Bloomberg Professional

Name: Bloomberg Professional
Rating: 3.7 (442 reviews)
Author: Bloomberg Finance LP

Take Bloomberg on the GO

Free

442 Ratings
Ages

13+
Years
Category

Finance
Developer

Bloomberg Finance LP
Language

EN
English
Size

154.3
MB

This app is only accessible by Bloomberg Terminal customers with a Bloomberg Anywhere subscription. Stay connected to breaking news, markets, clients and colleagues with on-the-go access to key Bloomberg Terminal functionality. Featured Functions: • News (TOP, Live Blogs, Today) • Instant Bloomberg (IB) • Bloomberg Message (MSG) • Markets (WEI, WEIF, WB) • Security Data and Research (Q, GP, FA, EE, ANR, RES) • Portfolios (PORT) • Worksheets (W) • Alerts (MLRT, NLRT, ALRT) Please note: your B-Unit is required for the initial login only.

Ratings & Reviews

3.7

out of 5

442 Ratings

Newest Version Shows Continual Movement Away From Understanding Users
12/14/2017

jgreenert
For casual monitoring of messages and markets, it’s an acceptable add-on to the terminal, but when attempting to do more, the app falls short. While there are some useful enhancements with the latest release (better access to monitors, security page) it has removed some good functionality (linking market pages to home screen, IB notification on home screen, news layout on tablet, organization of news, consolidated home screen of market, message & news) and made some naive blunders (5 year Treasury as benchmark for the bond market, Today / home screen). Terminal mode on tablet is clunky and Apple keyboard overlays many key areas, especially when messaging. In 3 hours of use today, I experienced the one crash & a completely blank screen. Developer appears to be shifting focus to phone users over tablet. Talking with one sales coverage today, he would be ditching the app in favor of Surface and the full version. Essentially, despite its ease of access vs the full version on a laptop/Surface, there are too many short comings to the app when attempting to do real work. I have passed along usage comments to my Bloomberg coverage & app feedback.
Newest Version Shows Continual Movement Away From Understanding Users
12/14/2017

jgreenert

For casual monitoring of messages and markets, it’s an acceptable add-on to the terminal, but when attempting to do more, the app falls short. While there are some useful enhancements with the latest release (better access to monitors, security page) it has removed some good functionality (linking market pages to home screen, IB notification on home screen, news layout on tablet, organization of news, consolidated home screen of market, message & news) and made some naive blunders (5 year Treasury as benchmark for the bond market, Today / home screen). Terminal mode on tablet is clunky and Apple keyboard overlays many key areas, especially when messaging. In 3 hours of use today, I experienced the one crash & a completely blank screen. Developer appears to be shifting focus to phone users over tablet. Talking with one sales coverage today, he would be ditching the app in favor of Surface and the full version. Essentially, despite its ease of access vs the full version on a laptop/Surface, there are too many short comings to the app when attempting to do real work. I have passed along usage comments to my Bloomberg coverage & app feedback.
Lol
02/25/2012

Gpshik
Bloomberg and Apple put out a lot of hype on Bloomberg Anywhere for iPhone and it simply doesn't deliver. Most users (Bloomberg has the data on this) use a Bloomberg (at $1500 to $1800 a month per terminal or user ) for its Message (MSG) or chat (IB) functionality. The appeal of a PDA as a iPhone or Blackberry is access to these messages when away for desktop terminal. Not being tied to this desktop during a trading day is potentially very productive for brokers and traders. The problem there is the server that sends these messages out on an iPhone can have big delays in the MSG and IB send/receive times (up to 15-20min in my 1month experience). Rather the Blackberry server continually pushes messages out (worst delay in my 6yr experience was 1-2min, unless Blackberry or Bloomberg were having system problems, this occurs approx every 6 to 9 months). Now for those who interact with clients on these message functions imagine what a 15 min delay does to yr business if client sends order to buy $250mil UST 10yrs or sell 5bil notional of Eurodollar Futures?

