The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of March 22nd. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like NVIDIA, Acumatica, UiPath, 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 March 22nd.
Top WorkTech News From the Week of March 22nd, 2024
Accenture Acquires Flo Group
Accenture has acquired Flo Group, a European consultancy and Oracle business partner specializing in global supply chain logistics. The acquisition expands Accenture’s Oracle-specific capabilities in Europe, allowing it to support clients better as they develop resilient, agile supply chains. Flo Group’s 260 employees will join the Accenture Oracle Business Group, extending its capabilities to help clients design their digital core, prepare for supply chain transformation, and maintain end-to-end visibility.
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Acumatica Announces the General Availability of the Acumatica 2024 R1 Update
Acumatica, a global business solution provider, has announced the general availability of Acumatica 2024 R1, the first of its semi-annual products. The release expands Acumatica’s platform with new features and functionalities for companies across the manufacturing, distribution, construction, retail, commerce, CRM, and financial markets. It also introduces new features for developers, including tools for simplifying no-code workflow creation, calculating ratios, improving reporting flexibility, enabling faster workflow processing, improving usability, and capturing new market share.
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Apromore Extends its Platform with New No-Code Features
Apromore—a process mining and AI-driven business process improvement technology provider—has announced several new features to help users visualize and refine complex processes. These new no-code features, available in Apromore version 9.5, extend the company’s AI-enabled process optimization with new no-code features that make it easier for businesses to drive continuous improvement initiatives, turn raw data into actionable insights, and streamline their process design and testing efforts.
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Celonis and Sailfin Release New Accounts Receivable Apps
Celonis, a process mining solution, has launched a new Sailfin Accounts Receivable (AR) application suite, developed alongside Sailfin Technologies, which the company acquired in 2022. These apps are designed to help AR teams improve efficiency, optimize daily AR management processes, eliminate system silos, maximize productivity, and drive process optimization across value chains. The Sailfin AR suite includes applications for collections management, dispute management, cash application, and credit management.
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Cognizant and Google Cloud Expand Their Partnership
Cognizant and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to enhance software delivery lifecycles and accelerate developer productivity. As part of the expanded partnership, Cognizant will adopt Gemini for Google Cloud by integrating its capabilities into its internal operations and training its associates to use Gemini for software development assistance. Additionally, Cognizant and Google Cloud will use Gemini to help clients across industries test code, build applications, resolve issues, and optimize performance.
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Google Cloud and NVIDIA Expand Their Partnership to Support Generative AI Development
Google Cloud and NVIDIA have expanded their existing partnership to better enable the machine learning (ML) community with the technology they need to build, scale, and manage generative AI applications. As part of this collaboration, Google has adopted the new NVIDIA Grace Blackwell AI computing platform and NVIDIA DGX Cloud service on Google Cloud. Additionally, NVIDIA has made its H100-powered DGX Cloud platform generally available on Google Cloud.
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IFS Appoints a New President for its Enterprise Service Management Business
IFS, a global cloud enterprise software company, has appointed Merlin Knott as President of its Enterprise Service Management business. Knott first joined IFS in 2019, where he was tasked with running IFS’ global Partner and Channel organization. He previously held various leadership roles in organizations like SAP, Cura Software, and MicroStrategy. In his new role, Knott will lead the IFS assyst team, focus on supporting the company’s global customer base, and expand what IFS assyst can provide to customers by commercializing IFS’ full suite of service offerings.
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Microsoft and NVIDIA Expand Their Partnership with New Integrations
Microsoft and NVIDIA have expanded their partnership to include several new integrations. These integrations will leverage NVIDIA’s latest generative AI and Omniverse technologies across Microsoft Azure, Azure AI service, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft 365 solutions. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, made the following statement about the announcement: “AI is transforming our daily lives—opening up a world of new opportunities. Through our collaboration with Microsoft, we’re building a future that unlocks the promise of AI for customers, helping them deliver innovative solutions to the world.”
