Microsoft announced Thursday it had acquired Seattle-based Ally.io, a start-up that provides software to help organizations keep track of their progress on key goals. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. According to Microsoft, Ally.io will be pulled into the Viva offering which Microsoft launched last year.
You may recall the fanfare around the launch of Viva, which the Redmond, Wash.-based company said would shake up the enterprise technology space. It pitched it as an “employee experience platform,” that pulls together “engagement, learning, well-being and knowledge discovery, directly into the flow of people’s work.” When it was launched, it consisted of four main elements:
