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With the majority of workers now working outside the office, Slack is on a mission to build a true digital-first alternative to give teams flexible ways of working and has today announced a vast suite of enhancements to Slack Huddles to give teams greater flexibility and collaboration options.

Tableau is on a mission to help people see and understand data and has announced new advanced analytics and automated insights features including AI-powered data stories that bring clarity and meaning out of numbers. It’s a feature sure to bring high impact and transformation to organisations of all sizes enabling them to interpret and act on data faster than ever.

The powerful Atlassian suite of products includes a new member in the form of Atlas, dedicated to helping teams manage their work - no matter where it exists - and to better collaborate across teams. Atlassian says it is the first teamwork directory to connect the dots across teams, their apps, and work.

Founded in Adelaide and with another office in Houston, Licorice is working to replace traditional IT services trouble tickets with a system that uses AI to match incoming requests with the right engineers, calculate the time required for each task, and allows customers to choose appointment times that suit them.

GUEST OPINION: As the world spins towards 2022, it is clear that the new year will see our reliance on cloud technologies becoming more vital than ever before.

Slack kicked off its Frontiers conference today with significant news that will change how Slack apps are built and make it easier for programmers and non-programmers alike, with news that metadata can be sent with messages for better automation, and with news that SlackConnect will receive a massive scale boost.

The CIA has invested US$1.6 million (A$2.2 million) in the company behind the secure messaging app Wickr, through its investment arm In-Q-Tel, the American website Motherboard reports, citing public disclosure records as a source.

COMPANY NEWS: Data analytics and integration solutions company Qlik launches Qlik Application Automation, a no-code solution that drives action from context-aware insights through streamlined and optimised workflows between SaaS applications and Qlik Cloud.

GovHack is collaborating with information technology company Infosys and software app Slack during its two-day hackathon competition, which will be held today from 20 to 22 August 2021.

It's not just you. Open-plan offices are measurably bad for you.

Slack today unleashed four new features, available to paid customers without any price increase, that reflect its vision of the world of work of the future. It's a vision that's no longer office-bound but seeks to replicate the office positives of conversations and huddles while eschewing the modern trend to constant video conferences.

SailPoint has announced additional extensibility functionality to its platform in a move it says enables customers to infuse its identity platform’s core functionalities within their workflows, reducing integration development from months to days or even hours. 

Identity provider Okta's research shows a data breach could dislodge nearly half of a company's customer base.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has released migration apps to enable users to move from popular proprietary cloud services to a private cloud platform.

A survey of 1000 Australians — all so-called knowledge workers — during the year to October, has found that the use of workplace apps has increased significantly, with 69% using between 3 and 10 apps, while 17% had to juggle with more than 10.

Customer relationship management software provider Salesforce has acquired communications platform Slack for a sum of approximately US$27.7 billion (A$37.5 billion), according to a statement from Salesforce.

ASX-listed financial software firm Iress is moving away from email to Slack for communications and its chief technology officer, Andrew Todd, says this is because the app offers improved security and control.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has announced the launch of Nextcloud Hub 20, which adds new features and also integrates third-party social media, productivity and collaboration platforms like Twitter, GitHub and Discourse.

Full-stack vendor Oracle has announced updates to several of its SaaS products.

Business communications platform Slack has launched a product known as Slack Connect that it claims will let organisations collaborate both internally, as they have been doing, and also with those from other companies.