Reachable Signs S&P Capital IQ to Leverage People Data on Social Selling and Enterprise Networking Platform

NEW YORK, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Reachable, Inc., a technology company that helps enterprises leverage their relationships for competitive advantage, today announced an agreement with S&P Capital IQ, a leading provider of business research, data and analytics, to provide S&P Capital IQ's "People Data" on Reachable's social selling and enterprise networking platform. 

Reachable is a third-generation social networking system that enables an enterprise to better leverage its collective rolodex by answering the question "who knows who?".  The web-based platform has unique relationship mapping and scoring, tracking lists and alerts. Under their agreement, S&P Capital IQ's people data and company profiles are available on the Reachable platform.  This unique combination allows Reachable technology to sit on top of verified, institutional quality data - a competitive advantage in leveraging the collective power of personal networks.

"Our combined solution enables users who are involved in business development to be more proactive and gain additional insights on relationship networks that can drive larger opportunities," said Tim Walker, Managing Director and Head of Global Channel Sales at S&P Capital IQ.  "We believe it enhances productivity by giving users a better understanding of customers and what collective relationships they can leverage to reach them."

"We are very pleased to partner with S&P Capital IQ to offer a compelling product to enterprises wishing to increase revenue generation and retention, and improve their competitive edge," commented Laurent Ohana, CEO of Reachable.  "Reachable enables professionals to aggregate all their social and business contacts on a single unified platform and helps them find the best pathways to business executives they want to reach by leveraging data in their personal contacts and, through Reachable's enterprise business networking platform, across their enterprise and in premium databases.

The S&P Capital IQ People Database is backed by specialized information management professionals and analysts dedicated to collecting and continuously updating information about some of the most important companies in the US and internationally, including financial institutions, private equity funds, investment banks, asset managers, non-profit entities, educational institutions, and public and private corporations in every key market around the world.  Its integration with the Reachable social selling and enterprise networking platform will provide enterprise customers with unique insights and unparalleled access to validated business connections across a global set of companies and executives.

About S&P Capital IQ
S&P Capital IQ, a business unit of McGraw Hill Financial (NYSE: MHFI), is a leading provider of multi-asset class and real time data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, investment advisors and wealth managers, corporations and universities around the world.

S&P Capital IQ provides a broad suite of capabilities designed to help track performance, generate alpha, and identify new trading and investment ideas, and perform risk analysis and mitigation strategies. Through leading desktop solutions such as the S&P Capital IQ, Global Credit Portal and MarketScope Advisor desktops; enterprise solutions such as S&P Capital IQ Valuations; and research offerings, including Leveraged Commentary & Data, Global Markets Intelligence, and company and funds research, S&P Capital IQ sharpens financial intelligence into the wisdom today's investors need.  For more information, visit www.spcapitaliq.com. S&P Capital IQ's Channel Partnerships Team creates new strategic partnerships and fosters the development of integrated relationships with third-party platforms, technology vendors and start-ups to provide our clients varied access to our data and analytics. They understand the evolving delivery needs of clients, and work to continuously support and enable their growth and success.

About Reachable, Inc. 
Reachable, Inc. is a provider of enterprise social networking and social selling solutions that help professionals and enterprises better leverage their relationships to drive sales, business development and recruiting processes.  Using patented graph technology, proprietary algorithms, and an architecture designed to protect the confidentiality, privacy and proprietary nature of relationships while still sharing their benefits within enterprises, Reachable is helping to reinvent the world of enterprise business networking.  For more about Reachable, please visit www.reachable.com.

CONTACT: Michael Privitera, S&P Capital IQ, [email protected], 212.438.6679, Renee Harper, Reachable, [email protected], 212.480.1312

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