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        Remio, a VR platform for remote work, has raised USD 4.5 million in a seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Version One Ventures, The Venture Reality Fund, and Moai Capital. As a result of the investment, Sandhya Venkatachalam (Partner, Khosla Ventures) will be joining Remio&rsquo;s board of directors.
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        The fresh funding is earmarked for product development to expand its product to enterprise clients&mdash;allowing them to create their own team-building activities in VR.
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VR remote work platform Remio raises USD 4.5 million

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 <p>Dialpad, a platform specializing in AI-powered communication intelligence, has recently purchased Surfboard, a contemporary workforce management (WFM) platform. Along with this acquisition, Dialpad has announced new appointments: Jen Grant as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Atit Shah as the inaugural Chief Security Officer (CSO).</p>
 <p>Reports suggest that buying Surfboard will potentially solidify Dialpad's standing within the contact center industry. Dialpad's integration of Surfboard’s functionalities is hypothesized to offer clientele an elevated AI-native workforce management solution, thus boosting user experience.</p>
 <p>Surfboard is a burgeoning startup in the workforce management sector which marries technology with an instinctive user interface. Its main function is to metamorphose customer service teams, turning them into profit centers and engines of customer satisfaction.</p>
 
</div> <p><b>Analyst QuickTake:<br>
</b> This acquisition strengthens Dialpad's position in AI-powered communication. In <a href="https:<br>
//sp-edge.com/updates/21042"> August 2023 </a> , the company also introduced DialpadGPT, offering features to improve customer interactions and enterprise sales tasks.</p>

Dialpad acquires Surfboard to enhance workforce management capabilities

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 <p>Design platform Canva has rolled out updates to its pricing system. This includes extending the discontinued pricing for its early Canva Teams users and the initiation of a new Pricing Promise for guiding future pricing decisions.</p>
 <p>The company is allowing early Canva Teams users to retain their existing pricing rate, a decision made after initial plans to shift these users to a standard pricing of $10 per month per person, for a minimum of three people.</p>
 <p>A new Pricing Promise introduced by Canva lists principles like affordability, value-packed features, advance and transparent notification of any price changes, fair regional pricing, and a strict policy against hidden charges. Through these changes, Canva aims to promote transparency, fairness, and accessibility in its pricing.</p>
 
</div> <p><b>Analyst QuickTake:<br>
 </b> In <a href="https:<br>
//sp-edge.com/updates/33203"> September 2024, </a> Canva's substantial price increase for its Teams product sparked considerable backlash, raising concerns about its reputation as a cost-effective alternative to other design software. In response, Canva has introduced a pricing promise, signaling efforts to rebuild its brand image and retain its user base.</p>

Canva extends discontinued pricing for early Teams adopters and launches new pricing promise

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 <p>ServiceNow and Zoom have announced a strategic partnership to integrate their AI technologies, Now Assist and AI Companion. This integration is set to launch in the first half of 2025.</p>
 <p>The collaboration aims to provide sophisticated workflow automation across both Zoom and ServiceNow platforms. It aims to leverage AI to transcribe and summarize team conversations, convert action items into tasks within ServiceNow workflows, and automate processes post-meeting like creating and assigning tickets.</p>
 <p>This alliance expands upon pre-existing integrations between Zoom and ServiceNow, working towards the transformation of disorganized dialogues into structured data that can be linked to intelligent workflows. Reportedly, this will boost collaboration and productivity within the business environment. </p>

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ServiceNow and Zoom partner to integrate AI technologies for enhanced productivity

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 <p>Zoom plans to implement multiple AI-powered updates to its Zoom Workplace software. These new features include AI Companion 2.0, Zoom Tasks, and modifications to Zoom Phone, Docs, and Rooms. These upgrades are expected to be rolled out from October 2024 to March 2025. Most updates will not be accompanied by additional charges for paid plans.</p>
 <p>The AI Companion 2.0 is a feature in the Zoom Workplace app that offers contextual suggestions across all Zoom services. The Zoom Tasks is an AI function that senses, recommends, and finishes tasks drawn from conversations. The Zoom Phone feature will provide real-time summaries and facilitate posing queries during calls, while Zoom Docs is anticipated to be improved with AI-powered templates and the capability to generate meeting recaps.</p>
 <p>The objective of these AI advances, according to Zoom, is to aid users in handling their workload, increasing productivity, and promoting collaboration.&nbsp;</p>
 
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Zoom launches AI innovations for Zoom Workplace to improve platform

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 <p>Miro's new product, The Innovation Workspace, is an AI-powered platform aimed at optimizing the process of innovation. This ambitious development, the company's largest product release since 2012, is now available for users to apply. </p>
 <p>The platform incorporates a canvas-first approach, promoting smooth transitions from unstructured to structured tasks. Its features include AI-supported assistants, smart templates, project management centers, AI-backed prototyping, and more than 150 integrations with widely used work apps. Additionally, it enables users to create workflows with Canvas SDK, customize widgets, and implement AI Action shortcuts.</p>
 <p>According to Miro, the platform promises to reduce the time required to turn concepts into solid outcomes, make team communication more efficient, and offer advanced security features through Miro Enterprise Guard.</p>
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 </b> This update follows Miro’s launch of AI-based idea generation platform Intelligent Canvas in <a href="https:<br>
//sp-edge.com/updates/31845"> July 2024 </a> , which helped businesses generate ideas, create documents, and streamline workflows. These tools aim to boost productivity and enhance decision-making. <b> </b></p>

