TOKYO — November 8, 2022— Alteryx, Inc., the Analytics Automation company, today announced that Kazuyo Yamashita has been named director of enterprise field sales for Japan. Yamashita will lead the expansion of Alteryx’s business in Japan through promotion and utilization of Alteryx’s products in the Japanese market.
According to findings from the IDC InfoBrief, commissioned by Alteryx, Toward Analytics Automation in Asia Pacific (doc #AP241263IB, August 2021), more than 90% of executives in Asia Pacific, including Japan, recognize that data analytics is critical for their company or department to continue to achieve high performance. However, in Japan, only 25% of companies have reached a high level of analytical maturity.
In order to help businesses improve their analytical capabilities, Alteryx is building a Go-To-Market platform in Japan and actively expanding its user community and partner ecosystem. Yamashita will be a key leader in helping businesses reach the next level in their analytics.
“Companies across Japan are accelerating their digital transformation journeys to bring new innovations to market, grow revenue, improve customer experiences, and more,” said Yamashita. “I am very pleased to join Alteryx where we already help thousands of companies achieve data-driven success as a leader in analytics automation. With over a quarter of a century of experience and knowledge in the IT industry, I look forward to bolstering the Alteryx business in Japan and help more companies capitalize on their analytics investments to drive transformative outcomes.”
Gari Johnson, senior vice president of Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ), Alteryx, comments, “We’ve made tremendous progress helping our customers in Japan use the power of analytics to achieve digital transformation. As we dive into the next phase of our growth, Yamashita-san’s strong leadership, experience, and aspirations will help us strengthen our presence in Japan and accelerate our mission of bringing the power of analytics to everyone across the enterprise.”
Prior to joining Alteryx, Yamashita worked in business development, sales, and marketing for a foreign business software vendor and cloud vendor. She was involved in the Japanese operations of Kinaxis, a supply chain management solution company, and has a proven track record of establishing the company in Japan and making it take root in the market. She has an established reputation among venture capital firms as a professional in the Japan launch of foreign companies with anticipatory management skills. In recent years, she has focused on helping U.S. and Israeli start-ups establish operations in Japan, getting them off the ground quickly and efficiently.
About Alteryx
Alteryx (NYSE: AYX) powers analytics for all by providing our leading Analytics Automation Platform. Alteryx delivers easy end-to-end automation of data engineering, analytics, reporting, machine learning, and data science processes, enabling enterprises everywhere to democratize data analytics across their organizations for a broad range of use cases. More than 8,000 customers globally rely on Alteryx to deliver high-impact business outcomes. To learn more, visit www.alteryx.com.