企业员工培训SaaS服务平台Axonify获得2700万美元C轮融资11月2日消息,企业员工培训SaaS服务平台Axonify宣布获得2700万美元C轮融资,本轮融资的投资方包括JMI Equity以及早期投资机构BDC Capital Corporation。
Axonify是一家集众多功能以一身的企业员工培训SaaS服务平台,能够使公司团队实现现代化学习,并达到明确的成效,通过个性化定制的长周期获取知识的方式为员工提供信息,采用Axonify平台的公司能够观察到可量化的行为变化。上月,Axonify被连续三年评选为游戏化企业Top 20。
Axonify可以部署在PC上,也可以在手机和平板电脑等移动设备上使用。管理人员首先需要在Axonify上录入每位员工的个人信息,包括工作岗位、所需技能和当前状况等。随后,Axonify将向员工提出几个与其工作密切相关的问题,并将回答情况录入数据库。它将根据这些已有数据自动设定培训内容和难度,使每位员工都能获得个性化的职业训练。
通常情况下,Axonify每天会向员工提问2到3次,如果员工回答正确,就会得到一些积分,而Axnify下次提问的难度将有所增加,或是改考其他知识。如果员工回答错误,Axonify将弹出问题的正确答案,帮助员工了解相关知识,并在隔一段时间后再度提出相同问题。问题的形式多种多样,有判断题、单选题、多选题和配对题等,但非常简洁,只需30秒钟即可完成答题。
Axonify首席执行官Carol Leaman表示:“我们很高兴JMI Equity成为我们的投资机构,同时have the BDC IT Venture的再次投资是对Axonify的肯定。”
“JMI Equity拥有支持高增速SaaS公司发展的成功案例,我们很高兴的看到JMI Equity对Axonify未来发展的信心,本轮成长型融资能够加速我们获取客户的步伐,不断提升我们在市场上的地位并且通过提供扩大我们的技术平台的方式与竞争对手拉开差距”,Carol Leaman补充道。
来源:创投时报
硅谷
2016年11月03日
硅谷
Slack 应战微软协作工具Teams
Dear Microsoft,
Wow. Big news! Congratulations on today’s announcements. We’re genuinely excited to have some competition.
We realized a few years ago that the value of switching to Slack was so obvious and the advantages so overwhelming that every business would be using Slack, or “something just like it,” within the decade. It’s validating to see you’ve come around to the same way of thinking. And even though — being honest here — it’s a little scary, we know it will bring a better future forward faster.
However, all this is harder than it looks. So, as you set out to build “something just like it,” we want to give you some friendly advice.
First, and most importantly, it’s not the features that matter. You’re not going to create something people really love by making a big list of Slack’s features and simply checking those boxes. The revolution that has led to millions of people flocking to Slack has been, and continues to be, driven by something much deeper.
Building a product that allows for significant improvements in how people communicate requires a degree of thoughtfulness and craftsmanship that is not common in the development of enterprise software. How far you go in helping companies truly transform to take advantage of this shift in working is even more important than the individual software features you are duplicating.
Communication is hard, yet it is the most fundamental thing we do as human beings. We’ve spent tens of thousands of hours talking to customers and adapting Slack to find the grooves that match all those human quirks. The internal transparency and sense of shared purpose that Slack-using teams discover is not an accident. Tiny details make big differences.
Second, an open platform is essential. Communication is just one part of what humans do on the job. The modern knowledge worker relies on dozens of different products for their daily work, and that number is constantly expanding. These critical business processes and workflows demand the best tools, regardless of vendor.
That’s why we work so hard to find elegant and creative ways to weave third-party software workflows right into Slack. And that’s why there are 750 apps in the Slack App Directory for everything from marketing automation, customer support, and analytics, to project management, CRM, and developer tools. Together with the thousands of applications developed by customers, more than six million apps have been installed on Slack teams so far.
We are deeply committed to making our customers’ experience of their existing tools even better, no matter who makes them. We know that playing nice with others isn’t exactly your MO, but if you can’t offer people an open platform that brings everything together into one place and makes their lives dramatically simpler, it’s just not going to work.
Third, you’ve got to do this with love. You’ll need to take a radically different approach to supporting and partnering with customers to help them adjust to new and better ways of working.
When we push a same-day fix in response to a customer’s tweet, agonize over the best way to slip some humor into release notes, run design sprints with other software vendors to ensure our products work together seamlessly, or achieve a 100-minute average turnaround time for a thoughtful, human response to each support inquiry, that’s not “going above and beyond.” It’s not “us being clever.” That’s how we do. That’s who we are.
We love our work, and when we say our mission is to make people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive, we’re not simply mouthing the words. If you want customers to switch to your product, you’re going to have to match our commitment to their success and take the same amount of delight in their happiness.
One final point: Slack is here to stay. We are where work happens for millions of people around the world.
You can see Slack at work in nearly every newsroom and every technology company across the country. Slack powers the businesses of architects and filmmakers and construction material manufacturers and lawyers and creative agencies and research labs. It’s the only tool preferred by both late night comedy writers and risk & compliance officers. It is in some of the world’slargest enterprises as well as tens of thousands of businesses on the main streets of towns and cities all over the planet. And we’re just getting started.
So welcome, Microsoft, to the revolution. We’re glad you’re going to be helping us define this new product category. We admire many of your achievements and know you’ll be a worthy competitor. We’re sure you’re going to come up with a couple of new ideas on your own too. And we’ll be right there, ready.
— Your friends at Slack