Capital IQ provides high-impact information solutions to over 2,400 leading financial institutions, advisory firms, and corporations. Capital IQ is a robust information platform for fundamental research, screening, financial modeling, and sourcing industry contacts. Providing a unique combination of market data, analytics, and relationship development tools, Capital IQ helps financial professionals simplify their workflow and make better decisions. Capital IQ has over 3,000 employees in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, and India. Capital IQ is a division of Standard and Poor's.

• Global Company Fundamentals: Profiles of 72,000 companies with financial information including 47,000 active public companies and private companies with public filings as well as profiles of an additional 822,000 private companies.
• Global Private Capital Data: Profiles of 12,000 private equity, venture capital, mezzanine, and other alternative asset managers including their portfolio holdings, limited partners, and investment professionals.
• Global People Data: Profiles of 1,000,000 professionals including biography, contact information, board affiliations and history, relationships, education, executive compensation, and insider transaction history.
• Global Transaction Data: Profiles of 370,000 M&A, private equity, venture capital, PIPE, spin-off, and equity/debt public offering transactions as well as ratings information on 17,900 issuers and 235,000 securities.
• Other Data Sets: Third-party research including sell-side equity research reports, consensus estimates from Reuters and Thomson IBES, S&P credit ratings and research reports, Moody?s credit ratings, and ownership data from Thomson.

The Capital IQ Platform includes the following integrated applications:

• Web-Based Company Research: Ability for users to analyze company financials, market data, news, events, and click-through to audit specific line items to source filings. Additional tools to generate PIB books, create lists, and set up email alerts.
• Web-Based Financial Analytics: Variety of tools for comparable company analysis, surveillance, charting, industry analysis, and macroeconomic analysis.
• Excel Plug-In: A software add-in that allows users to access all Capital IQ financial data items as well as a host of financial model templates and charts within Microsoft Excel using pre-defined and custom formulas.
• Screening and Targeting Tools: Ability for users to screen for stocks, companies, securities, events, people, and transactions using a combination of 1,300 financial and 400 qualitative screening criteria.
• Real-Time Market Data and Quotes: Streaming quotes, news, charts and market views.
• Relationship Management: Suite of tools that allow users to manage contacts, company coverage, research relationships, and sourcing industry contacts.
• Project and Workflow Management: Collaborative workflow tools for managing project teams and documents.