Frequently Asked Questions

Just click on the Free Trial button and follow the instructions. You will be asked for details on your company and on the number of users who wish to try MarketMap. After validation you will be provided with your accesses to MarketMap to try for one month.

The new services available include Dow Jones for global news and a number or regional news services for localized and country-specific content. Additional sources can be added in response to customer demand.

MarketMap incorporates Brokers and Analysts consensus data from Factset. This service is also available through our partner product InFinancials.

Institutional, private(including Stakeholders) and Mutual Fund share ownership details for most companies are currently available as part of our “LionShares” partner product from Factset.

Macro Economic indicators for most countries are available within MarketMap from Dow Jones.

No, the cost advantage is not related to data content – adding data sources is a core competency and is typically a manageable fixed cost.

In fact MarketMap’s pricing advantage comes from the fact that it has a much lower cost of deployment (due to the fact that it is ASP delivered). The simplified delivery model accompanied by our ability to centrally manage the accesses and data permissions means that MarketMap can be priced much more aggressively.

MarketMap’s lower pricing is not a temporary “introductory rate”, it is a reflection of an application that is more cost-efficient to operate.

Once you have your MarketMap login credentials;- MarketMap can downloaded and you up and running with live Market Data from 160+ sources within a minute.

MarketMap runs as a pure ASP service, and no special hardware or network is required to use it. The time to install MarketMap on a PC with a standard internet link is typically less than a minute and requires no technical knowledge, onsite installation or support.

No, MarketMap has been fine tuned to use minimum bandwidth and so runs efficiently over long distances. In addition cascaded data caches form part of the underrlying core architecture; which further improves end to end performance. In adddition larger customers have the option to deploy a local caching server that will support very large-scale terminal deployments. Our larger clients have deployed 1,000+ terminals.

In addition to our MarketMap terminals, we also provide a family of InfoLink APIs for integrating SunGard’s market data into in-house applications, web servers or trading systems – or alternatively for contributing clients own market data (such as internally derived prices) for display in MarketMap.

In all cases SMART (our Permissioning & reporting system) ensures that only permissioned users can access the different sets of market data. It also means that MarketMap Users within the same organisation can securely view their own organisations market data wherever they are in the world.