Four years on, S&P's Kensho buy yields new automation tools, saving decades of manual data analysis

For decades, a team of editors and transcribers at S&P Global pored over transcripts of investor and earnings calls, management presentations, and acquisition calls from some of the most financially relevant companies to bring insights and actionable intelligence to the information giant’s consumers .

Over the years, as technology evolved and approaches like artificial intelligence and natural-language processing began to offer ways to automate data ingestion and cataloging. S&P invested in the