MathSoft Partners with Bloomberg to Link Powerful Analytics to Financial Data
MathSoft, Inc., provider of the broadest line of technical calculation and analytical software for business and academia, has announced a partnership with Bloomberg, a leader in financial data services that business and financial professionals rely on worldwide.
The collaboration will save financial data analysts valuable time by helping them identify and visualize trends in large amounts of complex financial data more efficiently.
MathSoft's S-PLUS software, the industry's premier tool for data analysis, data mining, and statistical modeling, will allow Bloomberg subscribers to easily access Bloomberg's financial databases and analyze real time and historical stock information. The Bloomberg service integrates data, news and analytics into a single platform that is continually updated. Through the S-PLUS technology link, financial analysts will now be able to perform sophisticated analysis of Bloomberg data directly.
"MathSoft's S-PLUS has proven itself to be one of the best systems available on Wall Street for the analysis and visualization of complex financial data," says Lou Eccleston, managing director, sales and marketing, Bloomberg L.P. "This partnership will enable our customers to quickly and effectively identify financial trends which results in better investment decisions."
"Bloomberg is the premier financial services provider for professionals who want to stay current with the ever-changing market," says Rick Bohdanowicz, senior vice president and general manager of MathSoft's Data Analysis Products Division. "We're excited by the opportunity to provide Bloomberg subscribers with easy access to our cutting-edge financial graphics and analytics."
About Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is an information, news and media company encompassing Bloomberg Financial Markets, a global, multimedia-based distributor of information services, combining news, data and analysis for financial markets and businesses. Bloomberg provides real-time pricing, historical pricing, indicative data, analytics and electronic communications 24 hours a day through 117,000 systems used by 350,000 financial professionals in 100 countries worldwide. Bloomberg News, with 700 reporters in 78 bureaus, is syndicated in over 850 newspapers.
About Mathsoft
Founded in 1984, MathSoft is the provider of the broadest line of technical calculation and analytical software for business and academia. With MathSoft's products, users can deploy technical calculations and exploratory data analyses across their entire organizations. The company has more than one million users of its Mathcad, StudyWorks, S-PLUS, StatServer and Axum software worldwide. Users include technical professionals worldwide at more than 90% of the Fortune 1,000 companies and over 500 government installations, and students and faculty at over 2,000 colleges and universities.
S-PLUS product information can be obtained via MathSoft's Web site located at http://www.mathsoft.com by phone at 800/569-0123, by fax at 206/283-8691 or via mail at 1700 Westlake Avenue North, Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98109. MathSoft's corporate headquarters can be reached by phone at 800/628-4223, by fax at 617/577-8829 or via mail at 101 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142.