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Surge, the MDO AI Agent, product releases, and perspective on institutional investment data.https://mydataoutlet.com/en-ushttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/mdo-just-got-a-lot-more-powerful/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/mdo-just-got-a-lot-more-powerful/MDO's new AI Agent, Surge, is now in beta — turning natural-language questions into fully editable Python investment workflows.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTnewshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/from-trial-to-decision-in-a-week-evaluating-investment-data-at-lightning-speed-with-mdo/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/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…Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTinsightshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/how-quickly-should-you-be-able-to-get-your-backtest-results/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/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…Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTinsightshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/python-without-the-pain-how-snowflake-notebooks-and-mdo-empower-investment-analysts/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/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…Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTinsightshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/mdo-enhances-snowflake-native-app-with-custom-formulas/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/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…Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTpresshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/mdos-snowflake-native-app-now-fully-contained-within-snowflake/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/mdos-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…Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTpresshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/my-data-outlet-mdo-introduces-mdosnow-library-to-the-mdo-software-development-kit-sdk-for-investment-data/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/my-data-outlet-mdo-introduces-mdosnow-library-to-the-mdo-software-development-kit-sdk-for-investment-data/MDO revolutionizes investment data research and modeling workflows with the new MDOSnow library, empowering Snowflake customers to seamlessly analyze and…Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTpresshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/my-data-outlet-mdo-launches-the-mdo-sdk-for-investment-data-a-snowflake-native-app-in-the-data-cloud/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/my-data-outlet-mdo-launches-the-mdo-sdk-for-investment-data-a-snowflake-native-app-in-the-data-cloud/MDO enables joint customers to simplify investment data research workflows all from within their Snowflake account. LAS VEGAS – June 27, 2023 – My Data…Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMTpresshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/my-data-outlet-international-llc-to-launch-the-mdo-sdk-for-investment-data-on-snowflake-marketplace/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/my-data-outlet-international-llc-to-launch-the-mdo-sdk-for-investment-data-on-snowflake-marketplace/My Data Outlet International, LLC to Launch the MDO SDK for Investment Data on Snowflake Marketplace.Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTnewshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/mdo-names-charles-fann-as-chief-technology-officer/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/mdo-names-charles-fann-as-chief-technology-officer/My Data Outlet (MDO) announced that Charles Fann has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Charles will be responsible for overseeing the…Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTpresshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/my-data-outlet-enters-license-agreement-with-smith-graham-co-investment-advisors/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/my-data-outlet-enters-license-agreement-with-smith-graham-co-investment-advisors/My Data Outlet (“MDO”), an innovator in delivering data integration tools for Research and Financial modeling, announced a license agreement with Smith…Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTpresshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/my-data-outlet-enters-five-year-license-agreement-with-lsv-asset-management/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/my-data-outlet-enters-five-year-license-agreement-with-lsv-asset-management/My Data Outlet (“MDO”), an innovator in delivering data integration tools for Research and Financial modeling, announced a five year software license…Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTpresshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/mdo-names-stephen-talken-director-of-sales/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/mdo-names-stephen-talken-director-of-sales/My Data Outlet (MDO) announced that Stephen Talken has joined the company as Director of Sales. Steve will be responsible for sales of new software…Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTpresshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/python-api-release/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/python-api-release/Big news today, we now officially support Python in MDO! We are excited to introduce the new mdodata API... See here for the full article. Contact us…Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMTnewshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/new-company-specific-financials-data-available-in-mdo/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/new-company-specific-financials-data-available-in-mdo/Reuters Knoweldge Direct (RKD) Company Specific Financials (CSF) data is now available on the MDO platform as part of the mdo.data (v2020.05) release,…Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTnewshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/how-mdo-can-save-you-time-and-money/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/how-mdo-can-save-you-time-and-money/Firms in the investment management industry are constantly faced with decisions of build vs. buy for the various tools that they use. This article…Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTinsightshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/new-ownership-and-fundamental-data-sources-available-in-mdo/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/new-ownership-and-fundamental-data-sources-available-in-mdo/New data sources are now available through the MDO platform, enabling access to these databases in QA Direct from Refinitiv. Ownership V2 Worldscope Point…Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTnewshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/access-ibes-estimates-v2-data/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/access-ibes-estimates-v2-data/IBES Estimates Version 2 data is now available on the MDO platform, enabling access to this new database in QA Direct from Refinitiv. Some key advantages…Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMTnewshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/factor-performance-calculation-timings/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/factor-performance-calculation-timings/How quickly can you run backtests on the MDO platform? Read this post. See here for Factor Performance Timings. Contact us today for more information!Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMTinsightshttps://mydataoutlet.com/news/performance-attribution/https://mydataoutlet.com/news/performance-attribution/Performance Attribution functionality is now available. This can be customized to work with actual portfolios from any database, or used for hypothetical…Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTnews