How quickly should you be able to get your backtest results?

If you’re evaluating models across 20,000 securities and 30 years of history, most systems will leave you waiting. Long run times, system crashes, or pre-cached shortcuts are still the norm—especially for firms relying on legacy systems or internal tools. With My Data Outlet’s Snowflake Native App (MDO), you get a different experience altogether: 
Live backtests. […]

Python Without the Pain: How Snowflake Notebooks and MDO Empower Investment Analysts

Setting up a Python environment has never been easier for investment analysts—thanks to Snowflake Notebooks and MDO. Traditionally, configuring a stable Python environment is a job best left to developers. Even experienced programmers wrestle with keeping package versions and dependencies in sync. One small update to a library, and suddenly your entire environment breaks. Multiply […]

From Trial to Decision in a Week: Evaluating Investment Data at Lightning Speed with MDO

For most investment firms, the answer is “not fast enough.” By the time a new vendor’s dataset is provisioned, tested, curated, and validated, the trial period is nearly over—and you’re left deciding whether to buy based on incomplete analysis. Let’s look at why that happens and how My Data Outlet’s Snowflake Native App (MDO) completely […]

MDO Enhances Snowflake Native App with Custom Formulas

MDO Enhances Snowflake Native App with Custom Formulas, Enabling Users to Seamlessly Develop, Schedule, and Automate Models Directly in Snowflake. Chicago – April 7, 2025 – My Data Outlet (MDO), a leading provider of data integration tools for financial modeling and research, today announced the launch of significant enhancements to their Snowflake Native App. The […]

MDO’s Snowflake Native App Now Fully Contained within Snowflake

My Data Outlet revolutionizes investment data research and modeling workflows with their Snowflake Native Application, empowering Snowflake customers to seamlessly analyze and derive insights from their data. Chicago – July 30th, 2024 – My Data Outlet, a leading provider of investment data workflow tools for research and investment modeling, is thrilled to announce the release […]