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Team Anywhere/SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Atlassian Corporation (NASDAQ: TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Loom, the video messaging platform that has amassed more than 25 million users and was named among the top 50 of Fast Company ’s World’s Most Innovative companies in 2023. The global movement towards distributed work has fueled a need for new ways to help teams collaborate when they are not in the same location or even the same hemisphere.

HR Leader and Tech Industry Veteran Brings Strong Track Record of Talent Acquisition and Culture-Building as Zapata AI scales to meet industry demand for Industrial Generative AI BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zapata Computing, Inc. (“Zapata AI” or the “Company”), the Industrial Generative AI software company developing solutions and applications to solve enterprises’ hardest problems, today announced that Dalbir Singh has joined as Chief People Officer. Singh brings over two decades of experience helping companies such as Expedia, Microsoft and GE acquire the talent needed to grow their businesses and build robust talent practices.

Visier's Generative AI Solution 'Vee' Goes Live; 'Alpine by Visier' Takes on People Analytics Builders; Smart Compensation Marks Official Entry into Total Rewards Category; People Analytics Shifts From a Niche "HR Thing" to Core Intelligence for Running a Business VANCOUVER, BC and LAS VEGAS, Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Visier, the globally recognized leader in people analytics and workforce solutions for people-powered business, today made several important announcements which together signal a shift from people analytics as a specialized reporting and analysis discipline within HR departments to people analytics as a pervasive data strategy where trusted and secure workforce insights inform virtually every people-related decision and workflow. This announcement was made in Las Vegas at the annual HR Technology Conference, where Visier is exhibiting as a Diamond Sponso r, and where the company took top honors for its Workplace Dynamics collaboration analytics product in this year's HR Executive Top HR Products awards.

Latest capabilities transform employee communications and guide HR through the time-consuming task of creating job descriptions. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequoia, the pioneer in benefits and compensation, and Typeface, a generative AI platform for enterprise content creation, today announced new capabilities built to empower HR leaders to keep pace with the rapid and disruptive shift in today's workforce.

New partnership will combine Qualtrics AI, insights from experience data and automated workflows within WorkJam to increase engagement, productivity and retention among frontline workers Qualtrics research shows a link between employees' feelings of connection and trust with customer experience factors such as speed and friendliness PROVO, Utah and MONTREAL, Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management (XM) category, and WorkJam, the world's leading digital frontline workplace, today announced a strategic partnership that will improve the frontline employees experience in order to improve the customer experience. Qualtrics' conversational intelligence technology will combine with WorkJam's super app for frontline workers to give organizations a continuous pulse on the front lines of their businesses and surface insights into employees' priorities, needs and concerns.

PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtualitics, Inc., an artificial intelligence and data exploration company, today announced its partnership with Databricks, a Data Lakehouse Architecture and AI company. As a Databricks Technology Partner, Virtualitics will enable Databricks customers to unlock the full potential of their data with AI-powered exploration and gain valuable insights to drive business success.

New backup appliance bundles provide highly optimized data replication and cloud tiering capabilities with up to 70X greater storage and networking efficiency SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), the leader in solutions for unstructured data, today announced new bundled offerings for organization-wide data protection based on Quantum DXi-Series Backup Appliances, the industry's most efficient backup data management platform. With continued data growth, the increasing value of data, and the constant threat of ransomware, customers must be forever vigilant and adhere to backup and recovery best practices that include multiple data copies and offsite protection.

New innovations unleash the power of AI-based automation across teams and workgroups LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- XpertHR® today announced a new suite of collaboration tools in Aptifore™, it’s AI-powered solution for the continuous, collaborative maintenance of compliant employee handbooks. Aptifore provides automated personalized alerts and insights to better manage proactive compliance risk amid ever-changing federal, state, and local legislation, allowing HR and legal professionals to manage handbook updates easily and efficiently.

Strongpay, the next evolution of HowardSimon’s more than 30-year-old payroll & HR solutions division, is a critical step in Strongpoint’s vision to build the most trusted, knowledgeable, and customer-centric retirement and payroll platform for small- and medium-sized businesses CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Strongpoint Partners (“Strongpoint” or the “Company”), a tech-enabled financial services platform focused on third-party administration of retirement plans, recordkeeping, payroll and HR solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses (“SMBs”), today announced the launch of Strongpay, a payroll and HR solutions provider for SMBs. Headquartered in Riverwoods, Illinois, Strongpay is the national rebrand of the leading independent retirement third party administrator (TPA) and payroll services provider HowardSimon’s 30-year-old payroll division.

Available through the Alight Worklife ® platform, Alight Employee Onboarding helps employers create a comprehensive employee experience from pre-hire to onboarding, increasing engagement and first-year retention to unlock value for both employers and employees. LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alight, Inc. (NYSE: ALIT), a leading cloud-based human capital and technology services provider, today announced the availability of Alight Employee Onboarding (AEO), a new solution designed to transform the onboarding experience.