Providing the level of indepth, realtime financial information and analysis that were able to offer with Wolfram Alpha would have been prohibitively expensive and timeconsuming without Xignites web services, he says.

With the volatile world economy, the demand for realtime financial information has exploded in the past year, he says. Now more than ever, consumers are constantly reassessing how they get their information on the web to ensure they have the latest and most intuitive answers and insights.Wolfram Alpha gets the following info from Xignite realtime and historical stock prices market indices interest ratescurrency exchange rates commodity prices various economic statisticsUsing Xignite Web services, Wolfram Alpha provides financial info for queries as simple as something like biggest automotive company, or something more complex like what is General Electrics dividend per share in euros. Results come based on realtime rates and location awareness according to Xignite.