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The Wire brings you the latest press releases related to the digital workplace, employee experience and learning and development fields.
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Digital Workplace
Spotline Unveils ECMConnect for Workday
Dec 18, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Spotline, a leader in enterprise technology solutions, proudly announces the latest version of ECMConnect for Workday™, a groundbreaking innovation designed to revolutionize Human Capital Management (HCM). Leveraging the power of OpenText™ Extended ECM (xECM), ECMConnect for Workday™ seamlessly bridges HCM systems and enterprise content repositories, delivering unparalleled capabilities for employee records management and compliance.
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Digital Workplace
AI Leader Grammarly to Acquire Coda, Bring on New CEO
Dec 17, 2024
Acquisition Extends Grammarly Beyond AI Assistant to Become an AI Productivity Platform for Apps and Agents SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE)-- Grammarly, the trusted AI assistant, today announced its intent to acquire productivity platform Coda, with Coda’s CEO and Co-Founder Shishir Mehrotra set to become the new CEO of Grammarly. The addition of Coda’s flexible and powerful AI tools and surfaces aims to transform Grammarly into an AI productivity platform for apps and agents where customers can unlock access to company knowledge, generative AI chat, a productivity suite, and capable, trusted AI agents to work smarter and faster. “For the past 15 years, Grammarly has been building an AI super highway with the capacity and expertise to do so much more than writing assistance for our customers,” said Alex Shevchenko, Grammarly co-founder. “The acquisition of Coda is a big step toward achieving our vision of a world where humans and AI work together everywhere work happens.
Press Release
AI Technology
Databricks is Raising $10B Series J Investment at $62B Valuation
Dec 17, 2024
Funding led by new investor Thrive Capital Company expects to cross $3B in revenue run rate and achieve positive free cash flow in fourth quarter SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced its Series J funding. The company is raising $10 billion of expected non-dilutive financing and has completed $8.6 billion to date.
Press Release
Employee Experience
QuestionPro Acquires SpatialChat, a Leading European Video Streaming & Collaboration Platform
Dec 17, 2024
Technology will complement QuestionPro’s existing Asynchronous Qualitative Research Platform and ultimately power virtual focus groups and panels SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QuestionPro, a global leader in online survey and research services, has acquired SpatialChat, Europe’s trailblazer in video streaming and immersive virtual environments for meetings and collaboration. This strategic acquisition will add value to QuestionPro’s existing Qualitative Research and Customer Experience (CX) platforms while expanding SpatialChat’s footprint beyond Europe into the U.S. and global markets.
Press Release
Employee Experience
WorkTango Launches Generative AI Comment Themes and Summaries for Employee Surveys & Insights Software
Dec 12, 2024
SaaS-based employee recognition, rewards and surveys platform introduces AI features to dramatically reduce survey analysis time and accelerate action planning AUSTIN, TX, Dec. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WorkTango, a SaaS-based employee experience technology company, today announced the launch of a new Generative AI feature for its Surveys & Insights software: AI Comment Themes. AI Comment Themes marks the second Generative AI feature to be brought to market by WorkTango in the past six months.
Press Release
Talent Management
AI-Powered Recruitment Platform Pin Launches Out of Stealth With $3 Million to Cut Hiring Time by 70%
Dec 12, 2024
The round led by Expa Ventures will advance product development and marketing efforts to help more companies hire 10 times faster by automating the most tedious hiring tasks NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pin, the AI-powered recruitment tool that automates tedious hiring tasks and reduces time-to-hire by nearly 70 percent, today announced a $3 million seed round led by Expa Ventures, a leading early-stage venture firm and incubator. Pin serves over 600 customers.
Press Release
Digital Workplace
Oomnitza Releases Modern IT Asset Management Platform
Dec 11, 2024
New features deliver measurable business value by maximizing efficiency, ensuring information security, and unlocking profitability through technology asset management SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oomnitza, the modern IT Asset Management (ITAM) platform, is proud to announce a comprehensive update designed to significantly enhance IT asset data integrity and security across organizations. Named in the recent Gartner ' Market Guide for Hardware Asset Management Tools,' Oomnitza continues to solidify its position as a leading solution provider in the ITAM space.
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Talent Management
RapidCanvas Gets $16M as It Successfully Puts AI Agents to Work, Addressing Tech Talent Shortage
Dec 11, 2024
The unique RapidCanvas service-as-a-software model helps enterprise companies implement tailored AI solutions without technical talent by combining cutting-edge AI agents with expert guidance Austin, Texas - December 11, 2024; As AI adoption accelerates, a critical shortage of technical talent threatens to bottleneck progress for many companies. RapidCanvas is breaking this barrier by democratizing AI-driven business transformation.
Press Release
Talent Management
Workday Unveils New Illuminate Capabilities for Peakon Employee Voice to Unlock Deeper and Faster Employee Insights With AI
Dec 11, 2024
AI Advances Will Help People Managers Retain Top Talent, Build Stronger Employee Engagement and Drive Organizational Success Around the World AMSTERDAM, Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday Rising EMEA – Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leading provider of solutions to help organizations manage their people and money, today unveiled new Illuminate capabilities in Workday Peakon Employee Voice. New AI features will help today's overburdened managers by analyzing large volumes of employee feedback and delivering the insights and recommendations they need to make important decisions that help them retain top talent and build highly engaged, loyal teams.
Press Release
Customer Experience
Five9 Launches Industry’s First Pre-Built Bi-Directional Presence Feature for Microsoft Teams
Dec 10, 2024
Five9 agents and Microsoft Teams users can now both see real-time presence status from a consolidated directory, enhancing organizational collaboration and improving customer experiences SAN RAMON, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE)--Five9 (Nasdaq: FIVN), provider of the Intelligent CX Platform, today announced the latest release of the Microsoft Teams UC Integration with bi-directional presence to enhance agent-expert communication and accelerate resolutions for more complex customer requests. For the first time, both Five9 agents and Microsoft Teams users can simultaneously view everyone’s presence status, empowering contact center agents and back-office experts to click-to-call, conference in, or transfer calls with confidence.