Developer Response
Thank you for your comments. We've been working hard on the app since your review; we've introduced push notifications for example. If you need any assistance with configuration, please contact our support team via '24/7 Help' within the app. We hope you enjoy the latest version.
Lol
02/25/2012

Gpshik

Bloomberg and Apple put out a lot of hype on Bloomberg Anywhere for iPhone and it simply doesn't deliver. Most users (Bloomberg has the data on this) use a Bloomberg (at $1500 to $1800 a month per terminal or user ) for its Message (MSG) or chat (IB) functionality. The appeal of a PDA as a iPhone or Blackberry is access to these messages when away for desktop terminal. Not being tied to this desktop during a trading day is potentially very productive for brokers and traders. The problem there is the server that sends these messages out on an iPhone can have big delays in the MSG and IB send/receive times (up to 15-20min in my 1month experience). Rather the Blackberry server continually pushes messages out (worst delay in my 6yr experience was 1-2min, unless Blackberry or Bloomberg were having system problems, this occurs approx every 6 to 9 months). Now for those who interact with clients on these message functions imagine what a 15 min delay does to yr business if client sends order to buy $250mil UST 10yrs or sell 5bil notional of Eurodollar Futures?
Developer Response 11/14/2017
Thank you for your comments. We've been working hard on the app since your review; we've introduced push notifications for example. If you need any assistance with configuration, please contact our support team via '24/7 Help' within the app. We hope you enjoy the latest version.
This is how you do an app
03/29/2017

hamcap
Folks, you have to pay for this service. It's about $2300 a month (with exchange fees) but that's what it takes to play in the pro's. For those who don't understand, this app is a perk for Bloomberg Terminal users who are investment professionals. Tip of the spear. Not your pappy's stock broker peddling mutual funds but but people who actually drive the capital markets every day.I wish everyone could enjoy news that doesn't include mindless adverts and hype about the Kardashians or nonsense about Trumps hair. This app (and the Bloomberg service) isn't about driving ad dollars. It's about delivering information for real professionals who are gladly willing to pay for it.These days all of you have allowed advertising to corrupt your content and your perception of what really is news. Here we get the real deal. In plain amber fonts without even photographs. It's not sexy and we like it that way. Like the old days.The only suggestion I have for the developers is to make the app more like the Bloomberg Terminal service. Make it as close to that experience as possible. I've been a Bloomberg subscriber since 1993. That's about $650,000 I've paid in fees for the service. And I'll keep on paying until it stops making me money.

Developer Response
Thank you very much for your comments, we hope you continue to enjoy using the Bloomberg Professional app.
This is how you do an app
03/29/2017

hamcap

Folks, you have to pay for this service. It's about $2300 a month (with exchange fees) but that's what it takes to play in the pro's. For those who don't understand, this app is a perk for Bloomberg Terminal users who are investment professionals. Tip of the spear. Not your pappy's stock broker peddling mutual funds but but people who actually drive the capital markets every day.I wish everyone could enjoy news that doesn't include mindless adverts and hype about the Kardashians or nonsense about Trumps hair. This app (and the Bloomberg service) isn't about driving ad dollars. It's about delivering information for real professionals who are gladly willing to pay for it.These days all of you have allowed advertising to corrupt your content and your perception of what really is news. Here we get the real deal. In plain amber fonts without even photographs. It's not sexy and we like it that way. Like the old days.The only suggestion I have for the developers is to make the app more like the Bloomberg Terminal service. Make it as close to that experience as possible. I've been a Bloomberg subscriber since 1993. That's about $650,000 I've paid in fees for the service. And I'll keep on paying until it stops making me money.
Developer Response 11/14/2017
Thank you very much for your comments, we hope you continue to enjoy using the Bloomberg Professional app.
Re-Order in Securities
10/05/2023

rrubin34
There should be the ability to re-order and prioritize what information comes up on equity securities.The idea that ESG, as a large block, should come before a company’s financials is odd and that should be up to the user, not Bloomberg. Different users care about different things, and prioritization should be up to the user. Push alerts are also terrible! “Larry Summers says…” comes up more than anything (although we are now getting a lot of Bill Gross says…”). I don’t care what those guys are saying as a push alert. Most don’t. And yet I can’t seem to get a push alert on the type of information that I would prefer, which is quick hit information that is data driven. Killing the Larry Summers says and going more toward data driven information alerts would be better for the users.
Re-Order in Securities
10/05/2023

rrubin34

There should be the ability to re-order and prioritize what information comes up on equity securities.The idea that ESG, as a large block, should come before a company’s financials is odd and that should be up to the user, not Bloomberg. Different users care about different things, and prioritization should be up to the user. Push alerts are also terrible! “Larry Summers says…” comes up more than anything (although we are now getting a lot of Bill Gross says…”). I don’t care what those guys are saying as a push alert. Most don’t. And yet I can’t seem to get a push alert on the type of information that I would prefer, which is quick hit information that is data driven. Killing the Larry Summers says and going more toward data driven information alerts would be better for the users.

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