FactSet Research Systems Inc. provides integrated financial information and analytical applications to investment community worldwide. The company combines content regarding companies and securities from various markets into a single online platform of information and analytics for portfolio managers, research and performance analysts, risk managers, marketing professionals, sell-side equity research professionals, investment bankers, and fixed income professionals. The company's applications provide users access to company analysis, multi-company comparisons, industry analysis, company screening, portfolio analysis, predictive risk measurements, alpha testing, portfolio optimization and simulation, and news and quotes, as well as tools to value and analyze fixed income securities and portfolios. FactSet also offers various solutions for investment managers, including equity, economics and market, quant and risk, portfolio, and fixed income analysis; data integration services; charting services to create reports and presentations; and wireless connectivity services to access reports through wireless handheld devices. The company's solutions for banking and brokerage professionals comprise creating models and presentations; tracking company and industry analytics; idea screening services that enable research on public and private companies to target clients, partners, buyers, and investors, as well as searches deals and IPOs of interest; providing deal analytics and corporate governance services; auditing financials underlying SEC filings; and people intelligence services. FactSet Research Systems Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.