Analysts at the San Mateo, California-based Gridstone Research review earnings statements, trawl through corporate filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, listen in on earnings calls and finally collate all useful information on a proprietary spreadsheet-based data platform.
All of this happens out of Mindspace, a swanky business park in Mumbai's suburb of Malad.
I recently returned from my first visit to the Gridstone Research facilities in Mumbai, India. Being a seasoned business traveler, I have gotten pretty adept at being able to anticipate what results to expect both from a business perspective and cultural experience during a trip. This trip exceeded all my expectations.
In an earlier post, I wrote about the Event Highlight feature – a feature that allows you to highlight the cells that were updated with new information when you were away. That way you can focus on just the new data that came in.
Some of you might wonder what happened to the feature in release 1.1, since the event highlight icon has been removed from the toolbar.
Based on user feedback, we’ve made some changes to that feature. Click on the “Events” section in the tool bar.
The feature I’d like to write about today is our "Fuzzy Search" feature. For those of you familiar with our platform, whenever you want to make changes to a grid or graph, we take you to a ‘builder’ that looks like this: