Top WorkTech News From the Week of November 22nd: Updates from Pega, Nintex, FlowForma, and More
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The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of November 22nd. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Pega, Nintex, FlowForma, 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 November 22nd.
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Top WorkTech News From the Week of November 22nd, 2024
Certinia Receives an Investment From TA Associates
Certinia, a professional services automation solution provider, has received an investment from TA Associates, a global private equity firm. The investment will support Certinia's continued growth. Haveli Investments will retain a majority position in Certinia, with existing investors General Atlantic and Salesforce Ventures also maintaining their meaningful takes in the business. DJ Paoni, CEO of Certinia, says, "Over the last 18 months...we've achieved major growth milestones—including surpassing one million monthly active users—and TA's investment is a strong validation of Certinia's positive momentum and the value our solutions deliver to our customers every day."
Cleo and IndSoft Detail a New Partnership
Cleo, an ecosystem integration software provider, has partnered with IndSoft, an IT consulting services company. The partnership will combine Cleo's Integration Cloud technology with IndSoft's managed services team, enabling customers in the consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals sectors to leverage a collection of cloud-based integration solutions capable of streamlining B2B processes, driving operational efficiencies, and providing any-to-any integrations for trading partners.
Coupa Appoints a Chief Financial Officer
Coupa, a margin multiplier company, has appointed Michael Agresta as its Chief Financial Officer. Agresta has nearly twenty years of financial leadership experience at private and public companies, having previously served as CFO at Pluralsight and other financial positions at brands like Skupos, Marketo, Eventbrite, and Deloitte. In his new role, Agresta will oversee Coupa's finance, accounting, enterprise digital enablement, and legal functions to help the company continue its long-term profitable growth strategy.
DuploCloud Launches the Advanced Observability Suite
DuploCloud, a DevOps automation provider, has launched the DuploCloud Advanced Observability Suite (AOS), a solution designed to provide companies with comprehensive application insights without the unpredictable costs usually associated with observability tools. The DuploCloud AOS solution includes capabilities for application performance monitoring (APM), custom metrics, advanced troubleshooting tools, end-to-end observability, real-time alerts, automated responses to anomalies, and custom dashboards. The AOS offering is available now as an add-on to DuploCloud's DevOps Automation Platform.
ECI Software Solutions Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
ECI Software Solutions, a global provider of cloud-based business management software, is celebrating its 25th anniversary by recognizing some of the most significant milestones it has achieved since its inception. Trevor Gruenewald, CEO at ECI Software Solutions, says. "At ECI, we've always believed that our role is to empower SMBs with the technology tools and industry solutions they need to grow, and our customers' achievements are the greatest testament to that mission...As we look to the future, we all remain committed to supporting the success of SMBs worldwide."
FlowForma Appoints a New CEO
FlowForma, a digital process automation solution, has appointed John Murphy as its Chief Executive Officer. Murphy has years of experience in the financial services marketplace, having helped multiple companies improve their detection of patterns, optimization of processes, and prediction of outcomes. In his role at FlowForma, he will drive the company's ongoing innovation roadmap and accelerate its market reach, product evolution, and customer adoption, all while ensuring the brand remains a?top player in the rapidly evolving digital transformation space.
Intuit Releases a GenAI-Powered Financial Assistant Tool
Intuit, the global financial technology platform, has launched Intuit Assist for QuickBooks, a new generative AI-powered financial assistant. The new functionality will help small and mid-market businesses generate estimates, invoices, bills, and payment reminders at the click of a button. With these features, business owners can control their processes while reducing the work required to get paid, convert prospects, and make informed financial decisions. Intuit Assist for QuickBooks Online tool is now available to customers in the U.S. on web desktop and mobile web.
Nintex Debuts a New Application Development Product
Nintex, an intelligent process automation provider, has announced Nintex Apps, an application development product designed to help business users, process experts, IT teams, and Nintex partners develop and deploy personalized, business-critical applications. Nintex Apps is built to connect with Nintex's workflow and document generation products, making it easier for users to consolidate data from disparate systems, orchestrate complex processes, reduce the need for additional technologies, and simplify the development, deployment, and governance of business applications.
