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The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of May 24th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Mendix, IBM, Epicor, 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 24th.
Top WorkTech News From the Week of May 24th, 2024
Accenture Completes its Acquisition of Udacity
Accenture has completed its acquisition of Udacity, a digital education pioneer with expertise in developing and delivering proprietary technology courses that combine the flexibility of online learning with human instruction. The acquisition supports Accenture’s ongoing investment in meeting the needs of changing workforces, focusing on helping people gain industry-specific training and technology skills that help them secure a place in the AI economy.
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Cleo and Terillium Announce a New Partnership
Cleo, an ecosystem integration software company, has announced a new partnership with Terillium, an ERP consulting company and Oracle partner. The partnership will combine Cleo’s cloud-based B2B integration platform, Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC), with Terillium’s Oracle experience to provide Oracle customers with a flexible solution for custom EDI requirements. Cleo and Terillium’s partnership will also help companies stay competitive in a changing supply chain technology market by equipping them with more efficient operations.
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Epicor Details the Epicor Growth Portfolio
Epicor, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software, has unveiled its new Epicor Growth portfolio. The portfolio is an integrated suite of artificial intelligence (AI) and business intelligence (BI) capabilities powered by an industry-focused data platform designed for the requirements of companies in the make, move, and sell industries. With Epicor Grow, organizations across the supply chain can unlock new levels of efficiency, innovation, and competitiveness while reducing the complexity of tasks, improving external supplier communities, and streamlining intelligence extraction from data sets.
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IBM Details the New Updating Coming to watsonx
IBM recently detailed several of the updates coming to its watsonx platform, alongside additional data and automation capabilities to make AI more open, flexible, and cost-effective for businesses. The watsonx updates include an upcoming feature for watsonx Orchestration to help clients develop AI Assistants across domains. IBM is also releasing new AI Assistants, including the watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java Applications, watsonx Assistant for Z, and an expansion of watsonx Code Assistant for Z Service.
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Mendix Announces a New Partnership with Snowflake
Mendix, a Siemens business, has announced a new partnership with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company. The partnership combines Snowflake’s Data Cloud with Mendix’s enterprise low-code application development platform to help enterprises unlock the value of data for their ongoing digital transformation initiatives. Other benefits of the collaboration include a secure integration for the companies’ technology stacks, improved data exchange between platforms, better mobile application capabilities, additional cybersecurity features, and more efficient software development.
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OutSystems Appoints a New Chief Product and Technology Officer
OutSystems, a global provider of enterprise low-code application development solutions, has appointed Luis Blando as its Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). In this role, Blando will spearhead OutSystems’ product development and technology strategies, with the goal of further strengthening the company’s position in the low-code application development and generative AI markets. Before OutSystems, Blando held various leadership positions at companies like Proofpoint, Intel, and Verizon.
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Sage Launches the Sage Intacct Paperless Solution
Sage, a software provider for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), has launched Sage Intacct Paperless, a cloud-based solution designed to make it easier to store, retrieve, and route Accounts Payable (AP) documents. This add-on solution integrates with Sage Intacct Construction, a native cloud financial management system for construction businesses, and can reduce the workload of paper-heavy, manual tasks that tend to drain time and budget. Specific features include document capture, document indexes, document retrieval, AP entry, invoice routing, and document lifecycle management.
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UiPath and Microsoft Detail a New Integration Partnership
UiPath—an enterprise automation and AI software company—has announced an integration between its Business Automation Platform and Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. The new integration will allow joint customers to automate end-to-end business processes, have access to a pre-built library of automations, collaborate with co-workers on Teams, and more. Additionally, Microsoft Azure is now a preferred cloud platform for UiPath, including the UiPath Automation Cloud solution.
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Zilliant Reveals New AI-Powered Features for its Platform
Zilliant, a pricing lifecycle management solution provider, has announced several new AI innovations for its solution suite. One of these solutions is GenAI Pricing Analytics, a new product designed to provide customers with faster insights into the impact pricing details have on their products and customers. Another release is the AI-powered Pricing Guidance tool in Zilliant CPQ, an integration between price optimization and CPQ solutions that embeds an AI assistant in Zilliant’s CPQ offering. The company will showcase these features at the MindShare 2024 conference.
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