Irvine-based data analytics company Alteryx Inc. will extend its ADAPT free training program into 2021, while the number of participants has topped 11,000 people.
“The success of the ADAPT program so far demonstrates that the initiative can be helpful for unemployed individuals through COVID-19 and beyond,” said Olivia Duane Adams, co-founder and chief customer officer of Alteryx (NYSE: AYX).
The ADAPT program, short for Advancing Data & Analytics Potential Together, provides free data analytics training to workers who have lost their jobs due to COVID-19 and has “upskilled” people across 135 countries.
Duane Adams told the Business Journal that the large majority of ADAPT participants are from the U.S. with more than 4,800, followed by India with over 2,500 and Canada with more than 450.
The program “is intended to help data workers, regardless of their experience, land new jobs in their desired fields and industries,” Duane Adams said by email on Oct. 1 in response to questions.
Game-Changing
“Hearing from the participants directly on how the certifications earned through ADAPT are landing them jobs shows that knowledge in data and analytics can truly be career-altering,” she added.
Alteryx has been one of the fastest-growing and most closely watched OC tech companies in years. The company counted 6,714 customers as of June 30, a 27% increase from 12 months earlier, while the share price shot up 28% to $145.96 apiece on Oct. 6 following a company announcement. (see story page 1).
In early September, Alteryx announced that workforce management veteran David Kingsley took over in the newly created role of chief human resources officer at Alteryx and will be based in Irvine.
“When we’re recruiting someone to relocate to the O.C., there’s not really all that much convincing that we have to do!” Kingsley told the Business Journal by email in response to questions.
“We see Alteryx as a career destination company, and Orange County as a lifestyle destination location; when we put those two together, we are proud of the talent we can attract, engage and retain.”
ABBYY Partnership
Separately, Alteryx and Milpitas-based Abbyy announced last week they had teamed up to help companies speed up and improve their decision-making and planning.
“Organizations will be able to make more timely and smarter business decisions because they’ll have faster access to and understanding of their data, how their business processes are working and figure out the most effective plan for improving them,” Scott Opitz, chief marketing officer at Abbyy, told the Business Journal.
Alteryx’s Analytic Process Automation unifies analytics, data science and data-centric process automation in one self-service platform.
Abbyy’s “process intelligence” in turn uses advanced algorithms to convert data into interactive process visualizations to “instantly identify deviations from the ideal process flow –  to find the root cause of a problem that may be costing your business money.”
“We use machine learning and predictive capabilities to identify the best automation opportunities, understand current workflow bottlenecks, and predict business outcomes factoring in a number of variances,” Opitz said.
He added: “This is a long-term partnership intended to deliver joint solutions to serve our customers well into the future.”
Abbyy’s technologies are used by more than 5,000 companies, including many of the Fortune 500.
