Due to COVID-19 situation, Bloomberg provides Bloomberg’s Disaster Recovery service to provide temporary remote access to Bloomberg, no matter where students and faculty are located. KBS has arranged with Bloomberg to provide you with this service now.
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A Bloomberg terminal is an advanced computer system for professionals in business (primarily finance) and other industries to access, monitor and analyze real-time financial market data and place trades on its electronic trading platform. The system also provides up-to-date news, price quotes and messaging across its network.
Our Bloomberg subscription allows students to:
To provide you with the best support during these difficult times, KBS arranged with Bloomberg to provide you with the Bloomberg’s Disaster Recovery service which will enable remote access to Bloomberg Terminals for faculty or students who require access for teaching or research purposes
The KFUPM Business school is pleased to announce that 12 Disaster Recovery (DR) Terminals are available for school use to mitigate the loss of the Bloomberg Lab while the school remains closed to in-person students’ attendance.
Faculty and students can access the available shared terminals in the lab 277. If no available shared terminals, the users will see a message informing them that all terminals are in use and will not be able to log in until someone logs off.
Also, faculty can access the terminals in-person by visiting Lab 161, or the instructor’s machine at Lab 277.
For more information, please download the Bloomberg Guidelines.
Documentation from Bloomberg
Bloomberg provides detailed documentation on the content and functionality of the database, including videos, sample spreadsheets, and more. When you are on the Bloomberg machine, enter to get to the main help page.
Some examples of the help documents available within Bloomberg:
Chat with a Bloomberg representative
If you want to chat with Bloomberg representatives directly, press the Help key twice to open a chat window.
The Faculty Research Center at KBS is host to many different international software and databases to support research and analysis and teaching activities for faculty. The Research Center is located on the 3rd floor of Building 24, Room 161.
KBS also hosts three labs for students and faculty to use:
Faculty and students may download the following document containing information regarding the available software in the Center and Labs.
