Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
The Wharton Research Data Center (WRDS) is an industry-leading data research platform and business intelligence tool used by more than 50,000 academic, government, nonprofit, and corporate clients in 36 countries. WRDS began in 1993 to support the research work of faculty members at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has since grown into a standard tool for the global research community. WRDS gives users access to more than 250 terabytes of data in one place, covering areas as diverse as finance, marketing and economics. WRDS includes more than 600 sublibraries from more than 60 data providers, including S&P Global Market Intelligence data (Compustat and Capital IQ), Chicago Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), Thomson Reuters, GTP, and others. Such databases provide raw data for third-party vendors and are grafted onto the WRDS platform. WRDS also provides 10 public databases including CBOE and Bank Regulatory. The WRDS platform provides seamless access to massive databases and provides a unified access interface for the different databases hosted to help researchers simplify the data extraction process.