Tax solutions provider Avalara has joined the Shopify Tax Platform. Through the expanded partnership, Avalara can now assist all Shopify customers with their global tax compliance requirements, including sales tax, value-added tax, exemption certificate management, 1099 and W-9, property tax, and more. … Financial planning platform Vena announced the launch of Vena for Microsoft PowerPoint, a native integration with Microsoft 365 lets users dynamically connect charts, tables, textual narratives and dashboards from a built-in library of their existing financial and operational reports to any slide while maintaining their calculations, corporate branding, data visualizations and standard financial formatting; and interact with financial and operational data in real time and instantly refresh presentations with the latest results and Microsoft Excel formatting through a live integration with their Vena data model and reports. … Business management solutions provider Diligent announced that its recently released Board Reporting for Enterprise Risk Management has been further enhanced with data from analytics firm Moody’s.