Buy-Side Technology Awards 2021 Winner's Interview: IHS Markit (EDM)

Click on this link to read why EDM won the best data management product category in this year’s BST Awards and on this link for the write-up on IHS Markit Corporate Actions. 

IHS Markit won three categories in this year’s BST Awards: best buy-side data management product, best buy-side corporate actions platform and best overall technology provider for 2021. Victor Anderson chats to Dev Bhudia, global head of product, EDM at IHS Markit, about the firm’s domination of the data management category for the past decade-and-a-half, and EDM’s transition to a software-as-a-service offering. In this interview, they discuss:       

• The reasons for EDM’s continued success in the best data management product category since these awards were launched back in 2007. 
• The thinking behind IHS Markit’s recent launch of the Data Dictionary and the critical role it plays in EDM’s migration to a SaaS-based model. 
• The challenges facing IHS Markit’s buy-side clients right now from a data management perspective and how EDM is helping them to address those challenges.
• What the buy side can expect from EDM looking forward and whether there are any significant features and functions the firm is readying for the market.

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