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.