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Oracle Partners with NVIDIA to Provide AI Services to Global Customers
Oracle has also expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to improve its ability to deliver AI solutions to global customers. The updated partnership combines Oracle’s distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and generative AI services with NVIDIA’s accelerating computing and generative AI software. This will help governments and enterprises deploy AI factories that run cloud services locally, supporting economic growth and providing enterprises greater control over their operations, location, security, and digital sovereignty.
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SAP and NVIDIA are Collaborating on the Development of SAP Business AI
SAP also announced an expansion to its partnership with NVIDIA, as the two companies are collaborating on developing and delivering SAP Business AI, which will help enterprise customers use data and generative AI across the SAP solution suite. SAP Business AI includes scalable, business-specific GenAI capabilities within SAP’s Joule copilot tool. Additionally, SAP will use NVIDIA’s generative AI foundry service to optimize various LLMs for domain-specific scenarios, deploy applications with NVIDIA NIM microservices, and more. The companies plan to release these integrated capabilities by the end of 2024.
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ServiceNow Acquires 4Industry
ServiceNow, a digital workflow company, has announced its plans to acquire 4Industry, a manufacturing technology provider whose primary application is built on ServiceNow’s Now Platform. The company also announced that it has completed its acquisition of Smart Daily Management, a connected digital worker application from EY. These acquisitions will expand ServiceNow’s operational technology (OT) management capabilities, add Connected Worker solutions to its portfolio, and enhance its expertise across the manufacturing, transport, logistics, and energy markets.
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UiPath Introduces New Generative AI Features to its Platform
UiPath—an enterprise automation and AI software company—has introduced several new generative AI features to its platform to help companies access specialized AI models that are tailored to their most valuable use cases. The new features, announced at the UiPath AI Summit, include Generative Large Language Models (LLMs), pre-built GenAI Activities that utilize the UiPath AI Trust Layer, Context Grounding to augment GenAI models with business-specific data, and UiPath Autopilot, a suite of GenAI-powered experiences.
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Unit4 Launches Smart Automation Services
Unit4, an enterprise cloud application provider focused on people-centric organizations, has launched Smart Automation Services. With these new services, customers can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and context awareness capabilities to improve efficiency and productivity. The services are designed to integrate with Unit4’s enterprise resource planning suite and its virtual assistant solution, helping users streamline business processes, automate tasks, and enable a customizable, lighter-touch user experience.
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The Latest Episode of The ERP Doctors Podcast is Now Live
In the latest episode of The ERP Doctors podcast, hosts Sam Gupta and Dan Aldridge talk about recent mergers, acquisitions, and releases in the ERP marketplace, including the latest from companies like Deltek, HCLTech, ActivTrak, and SAP. They also interview Paul Tedford, the CEO of ERP implementer WM Synergy, who shares his insights on business transformation, the value of industry experience, and the challenges he faces in the small and midsize business (SMB) space.
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Solutions Review Solution Spotlight March Madness
Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend. There’s still time to register for the final events for “March Madness,” too! Don’t miss out.
March 26th with Cohesity
With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with ransomware protection and data storage solutions provider Cohesity. Join Cloud Solutions Architect Edwin Galang for a discussion on the threat ransomware poses to enterprises today. Cohesity FortKnox is a cyber vaulting solution that provides an always available, secure copy of data in the cloud that prevents IT teams from making the hard choice between data security and speed of recovery.
March 27th with Amplitude
With the next Solution Spotlight event, Solutions Review’s team has partnered with Amplitude, a product analytics and event tracking platform provider. Join VP of Growth Laura Schaffer as she provides an overview of the company’s platform, shows viewers how they can apply data insights into their product-led growth workflows, and use those workflows in their ongoing marketing efforts.
March 28th with High Gear
With the next Solution Spotlight event, Solutions Review’s team has partnered with HighGear, a no-code workflow & process management software platform. Join Sales Engineer Jerry Grue as he overviews HighGear’s capabilities and illustrates how its no-code platform can help companies manage their work.
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