DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	12 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2026
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS FactSet Research Systems Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries ("we," "our," "us," the "Company" or "FactSet") is a global data and artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions provider to the financial markets with open and flexible technologies that deliver financial intelligence to finance professionals worldwide. Our platform delivers expansive data, sophisticated analytics, and flexible, AI-powered technologies used by global financial professionals to power their critical investment, dealmaking and advisory workflows. As of August 31, 2026, we had more than 9,200 clients and over 260,000 professionals using our solutions, including institutional asset managers, bankers, wealth managers, asset owners, partners, hedge fund professionals, corporate users, private equity and venture capital professionals, and market infrastructure participants. Our revenues are primarily derived from subscriptions to our multi-asset class data and solutions that include workstations, portfolio analytics, enterprise data solutions, and AI solutions. We also offer managed services that operate as an extension of our clients' internal teams to support data, performance, risk and reporting, and AI-enabled workflows. We drive our business based on a detailed understanding of our clients’ workflows. We provide financial data and market intelligence on securities, companies, industries and people to enable our clients to research advisory, dealmaking and investment ideas and analyze, monitor and manage their portfolios. Our solutions for institutional buyside clients span the investment lifecycle of investment research, portfolio construction and analysis, trade execution, performance measurement, risk management and reporting. Our banking solutions facilitate company and market research, enabling clients to perform fundamental analysis, generate ideas, and build and distribute presentations through proprietary and third-party databases with global coverage of public and private markets, granular industry metrics, and deep historical data. Our wealth solutions support home office, advisory, and client engagement workflows, providing financial advisors with tools to monitor markets and their book of business, prospect for new clients, and generate proposals, while enhancing existing client relationships and improving firm-wide efficiency across the investment portfolio lifecycle. We provide open and flexible data and technology offerings, including a configurable desktop and mobile platform, comprehensive data solutions, cloud-based digital solutions, application programming interfaces ("APIs"), and model context protocol ("MCP") servers. AI is embedded throughout these offerings to enhance data discovery, automate routine workflows and improve the speed and accuracy of client insights. Our platform and solutions are supported by our client success and service teams. We operate our business through three reportable segments ("segments"): the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Within each segment, we offer a range of products, data, managed services, and analytical applications which can be tailored to a wide range of workflows. Refer to Note 16, Segment Information for further discussion on our segments.

DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

12 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2026

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

FactSet Research Systems Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries ("we," "our," "us," the "Company" or "FactSet") is a global data and artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions provider to the financial markets with open and flexible technologies that deliver financial intelligence to finance professionals worldwide.

Our platform delivers expansive data, sophisticated analytics, and flexible, AI-powered technologies used by global financial professionals to power their critical investment, dealmaking and advisory workflows. As of August 31, 2026, we had more than 9,200 clients and over 260,000 professionals using our solutions, including institutional asset managers, bankers, wealth managers, asset owners, partners, hedge fund professionals, corporate users, private equity and venture capital professionals, and market infrastructure participants. Our revenues are primarily derived from subscriptions to our multi-asset class data and solutions that include workstations, portfolio analytics, enterprise data solutions, and AI solutions. We also offer managed services that operate as an extension of our clients' internal teams to support data, performance, risk and reporting, and AI-enabled workflows.

We drive our business based on a detailed understanding of our clients’ workflows. We provide financial data and market intelligence on securities, companies, industries and people to enable our clients to research advisory, dealmaking and investment ideas and analyze, monitor and manage their portfolios. Our solutions for institutional buyside clients span the investment lifecycle of investment research, portfolio construction and analysis, trade execution, performance measurement, risk management and reporting. Our banking solutions facilitate company and market research, enabling clients to perform fundamental analysis, generate ideas, and build and distribute presentations through proprietary and third-party databases with global coverage of public and private markets, granular industry metrics, and deep historical data. Our wealth solutions support home office, advisory, and client engagement workflows, providing financial advisors with tools to monitor markets and their book of business, prospect for new clients, and generate proposals, while enhancing existing client relationships and improving firm-wide efficiency across the investment portfolio lifecycle. We provide open and flexible data and technology offerings, including a configurable desktop and mobile platform, comprehensive data solutions, cloud-based digital solutions, application programming interfaces ("APIs"), and model context protocol ("MCP") servers. AI is embedded throughout these offerings to enhance data discovery, automate routine workflows and improve the speed and accuracy of client insights. Our platform and solutions are supported by our client success and service teams.

We operate our business through three reportable segments ("segments"): the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Within each segment, we offer a range of products, data, managed services, and analytical applications which can be tailored to a wide range of workflows. Refer to Note 16, Segment Information for further discussion on our segments.