Celebrations are in order! Our recent client VoloMetrix, a leading people analytics technology company, announced earlier this year that it has been acquired by Microsoft to bring deeper insights into worker productivity. VoloMetrix’s technology provides unprecedented visibility into how people spend their time, offering enterprises a data-driven way to quantify employee efficiency and engagement.
VoloMetrix’s technology will power Microsoft’s new Delve Organizational Analytics platform, which will allow companies to cull Office 365 data to unearth workforce trends. By measuring productivity, the tool will also help companies better understand engagement and work/life balance issues facing their employees.
Rajesh Jha, corporate vice president of Outlook and Office 365, put it best when he shared in a blog post today: “Giving people access to real data and objective, personalized feedback can lead to a virtuous cycle of improvement for both individuals and their company.” Click here for Jha’s complete blog post announcing the acquisition.
VoloMetrix’s acquisition highlights the crucial role that PR can play in driving awareness of a company, particularly by potential acquirers. Through a strategic blend of rapid-response pitching, hard news and byline placements, VoloMetrix garnered significant coverage in business and tech press. Here are several coverage highlights we’re proud to share:
- Fortune: What can big data reveal about corporate culture? Get ready for ‘people analytics’
- The Wall Street Journal: Stop Wasting Everyone’s Time
- The Wall Street Journal: In ‘People Analytics,’ You’re Not a Human, You’re a Data Point
- Harvard Business Review: A Primer on Measuring Employee Engagement
- Forbes: Why Lagging Indicators Are Insufficient Measurements of Success
- Forbes: VoloMetrix Raises $12 Million Series B–Analytics For Organizational Performance
- TechCrunch: VoloMetrix Raises $12M For Its People Analytics Service
- Entrepreneur: How Big Data Will Change Everything About Managing Employees
VoloMetrix is truly a revolutionary and innovative company, and we wish them a huge congrats on their acquisition! We can’t wait to see VoloMetrix and Microsoft improve how enterprises around the globe operate and function.