Snap Data - How hard can it be?
So, you're likely a Bloomberg customer (isn't everyone?), perhaps you have AIM, TOMS, The Bloomberg Professional Services (BPS) Terminal, maybe Data License, maybe Server API, maybe B-PIPE. There's quite a lot of functionality and data available to you. But understanding what's technically possible coupled with what's possible within the bounds of licensing, can be quite complex. One of the more frequent questions we get asked is around the snap'ing of data., and you might imagine.. how difficult could that possibly be.
Build scale into the Bloomberg Terminal
In a previous blog article “Increase the value of your Terminal” we explored the fact that not only was there Excel Addin access to some of the value in the Bloomberg Terminal, but that this was underpinned by a Bloomberg API known as BLP API. In the context of the Bloomberg Terminal, it’s known as the Desktop API, DAPI. So, as a user you could explore capability through Excel, or if you wanted to go further you could write some Python (in fact most programming languages) and build yourself an application. Whilst we spoke about three challenges, there’s always more lurking around the corner.