A new future may now be in prospect for trading systems: Excel Services is a centralized server-side technology that opens up opportunities for lower costs and higher revenues. Understanding and explaining the potential of the technology for capital markets firms is our focus at Accenture.

View the Screencast:
“The Future of Trading Systems?”
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This demo introduces Excel Services and provides a glimpse of key software features: spreadsheet sharing, business logic integration, the approvals process and upgrading. A smooth and accelerated migration to Excel Services is outlined.

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Excel Services maintains the benefits of using spreadsheets in the capital markets front office—speed, efficiency and flexibility—and solves Microsoft Excel's problems of devolved fragmentation, which create operational and financial risks and pose security and regulatory compliance issues. With Excel Services:

• Spreadsheets can be scaled across user groups.
• Calculations can be efficiently computed on the server.
• Change can be 'locked down' through centralized authorization.

Read the White Paper:
“The Future of Trading Systems? Harnessing the Collective Power of Excel.”
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This 18-page paper provides research data and an informed point of view on why Excel spreadsheets have become the traders' tool of choice and their haphazard pervasiveness, how to regain control through Excel Services, where hurdles exist to making such a transformation, why inaction is not an option and what expert help is available.

If your organization is considering its next step on the path to high performance in capital markets, then we invite you to use the learning tools provided here. For more information, or if you have questions, please contact us at Accenture.