Alteryx has announced that Mark Anderson, a current member of Alteryx’s Board of Directors, has been appointed to succeed Dean Stoecker, Alteryx’s Co-founder, Chairman and current Chief Executive Officer, as Alteryx’s CEO. Anderson has a proven track record guiding enterprise technology organisations as they grow and scale, including as President of Palo Alto Networks. Stoecker has been appointed as Alteryx’s Executive Chairman and will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
As the company continues to unify analytics, data science and data-centric process automation to accelerate digital transformation and time-to-value for companies across the globe, Alteryx announces its partnership with digital intelligence company ABBYY. The combined solution integrates Alteryx data access, transformation, advance analysis and machine learning capabilities with ABBYY’s process mining, analysis, monitoring and predictive process intelligence. Alteryx has also formed a strategic partnership with UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation software company, to speed end-to-end automation across data-driven business processes.
“It has been a great source of pride to witness Alteryx grow from strength-to-strength under Dean’s leadership. Our network now extends to more than 6,700 customers across 80 countries, all supported by over 1,500 employees. As organisations globally recognise the need to digitise, we believe that automation will continue to be the key enabler in streamlining business processes and extracting untapped value from data. I look forward to working in close collaboration with Mark and our wider team, as we evolve our solutions and forge new ties to create positive impact for businesses both in the region and globally,” said Abboud Ghanem, Regional Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Alteryx.