FDC3 Community
The Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium (FDC3) standard is maintained and used by leading organizations across the financial industry through a variety of different implementations.
For more detail on who's implementing the Desktop Agent (a "Platform Provider"), using FDC3 to enable interop with their apps (an "App Provider") or details on where to find tools, examples apps and training materials see below.
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AdapTable provides a range of cutting-edge DataGrid features including Alerts, Calculated Columns, Conditional Styles, Scheduled Reports, Custom Filters, full Audit, State Management, Team Sharing, Charting and much more.
AdapTable includes full FDC3 capabilities which developers can leverage to build applications that can broadcast FDC3 messages and raise FDC3 intents. AdapTable works with OpenFin, Finsemble, Glue42 and other platform providers to promote collaboration and communication between multiple widgets using FDC3.
ChartIQ is a powerful and flexible HTML5 charting library with millions of users worldwide. Written in JavaScript, it runs entirely within the browser. With state of the art integrations, including third-party apps, educational components, analysis, and more, you can create efficient workflows and streamline the way to work.
ChartIQ works on any platform (mobile, web, desktop) and any framework (Angular, React).
Most companies have at least one financial charting library for each platform or app they target—web, C#, Java, Android, iOS, etc., so developers have multiple code bases to maintain. With ChartIQ, write your code once and use it everywhere.
As part of FINOS' commitment to the FDC3 standard, ScottLogic have been engaged to produce a conformance testing framework for desktop agent API compatibility. Delivered as a set of FDC3 Applications, this Conformance pack will test 1.2 and 2.0 compatibility by exercising a desktop agent's implementation of the FDC3 API.
The FDC3 Desktop Agent is an open source implementation of FDC3 as a Chrome Extension.
Its purpose is to provide a quick and easy way for app developers to get started with the FDC3 APIs.
This project provides a fully open source implementation of the FDC3 interoperability standard.
Includes a fully featured and secure electron desktop agent featuring intent resolution, channel linking, directory search and a local file-based app directory implementation.
Conformance Details
- FDC3 Sail 1.0 Certified Conformant With FDC3 1.2 Specification on 6th December 2022 details
When developing an FDC3-compliant app or desktop agent, you need to test. Because FDC3 is about communicating, you need at least one other app to communicate with. You could grab an existing app, but there may not be one available that uses the messaging you need to test.
Many developers end up writing their own helper tool, which they often discard when the work on their app is done. We've seen so many devs create these throwaway apps that the Finsemble team decided to build and contribute a workbench (for any FDC3-compliant platform provider) that helps develop and test your app without writing throwaway code.
Finsemble is a no code/low code smart desktop platform that helps you achieve both visual and logical integration of various types of apps that you already use (web, native, in-house, and third-party, including Citrix virtual apps).
Connect apps into automated workflows to improve user efficiency and reduce error rates. With SelectConnect, you are in full control over which apps communicate and which are excluded.
Build a fully customizable UI to work across multiple windows and monitors.
Use our Smart Desktop Designer to create and share fully functioning, highly customized, integrated desktops in a few hours, no coding knowledge needed.
Conformance Details
- Finsemble v8.3.0-beta.3 Certified Conformant With FDC3 1.2 Specification on 2nd December 2022 details
The work with OpenFin and LSEG Turquoise recently picked up “Financial Technology Innovation of the Year” in the Financial News Excellence in Trading and Tech Awards 2022.
Glue42 enables organizations to build intelligent desktops that support configurable workflows between web and desktop applications. We’re working with some of the world’s biggest financial organizations to help them optimize complex processes and become more efficient.
Our flagship product, Glue42 Enterprise, is a desktop application integration platform that helps organizations create a simplified desktop experience by connecting the UI and data of any application, e.g., legacy, in-house or web. The platform supports open-source standards, including FINOS-FDC3, thus reducing delivery time and avoiding vendor lock-in.
The ipushpull platform seamlessly integrates with all desktop interop solutions and lets you build your own FDC3-driven workflows through configuration alone.
NexJ’s Integrated Advisor Desktop acts as a hub connecting best-of-breed solutions to deliver a superior seamless advisor experience that improves productivity, accelerates client acquisition, increases client retention and maximizes relationships. It contains all information about each client and household and integrates to other systems, allowing advisors to complete processes without logging into multiple applications and switching contexts.
They are starting to contribute to the development of FDC3 Sail.
OpenFin founded the FDC3 standard in 2017 in collaboration with major banks and asset managers. Deployed at more than 2400 financial firms, OpenFin OS, allows applications from multiple providers to co-exist and interoperate on the desktop.
OpenFin OS consists of a secure, Chromium-based runtime called Container and a visual interface called Workspace. Workspace gets you running in no time, with themeable UI components for complex windowing, advanced search, actionable notifications and application discovery.
You can also build your own solutions using the OpenFin Container, native language adapters and APIs while remaining compatible with everything else built on OpenFin.
Conformance Details
- OpenFin - 31.111.74.3 Certified Conformant With FDC3 1.2 Specification on 22nd February 2023
Symphony is powering over 2,000 community built applications and bots.
The company's mission is to promote a strong ecosystem of innovation by our customers and partners on the platform. As a result, the platform has been built with an open API approach to benefit our end users through the fostering of deep integrations and novel workflows.
Specifically, Symphony considers Desktop Integration Platforms integration as a key workflow enabler, bringing benefits like cross-application workflows and context sharing, better screen real-estate management and aggregated notification centers. As such, the company is actively working with the FINOS FDC3 working group to standardize DIP integration APIs across the industry.
Contributions are predominantly via FDC3 related meetings and discussions around the standards, contexts and intents.