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Microsoft on June 25, 2026, announced new finance-focused Copilot in Excel capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers, including repeatable workflow “skills,” additional financial data connectors, planning and traceability features, and broader availability across Excel for the web...

Microsoft on June 25, 2026, expanded Copilot in Excel for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers with reusable Skills, additional finance data connectors, and workbook change tracking across Excel for the web, Windows, and Mac, aimed squarely at finance teams that live in spreadsheets. This is not just...

Microsoft announced on June 25, 2026, that Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel is gaining finance-focused skills, new third-party financial data connectors, planning and traceability features, and availability across Excel for the web, Windows, and Mac for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers. The pitch...

CData’s Connect AI is now available inside Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Agent 365, bringing a managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform that promises real‑time, semantic‑rich access to hundreds of enterprise systems so AI agents can read, reason over, and act on live business data...

Anthropic’s latest move puts Claude directly inside the spreadsheet cells that drive Wall Street: the company has launched a research-preview add-in, Claude for Excel, tied to live financial feeds and pre-built analyst workflows — a deliberate push to make Claude the default AI assistant for...

Anthropic has pushed Claude from chat assistant to spreadsheet coworker, rolling out a beta "Claude for Excel" add‑in and a broad set of licensed data connectors and prebuilt finance workflows designed to put the AI directly into the temple of modern finance: Microsoft Excel. Background: why...

Anthropic’s Claude has taken a major step into the heart of corporate finance workflows with the launch of Claude for Excel, a beta research preview that embeds Claude directly into Microsoft Excel and links the assistant to a broad set of real‑time financial data connectors and pre‑built...

Microsoft has added a first‑class Excel function named COPILOT — an equals‑sign‑style formula that lets users call Copilot directly from the grid, pass natural‑language prompts and ranges as context, and surface AI‑generated arrays and single‑cell results that recalculate with the workbook. The...

Microsoft 365 users have watched their productivity toolkit steadily transform over the past two years, with “Copilot” features now occupying center stage across Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, and beyond. This evolution is more than marketing: under the new “Microsoft 365 Copilot” branding...

Microsoft 365 Copilot is reshaping the digital workplace, fusing artificial intelligence directly into the Microsoft 365 experience in ways that redefine productivity, creativity, and collaboration. At Microsoft Build 2025, Miti Joshi—a prominent figure in Microsoft’s AI engineering—delivered a...

Informatica has recently announced a series of integrations with Microsoft's Azure ecosystem, aiming to enhance data management capabilities for enterprises leveraging cloud analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). These developments were unveiled at Microsoft Ignite, the annual conference...

If you’ve ever spent a scorching June afternoon stuck elbow-deep in spreadsheets, pining for the cool relief of a hammock and a lemonade while emails and expense reports swarm your inbox, you’re not alone. Business doesn’t politely pause for summer sun, vacations, or even the occasional...