news – ipushpull

November 4, 2015November 5, 2015

FuturesTechs chooses iPushPull for Secure Delivery of Financial Research

iPushPull and FuturesTechs Joint Venture

iPushPull is delighted to announce our new partnership with FuturesTechs, the FCA regulated & award-winning technical research company. FuturesTechs is using iPushPull’s new document distribution feature to securely deliver daily technical analysis research to their clients. This new feature enables iPushPull’s customers to share content with their clients across all devices while letting them control access and monitor document usage.

Clive Lambert, the founder of FuturesTechs, said yesterday:

“We feel the future of Research under the new MiFID II unbundling rules set to come in in 2017 will require secure delivery across all manner of devices, with the ability to audit, control and track usage. With the help of iPushPull, Futurestechs will be well placed to partner with all manner of financial institutions, offering a clean, flexible technology-driven solution to ensure white-label clients can control their brand, reach and pricing; offering our well respected and entirely independent analysis to their clients as a viable, compliant and cost effective alternative to the pre-MiFID II options currently available”.

Dan Eccleston, one of the co-founders of iPushPull, said:

“The way in which information is shared is changing rapidly as enterprises try to keep up with the flexibility of the cloud services now commonplace in consumer markets, while at the same time trying to maintain the all-important control and security businesses require. In addition to these challenges, regulators in financial markets are introducing rules which require businesses to show a far greater degree of transparency than has previously been required, particularly in relation to research materials.

We’re delighted that FuturesTechs has chosen iPushPull as a partner both to help them meet these regulatory challenges and to leverage iPushPull’s unique distribution platform to scale up its ability to distribute information simply and securely”.

For a free trial of FuturesTechs on iPushPull, please click here

About FuturesTechs

FuturesTechs is one of the UK’s leading independent technical analysis companies, founded by Clive Lambert in 2000. It is recognised as a leading research house and the winner of multiple industry awards. Clive is a well-known figure in the technical analysis and Futures industries. He was a board member of the UK Society of Technical Analysts between 2003 and 2011 and is still a regular speaker on their yearly Diploma Course, and is the Author of “Candlestick Charts“, published in 2009. FuturesTechs is FCA registered, registration number 460598.

July 12, 2015July 16, 2015

iPushPull Update: New Dashboard plus improved navigation and editing

We’ve been busy improving the iPushPull user experience and now we’re ready to go public with the new updates! This release adds a new dashboard to our web app with quick access to support and the latest company news. We’ve also made it easier to navigate around your folders and pages and improved page editing on our desktop and mobile sites. We’ve added comprehensive help for each new iPushPull update to the iPushPull Support Site.

New Dashboard

Several customers have asked us if we could make it easier to access support, product update information and company news from within the web app. So we’ve added a new dashboard to the site – see the picture above. The dashboard features quick links to useful support information plus the latest company news and tweets. You can also customise the dashboard by adding shortcuts to your favourite pages. Click on the following links to find out more about the Desktop Dashboard and Mobile Dashboard.

The dashboard will be displayed each time you log in, unless you choose your default folder and page instead (see this link for instructions about setting defaults). You can also display the dashboard by clicking the Home button in the top left corner of the web app.

New Navigation Bar

Our new Navigation Bar groups links to the dashboard, your personal profile settings and our support pages together in a single place. On desktop you can find it on the top left of the screen, under the iPushPull logo – for full details click here. On mobile it’s displayed at the top of your Folder List and Page List screens – click here for details.

Improved Navigation between your Folders and Pages

We’ve made it easier to drill down into your pages and move back up to your folder list. This is particularly useful when you have access to more than one folder or when you’re using our mobile site. Details about the desktop site here and the mobile site here.

Easier Page Editing

We’ve reduced the number of steps you need to take when editing your pages, and simplified the edit menu without reducing functionality. The result is a more streamlined experience, particularly when you’re using the mobile app. For more details click here for the desktop site and here for mobile.

We hope you like these improvements as much as we do! If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at support@ipushpull.com.

April 30, 2015May 20, 2015

iPushPull Update – Simple Page Access Management

We had to smile when Dropbox recently announced that they’d finally added User Groups support to their business package, as iPushPull has featured User Group access control from Day One. It makes it easy to manage the access each team within a business has to different pages – when a new team member joins, just add them to the team group, and when someone leaves, remove them. It’s a feature that’s very popular with our enterprise customers as it enables them to model their iPushPull page permissions directly on their organisational structure.

