{"id":46228,"date":"2021-10-25T03:47:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T07:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=46228"},"modified":"2021-10-25T03:47:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T07:47:40","slug":"microsoft-acquires-clear-software-to-strengthen-process-automation-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/microsoft-acquires-clear-software-to-strengthen-process-automation-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft acquires Clear Software to strengthen process automation offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today announced that it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloudblogs.microsoft.com\/powerplatform\/2021\/10\/22\/microsoft-acquires-clear-software-to-enhance-connectivity-to-systems-of-record\/\">acquired<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clearsoftware.com\/\">Clear Software<\/a>, a Zionsville, Indiana-based startup developing enterprise software automation technologies. In a blog post, Microsoft partner general manager Stephen Siciliano said that Clear\u2019s solutions will \u201cmake it a more seamless experience\u201d to use Microsoft\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/11\/04\/microsoft-rebrands-flow-as-power-automate-adds-rpa-features-and-virtual-agents\/\">Power Apps and Power Automate platforms<\/a>\u00a0to build automations for systems such as SAP and Oracle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganizations depend on their business applications to work seamlessly across many different systems and data stores. Customers need to know that their most critical business processes are built to optimize working across those systems and data sets, no matter how complex the process becomes,\u201d Siciliano said. \u201cCustomers will benefit from stronger Power Platform integration with outside systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clear, which was founded in 2015 by Jonathan Gilman, provides an integration platform-as-a-service (IPaaS) and business process products with connectivity into SAP and Oracle. Clear\u2019s services support the development of integration flows connecting cloud-based processes, services, apps, and data with around 100 prebuilt abstractions that can be customized to support organizations\u2019 needs.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the acquisition, Clear raised $5.5 million from investors including Collina Ventures and MK Capital.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/10\/22\/microsoft-acquires-clear-software-to-strengthen-process-automation-offerings\/&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYCSoTODQ0NjM1MDAxMTA0ODc2MDI1NzIaODc5MTAwZmJiYzcxYjA2NDpjb206ZW46VVM&amp;usg=AFQjCNGjV8JvckStddywKfUbaFYtRXxLxQ\">Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today announced that it\u00a0acquired\u00a0Clear Software, a Zionsville, Indiana-based startup developing enterprise software automation technologies. In a blog post, Microsoft partner general manager Stephen Siciliano said that Clear\u2019s solutions will \u201cmake it a more seamless experience\u201d to use Microsoft\u2019s\u00a0Power Apps <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/microsoft-acquires-clear-software-to-strengthen-process-automation-offerings\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[635,674,628],"tags":[688,629],"class_list":["post-46228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-process-automation","category-robotic-process-automation-processs-automation","category-rpa","tag-process-automation","tag-rpa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}