Xignite, which provides global financial market data, is working with Wolfram Alpha, so that Wolfram Alpha users can get such data when performing a query.

You recall Wolfram Alpha right? It was the subject of a lot of buzz earlier this year, as its aim was to provide a new way of searching as a knowledge engine, which provides users with definitive answers rather than pages of results. It delivers these answers with a mixture of many clever algorithms and heuristics, lots of linguistic discovery and linguistic curation, and what probably amount to some serious theoretical breakthroughs, as creator Stephen Wolfram put it. With Wolfram Alpha, weve created the best possible financial portal where all analyses and visualizations are calculated the moment they are requested using realtime market data and financial information, Peter Overmann, director at Wolfram Research tells WebProNews.