Capital IQ and BlueMatrix Announce a Renewed 5 Year Partnership

NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business and a leading provider of data and analytics for global financial professionals, and BlueMatrix, a leading provider of global research authoring solutions, announced a joint effort to provide new features and support for the 500+ research contributors currently contributing research to Capital IQ via the BlueMatrix platform.  This partnership will enable BlueMatrix to add further value to the suite of tools currently used by joint clients by offering new features that enable research producers to promote and value research content.

BlueMatrix will begin working closely with Capital IQ's research contributors to implement new features in both BlueMatrix Lite and BlueMatrix ResearchWare™ that help contributors to broadly disseminate content and provide first line support to our joint clients.  "Further supporting research producers by working directly with Capital IQ contributors will enable us to identify how BlueMatrix can help these producers to create better research offerings," said Skye Hauptman, CEO and Co-Founder of BlueMatrix, LLC.  "Building these new relationships with our mutual clients will create a robust system of support that will allow us to provide unparalleled service."

"Capital IQ is excited to renew and expand our partnership with BlueMatrix, our preferred research distribution channel partner. Their commitment to helping our global research contributors create more efficiency and streamline their workflow is important to business goal of delivering research insights to our clients on a timely basis," said Randall Winn, Executive Managing Director and head of the Capital IQ business.

About Capital IQ and Standard & Poor's

Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business, delivers comprehensive fundamental and quantitative research and analysis solutions to over 4,200 investment management firms, investment banks, private equity funds, advisory firms, corporations, and universities worldwide. Its solutions are based on the Capital IQ Platform, Compustat, ClariFI, and Alphaworks products, and offer an array of powerful applications for desktop research, screening, real-time market data, backtesting, portfolio management, financial modeling, and quantitative analysis. For more information, please visit Capital IQ's web site at www.capitaliq.com.

Standard & Poor's, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With offices in 23 countries and markets, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for 150 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit www.standardandpoors.com.

About BlueMatrix

BlueMatrix is a global research technology firm offering research authoring, workflow, and distribution tools that enable research producers to reach clients across multiple aggregator platforms as well as via point-to-point communication.  The company offers customizable publishing solutions to broker-dealers and independent research producers as well as a suite of modular product offerings that enable research producers and research consumers to customize research distribution and consumption.  Over 800 research producers use BlueMatrix products to distribute content via more than 10 local and global distribution channels, as well as via point-to-point communication with 200,000+ research consumers.  BlueMatrix research providers are located in 86 countries worldwide.

SOURCE BlueMatrix