However, we thought that it might be a bit heavyweight for our smaller customers, so we spoke to some of them and came up with the new feature that we’ve released today: Basic Page Access Mode.

Basic Page Access mode simplifies the management of user access for businesses with a smaller number of users and pages. Page access permissions are displayed in a matrix showing which user has access to which page, and what level of access they have (Read/Write, Read Only or no access at all). Each square on the grid can be toggled between the three states by clicking it (or tapping it on mobile). The Transpose button lets you switch the horizontal and vertical axes if it better suits your particular set up.

Basic Access mode is now the default for customers on the Free Trial and Business plans. Enterprise users will be able to switch between Basic and Enterprise modes using the Page Access Mode dropdown on the Folder settings tab:

Note that your Enterprise mode settings are retained when you switch to Basic mode, and vice versa, so you can return to them by switching back. If you have any questions please contact our support team at support@ipushpull.com.

April 2, 2015April 2, 2015

Five things for SMEs and Startups to consider when applying for InnovateUK SMART grants

One of the highlights of the past year at iPushPull was winning our first SMART award from InnovateUK. Winning the second was even better (well, it was a lot more money!). Both grants have helped us fund our ground-breaking research and development work in the fields of security and encryption. We’re aiming to integrate the results of these projects into our existing product line, expand our offering into new areas and hopefully gain some IP in the process.

InnovateUK (formerly the Technology Strategy Board) is the branch of UK government responsible for funding, supporting and connecting innovative businesses. They run a wide range of funding competitions, many of which are targeted at specific technologies or problem areas. If you can’t afford to wait for the perfect competition for your product, the SMART awards for SME innovation might be right up your street. These competitions are run every two months.

Since we won the awards a number of people have asked us for advice about the grant application and management process. There is plenty of information on the SMART website and I advise you to read it all. But here are some things a start-up should consider before applying:

Applying for a grant is simply a matter of completing an application form. This form is fundamentally an exam paper, with each question worth a set number of marks. So pretend you’re back at school, read the questions carefully and make sure you answer what you are being asked (especially the questions about finance). The system rather laughably suggests that the form will take around an hour to complete – set aside a week or so to get it right.
There are three types of award, each for a different stage of a project’s lifecycle. A Proof-of-Market project leads neatly into a Proof-of-Concept, which leads in turn into a Development-of-Prototype. You can apply for any of these in isolation but, if possible, think strategically and maximise the amount of grant you can claim by starting with a Proof-of-Market project and taking it from there. And make your application for the next stage easier by shaping your project’s deliverables to match the inputs InnovateUK wants for the next project stage.
On the topic of deliverables – InnovateUK will want sight of the deliverables you tell them you will produce, even if they are just internal reports. So consider what is going to be valuable to your business and don’t over-promise.
SMART grants are a great way for start-ups to get investment without giving away equity. But they can only part-fund your project – you have to provide a significant proportion of the money from your own company funds. So perform a cash flow analysis up-front to make sure you’ll complete the project before running out of money. And don’t forget that…
Winning a grant may reduce the amount of R&D tax credits you can claim. The rules are complex – ask your accountant for help!

I hope this article doesn’t put anyone off, but I hope I’ve shown that applying for a grant is a more nuanced decision than it might seem at first. Good luck!

December 11, 2014May 20, 2015

PushPull Technology wins a second SMART Grant!

We seem to be making a habit of this… Following the successful conclusion of our Proof of Market project, InnovateUK (the new name for the Technology Strategy Board) has awarded us a Proof of Concept grant. This award will enable us to start to flesh out our novel encryption and security ideas into full-scale designs and prototype components. Our aim is to integrate them into our existing platform, expand into other product areas and hopefully gain some IP in the process.

June 17, 2014May 20, 2015

PushPull Technology wins a TSB SMART Grant!

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been awarded a SMART Proof of Market Grant from the Technology Strategy Board, the branch of the UK Government responsible for funding, supporting and connecting innovative businesses.

The purpose of the grant is to investigate the size of the potential market for some of the cutting-edge developments in networking, encryption and security we’ve been planning here in the Silicon Basement. We’re hoping that when they come to fruition we can integrate them into our existing services and expand our product range into new areas.