In its new and improved capacity, Active8 v.2.0 provides clients with greater flexibility and significant enhancements including a new portfolio feature to monitor P&L in real-time, improved charting and technical analysis, a new Alerts interface and a Microsoft-style Favorites menu and Navigation bar.

Active8 provides customers with tools for easy integration of real-time quotes, news and charts from multiple data sources. The application is now installed on several thousand desktops worldwide and runs on TRS, Triarch, RMDS (SASS-3) and TIB. In addition, the application supports both Microsoft and Citrix terminal servers. Users include leading global institutions such as Citigroup, FHLB and Fortis.

"With Active8's innovative upgrades, we are offering our customers advanced and user-friendly techniques to assist them in presenting the data they need to stay at the top of their game," said Mary Ivaliotis, Senior Vice President of Telerate. "Telerate's priority is to ensure our customers have preeminent access to benchmark data in the marketplace and with this thoroughly enhanced version of Active8, we can now provide them with more of the effortlessness and quality they have become accustomed to as Telerate clientele."

In addition to the new features mentioned above, Active8 v.2.0 offers clients improved Index Analysis providing real-time tracking of index constituents, "Send To" functionality so information can be included in other Microsoft components, Symbol Name Aliasing, Option Analytics which provides streaming financial data of listed put and call options and improved DDE capability.