Native Application Support for Modern Financial Desktops
io.Connect Desktop helps financial institutions integrate native, web, and legacy applications into one connected desktop experience. It supports applications built in-house as well as critical vendor systems users rely on every day — creating a foundation for modern workflows and AI-ready desktop experiences.
Native Apps Still Power Critical Financial Workflows
Financial institutions still rely on native desktop applications for trading, analytics, operations, spreadsheets, market data, and other business-critical workflows. These applications are essential to how users work, but they often sit outside modern platform experiences.
io.Connect Desktop brings these applications into the same connected environment as web apps and internal tools. Native apps can share context, trigger actions, generate notifications, participate in saved workspaces, and support advanced window management — helping firms modernize the desktop experience without replacing the systems users rely on.
Seamless Native + Web Integration
io.Connect hosts both native and web applications. Users can launch, tile, snap, and manage these apps within unified workspaces—streamlining context switching and reducing manual coordination.
Prebuilt Adapters for Common Native Apps
interop.io offers Application Adapters for widely used native systems, including Bloomberg Terminal, Fidessa, and Microsoft Excel.
These adapters help firms embed critical native applications into workflows, trigger actions programmatically, and coordinate data exchange with other desktop and web applications — without custom development.
Local and Remote Deployment Flexibility
io.Connect supports native application integration across local, remote, and virtualized environments. For firms operating across hybrid infrastructures, io.Bridge can extend interoperability across machines and environments, helping native applications participate in connected workflows beyond a single local desktop.
This gives platform teams the flexibility to support modern desktop experiences while working within existing infrastructure, security, and deployment models.
Native support comparison matrix
More than just an API connector
Logical integration
With io.Connect Desktop, native applications can participate in the same interoperability framework as web applications. Apps built in different languages and frameworks can share context, trigger actions, generate notifications, and connect to platform services through a common desktop architecture.
- Link or group apps together for context sharing across user-defined channels
- Trigger actions between native, web, and legacy applications
- Support authentication and authorization across connected workflows
- Generate notifications from native applications
- Collect workflow and usage data for analysis in io.Insights
Native apps are equal players
Visual integration
io.Connect Desktop helps native applications feel like part of the same platform experience as modern web applications. With native UI components such as titlebars for WinForms, WPF, JavaFX, and Java Swing, native apps can share the look, feel, and workspace behavior of the broader desktop environment.
- Snap, group, and tab native and web application windows
- Save and relaunch windows as part of unified workspaces
- Use a floating, dockable toolbar to launch apps and manage workspaces
- Create a more consistent desktop experience for users and AI-enabled workflows
Build an AI-Ready Desktop That Includes Native Apps
io.Connect Desktop helps firms modernize critical workflows without replacing the native applications users depend on every day. By enabling native, web, and legacy applications to participate in one connected desktop experience, interop.io gives platform teams a stronger foundation for better user experience and AI-enabled workflows.