Excel stories
Pressure is mounting on UK firms as 43% of accountants say they plan to leave within a year amid surging demand for advice.
Financial institutions will gain access to licensed market data and governance tools as OpenAI targets research, modelling and client documents.
Businesses are now under pressure to turn early AI enthusiasm into measurable productivity gains, with governance and workflow redesign key to success.
Small businesses and accountants could save time on reconciliation and month-end work as Xero widens AI tools across payroll, payments and reporting.
The HEOR tech firm is using generative AI to cut approval analyses from years to weeks, reshaping launch decisions and regulator responses.
Advanced automation remains a minority use case in Europe, where two-thirds of Ajelix users rely on AI mainly for formula generation.
Users of Panopto's video platform can now query archives in plain language and turn recordings into quizzes, boosting learning and analytics.
Notebook users can now query local pandas data with SQL and pass results back to Python, reducing data shuffling in analytics workflows.
Microsoft 365 users may see stronger first drafts and faster analysis as OpenAI's latest model becomes the default Copilot engine.
It could cut time spent switching between apps by letting small businesses pull live accounts data into Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Copilot Chat.
Treasury teams could cut forecast errors and free staff from manual work if they fix fragmented data and weak governance, EY India said.
Australian firms could reclaim staff time by trimming repetitive admin, with Omniche warning that many AI projects miss the real bottlenecks.
Schools can now build timetables in hours instead of spreadsheets, as Tes moves the annual planning task onto a cloud platform.
The award underlines a year of rapid expansion for the East Yorkshire consultancy, which grew headcount from seven to 20 in 12 months.
The new software aims to cut reliance on spreadsheets and curb reconciliation errors as private capital firms juggle carry, ownership and compensation.
Switching from ChatGPT to Copilot exposed data-loss, support and trust risks, as prompts and tools built by staff proved hard to move or manage.
Most firms are not getting the return they expected from finance platforms, with 89.3% using less than three quarters of available functions.
Fragmented banking, payments and accounting data is slowing reporting and weakening AI answers for businesses trying to act in real time.
Private capital firms using Claude may cut days of manual reporting as Carta rolls out plugins that work inside its permissioned records and audit trails.
Small firms can now track assets and keys from GBP £20 a month, as AssetControl targets spreadsheet-based operations with browser software.
