Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ NetAdvantage Revisited

Abstract

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Capital IQ NetAdvantage is an integrated Web-based market intelligence platform. NetAdvantage offers global news, market analytics, counterparty analytics, fund analytics, industry research, powerful screening tools, and people search capabilities, offered separately in many competitor products, under one platform using transparent and trusted industry-standard sources. Users can analyze the global business operating environment with information on public markets and indices, basic information on foreign exchange rates and interest rates, sovereign profiles, peer groups generated with S&P Capital IQ’s proprietary relevancy score, and detailed CFRA Industry Research Reports. The streamlined interface with mostly intuitive menus and links plus a free-text search bar make this platform more accessible than its more sophisticated counterparts. Limitations include lack of depth in some content areas, certain ADA compliance issues, and some clunky aspects of the search interface despite significant improvements over the years.