Thomson Reuters

Thomson Datastream Advance and Thomson Datastream Advance for Office offer you unparalleled flexibility in analyzing and mapping historical trends and relationships using Datastream's industry-renowned data. Today, thousands of analysts, fund managers, and economists rely on the easy, fast, and flexible desktop interface of Thomson Datastream Advance.

Thomson Datastream Advance combines easy-to-use, pre-formatted charts and tabular reports with truly flexible charting to help reveal new insights and relationships. With Advance for Office® (AFO), you can build complex models, charts, and reports in Excel®, PowerPoint®, and Word® to help you to create spreadsheets, presentations, and documents.

Thomson Datastream Advance offers you access to the world's largest and most respected financial statistical database. It contains more than two million financial instruments, securities, and indicators for over 175 countries in 60 markets. With up to 50 years of history and over 8,000 different fields, it provides access to over one hundred million time series. 

With Thomson Datastream, you can:

• Make smarter decisions by staying on top of market events, testing investment and trading ideas, and building a compelling investment strategy.
• Uncover trends through the full wealth of Thomson Datastream's historical data.
• Explore relationships between data series with Thomson Datastream Advance's powerful, customizable charting application.

Why choose Thomson Datastream?

• Unparalleled Breadth and Depth: Thomson Datastream is world's largest and most respected financial statistics database. It contains more than 2 million financial instruments, securities, and indicators for more than 175 countries in 60 markets.
• Integration with Microsoft Office: Data and charts can be linked in Excel, PowerPoint, or Word to enable you to create spreadsheets, presentations and documents that can be updated at the click of a button.
• Sophisticated Charting: Interactive Charting simplifies the manipulation of Datastream's vast database of over 100 million time series. Explore relationships between time series, and generate ideas and test scenarios quickly, simply, and accurately.
• Superior Navigation: Datastream Navigator helps you select the most relevant series from the millions available, with criteria screens for each data category and tailored searchable fields.
• One Single, Integrated Desktop Solution: Thomson Datastream Advance can be integrated within Thomson ONE¿placing the world's leading source of historic market data alongside real-time pricing, news, research, and fundamentals data.

Powerful analysis tools:

• Series and Field Selection - Both Datastream Advance and the AFO add-ins use Datastream Navigator to help you select the most relevant series from the millions available on the Datastream databases.
• Interactive Charting - This feature simplifies the graphical exploration of trends and relationships between series, enabling you to identify the lag or leads to use for the best correlations between series, enabling new research ideas to be quickly evaluated. The intuitive interface of Interactive Charting makes it easy to retrieve and analyze any of the series on Datastream, including private equity indices, exchange traded funds, and commodity prices.
• Datastream Advance for Office (AFO) - Build complex models and reports without using the Advance desktop interface. Data and charts can be linked in Excel®, PowerPoint®, or Word® to enable you to create spreadsheets, presentations, and documents which can be updated at the click of a button.

Common utilities for Advance and Advance for Office (AFO):

• Expressions - Create and edit your expressions from within Advance or through the Microsoft Office® add-ins. All the necessary functionality is provided in one screen: easily select individual functions, mathematical operators, and constants. Once your expression is complete, it can be assigned a mnemonic of your choice for use in your data and chart requests.
• Lists - Create lists to represent series in portfolios, watch-lists, or sets of frequently used economic indicators. Then generate a single report or chart for all items in the list, displaying earnings, dividends, performance, or individual charts and reports.
• User-Created Indices - A long-time favorite, the user-created index functionality allows you to create your own list of constituent equities from the full breadth of Datastream's equity universe, define a start date and a currency, and let the system calculate your index. Indices can be set up on an ad hoc basis or maintained automatically, with new values calculated daily.
• User-Created Time Series - Upload your own data series to Datastream Advance to use in combination with Datastream-maintained series in charts, or for use with Datastream Advance expression facilities. Create and edit your own time series with the Excel template supplied with Advance for Office, or download an existing series to form the basis for a new series, such as in-house earnings estimates or economic forecasts.
• Equity Searching - Use Datastream Advance screening to search across the entire global equities database of more than 80,000 active stocks. Use up to ten fields such as market value and geographic region to locate and evaluate outstanding performers. Select an index constituent list with any field, include values derived from custom expressions, run the search at a specified date, and find companies which match your criteria for growth or value.

Thomson Datastream Advance:

• Series Overviews, Standard Charts and Tabular Reports - Easily display series background and summary performance information¿view performance charts and key statistics for any of more than a million instruments and indicators on Datastream. Select from more than 20 predefined charts and tabular reports, from simple price relatives to point-and-figure and scatter charts, balance sheets, and regression analysis reports.
• Flexible Charting - Plot any financial instrument or indicator of any periodicity or currency against any other. Plot daily equities against annual company fundamentals or monthly economic indicators, or use custom data including earnings forecasts, custom indices, or values calculated using Datastream's powerful mathematical expression capabilities. Then configure output styles to match your house style and export to Microsoft Office®.
• Advance Projects - Save your charts and reports in Advance projects to organize your work and automate tasks without learning a scripting language. Once created, projects can be edited to change the order of requests, multiple entries deleted, projects merged or requests copied to a new or existing project. Schedule project updates, print to file or PDF, or export charts to be incorporated in documents, with complete control over line and text styles.

• Advance 4.0 runs on Microsoft Windows® 2000 and XP® platforms and with Office® 2000, XP and 2003.
• Advance 4.0 communicates with the Datastream central systems using a range of communications facilities, including Datastream's network gateway, wide-area networks and the internet.