Research Analysts’ Data Usage:

Trends and Influences on Spending on Data since 2008

Research Analysts drive analysis and recommendations for our investment portfolios.  Data has become critical to their decision-making as their reliance on automated quantitative tools grows.  How has their spending held up against that of other user roles?  How have the spending patterns of Research Analysts changed over time?  Who are the leading data providers to the Research Analyst community?  This report looks at the spending patterns of Research Analysts and provides a foundation to understand how and why they are allocating so much of their budget to market data acquisition.

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