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BamSEC vs. Factiva

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BamSEC
Score 9.6 out of 10
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BamSEC is a financial research tool designed to transform how the user can work with SEC filings and earnings transcripts.N/A
Factiva
Score 5.1 out of 10
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Factiva from Dow Jones is a data service that helps companies identify opportunities, accelerate decisions and manage a business's reputation, that includes global news and data accessible via the Dow Jones' research platform, on mobile devices or integrated via advanced feeds and APIs.N/A
Pricing
BamSECFactiva
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Pricing Offerings
BamSECFactiva
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
BamSECFactiva
Considered Both Products
BamSEC
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose BamSEC
not even comparable. Koyfin would take much much longer to feed new filings than BamSec

the only place this beats BamSec is the mobile website, i really hope BamSec can get their act together on that front
Factiva
Jeremy Cowles | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jeremy Cowles
Senior Strategist
Chose Factiva
Each of the tools I have described share the same kind of premise: the main thing they do is source and collect media content. Then to varying degrees they run filters against this content and produce a range of data visualisations and ways of slicing the data and content. …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Factiva
I have used Lexis Nexus and Thomson One. I find Factiva to be the most user friendly of these services. I much prefer Factiva's layout on their website when I search for articles and I also prefer its search builder over Lexis Nexus and Thomson One.
Chose Factiva
I often used Twitter as an alternative to Factiva. Additionally, I used a number of link-gathering resources such as Google alerts.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Factiva
At the time, Factiva was already being used by the company I worked for - they had developed procedures specifically for using Factiva, so there wasn't really an option. I've used Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg exclusively for legal research, so there wasn't really an overlap …
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User Ratings
BamSECFactiva
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User Testimonials
BamSECFactiva
Likelihood to Recommend
other than being essentially unusable on mobile/tablet, BamSec is second to none when it comes to efficiently searching through filings and transcripts. really like how it pre-sorts all a company's documents into PRs, 8-Ks, proxies, trancripts, 10-K/-Q, et cetera we also like that you can use screening function that enables searches across multiple companies or company lists
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Anonymous
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Factiva is particularly useful when I work on securities litigations involving shareholder lawsuits -- i.e. shareholders who bought and sold shares during a specified class period when the company was misrepresenting, for example, its financials. Specifically Factiva is quite useful in helping me understand what company events were known by the market and when they were known. Factiva has also been useful in helping me on various research studies. It is less relevant for other types of litigation that I work on (i.e. Patent litigation, etc).
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Pros
  • comparing similar tables across different SEC filings
  • custom and general email alerts
  • ability to pay for expert interviews
  • ability to download raw pdf
  • speed of updates
  • highlighting capabilities
  • can create a public link to share snippets
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  • Putting broad swaths of news in one place
  • Organizing information
  • Constant updates
Jacob Batchelor | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons
  • mobile website is unusable
  • there is no mobile app
  • note-taking can be finicky
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  • Lengthy setup for searches
  • Repeated articles appear frequently
  • Unannounced interface changes were unpleasant surprises
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Alternatives Considered
not even comparable. Koyfin would take much much longer to feed new filings than BamSec the only place this beats BamSec is the mobile website, i really hope BamSec can get their act together on that front
Verified User
Anonymous
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Each of the tools I have described share the same kind of premise: the main thing they do is source and collect media content. Then to varying degrees they run filters against this content and produce a range of data visualisations and ways of slicing the data and content. Factiva's strength lies more in the sourcing of content than in the manipulation of the results (much like the others do with more sophisticated dashboards and visual interpretations). We chose it because of the integrity of its sourcing breadth. It doesn't matter so much about the display of results because the source material you're working with isn't as dynamic as say social media.
Jeremy Cowles | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jeremy Cowles
Senior Strategist
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Return on Investment
  • efficiency of research
  • ROI
  • no need to proactively look after setting alerts
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Anonymous
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