In most cases these will be holdings of users' portfolios. In addition, the system can both import data from and export data to spreadsheet systems. This is accomplished through multi-variate ranking and custom macro models. This features allows you to calculate the characteristics of a benchmark. These can then be compared to other benchmark or single credit characteristics.
Users also have access to the numbers behind the benchmark calculations.
The analytical possibilities are endless. For example , you can use this feature to calculate ratio medians by credit rating. Then you can compare them to the characteristics of a non-rated credit to determine a likely rating. Users can build new custom reports easily, without memorizing field names. The underlying system architecture permits very fast custom report generation.