Dean Stoecker, Chairman and CEO of Alteryx opened Inspire 2017. His speech created an image for the audience of the Alteryx platform and led to him announcing the next piece to help complete the picture, Alteryx Promote. Stoecker said Alteryx will: “Bring the thrill back to problem solving.” He used analogies of historic inventions that…
Team collaboration and chat platform Flock has released a migration tool for users of Slack. Flock has more than doubled in size over the last year and opened offices in several countries. Instead of settling for generic growth in a market that is underserved, it has now decided to target Slack users. The goal is…
Oracle has announced enhancements to its security cloud offering with the introduction of new Adaptive Access Capabilities. They also revealed that the Oracle Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) cloud service has added more integrations with third party software providers. Oracle maybe not so insular as you thought One of the criticisms levelled at Oracle is…
Cloud-based team messenger platform Flock has received another tranche of investment from Bhavin Turakhia. Turakhia has already invested $20 million into Flock. Growth has now doubled and this has led Turakhia to invest another $25 million into Flock. The money is to launch Flock into new markets such as Brazil and Russia. Both countries are target areas…
Concur has announced that it has bought Hipmunk. Hipmunk are another travel search company delivering flight and hotel information. At first glance this acquisition seems to be duplicating a solution that Concur already has. The key to this acquisition is that Hipmunk has developed a bot that works with both Slack and Facebook messenger. Xero…