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 ranks, and competes, alongside Slack, Microsoft, Google and Facebook in the enterprise collaboration market…. and…. of course…. Bloomberg. […]
The Slack platform is a great collaboration tool for teams, that has created a shared workspace with a messenger interface. This communication solution allows teams to add anything from tasks to GIFs in Slack channels. Users can upload files as they are chatting about them, which is useful but files can’t be opened within the […]
The popularity of the ipushpull plug-in for WordPress has been going strong for nearly 2 years which is why ipushpull is ranked number 1 on Google for “Excel to WordPress” and “Excel to websites”. Use of the plugin is far and wide with a variety of companies from different industries all pushing data from Excel spreadsheets […]
ipushpull is a cloud based data sharing platform that connects desktop Excel to websites, webapps and cloud services. Our number 1 ranked WordPress plugin lets you display live Excel data onto the web. From there you can choose whether you want to share it privately with other ipushpull users or share it with everyone by […]
Microsoft Teams is no longer in 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 platform managed to attract more than 50,000 companies (including Accenture, ConocoPhillips, Deloitte, Expedia […]
Ever since the Brexit vote, the FinTech industry has been busy trying to determine what it could mean for their business. There were high hopes that Theresa May’s Lancaster House speech would provide some clarity but it only hinted at what agreements might be struck. UK-based banks are considering moving staff abroad, VC investments in FinTech are decreasing […]
Big Data describes the increasingly large volumes of data that companies collect every day, through social media, clickstreams, data sensors and point-of-sales. If they’re able to analyse these massive sets of structured and unstructured data and unearth the patterns and trends hidden inside, companies can discover a great deal about their customers, employees and even their business’ operational efficiency. Big Data […]
Despite the challenges that have been thrown at London post-Brexit, the Fintech capital of Europe is booming. With the abundance of tech talent and with access to the world’s largest financial hub, it’s no wonder that the FinTech events scene is more buzzing than ever. UK FinTech firms have generated a whopping $5.4 billion in […]
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 able to turn its power to solve a huge range of challenges. However, many people are also using Excel for […]
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 tech press at the moment, particularly in the area of cloud services and productivity tools. For tech trends 2017: convergence […]