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Alteryx announces new Generative AI capabilities in core products which are shipping now

May 24, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Alteryx announces new Generative AI capabilities in core products which are shipping now
The new AI features are aimed at non-technical business users as well as technical ones, expanding the democratization of analytics to cover many more users.

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Boomi expands presence in Canada with new Vancouver Center of Excellence

April 24, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Boomi expands presence in Canada with new Vancouver Center of Excellence
The enormous scaling up of Boomi’s Canadian operations will see the immediate addition of 80 new staff, with further large growth slated for the future.

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New Boomi channel chief looks to grow channel further and better align with internal sales

April 20, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Boomi channel chief looks to grow channel further and better align with internal sales
The announcement of Dan McAllister’s appointment as Senior Vice President of Global Alliances and Channels at Boomi is but one of multiple senior changes in the leadership team just announced, including a new Chief Commercial Officer, a new Chief Strategy Officer, and a new Global Commercial Market Vice President.

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ThoughtSpot expands market reach with AWS Marketplace listing for Team and Pro Editions

December 14, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on ThoughtSpot expands market reach with AWS Marketplace listing for Team and Pro Editions
ThoughtSpot also made a deeper commitment to the AWS platform with the hiring of Britny Holloway as Director of AWS Global Alliances, while Rajesh Dhiman is now Senior Director, Global Systems Integrators.

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HPE study finds most organizations still can’t extract value from the data they have

December 7, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE study finds most organizations still can’t extract value from the data they have
While the large majority of organizations in the survey agreed it was important for organizations to control their data to extract value from it, few of them did so, with only 3% reaching the desirable highest level of maturity.

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Veeam Backup for Salesforce now available on Salesforce AppExchange

December 5, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam Backup for Salesforce now available on Salesforce AppExchange
Veeam is also announcing a free 50-seat version of the native backup application for Salesforce, and indicated that a couple more product-specific like this one and an earlier one for Microsoft 365 are on the roadmap.

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Alteryx expands partner ecosystem and strengthens relationship with Snowflake

November 21, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Alteryx expands partner ecosystem and strengthens relationship with Snowflake
Alteryx’s shift to a partner-led strategy, their expansion of their ISV ecosystem, and their encouraging of joint sales between themselves, partners and ISVs, has led to a major increase in channel business.

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Alteryx continues refocus around Partner-Led in partner program restructure

March 21, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Alteryx continues refocus around Partner-Led in partner program restructure
The program adds new tiers for GSIs, ISVs and OEMs, to move beyond the original VAR partner base and deepen the enterprise focus, and also enhances partner benefits across the board.

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Data transformation startup Coalesce emerges from stealth

January 20, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Data transformation startup Coalesce emerges from stealth
Coalesce, which is working with channel partners out of the gate, thinks that while problems around data migration have largely been solved, the major challenge today is solving bottlenecks to rebuilding and documenting data moving to the cloud.

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Boomi unveils new vision, product at annual user event

November 10, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Boomi unveils new vision, product at annual user event
Boomi emphasizes their focus on hyperautomation, as an extrapolation of their traditional integration approach, and unveils Boomi Event Streams and a new Discover catalogue.