Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS, pronounced "words") is a data analysis platform which features a variety of data sources. Originally developed for Wharton Business School faculty, WRDS is now marketed to corporations, nonprofits, academic institutions worldwide as a powerful tool for analyzing financial, accounting, banking, marketing, economic and statistical data.
WRDS is intended for advanced quantitative analysis, and can be accessed via a web interface or using the SAS statistical package as well as a variety of other statistical analysis tools.