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The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of May 17th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like OutSystems, Manhattan Associates, Camunda, 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 May 17th.
Top WorkTech News From the Week of May 17th, 2024
Apromore and Soroco Detail Their New Partnership
Apromore—an AI-driven process mining and simulation solution provider—has announced a strategic partnership with Soroco, an AI and interaction data provider. The partnership will bring together Apromore’s process mining platform with Soroco’s Scout AI model to help organizations increase visibility and “operational excellence” by empowering them with an easy-to-use, no-code solution that gives them an in-depth understanding of their end-to-end business processes, makes it easy to identify areas for improvement, and curates more efficient business outcomes.
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Camunda Introduces New Capabilities to its Platform
Camunda, an end-to-end process orchestration platform provider, has announced several capabilities to help companies implement AI into any process, make their automations more intelligent, maximize efficiencies, and move from a local implementation strategy to a more holistic automation approach. These capabilities include the Camunda Copilot, an AI-driven Modeler feature for Camunda Copilot, an AI-assisted form builder, and a suite of AI Connectors for Open AI, Azure OpenAI, and Hugging Face.
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Gartner Releases its 2024 Magic Quadrant for Process Mining Tools
Analyst house Gartner, Inc. recently released the 2024 edition of its Magic Quadrant for Process Mining Tools, identifying eighteen of the marketplace’s most effective process mining vendors. The researchers behind the report—Marc Kerremans, David Sugden, and Nick Duffy—evaluated each listed vendor’s strengths and weaknesses, ranked them on the signature “Magic Quadrant” graph, and the editors at Solutions Review highlighted the updates worth knowing about.
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Harness Receives $150 Million in Financing
Harness, a software delivery platform, has received $150 million in financing from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank, and Hercules Capital, Inc. The company will use the investment to expand its platform with several new modules, further integrate generative AI technologies into the platform, and continue to support its go-to-market engine. Jyoti Bansal, the CEO and co-founder of Harness, says, “This funding enables our company to continue innovating at a record pace, transforming the software delivery lifecycle for today’s modern enterprises.”
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Manhattan Associates Launches the Manhattan Active Supply Chain Planning Platform
Manhattan Associates—a global supply chain and omnichannel commerce technology provider—has announced Manhattan Active Supply Chain Planning (SCP), a unified business planning platform designed to enable bi-directional collaboration between a company’s supply chain planning and execution systems. With this new offering, Manhattan Associates will help planners evaluate relevant operational factors in real-time, making it easier to align their systems, inventory, and resources to common business objectives.
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Manhattan Associates Expands its Solutions with New Generative AI Capabilities
Manhattan Associates also announced details on Manhattan Active Maven and Manhattan Assist. Manhattan Active Mavin is a specialized GenAI solution built for customer service, and Manhattan Assist is an initiative that will add GenAI capabilities to all of the Manhattan Active solutions. This will help companies improve their consumer interactions, optimize how customers interact with Manhattan Associates’ solutions, reduce operational costs, and provide users with platform-level assistance across multiple personas, roles, and functions.
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OutSystems Showcased its Latest GenAI Features at the Gartner Summit
OutSystems, an enterprise low-code application development platform, recently showcased its latest generative AI capabilities at the Gartner Applications Innovation & Business Solutions Summit, which took place in Las Vegas between May 14th and 16th. The showcase follows OutSystems’ recent launch of its AI Agent Builder solution, designed to help companies integrate GenAI agents into their applications, and a new GenAI-powered customer support tool embedded in the OutSystems Support Portal. OutSystems also announced that its third annual Hackathon event, occurring in September, will center on AI innovation.
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QorusDocs Announces a New AI Service for RFP and Proposal Development
QorusDocs, an AI-powered proposal management software, has announced QPilot, a secure and private AI service designed to simplify creating pitches, proposals, and RFP responses for professional services firms. The QorusDocs QPilot service is built on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service and provides companies with in-depth security and privacy for their private content libraries, past RFPs, proposals, and other internal content. It will also help businesses accelerate research, streamline workflows, integrate with Microsoft 365 apps, and curate personalized content.
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Siemens Digital Industries Software and Microsoft Expand Their Partnership
Siemens Digital Industries Software has expanded its partnership with Microsoft to make Siemens’ Xcelerator as a Service portfolio available via Microsoft’s Azure platform, starting with Siemens’ Teamcenter X software for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Integrating Teamcenter with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Copilot for Microsoft 365 will help organizations maximize productivity and bring their products to market faster.
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TrueCommerce Details its New EDI Integration for SAP S/4HANA
TrueCommerce—a supply chain and trading partner connectivity, integration, and omnichannel solutions provider—has revealed a new electronic data interchange (EDI) integration for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. The direct integration will enable TrueCommerce customers to connect and integrate their SAP systems with other trading partners and associated platforms, improving efficiency, compliance, and visibility across the supply chain. It will also support both private cloud and on-premises versions of SAP S/4HANA.
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