ipushpull win Benzinga Global Fintech Award 2018

ipushpull have been announced as winners in the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards on May 16^th 2018, setting the live data sharing and collaboration platform apart as the most innovative by what is the equivalent of the fintech Oscars. Each year the greatest advances in fintech from leaders and visionaries in the worlds of finance and technology compete for the sought after prize.

The company was recognised for its vision of real-time data interoperability by improving and unifying the data sharing landscape in financial markets, by being awarded the ‘Best Proprietary platform or API’ in the category, having competed against 16 other companies in this fintech category. With 200 finalists contending for prestigious awards, winners were determined by a panel of judges made up of industry experts from firms such as Citi, JP Morgan, Alliance Bernstein, Nasdaq, D.E. Shaw, Fidelity, DRW and Worldquant.

Benzinga is a leading financial media publication and data provider that was founded in 2010 by Jason Raznick. We are very proud to have been chosen by Benzinga and to receive this award at the New York show.

Benzinga CEO Jason Raznick says:

“The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards has consistently highlighted the work of the most innovative companies in fintech for four years. We’re proud to celebrate the trailblazing work of companies like ipushpull.”

CEO Matthew Cheung on receiving the award:

“Thanks to the early adopters of ipushpull, 2018 has been a tipping point for the company with banks, brokers and funds using our platform for live, secure, access controlled data distribution and collaboration across a variety of applications and cloud services.”

About ipushpull

ipushpull is a secure, audited and access-controlled live data sharing and collaboration platform providing live data interoperability between applications over the cloud or over an intranet, meaning that ranges of live data can be shared and collaborated on between connected applications.

BZ Awards are hosted annually and provide the opportunity to meet and network with executives, developers and innovators from the worlds of finance and technology. For more information about Benzinga visit www.benzinga.com

To learn more about ipushpull please visit https://www.ipushpull.com or contact the business development team on sales@ipushpull.com

April 3, 2018April 4, 2018

What’s new in the Spring release of ipushpull?

Live collaboration between applications, live charts, and multi-tiled workspaces

NEW EXCEL ADD-IN

The new release of the ipushpull Excel Add-in is easier to use and importantly allows you to share live charts! The ipushpull Excel Add-in allows you to collaborate in real-time with other desktop Excel users while also connecting to other applications such as the ipushpull Web App, interactive web pages or chat applications like Symphony and Slack.

WEB APP & EMBEDDED PAGES UPDATE

With the new version of ipushpull you can now copy and paste data directly into the Web App from other applications making ipushpull even easier to use. You can also now display live updating charts and other live content in the ipushpull Web App, in connected applications or embedded in your WordPress site or other website.

WORKSPACES IN BETA LAUNCH

ipushpull is excited to launch Workspaces to our beta testing customers. Rather than switching between pages in your ipushpull Web App, you can now view multiple pages as tiles in a configurable live Workspace, retaining all the features of the ipushpull Web App.

Workspaces also allows new content types to be displayed such as live updating charts generated from our new Excel add-in, PDFs or presentations, and even live streaming audio or video. Everything you need in one manageable space with the same reliable permissions.

January 30, 2018April 25, 2018

Adaptable Tools partners with ipushpull to deliver real-time interoperability for institutional trading blotters

ipushpull is delighted to announce a new member of our ecosystem. Adaptable Tools, who provide a powerful and configurable blotter interface to institutional traders, has become the latest FinTech company to integrate with our service. The Adaptable Tools integration with ipushpull delivers real-time interoperability and data sharing from their popular sales and trading blotters into any other grid-based application such as Excel, the ipushpull Symphony app, internal applications and web pages.

Traders can share real-time blotter updates direct to clients and colleagues

AdaptableBlotter.JS is one of the most feature-rich blotters used across the financial markets today. Our partnership means Adaptable Blotter users can now securely share dynamic real-time updates from their trading and risk systems with their colleagues and clients, offering a unique and innovative way of data sharing, utilising best of breed FinTech components.

Blotters are used by traders, brokers and portfolio managers in the equity and fixed income markets to record and review the trades they have made during the day. These users often need to share their blotters internally with risk managers and the back office, and externally with the clients they’re trading on behalf of. Traditionally this is done by cutting and pasting data into emails and spreadsheets, so it’s out of date the moment it’s been sent. The Adaptable / ipushpull integration lets traders highlight ranges from their blotter and share them with their network in real time, so they’re always up-to-date.

“Adaptable Blotter is delighted to be partnering with ipushpull to provide the best data-sharing experience in the market. As HTML5 financial applications have matured the key focus now is on interoperability and data collaboration. ”

Jonny Wolfson – CTO Adaptable Tools

Real-time data interoperability – trading blotters

This video shows the integration in action. Each time the data in the highlighted cells in the blotter on the left updates, the update is published to ipushpull. The people you’re sharing the data with can see the updates in real time in the Symphony and Excel sessions on the right.

