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ARGUS models all aspects of the real estate life cycle from initial acquisition, through development, to lease up, and disposition. This software provides the complete solution for managing and growing your commercial real estate portfolio. ARGUS can also be used to value assets, view partnership structures and analyze debt financing.

Bloomberg is a professional on-line database that provides real-time and historic trading data, analytics and research, and news for global financial markets. The markets include but are not limited to government securities, corporate securities, mortgage, money-market, indices, currency, commodities and equities.

Why use Bloomberg?

Bloomberg is used to monitor the news on a company, industry, economy. It finds stock prices and price information on commodities and currencies, as well as members of S&P 500 or other equity indices. Bloomberg is also used to build and maintain stock/bond portfolios.

The Bloomberg terminals are located in the FSIT Lab and the Mini Lab (Room T-54.)

To launch Bloomberg, click the "BLOOMBERG.INK" icon on the desktop or:
Start > All Programs >Bloomberg.

After launching Bloomberg, you will see the above page, which asks you to login and provides customer support phone numbers.

Create an Account

There are 5 steps to create an account:

1. Choose a language
2. Fill in your contact information
3. Choose your interests and answer if you have used
4. Choose your user name and password
5. Verify your information you entered in the previous steps

Now you have created your account and can login, but to get the full functionality, you have to wait until you get a phone call from a Bloomberg representative. Usually, you just need to wait a few minutes.

There are three ways to logoff from Bloomberg:

1. Typing OFF
2. Right click and choose EXIT then OK
3. Press the red DEFAULT key on the keyboard

SDC Platinum lets you access Securities Data Company's online databases of financial transactions. It enables you to identify comparable transactions, monitor markets and industries, prospect for new business and evaluate advisors.

SDC provides the following modules:

• Global New Issues
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Restructuring
• VentureXpert
• Securities Trading
• Industry Specific
• Global Public Finance

Capital IQ is an information and research platform for students who are pursuing their business degrees. Capital IQ helps students reduce time spent on coursework and interview-related research and analysis and broaden their universe of potential career opportunities. It is used by over 2,000 leading financial institutions, advisory firms, corporations and universities.

Coverage statistics:

• 47,000 public companies
• 12,000 private capital firms
• 1,000,000 professionals
• 370,000 transactions
• 822,000 private companies

Thomson ONE.com Investment Banking allows asset managers and research analysts to evaluate securities and analyze their portfolios with a solution that combines real-time market data, referential content such as research and estimates, and corporate events, transcripts and company guidance with portfolio analytics and tools in one complete platform.

Company Reviews

• Financial data on over 70,000 active and inactive companies globally
• Key information to quickly understand all facets of a public company including key ratios, capital structure, latest deals, top holders, events, plus credit ratings from S&P and Moody's (where available)
• Data for over one million private companies globally
• Private company profiles including business descriptions, private equity investors and fund names, key executives and investment round details

Ownership Tear Sheets

• Quickly assess the ownership breakdown of a company with key metrics like float
• Review top investors and click through to profiles

Deals Tear Sheets

• A quick overview of recent deals including M&A, bond and equity issuance, and syndicated loan transactions
• Banking and corporate relationships: easily understand a corporation's banking relationships across all asset classes

Thomson Reuters Eikon is your gateway to finding Thomson Reuters data and news, pre-built screens, and much more …all in an intuitive browser-based interface.

Upon launching the application, the home screen below will provide a snapshot of the current market as well as a breakdown of asset classes and popular links.

In a single view, with Eikon you have access to:

• Data from more than 400 exchanges and OTC-traded markets and over 70 direct exchange feeds
• Deep liquidity pools, with over 80 providers and more than 1,300 institutional clients
• FX market pricing from over 2,000 contributing sources in 175 currencies
• Free access to the industry's largest and fully compliant instant messaging and chat network
• Unbiased Reuters news, commentary & analysis
• Industry-specific, compliant communities and forums led by Reuters editorial teams, to debate and share news & analysis
• Specialist equity analytics and research management tools
• Expert commodities research & forecasting data
• Industry-leading fundamentals covering more than 99% of the world's market cap
• Estimates with more than with 40+ years of collection experience, from over 930 brokers and covering
• 22,000+ companies
• Finding information is as easy as A, B, C.

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) is a gateway to financial, accounting, banking, economics, management, and marketing data accessible through a single web-based interface provided by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Kogod's subscription includes access to Standard Poor’s Compustat Global and Compustat North America, as well as to CRSP’s daily and monthly stocks.

Compustat North America

Standard & Poor's Compustat North America provides the annual and quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on most publicly held companies in the United States and Canada. Financial data items are collected from a wide variety of sources including news wire services, news releases, shareholder reports, direct company contacts, and quarterly and annual documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Compustat files also contain information on aggregates, industry segments, banks, market prices, dividends, and earnings. Depending upon the data set, coverage may extend as far back as 1950 through the most recent year-end.

Center for Research In Security Prices

The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) maintains the most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolio, treasury bond and risk-free rates, and mutual fund databases.

Software for risk and decision analysis that works with Excel to provide detailed "what-if?" analysis in spreadsheet models. Widely used in operations analysis, risk management and corporate finance.

@RISK performs risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation to show you many possible outcomes and tells you how likely they are to occur. This means you can judge which risks are worth taking and which ones to avoid, allowing for the best decision making under uncertainty.

In addition, the FSIT Lab offers the following resources for business use:

Statistical Analysis Packages

The lab offers the following statistical analysis packages:

• EViews
• SAS
• Stata

Information Technology/Management

The following information technology and management software is available in the lab:

• MS Access - Database program
• MS Excel - Spreadsheet software
• MS Project - Project management software
• MS Visio - Microsoft software product for creating a wide variety of business and technical drawings.
• Dreamweaver - Web design package
• Expert Choice - Collaboration and decision-support software
• Certiprep - MS Office training and testing software
• iQsystem Exams - MS Office certification exam
• LINDO - Optimization Modeling Software for Linear, Nonlinear, and Integer Programming
• POM - Product operation management software package

Marketing

• Claritas Consumer Point - Geo-demographic marketing research
• DirectRT - Reaction time measuring program for lab experiments
• MarkStrat - Online learning software for strategic marketing
• MediaLab - Questionnaires and multi-media experiments