Pega Announces New Capabilities for its GenAI Blueprint Solution
Pegasystems, the Enterprise Transformation Company, has announced several AI-driven legacy discovery capabilities for Pega GenAI Blueprint that aim to accelerate the task of modernizing legacy systems. With these new features, users can leverage generative AI to analyze existing IT assets and create new, modern, and cloud-native applications "blueprints" that are ready to build. Other capabilities introduced include process mining analysis tools, data definition language (.DDL) file imports, and more. The features are now available to Pega users.
Planview Adds New Skills to its AI-Powered Assistant
Planview—an end-to-end platform for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) and Digital Product Development (DPD)—has released several new skills in Planview Copilot, the company's AI-powered assistant that helps enterprises streamline productivity, support data-driven decision-making, and more. The new skills in Planview Copilot leverage AI-driven insights to analyze and interpret real-time metrics, summarize project statuses, recommend next steps, and deliver educational assistance and onboarding services to users. Planview Copilot and these new features are available now.
Progress Introduces New Features to its Sitefinity Solution
Progress, an AI-powered infrastructure software provider, has announced new capabilities and enhancements in its latest Progress Sitefinity product release. The new release introduces native support for Next.js and a React framework, allowing organizations to leverage one of the fastest-growing frontend frameworks in their workflows. Other additions in the Sitefinity 15.2 release include a customizable UI for business users and the ability to add custom low-code workflows powered by generative AI.
Rubicon Technology Partners Closes a Single-Asset Continuation Fund for Cin7
Rubicon Technology Partners, a private equity firm focusing on middle-market software investment, has completed a $500 million single-asset continuation fund to extend its ongoing partnership with Cin7, a global cloud-based inventory management solutions provider. CVC Secondary Partners was the lead investor, with participation from institutional investors like Ares Management funds, funds managed by BlackRock, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Schroders Capital. The transaction will allow Rubicon to provide additional liquidity to investors while enabling Cin7 to accelerate its growth with organic initiatives and targeted acquisitions.
Tray.ai Enhances its Universal Automation Cloud Solution with New Functionalities
Tray.ai—an AI-ready, multi-experience integration and automation platform—has announced several advancements for its Universal Automation Cloud solution. The enhancements will help enterprises maximize the value of their unstructured data, address the scalability challenges involved in AI projects, eliminate delivery tooling proliferation, accelerate time to value, and more. Those enhancements include unified data integration non-AI and AI-related workloads, flexible inline data transformation control, workflow documentation powered by GenAI, and intelligent document processing (IDP).
Tricentis Details the New Cloud Capabilities Coming to the Tricentis Tosca Platform
Tricentis, a continuous testing and quality engineering solution provider, has launched enhanced cloud capabilities for its Tricentis Tosca offering. These enhancements will bring enterprise-ready, end-to-end test automation to the cloud, enabling companies to reduce the overhead involved with internal infrastructure and managing on-premises components. The new features include a fully cloud-enabled user interface, API simulation for early-stage testing, and tools for seamlessly transitioning multiple test cases and entire execution lists to the cloud. Tricentis will also release Cloud Agents for zero-footprint execution at a later date.
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Evolving ERP - Judith O'Callaghan and Paul Byrne
Judith O'Callaghan and Paul Byrne spearhead the latest episode of Evolving ERP with a thoughtful discussion about the true meaning of digital transformation and business transformation. Paul shares his unique entry into ERP through building a real-time cash register system for his father's music venue, while Judith discusses her experience implementing SAP for a sugar company in rural India. The conversation also explores how business transformation is fundamentally about evolving business models, with technology serving as an enabler rather than the driving force, challenging common misconceptions about digital transformation buzzwords.
Proactive IT Resilience: Preparing for the Next Big Disruption
David Chen, the Director of IT Services at Laserfiche, explains why proactive IT resilience will help companies prepare for whatever the next disruption is. The article outlines how IT departments can develop a resilient strategy to face future disruptions by starting with in-depth vendor risk assessments, maintaining reliable communication channels, learning from recent disruptions, strengthening business continuity, and developing a culture of preparedness.
Unlocking A Successful Cloud Migration for Professional Services Firms
Bryce Wolf, the Director of Strategic Growth at Unit4, explains how professional services firms can prepare for successful cloud migration. He describes how they should invest in their data integrity, develop a change management strategy, research the compliance standards they need to meet and focus on a scalable solution, which will help them unlock new levels of adaptability and resilience.
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