So traders can give their clients live updates as they work deals for them, and risk managers can keep track of their traders’ performance in real time, even when they’re away from their desk. And because ipushpull is secure, access-controlled and audited, data can only be shared with right people.

You can try this out for yourself today. Sign up for a free trial of ipushpull and run the AdaptableBlotter.JS demo here. Or get in touch to find out more.

About AdaptableBlotter.JS

AdaptableBlotter.JS is a high-performance HTML5 grid solution that provides all the advanced functionality that experienced users demand and depend on, including cutting-edge auditing features vital in today’s regulatory environment. Learn more at http://www.adaptabletools.com/

About ipushpull

ipushpull provides secure real-time data sharing and collaboration for financial institutions between desktop applications such as Excel, cloud services such as Symphony, databases and internal proprietary systems on a fully access-controlled and audited platform. Learn more at https://www.ipushpull.com/.

November 9, 2017November 9, 2017

Share spreadsheets into Slack – app takes data interoperability to the next level

In a recent blog we highlighted that if chat and collaboration platforms are looking to replace email then ipushpull is positioned to replace file attachments and file sharing.

In the past few years, driven by version control frustrations, email fatigue, security concerns and the desire for faster, more interactive communication, the sharing of information via email is increasingly being overshadowed by a growing range of collaboration tools.

This space is occupied by a combination of familiar tech heavyweights together with specialist collaboration app providers where Microsoft Teams and Workplace by Facebook compete with the likes of Slack, Symphony and Atlassian’s Stride.

The development of this new set of messaging and collaboration applications offers new channels for ipushpull‘s real-time data interoperability for end users in applications they already use. ipushpull is one of the first providers to really push to the limit the capabilities of these new collaboration tools, making it easy to share spreadsheets into Slack and Symphony along with other data.

In recent years, Slack has become one of the most popular and established applications in the chat space and has seen incredible growth with 6 million active daily users. It offers cross-team channels, private groups and 1-to-1 direct messages for messaging as well as file sharing.

However, even though Slack allows spreadsheets to be uploaded on the go, there is still no way to view them in the app itself. For sharing data from Excel spreadsheets, this can be a big drawback introducing the common problems of version control and collaboration difficulties associated with files. While users of Google Sheets still have to jump out of Slack (and thus context switch) to see their data, leaving ipushpull as the only app on the market that allows users to share spreadsheets into Slack.

How to share spreadsheets into Slack with ipushpull

Until now there has been no way to view selected ranges of data from spreadsheets within the Slack chat platform. ipushpull‘s Slack app offers just this – the ability to pull a selected range of data from a live spreadsheet directly into a Slack channel whether that’s a snapshot, live data or streaming data, in a secure encrypted form, so everyone on the channel can view and collaborate on the very latest information.

The ipushpull Slack app can support a wide range of use cases where customers have a need to share data in a secure way. Static, live or streaming data may be shared within the channel manually or via simple ipushpull Slack bots. Let’s explore a couple of use cases to explain how this functionality can be used.

Snapshot, or static, data

Snapshot data maybe shared manually or automatically when certain user-defined criteria are met. For example, a manager of a chain of retail stores may share sales data with management or staff by copying and pasting data into a chat channel, instead they can improve scalability and efficiency of their service by using a bot (also provided by ipushpull of course) to share the current state of sales or automatically alert management when a sales target is hit. All from a spreadsheet connected to Slack via ipushpull.

Live data

Live data enables someone in a team, working in a collaborative way, to make updates to data in their Excel spreadsheet, or local database, for example, and have that automatically – in real time – update in the ‘team’ Slack channel. For example, a multi-national enterprise, with a bid team working in diverse locations, can use the chat and ipushpull to collaborate on a financial model in a spreadsheet with changes reflected in real time within the Slack channel. The ‘no files’ model combined with the use of live data ensures the model is maintained in a single version and is always up to date.

Share data in Slack

Streaming data

Streaming data allows a real-time ‘ticking’ feed of data to be viewed in Slack. For example, whether monitoring the US stock market or live sporting results from one of ipushpull‘s streaming ‘public’ pages, or providing access to ‘in-house’ private streaming data in manufacturing or health sectors, ipushpull delivers the ability to share true real-time updates in fast changing environments where access to up-to-the-second information makes all the difference.

These use cases demonstrate just some of the ways ipushpull’s chat integrations can be used to enhance and improve workflow and communication within organisations. And with the recent launch of shared channels within Slack, which support intra-company collaboration, there will be many more to come.

So chat is great – but it takes more than just chat to make real improvements in business efficiency. That’s why ipushpull is focussed on taking chat to the next level.

