EcoWin Buy Expands ISI Coverage

ISI, which announced the deal last week for an undisclosed sum, will receive a copy of the EcoWin database from Thomson Reuters on Sept. 15. ISI then plans to integrate the EcoWin data into CEIC Data-which will involve organizing data by region and economic sector-within between 60 and 90 days.

The integration of EcoWin will give CEIC Data-which has historically focused on providing economic and financial data for emerging markets-better coverage of developed markets and economies, expanding its coverage from 83 to 141 countries, says James Hammond, executive vice president of marketing at ISI.

The inclusion of data from developed economies will give CEIC Data a fuller data set and permit users to benchmark emerging markets against wealthier countries, and will make the product "much more of a global competitor for time-series data," Hammond says.

Subscribers currently receive data updates several times each day from CEIC Data via the vendor's CEIC DX software interface and its CEIC Data Manager plug-in for Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, which can link data to cells in users' spreadsheets and automatically update all time-series data within Excel, and via other vendor platforms, such as Global Insight, Haver Analytics and FactSet Research Systems.

However, by year end, the vendor will begin providing updates in near-real time via the CEIC Data Manager plug-in, to provide update levels that are more competitive with other economic data products, and which reflect EcoWin's real-time capabilities, Hammond says.