Crux Blog:
Navigating the Future
of External Data.

Sphere by Crux – is a cutting edge solution for quickly and efficiently onboarding external data for financial institutions, transforming raw data into model ready insights in minutes. By leveraging AI and seamless cloud integration, Sphere accelerates market data access, eliminates bottlenecks, and ensures reliable, high-quality data to drive alpha and maximize returns.

Crux has partnered with Morningstar to streamline external-data integration, enabling financial firms to access Morningstar’s critical datasets more quickly and efficiently in the cloud. By providing pre-built pipelines and analytics-ready data, Crux reduces onboarding delays and empowers end users to extract value from their data in days rather than months.

Manual data onboarding comes with hidden costs - from wasted engineering time to compliance risk. In this post, we reveal the 5 biggest cost drivers and show how automation flips these drains into ROI and operational alpha. Discover how leading firms scale faster, cut errors, and accelerate insight with Crux.

As the demand for high-quality, model-ready data surges and costs continue to rise, Operational Alpha is emerging as the key to staying competitive in 2025.