Power Plus Pro is a piece of

financial Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

software produced by

Reuters Group Reuters Group plc was a British multinational media and financial information company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 2008, forming Thomson Reuters, and moving its head office to Toronto. ...

in the form of an add-in for

Microsoft Office Excel Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows, Windows, macOS, Android (operating system), Android and iOS. It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro (comp ...

. A

real-time Real-time or real time describes various operations in computing or other processes that must guarantee response times within a specified time (deadline), usually a relatively short time. A real-time process is generally one that happens in defined ...

data engine, it pushes new data into Excel when it receives notification of updates from a Reuters

TIBCO TIBCO Software Inc. is an American business intelligence software company founded in 1997 in Palo Alto, California. It has headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and offices in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South A ...

bus or from

Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation ( ) is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at the Bay Adelaide Centre. Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corpora ...

' RMDS. This commonly involves live

market data ''For market data as used in marketing, see marketing information system'' In finance, market data is price and other related data for a financial instrument reported by a trading venue such as a stock exchange. Market data allows traders an ...

, such as stock prices, from a financial exchange. Using the addin, Excel can also contribute information to the TIBCO bus or to RMDS; such information then becomes available to other permissioned users using the addin on another computer or using Reuters 3000 Xtra stand-alone software. Power Plus Pro also has features which allow retrieval of historical market data. A typical Excel formula call might read: =RtGet("IDN_SELECTFEED","AAPL","LAST"). Competitors include; Arcontech's Excelerato

MDX Technology'
ConnectVistasource's RTW
and the addin associated with the

Bloomberg Terminal The Bloomberg Terminal is a computer software system provided by the financial data vendor Bloomberg L.P. that enables professionals in the financial service sector and other industries to access Bloomberg Professional Services through which use ...

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Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was co-founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, with Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan (Bloomberg), Duncan MacMi ...

's equivalent of Reuters 3000 Xtra). Arcontech Excelerator, MDXT Connect and Vistasource RTW, provide real-time data engines and Excel add-ins and will generally source data from Bloomberg, Reuters and/or other market data sources. Due to the widespread use of Reuters Power Plus Pro, some of the competitors provide conversion utilities to convert from Power Plus Pro functions to their own equivalents (e.g., Arcontech Excelerator) and/or emulation functionality so that Power Plus Pro functions can be used directly without modifications to spreadsheets (e.g., Arcontech Excelerator, MDXT Connect). Power Plus Pro has been succeeded by Thomson Reuters'

Eikon Eikon is a set of software products provided by Refinitiv for financial professionals to monitor and analyze financial information. It provides access to real time market data, news, fundamental data, analytics, trading and messaging tools. It p ...

Excel which can convert Power Plus Pro spreadsheets to use new functions.

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