Nearly 20,000 faculty and students at top-tier business schools have used the system, which is becoming the standard for academic data research. WRDS lets users easily tap in to some of the world's most important business databases to get virtually any data, from stock quotes to a company's cash flow back to the 1940s. WRDS offers direct access to stock prices and returns for more than 6,500 companies, Standard and Poor's data on 7,000 publicly held companies, and macroeconomic data back to 1946. Armed with instant access to research results, WRDS users are literally changing the dynamics of business instruction.
Professors can now teach with live data.