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It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools

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Logi Analytics’ 2021 State of Analytics: Why Users Demand Better survey showed that knowledge workers spend more than five hours a day in analytics, and more than 99% consider analytics very to extremely valuable when making critical decisions. Yet, adoption rates are still below 30%. Why is this the case?

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Sidekick Browser wants to be a productivity-honed ‘work OS’ on Chromium

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It also has support for multiple logins, granular notification controls and the ability to search across all these third-party apps (it offers “hundreds” currently but says users can add custom adds “which would function just like a bookmark”) right from the browser. Browsers are interesting again.

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As companies search for hourly workers, Fountain brings in $85M to assist them

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Rather than a complex one-sized-fits-all approach that airs on the side of the knowledge worker, we have pushed the industry to see that it doesn’t work for hourly workers,” he added. “We We help you find who you are looking for — that person who is fine working in a cold warehouse or on that early morning shift.”.

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OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app

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The workflow revolves around search and a chronological timeline, allowing users to attach topic tags, tag other users and add recurring reminders to notes. Mem’s search experience uses AI to search across notes, aiming to understand which notes might be most relevant in a given moment to a particular person.

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Glean aims to help employees surface info across sprawling enterprise systems

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hours per week, on average — searching for and gathering information. But it’s reasonable to say that knowledge workers in particular devote a sizeable chunk of their workdays to sifting through data, whether to find basic contact info or domain-specific files. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8

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Business Canvas, a Korea-based document management SaaS company, closes $2.5M seed round

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Business Canvas, founded in 2020 by CEO Woojin Kim, Brian Shin, Seungmin Lee, Dongjoon Shin and Clint Yoo, is hoping to solve the challenge that every knowledge worker and writer faces: spending more time on research and file organization than the actual content output they need to create. “In

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Cleary raises $4.5M to reinvent the intranet

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Cleary combines a communications platform, wikis, tools for helping businesses recognize their employees (at least virtually), an employee directory with org charts, a search tool that brings together a company’s knowledge base from across various third-party tools and a Q&A service for live events.

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