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It’s a very wide spectrum in capital markets between legacy user environments at one end and the equivalent of the SpaceX Dragon 2 mission and its recent launch at the other, where automation is centre stage. There is a lot that firms can be doing...

2017 has been an interesting year for the enterprise workspace collaboration market with Symphony becoming the latest unicorn fetching a valuation topping $1bn -which means Wall Street now has its own coveted ‘unicorn’ tech company. Symphony now...

Microsoft Teams is no longer in the soft launch or ‘customer preview’ as the $500 billion company likes to call it. As of now, Teams is included in the Enterprise and Small Business versions of Office 365. During its soft launch, the collaboration...

Microsoft Excel‘s entrenched position as the most popular business tool owes a great deal to its breadth of functionality and flexibility. Over the years Excel users, from small businesses to financial professionals, have found that they’ve been...

Convergence. Sounds like the title of a dodgy b-movie, doesn’t it? And it is. In fact, there are several. But I’m not concerned with badly-scripted, straight-to-streaming films today. Convergence is one of the hottest subjects in the tech press at...

As a trader or risk manager in the digital age, is there any reason for you to be tied to your desk? Could you be spending more time doing more productive things, improving systems, analysing markets or even freeing up time for the family? Read on...

Following the release of the new ipushpull web platform, the Excel add-in has now been updated with great new features for a simplified experience and a much faster Excel workflow. These features provide a streamlined version of the Excel add-in and...

Uploading and downloading files, cutting and pasting, is that how you share on-premise and cloud documents right now? Not as smooth as you’d like, is it? There is a much more streamlined process, without extra downloads or extra copies of files...

When it comes to effectively sharing and collaborating on Excel data, one might think that ipushpull works similarly to Dropbox. Both applications incorporate cloud hosting, data sharing, and editing by multiple users straight from desktop...

Earlier this year Microsoft executives were internally pushing for a bid for Slack at about $8 billion (at the time Slack was valued at $3.8 billion). However, this was vetoed by none other than Mr Gates and CEO Satya Nadella. They both believed...