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This means subscribing to a license for a Terminal to be installed onto a particular machine. This Terminal can be accessed by anyone at that company if they create a login for themselves.
What is BBO/Bloomberg Open?
This is where users with a BBO associated to their login are able to access the Bloomberg Terminal.
What is the Shared/Open Terminal?
This piece of hardware comes with both types of licenses.
What is the Bloomberg Keyboard?
This letter appears next to all the Attributes on the TRML S screen of an Open Terminal Serial Number.
What is the letter 'N'?
This means subscribing to a license for a single user to access Bloomberg from any application or computer, in or out of the office.
What is Bloomberg Anywhere/BBA?
This is how users with a BBO associated to their account are able to login at the Bloomberg Terminal.
What is just their login name and password?
This is a token like piece of equipment that an Anywhere user will carry around to allow them to biometrically authenticate themselves on the go.
What is a B-Unit?
This Terminal serial number is given to all BBA users along with their order for setup.
What is an Access Point?
This is what the acronym SID stands for.
What is Subscription Instance Display?
This is the download application that is only available on Windows PCs that users can use to login to the Bloomberg Terminal.
What is the Bloomberg Terminal Application/Software?
Anywhere users need this extra form of authentication to login in to the Terminal.
What is biometric authentication? B-Unit/Keyboard?
This is a serial number that an Anywhere user can install on any computer to then allow them to login to the Bloomberg Terminal.
What is an APOD?
This is where we can find out the license type a user has.
What is the user's SID page? SIDI <GO>
This is the website users can use to access the Terminal in the event they don't have a Windows PC or unable to download the software.
What is bba.bloomberg.net?
This is strictly the biometric sensor removed from the Bloomberg Keyboard that users can plug into their computer to biometrically authenticate themselves.
What is a B-Swipe?
This is how many serial numbers an Anywhere user can create using biometric authentication.
What is unlimited?
For a BBO license, this is where the SID is linked to.
What is the Open Terminal?
This is another place that Anywhere users are able login outside of the Bloomberg software and BBA website.
What is the Bloomberg Professional App?
This is extra equipment that users can also lease from us that is tied to a Terminal serial number. Primarily used in association to BBO licenses.
What are Flat Panels? What is BBPC?
This is the location that Open Terminals should be installed and remain for their entire subscription life cycle.
What is the client's office?