Version 1.2 of the EyeQ(SM) (for Windows) software now being distributed to EyeQ(SM) subscribers. Users of Macintosh, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , and DOS operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. may use their own communications programs to access Business Analyst(SM) through the DataTimes online service. "For years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Wall Street behemoths have had a head start over smaller investors and others in the financial world simply because they could pay for the high-priced technology required to manage and manipulate vast data pools. Now we're leveling the playing field by making the same information available to anyone, anywhere for prices that are affordable and through an online system that is simple and fast," said Allen Paschal, DataTimes Corp. president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We're calling Business Analyst `Wall Street Tools At Main Street Prices'." DataTimes Corp. is a leading domestic and international provider of business information services. The Oklahoma City-based company gathers content from publishers, broadcasters, investment firms, government regulatory agencies and numerous other providers from around the world, delivering it to clients through a variety of distribution channels. In addition to its online networks in the U.S. and Europe, DataTimes also owns a subsidiary that provides business information products to the corporate networking market and another unit that publishes Web-sold executive briefing reports. DataTimes also provides the data feeds to other service providers in the U.S. and around the world. DataTimes Corp. is a subsidiary of the Oklahoma Publishing Co. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : EyeQ(SM) demonstration accounts are available for media. Please e-mail requests to jbuckman@datatimes.com, indicating publication or service represented, mailing address, operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. used (required) and desired dates for account to be activated. Additional information on DataTimes may be found at http://www.datatimes.com or through our electronic press kit on Business Wire's Web service, at http://www.businesswire.com NOTE TO EDITORS: The World Wide Web addresses in this release should contain double slashes after "http:". Also, the email address See Internet address. in this release should contain the "at" symbol after "jbuckman". It is possible these symbols might not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: DataTimes Corp. John Buckman John Buckman is founder of Magnatune, a Berkeley, California-based record label he founded in 2003 and which is known for its commercial application of Creative Commons licensing and overtly artist-friendly business practices. , 412/471-6348, jbuckman@datatimes.com Editors: Please publish 800/642-2525 or 405/751-6400 for customer inquiries |
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