Miro launches The Innovation Workspace, an AI-powered platform to improve idea creation

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 <p>Height.app, a project management software company, has introduced an autonomous project collaboration tool targeted at product builders. The tool, which is now widely available, is designed to automate project management tasks for product managers and development teams.</p>
 <p>The newly introduced tool merges a chat-centric collaboration workspace, autonomous agent, and thorough project management software. Its autonomous features include the ability to update requirements, organize tasks, sort bugs, and compose project updates. The tool employs a reasoning engine for the automation of typical project tasks.</p>
 <p>Height.app's project management tool is designed to assist teams in task tracking, collaboration, and organization. It delivers real-time updates, task assignments, and streamlines workflows through integrations with other tools.</p>
 
</div> <p><b>Analyst QuickTake:<br>
</b> Height.app stands out with its unique autonomous project collaboration tool, which uses a reasoning engine to offer more than just summarization and text generation, giving it an edge over other project management solutions.</p>

Height.app launches autonomous project collaboration tool to automate project management tasks

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 <p>Smartsheet, a work management platform, has teamed up with AWS to introduce a connector for Amazon Q Business, a system powered by GenAI. This connector facilitates the synchronization of data from Smartsheet to Amazon Q Business, allowing users to interact with the AI assistant for project, program, and process information managed in Smartsheet. The aim of this integration is to unify the search experience across enterprise databases, in turn promoting data-driven decisions and increased efficiency.</p>
 <p>This partnership seeks to combat the issue of data silos by securely integrating Smartsheet data with other data sources available in Amazon Q Business, like Slack and Microsoft Teams. As of the date of announcement, the Smartsheet connector for Amazon Q Business is accessible in public preview to Amazon Q Business customers.</p>
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Smartsheet partners with AWS to launch connector for Amazon Q Business

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 <p>Smartsheet, a work management platform, has introduced a transformation of its services, enhancing the user experience and introducing new features. The objective is to make the platform intuitive and user-friendly for all levels of technical abilities.</p>
 <p>The notable new features include collections and file library. Collections allow users to curate and selectively share items securely, while the file library aims to enhance digital assets collaboration. The platform further presents a revamped user interface featuring a modern design system and new data visualization experiences such as board view and table view.</p>
 <p>According to Smartsheet, these enhancements will aid organizations in operating more efficiently, reducing meeting requirements, accelerating approvals, and facilitating easier and quicker work execution for users. Emphasis has also been placed on improved data security and enhanced performance, with 10x faster formula calculations and quicker load times in the table view.</p>
 
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Smartsheet launches new user experience and features to enhance usability and overall experience

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 <p>Intermedia Cloud Communications, a leading company that provides AI-powered UCaaS and CCaaS solutions, has evolved its service provider program in Europe. This progress is due to a strategic collaboration with Voys, a well-established telecommunications provider in the Netherlands.</p>
 <p>With this partnership, Voys can incorporate Intermedia's cloud platform into its current operator platform, offering enterprise-level unified communications abilities to mid-market firms. Voys will, under its brand, provide Intermedia's white-labeled UCaaS and CCaaS solutions, thereby enriching its service offerings without any considerable capital investment.</p>
</div> <p><b>Analyst QuickTake:<br>
 </b> This collaboration reportedly enables Voys to broaden its market reach beyond self-employed entrepreneurs and SMEs expanding its focus market.</p>

Intermedia expands service provider program in Europe; partners with Voys

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<p>Lucid Software, a provider of visual collaboration software, has unveiled new features aimed at enhancing agile workflows for team-based and program-based planning. These updates are intended to facilitate swift decision-making, efficient response to changes, and effective value delivery.</p>

<p>The new capabilities for team-level coordination include customizable templates for Agile events, a private mode for anonymous contributions, an optimized sprint planning feature with estimation abilities, and team spaces for arranging important resources. Regarding program-level planning, Lucid now offers big-room planning templates, real-time dependency mapping, integration with systems of record, and Visual Activities designed for consensus building.</p>

<p>Lucid Software believes that these improvements will fuel increased agility, coordination, and alignment throughout organizations.&nbsp;</p>
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All Updates

VR remote work platform Remio raises USD 4.5 million

Dialpad acquires Surfboard to enhance workforce management capabilities

Canva extends discontinued pricing for early Teams adopters and launches new pricing promise

ServiceNow and Zoom partner to integrate AI technologies for enhanced productivity

Zoom launches AI innovations for Zoom Workplace to improve platform

Miro launches The Innovation Workspace, an AI-powered platform to improve idea creation

Height.app launches autonomous project collaboration tool to automate project management tasks

Smartsheet partners with AWS to launch connector for Amazon Q Business

Smartsheet launches new user experience and features to enhance usability and overall experience

Intermedia expands service provider program in Europe; partners with Voys

Lucid Software expands visual collaboration suite for agile workflows to increase efficiency

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VR remote work platform Remio raises USD 4.5 million

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