If the applications supporting your business have out-grown what’s possible with the Bloomberg Terminal, then it’s possibly time to take that next step and embrace Bloomberg’s SAPI offering. Same (BLP) API and functionality, just more of it. Let us help you coordinate and run this project.

This Bloomberg Enterprise product moves you beyond the Bloomberg Terminal and means that you need to take on additional responsibilities. For listed instruments, you might require relationships with exchanges for billing and reporting. However, it opens the door to far more possibilities and business advantage/edge. Let us guide you.

Should your workflow requires that you supplement your investment cycle process with static/reference data, we will work alongside your team to ascertain whether it’s Start/End of Day, intraday, optimal frequency and accounts, the balance between PerSecurity and Bulk, caching of instruments that need to be pulled frequently, etc. We will ensure that your application real-estate has access to data, providing integration services if necessary.

If you’re considering a migration from a legacy market data system to Bloomberg Enterprise’s Realime B-PIPE offering, then there’s a lot to consider. We will be meticulous with Instruments and symbology, fields, value behaviour, etc. We can help with the full start to end project of moving your technology and business real-estate from a legacy provider to Bloomberg.

Understanding the application real-estate (both in-house and 3rd Party (ISV)) is crucial in assessing how these will be impacted in terms of any impending migration. Additionally, the technology landscape underpinning these applications may be impacted.

Gain a full comprehensive view of your current contractual obligations to both vendors and sources, itemising renewal timelines, implications for any changes for exiting early, thresholds, etc. Additionally, consideration is given to contract novation should specific sources (eg, brokers) move from one delivery mechanism to another.

Key to any market data transformation project is understanding the universe of instruments, specifically of importance if moving from a legacy vendor to Bloomberg. We can provide a full audit of the content you are consuming, apply recommendations, and work with Bloomberg to map your universe to meet your business needs.

An analysis of your team to ascertain what skills and experience you will require for the new target operating model, and identify how to reduce any gaps through a process of up-skilling, hiring and/or out-sourcing.

Training for developers and operations around how the Bloomberg technology is deployed, how applications should be designed, how entitlement should be enforced, valid use cases (eg, display only, non-display, redistribution, etc).

Training course to administer a stock of Bloomberg Terminals, including re-allocation for new users, transfer between accounts, transfers between firms, analysing SID reports, etc.

With a Bloomberg Enterprise offering such as Bloomberg’s B-PIPE comes new administrative responsibilities. These include, determining application use-cases/profiles, user accesses, entitlement to sources/exchanges, reporting options, audit trails, etc. .

With over 50 years of Bloomberg expertise, working both in and out of Bloomberg LP, we’ve got experience across many clients and projects both from a vendor and customer point of view. Find out what’s possible and where terms and conditions might impede you. We’re here to give you the guidance and advantage you need in your next project.