Co-author: John Eccleston

September 28, 2017September 28, 2017

ipushpull at Symphony Innovate 2017

The ipushpull team is excited to be heading to New York for the annual Symphony Innovate conference on October 4^th 2017. Come and visit us at our booth for a demo of our popular Symphony integration and find out more about how our customers are using it. And don’t miss our CEO, Matthew Cheung, participating in the Operations Panel alongside

other thought leaders from the technology and investment banking worlds, discussing how Symphony’s technology is optimising communications internally and between financial institutions.

#SI2017 Symphony Innovate – The Event Itself

Symphony Innovate 2017 is a one-day conference led by Symphony, in which industry-leading technology and financial executives, engineers and thought leaders from around the world are brought together to discuss how technology enables the ‘power of community’ for the financial services industry. The event will see executives from leading technology firms and investment banks such as Google and Goldman Sachs, take the stage alongside executives from FinTech firms such as ipushpull.

At Symphony Innovate ipushpull will showcase its Symphony app, which combines secure enterprise messaging with live data sharing and collaboration. Whilst Symphony provides an alternative to email and outdated, expensive enterprise messaging applications, ipushpull provides a replacement for file sharing and email attachments and facilitates easy-to-use cross-platform data sharing and collaboration.

About ipushpull

ipushpull is a secure cloud service for sharing and collaborating on live data which links directly into the apps our customers already use, including Microsoft Excel, Symphony, websites and mobile. We help our customers to:

Improve workflow: by sharing data and removing the need to share files, users can work on data inside of existing applications they use – which means no application context switching or version control problems
Increase efficiency: improving collaboration and communication by always having access to the most up-to-date information
Reduce risk: eliminating the risks of file sharing by controlling, tracking, and reducing email attachments

The partnership with Symphony means ipushpull is embedded within the Symphony messaging platform. The ipushpull app for Symphony lets you share data with your Symphony network, collaborate on it, and link it in real time to your spreadsheets, databases, cloud services and internal systems.

About Symphony

Founded in 2014, Symphony is a secure, cloud-based, messaging and collaboration platform with a $1 billion+ valuation and over 200,000 users. Symphony has been backed by major investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley, and has become hugely popular amongst financial institutions across the globe. Security and compliance is at the core of the platform while end users benefit from improved workflow efficiency by replacing email communication and legacy chat platforms.

Since its founding, Symphony has allowed its partners to integrate HTML5 applications within its platform, thus enabling developers to build rich user experiences, and facilitate collaboration whilst minimising context switching. The ipushpull App extends Symphony’s capabilities by enabling users to collaborate on data within the platform in real-time.

January 24, 2017February 9, 2017

iPushPull – Giving you Big Data, Fast

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 is becoming the key basis of competition, increasing productivity and aiding innovation, as found by MGI and McKinsey’s Business Technology Office. But if we can’t get to big data, fast, is there any point?

For companies completing operations such as fraud detection and compliance reporting, for example, data needs to be analysed on demand and acted on quickly or it loses value. To get around this issue many industries, including financial services, have started to integrate outside API technology.

The Problem with Big Data

As a recent article from DataInformed stated, data has a shelf life. It’s all very well if your analytics framework can tell you how you should have kept your customers satisfied yesterday. However, you’re likely to lose out to a competitor who has worked out how to keep them satisfied today and tomorrow.

The era of big data seems to be fostering the false notion that we are obliged to retain any data that we come across as it could potentially be useful. Companies need to employ a ‘use it or lose it’ attitude in order to combat this data hoarding. Data needs to become transparent and usable at a higher frequency, making big data fast and flexible. This can lead not only to better consumer insights, but also expose variability and boost performance through the collection of accurate and detailed information on everything from product inventories and purchase behaviour to employee performance.

This is particularly relevant in the financial markets, where in banking and insurance, enterprises need immediate access to the most relevant data. They need big data, fast. It is far more valuable than the petabytes of historical data that has sat in warehouses for years. Having rapid access to relevant information can be used for low frequency forecasting, high frequency nowcasting and help management make more precise business decisions.

The Solution

At iPushPull, we’re experts in delivering real-time data to the desktop for our financial markets customers, from trading services to Fortune 100 banks. Not only do we help you get access to your big data in less than a second, but we also deliver it to the applications you and your team already use, like Microsoft Excel. And we let you do more with that information by letting you share it instantly and continuously between Microsoft Excel, Slack, Symphony, the web and mobile on our encrypted, audited and monitored platform.

Next we’re partnering with big data platforms like Cloudera and SAS. Just another way we give our customers real-time access to their analytics wherever they are, whenever they need it.

Please get in touch to find out more, or sign up for a free trial.