While I typically stay away from plugging for services and products that I use, I will make the exception with Standard & Poors Capital IQ platform. The S&P CapIQ platform combines great global company information, credit ratings and market research with powerful tools for financial analysis, projections and risk assessments. The web access is easy to use from any machine and/or device and we find the Excel-based platform and the spreadsheet plugins and templates provides a great way to automate screens, analysis and provide both real-time and historical info on companies, markets, transactions, and people worldwide. CapIQ is integrated completely with every aspect of our workflow now and is an incredibly powerful tool. The team at S&P including Shannon Scott and Justin Sevy here in Colorado and Aarti Desai in Chicago have been fantastic to work with and they have gone out of their way to include us in their next generation platform feedback group which has been fun. Although smaller than their competitors, Factset and Blomberg, we find them incredibly responsive and a great alternative to the bigger more traditional players in this space. I would definitely recommend the platform to anybody in asset management, private equity, investment banking, advisory or corporations. Great service!