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On Wednesday 30 June, I attended the launch of the next generation of MuleSoft in Sydney. It was one of a series of launches around the world. It was a slick show, perhaps with a little too much polish for an Australian audience, but the big themes were interesting.

COMPANY NEWS: Today, 8Squad, a leading Australian boutique company, has been selected as a Salesforce global partner for Salesforce for Financial Services.

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.

Data streaming platform provider Confluent has appointed Gavin Jones to the role of vice president of ANZ sales.

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.

Business software provider Zoho's new Zoho Marketing Platform provides a single, shared view of information about marketing activities including campaign ideation, creation, execution, management and measurement.

Data security and analytics company Varonis introduces new features to help companies close critical security and compliance gaps in Salesforce.

Melbourne-based SaaS unified communications specialist has added iCall Suite call analytics to its Sasboss provisioning and management platform.

Legal practice management software specialist Actionstep has appointed Michael McKell to the role of Australia regional director.

IT company Fujitsu has promoted Graeme Beardsell to the role of executive vice president and CEO for Asia Pacific as part of a global management restructure announced in January.

COMPANY NEWS: Nintex, the global standard for process intelligence and automation, today announced it has been named a leader in The Aragon Research Globe for Digital Transaction Management, 2022 based on a review of 20 major providers in the market by the independent research and advisory firm.

Revenue management system provider BillingPlatform has added new configure, price and quote capabilities, along with application-level encryption for added security.

Adelaide-based startup The Big Middle aims to provide mid-market businesses with industry-specific systems based on Salesforce and Oracle.

Cloud-native network detection and response (NDR) provider ExtraHop has appointed Rohan Langdon as the company’s first country manager for Australia and New Zealand.

COMPANY NEWS: ActiveCampaign, the leader in customer experience automation (CXA), is named G2’s 2022 Best Software in eight categories, landing at No. 5 in the marketing products category and No. 6 in Global Sellers out of the top 50 and 100 software products, respectively. Because of the company’s commitment to the success of its customers, ActiveCampaign continues to receive high sentiment ratings well above its competitors.

Cloud solution specialist rhipe's CFO and COO Mark McLellan has been replaced by parent company Crayon's APAC executive vice president Rhonda Robati.

Consultancy services giant Deloitte and Salesforce have teamed up to develop a national talent development program aimed at boosting diversity in the technology industry and help close a growing skills gap in Australia.

University of Melbourne analytics spinoff Apromore has partnered with Workato, an enterprise automation platform so that organisations can use Workato integration capabilities to import data from thousands of applications including Oracle Netsuite and Salesforce into Apromore process mining.

Another Australian tech company has fallen into overseas hands with the acquisition of Sydney-based Safesforce markeing automation and CRM specialist Datarati by Canada's OSF Digital.

Communication and collaboration specialist Dialpad has hired Prashanti Aduma as its first CIO.