CAPITAL IQ TO PROVIDE WEB DATA THROUGH FIRSTRAIN RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM

Posted April 7, 2008

FOSTER CITY, Calif. – Information and workflow solutions provider Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor’s, has announced a partnership with research technology provider FirstRain to deliver its Web data through the FirstRain platform, integrating Capital IQ’s search-driven research into this major financial information service platform to reach about 2,200 users.

“FirstRain enables us to provide an additional dimension of information that our clients can use to make better decisions,” says Randall Winn, Executive Managing Director of Capital IQ. “Our core offering ties together very detailed business and financial information on companies worldwide with analytical tools geared for investment professionals. FirstRain complements our offering by creating an efficient way for our clients to combine fundamental analysis with qualitative assessment of market perspectives about specific companies and industries.”

Search-driven research is application of search technology, business models and analytics to derive original data from the Web to provide market-moving and trend information. Search-driven research allows buy-side firms to bring research in-house.