Data / Data Connectivity
Server API (SAPI)
Feed client server applications with consistent data
Financial professionals rely on the Bloomberg Terminal® for real-time data, news and analytics to make smarter decisions faster. Bloomberg Server API (SAPI) delivers a powerful complement to the Bloomberg Terminal. SAPI allows you to consume Bloomberg’s unique real-time market, historical, and key reference data, as well as calculation engine capabilities when using proprietary and third-party applications.
With SAPI, the same real-time market data, historical data, premium reference data and calculation tools available with the Bloomberg Professional service are at your firm’s fingertips for seamless use in proprietary and Bloomberg-approved client server applications.
Resources
Use Bloomberg infrastructure to access valuable data
SAPI Plus & SAPI Premium let firms worldwide offload all the infrastructure and SAPI management to Bloomberg, aiming to handle all the underlying hardware assets, including upgrades. SAPI Plus & SAPI Premium also give firms access to proven Bloomberg solutions for entitlements management and activity monitoring.
Features
Extensive cross-asset coverage
- Access to a wide range of real-time exchange and OTC market data
- Access to unique Bloomberg datasets such as Bloomberg Indices, BVAL Pricing, and ESG
- Access to a wide range of Bloomberg data, calculations, and third-party data
Accessibility
- 24 x 7 access to data and programmatic access
- Easy connectivity through the existing client network
- Excellent customer support
- Flexibility that allows for various application types and workflows
- Ease of integration with 3rd party vendor applications
Secure, reliable technology
- Built-in, robust entitlements control
- Data usage monitoring and management
- Encrypted connection with mutually authenticated SSL sessions
- Available deployment over the internet
- Provides fail over, load balancing and scalability
Access to data is protected using Bloomberg’s trusted biometric login, ensuring that SAPI data is only delivered to Bloomberg users with an active Bloomberg Professional service session.
SAPI for developers
To work efficiently in today’s technology-driven financial institutions, development teams need flexible access to good documentation and high-quality support. The Bloomberg Server API (SAPI) was designed with developers in mind. The Software Development Kit for SAPI gives developers access to data interfaces in multiple programming languages (C++, .NET Framework, VBA via COM Data Control, Java, Python), making it easy to integrate with downstream server applications.
