Workspace

Workspace, a LSEG (London Stock Exchange Product) product, is a premier business information platform the business community uses.

Workspace

Workspace, a LSEG (London Stock Exchange Product) product, is a premier business information platform the business community uses.

Workspace contents

Workspace provides international financial, economic, stock market and company data. Includes coverage of equities, stock market and bond indices, economic statistics, foreign exchange rates, interest rates, fixed income instruments and derivatives.

Workspace desktop software allows data to be downloaded and exported and can be used to create graphics, reports and spreadsheets.

Workspace offers the world’s most comprehensive historical database for numerical macroeconomic and cross-asset financial data which started life in the 1960s as Datastream.
Within Workspace, you can access Datastream charting tools and analytics to help you work with data.
Historical numerical financial database across all major asset classes with history back to the 1950s.
Over 350 million time-series including 5 million economic time series across 156 national economies.

Some key features of Workspace are:
Provides access to extensive business and financial information for listed companies, including:

  • Current data of exchange-traded instruments (stocks, warrants, options, futures, indexes, etc.)
  • news
  • economic data,
  • commodity data,
  • foreign exchange rates
  • interest rates

Data visualization tools

  • A vast library of fully customizable analytical functions and expressions
  • Charting and Analytical tools, such as correlation and regression, for exploring relationships between different asset types
  • Integration with Microsoft office
  • Powerful Excel Add-in for creating sophisticated models
    • Automatically update your charts and tables in Excel, Word or PowerPoint
    • Provides customizable and premade workspaces to view data
  • Users will be able to save and export views if they wish for later use.


To extract data use Datastream (access through Workspace)

Hints from the librarian 

CBS Library provides access to 5 simultaneous users in the CBS Library Data Lab. Only CBS students and -staff have access to Workspace.

 

Log in procedure

The Workspace login procedure is simple - but may require a little patience.

1.    Log in on your computer with your CBS login
2.    Go to Start (bottom left corner) and select Eikon - Datastream
3.    A new remote desktop will open. Here you select the Workspace icon

After starting Workspace, you can open Microsoft Excel.

Here you will find Datastream Formula under the Workspace tab.

For more details visit: Libguide on How to use Datastream


If you need to make an APA reference for data, reports or anything else from Workspace, see examples of similar references

Historical data

If you need historical data and wish to export large sets, Datastream is a good place to start.

Training resources

Contact

Søren Madsen, CBS Library, sm.lib@cbs.dk

 

Facts about Eikon

Coverage Up to 100 years back, depending of the type of data
Geography Global (the World)
Provider LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

 

The page was last edited by: CBS Library // 03/31/2025