Solutions Review editors have compiled a list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news for the week of March 22. This roundup covers announcements and updates from NVIDIA, Acumatica, UiPath, and more.
Pay close attention to the most relevant content Enterprise Resource Planning and business process management News can be time-consuming. So our editorial team aimed to summarize the top stories in the enterprise technology market this week. Solutions Review editors will provide a weekly roundup of vendor product news, M&A, venture capital, talent acquisitions and other noteworthy WorkTech news. With that in mind, here are some of the top WorkTech news stories for March 22.
Top WorkTech news for the week of March 22, 2024
Accenture acquires Flo Group
Accenture acquires 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 better support clients as they develop resilient, agile supply chains. Flo Group’s 260 employees will join Accenture’s Oracle business group, expanding its capabilities to help clients design digital cores, prepare for supply chain transformation and maintain end-to-end visibility.
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Acumatica announces general availability of Acumatica 2024 R1 update
Acumatica, a global provider of business solutions, has announced the general availability of Acumatica 2024 R1, its first semi-annual product. This release expands Acumatica’s platform with new features and capabilities for companies in manufacturing, distribution, construction, retail, commerce, CRM and financial markets. It also introduces new features for developers, including tools to simplify code-free workflow creation, calculate ratios, increase reporting flexibility, enable faster workflow processing, improve usability and capture new market share.
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Apromore expands its platform with new codeless capabilities
Apromore – a provider of process mining and artificial intelligence-driven business process improvement technology – has announced several new capabilities to help users visualize and improve complex processes. These new codeless capabilities available in Apromore version 9.5 expand the company’s AI process optimization with new codeless capabilities that make it easier for enterprises to drive continuous improvement initiatives and turn raw data into actionable insights and streamline process design and testing efforts.
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Celonis and Sailfin launch new accounts receivable app
Process mining solution Celonis has launched its new Sailfin accounts receivable (AR) application suite, developed with Sailfin Technologies, which the company acquired in 2022. These applications are designed to help AR teams increase efficiency, optimize daily AR management processes, eliminate system silos, maximize productivity, and drive process optimization across the entire value chain. The Sailfin AR suite includes applications for collections management, dispute management, cash application and credit management.
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Cognizant expands partnership with Google Cloud
Cognizant and Google Cloud expand partnership to enhance software delivery lifecycle and improve developer productivity. As part of the expanded partnership, Cognizant will adopt Gemini for Google Cloud, integrate its capabilities into its internal operations, and train its employees to use Gemini for software development assistance. In addition, Cognizant and Google Cloud will use Gemini to help customers in a variety of industries test code, build applications, solve problems and optimize performance.
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Google Cloud and NVIDIA expand partnership to support generative AI development
Google Cloud and NVIDIA have expanded their existing partnership to better provide the machine learning (ML) community with the technology they need to build, scale and manage generative AI applications. As part of the cooperation, Google adopted the new NVIDIA Grace Blackwell AI computing platform and NVIDIA DGX Cloud services on Google Cloud. In addition, NVIDIA has made the H100-powered DGX Cloud platform fully available on Google Cloud.
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IFS appoints new president of enterprise services management business
Global cloud enterprise software company IFS has named Merlin Knott president of its enterprise services management business. Knott first joined IFS in 2019 and is responsible for managing IFS’s global partners and access organizations. He previously held various leadership roles at organizations including SAP, Cura Software, and MicroStrategy. In his new role, Knott will lead the IFS assyst team, focused on supporting the company’s global customer base and expanding the services IFS assyst can provide to customers by commercializing IFS’s full suite of service offerings.
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Microsoft and NVIDIA expand partnership with new integration
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 Services, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft 365 solutions. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang issued the following statement in response to the announcement: “Artificial intelligence is transforming our daily lives and opening up a world of new opportunities. Through our partnership with Microsoft, we are building a platform that promises to unlock artificial intelligence for our customers. future and help them deliver innovative solutions to the world.”
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Oracle and NVIDIA partner to provide AI services to global customers
Oracle has also expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to improve its ability to provide artificial intelligence solutions to customers around the world. The updated partnership combines Oracle’s distributed cloud, AI infrastructure and generative AI services with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and generative AI software. This will help governments and businesses deploy artificial intelligence factories that run cloud services locally, supporting economic growth and giving businesses greater control over their operations, location, security and digital sovereignty.
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SAP and NVIDIA are collaborating on SAP Business AI
SAP also announced the expansion of its partnership with NVIDIA. The two companies are collaborating to develop and deliver SAP Business AI, which will help enterprise customers use data and generative AI in the SAP solution suite. SAP Business AI includes scalable, business-specific GenAI capabilities in the SAP Joule copilot tool. In addition, SAP will use NVIDIA’s generative AI foundry services to optimize various LLMs for domain-specific scenarios, deploy applications using NVIDIA NIM microservices, and more. The two companies plan to release these integrated features by the end of 2024.
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ServiceNow acquires 4Industry
Digital workflow company ServiceNow has announced plans to acquire 4Industry, a manufacturing technology provider whose main applications are built on ServiceNow’s Now platform. The company also announced it has completed the acquisition of EY’s Smart Daily Management, an application for the connected digital workforce. The acquisitions will expand ServiceNow’s operational technology (OT) management capabilities, add connected workforce solutions to its product portfolio, and enhance its expertise in the manufacturing, transportation, logistics and energy markets.
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UiPath introduces new generative AI capabilities to its platform
UiPath, an enterprise automation and artificial intelligence software company, has introduced several new generative artificial intelligence capabilities on its platform to help companies access specialized artificial intelligence models tailored for their most valuable use cases. New capabilities announced at the UiPath AI Summit include the generation of large language models (LLMs), pre-built GenAI activities leveraging the UiPath AI trust layer, the use of business-specific profiles to enhance the context of GenAI models, and UiPath Autopilot, a GenAI-driven experience kit.
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Unit4 launches smart automation service
Unit4, an enterprise cloud application provider focused on people-centered organizations, has launched smart automation services. With these new services, customers can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and situational awareness capabilities to increase efficiency and productivity. These services are designed to integrate with Unit4’s enterprise resource planning suite and its virtual assistant solution to help users streamline business processes, automate tasks and enable a customizable, light-touch user experience.
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The latest episode of the ERP Doctor Podcast is now online
In the latest episode of the ERP Doctors podcast, hosts Sam Gupta and Dan Aldridge talk about recent mergers, acquisitions and launches in the ERP market, including updates from companies like Deltek, HCLTech, ActivTrak and SAP. They also interviewed Paul Tedford, CEO of ERP implementer WM Synergy, who shared his insights on business transformation, the value of industry experience and the challenges he faces in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) sector.
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March 26, cohesion
For its next Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team partnered with Cohesity, a provider of ransomware protection and data storage solutions. Discuss the ransomware threat to today’s enterprises with Edwin Galang, Cloud Solutions Architect. Cohesity FortKnox is a network storage solution that provides an always-available, secure copy of data in the cloud, preventing IT teams from making the difficult choice between data security and speed of recovery.
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March 27, Amplitude
For its next Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team partnered with Amplitude, provider of a product analytics and incident tracking platform. Follow VP of Growth Laura Schaffer as she outlines the company’s platform, showing viewers how to apply data insights into product-led growth workflows and use them in ongoing marketing efforts.
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March 28, high speed
For the next Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team partnered with HighGear, a codeless workflow and process management software platform. Join Sales Engineer Jerry Grue to learn about HighGear’s capabilities and explain how its no-code platform helps companies manage their efforts.
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