Celebrating 10 Years of Symphony: Leading the Way in Fintech
Symphony turns 10! Discover how we’re transforming the financial industry through trust, passion, and cutting-edge technology.
Symphony 2.0 is loaded with features and tools to deliver a more intuitive and seamless user experience. The introduction of the workspaces feature is one of the most exciting and unique components of the new platform.
Workspaces allow Symphony users to not only monitor multiple chats or applications in a single window, but also to customize distinct layouts according to their individual needs and preferences. If you used the feature in Symphony 1.5 that allowed users to pin chat windows to a grid, workspaces is the new and improved Symphony 2.0 version of that functionality (if you didn’t pin chats in Symphony 1.5, give workspaces a try and let us know what you think).
To create a new workspace, simply drag and drop relevant chats into the same tab, or hover over a chat and click “add to current tab.”
Once you’ve positioned the chats you want to include, name the tab to save it as a workspace that you can close and relaunch at any time.
Users can update their workspaces by swapping out the chats in the grid and their changes will be saved automatically. They can create and save multiple workspaces, or have multiple grid layouts open across different tabs.
It sounds simple, but we’ve heard from users that this feature is a game-changer. Workspaces enable you to move quickly between chats, applications, and other modules saved to the same grid, as well as help ensure that you never lose track of an important chat. For example, a trader or salesperson can leverage workspaces to simultaneously monitor incoming chats from multiple clients, and respond quickly to time-sensitive messages. A researcher or IT manager can group conversations by project or topic, and monitor dashboards and integrations.
In addition, users can even pop workspaces out of their main platform to resize and move them anywhere on their screen. I personally like to use workspaces for my most active chat rooms; I find it easy to stay on top of busy conversations this way while keeping less active chats organized with folders.
Workspaces are also a perfect example of how Symphony 2.0 has preserved and enhanced the elements our users loved about previous versions. Users who valued the ability to pin multiple chats onto a single “canvas” wanted more control over how the grids were arranged, as well as the option to create more than one grid at a time. We listened, and workspaces were born out of this feedback–and we hope you’ll find them as intuitive, useful, and delightful as we do here at Symphony.
Symphony turns 10! Discover how we’re transforming the financial industry through trust, passion, and cutting-edge technology.
FDC3 aims to simplify communication between different financial applications. Traditionally, traders juggle multiple displays, manually transferring data. FDC3 enables automatic context sharing between these applications, saving time and reducing errors. Common uses span from pre-trade to post-trade activities.
Symphony, a member of the open-source foundation FINOS, is deeply involved in developing FDC3 and promoting its use in global capital markets. Our focus is standardizing integration APIs, giving customers flexibility in choosing their Desktop Integration Platform provider while supporting FDC3.
The 2020s are an unprecedented decade of disruption and every market participant is either the disruptor…or the disrupted. Today, we stand at the precipice of artificial general intelligence and every well-run organization should be actively seeking to disrupt themselves right now. Symphony has been able to remain almost a decade ahead of disruption by understanding one simple truth—thriving through disruption. This demands three things from your technology: resiliency, stability and flexibility.