Select a link for documentation on each of the Morningstar research software products.
(PLEASE NOTE: These are archived guides. Please refer to the downloads pages for more recent versions.)
Client Application Installation Guide - Installation guide with instructions for installing Commodity Charts, Commodity DataServer Add-in (Microsoft Excel) and Commodity Query.
Quick Start Guide - Energy
Commodity Add-In - The Commodity Add-In is a high-powered tool that brings consolidated market data alongside Morningstar's rigorous quality-assurance checks into Microsoft® Excel®.
Commodity Charts - Creates graphs and tables of any data series stored in the Commodity DataServer via point-and-click interfaces integrated into Microsoft Excel, allowing you to easily generate forward curves and model energy contracts and prices.
Commodity DataServer Add-in (Microsoft Excel) - Provides an easy way to retrieve data from the Commodity DataServer database for use in Excel® spreadsheets.
Commodity Query - Our premiere analytical software for modeling and evaluating time-series data. With a menu-driven interface that enables easy creation of near-English queries, Commodity Query is a powerful tool designed to help with a wide variety of tasks related to analyzing data for decision-making intelligence.
Commodity DataServer Dashboard - The Commodity DataServer Dashboard allows users to access much of the functionality of the Commodity DataServer through an intuitive and expandable graphic user interface.
