The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of April 26th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Microsoft, Jitterbit, IBM, and more.
Keeping tabs on the most relevant ERP and BPM news can be time-consuming. As a result, our editorial team aims to summarize the week’s top headlines in the enterprise technology marketplace. The Solutions Review editors will compile a weekly round-up of vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy WorkTech information. With that in mind, here is some of the top WorkTech news for April 26th.
Top WorkTech News From the Week of April 26th, 2024
ActivTrak Debuts a New Training Hub
ActivTrak, a workforce analytics platform provider, has announced ActivTrak Academy. This new training hub will provide customers and partners with content, on-demand training courses, and instructor-led live sessions. With these resources, ActivTrak customers can improve how they manage, optimize, and adopt ActivTrak’s solution. The ActivTrak Academy also offers training and guidance on best practices for change management to help clients get more value from their workplace productivity efforts.
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AVEVA Releases a New Hybrid Manufacturing Execution System
AVEVA, a global industrial software provider, has released a new hybrid cloud Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to help manufacturing companies visualize and optimize multi-site operations. With this new MES solutions offering, manufacturing organizations can improve their supply chain agility, manage production in the cloud, optimize operational performance, maximize their sustainability initiatives, and realize enterprise-wide visibility into their distributed plant operations.
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Coupa Expands its Spend Management Platform with New AI Features
Coupa, a margin multiplier company, has announced several AI-powered innovations at Inspire, the company’s annual community conference. These new AI features are available across Coupa’s spend management platform and include tools for contract intelligence, Purchase Order (PO) Collaboration Intelligence, and Coupa Navi, a GenAI-based agent that provides real-time support to help teams create personalized dashboard, identify critical data, make decisions faster, and speed up approval cycle times.
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Docubee Details its New Channel Partner Program
Docubee, an intelligent contract automation platform, has launched its Docubee Channel Partner Program. The new program will make it easier for independent software vendors (ISVs), value-added resellers (VARs), managed service providers (MSPs), and referral companies to provide clients with Docubee’s eSignature solution. Docubee also announced that its solution could integrate with a company’s preexisting solutions, software, and applications, equipping them with custom workflow and automation capabilities.
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IBM to Acquire HashiCorp
IBM has announced its plans to acquire HashiCorp, a multi-cloud infrastructure automation company. HashiCorp’s product suite includes a collection of Infrastructure Lifecycle Management and Security Lifecycle Management capabilities that enable organizations to automate their hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Once the acquisition is complete, HashiCorp will help IBM accelerate its innovation initiatives, enhance its go-to-market strategies, and support its business growth and monetization efforts.
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Jitterbit Announces New Bundle Offerings
Jitterbit, a low-code enterprise solution provider, has announced two bundle offers to help companies accelerate their business transformation initiatives with integration, automation, web and mobile application development. The new bundles include the Harmony Ecommerce Bundle and a ‘Build Fast’ Bundle. Jitterbit’s Harmony offering is designed to help organizations manually manage their NetSuite and Shopify systems, while the ‘Build-Fast’ offer offers professional services and support to help organizations develop web or mobile applications.
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Microsoft and Cognizant Extend Their Partnership
Microsoft has expanded its partnership with Cognizant, a digital transformation service provider. The expanded partnership will enable the companies to bring their generative AI and Copilot solutions to “millions of users,” helping them transform enterprise business operations, accelerate cross-industry innovations, and enhance employee experiences. Additionally, as part of the partnership, Cognizant purchased 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats for its associates, alongside 500 Sales Copilot and 500 Services Copilot seats.
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Laserfiche Shares Details on New and Upcoming Features
Laserfiche—an SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation solutions—has revealed details on its upcoming AI features. The details shared at the 2024 Empower conference in Las Vegas include Laserfiche AI Document Summarization. This new generative AI-powered tool generates summaries of documents containing text or transcribed audio. Laserfiche also previewed its upcoming Laserfiche 12 release, which launches in November 2024 and will include new features and administrative tools to help admins oversee and manage their Laserfiche ecosystems.
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Oracle Launches New Capabilities for Healthcare Organizations
Oracle has announced new capabilities for its Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite. The new features include the Oracle Healthcare Marketplace, a B2C shopping experience within Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement; new financial and operational planning for Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM); and enhanced employee experiences for the Oracle Cloud HCM solution suite. Together, these capabilities Can help healthcare enterprises drive operational efficiency, improve patient outcomes, empower employees, streamline processes, and optimize product data accuracy.
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