Top Worktech News From the Week of August 22nd: Updates from Oracle, IFS, Appian, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Worktech news from the week of August 22nd. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Oracle, IFS, Appian, 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 August 22nd.

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Top WorkTech News From the Week of August 22nd, 2025

Appian Introduces New Enhancements to Its Solution Suite

Appian, a platform for AI process automation, has announced several enhancements to help organizations work smarter with faster insights, greater scalability, and more secure AI access. The updates include AI-powered semantic smart search, automatic data fabric scaling, Process HQ reports that embed directly into sites, and the availability of Appian AI for self-managed and FedRAMP environments. “This release makes it easier for all organizations, including our government customers, to securely leverage enterprise-grade AI,” said Michael Beckley, CTO at Appian.

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Adobe Launches Acrobat Studio, a New Hub for AI-Powered Productivity

Adobe has launched Acrobat Studio, a new “transformative” hub for productivity and creativity. The Studio will unite Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express, and AI agents to empower users to enhance productivity, quickly create stand-out content, and get helpful insights to work smarter. For example, the solution can transform PDFs into conversational knowledge hubs that enable people to use customizable AI Assistants to unlock additional insights. Users can then bring that information to life with Adobe Express creation tools and templates and Adobe Firefly’s image and video generation capabilities. Adobe Acrobat is available now, with PDF Spaces and AI Assistant releasing on September 1st.

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Beroe Expands Its Solution Portfolio with New Products

Beroe, a global provider of procurement decision intelligence, is expanding its solutions portfolio with new offerings to support procurement teams as they navigate the challenges of fast-changing multinational trading environments. The latest products include a Tariff Monitoring solution, an accompanying Tariff Impact Analysis tool, and the standalone self-service Sourcing Location Optimizer tool. These features will allow procurement teams to maintain up-to-date tariff data by product category, quantify the cost implications of existing or proposed tariffs, and identify optimal sourcing locations across 15 key economies.

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BillingPlatform Details the RevenueIQ Suite

BillingPlatform, an enterprise revenue lifecycle management platform, has launched RevenueIQ, an AI suite designed to transform how accounting teams analyze, plan, and operate businesses. RevenueIQ combines embedded conversational AI and custom-trained AI models with the precision of billing data to enable smarter decisions, faster outcomes, and fully connected financial intelligence. The entire RevenueIQ suite of AI capabilities is available at no additional cost for all BillingPlatform customers.

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Celonis Achieves Its FedRAMP Certification

Celonis, a global process mining company, has received its Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification. Working with partner Knox, the authorization means Celonis can meet the strictest standards when handling the U.S. federal government’s most sensitive, unclassified data in a secure cloud computing environment. Aubrey Vaughan, Vice President of Strategy for Public Sector at Celonis, says, “Achieving FedRAMP authorization means more agencies have access to our software that’s already unlocked billions in value across the public sector.”

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IFS Acquires 7bridges, a Supply Chain Management Solution

IFS, a global provider of Industrial AI software, has acquired 7bridges, an AI-powered supply chain management solution provider. The move will help IFS strengthen its position as an Industrial AI leader by expanding its logistics and transportation optimization capabilities. Additionally, the expertise and innovation of the 7bridges team will help IFS accelerate its development of next-generation AI-enabled supply chain solutions within IFS Cloud while strengthening its simulation and optimization capabilities across multi-sector applications.

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Oracle Deploys OpenAI GPT-5 Throughout Its Database and SaaS Application Suites

Oracle has deployed OpenAI GPT-5 across its database portfolio and suite of SaaS applications, including Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle NetSuite, and Oracle Industry Applications. This will help Oracle unite trusted business data with frontier AI, enabling customers to accelerate code generation, enhance multi-step reasoning and orchestration across business processes, increase the accuracy of business insights, and natively leverage sophisticated coding and reasoning capabilities within their business-critical workflows.

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R Systems Acquires Novigo Solutions

R Systems, a global digital product engineering company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Novigo Solutions, a specialist in low-code/no-code (LCNC) development and intelligent-automation services. The strategic acquisition will integrate R Systems’ OptimaAI Suite with Novigo’s UiPath Diamond-tier automation practice and Microsoft Copilot Centre of Excellence, enabling R Systems to offer engineering, deployment, and management of enterprise-scale fleets of AI agents under a single, governed platform.

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Salesforce Announces Plans to Acquire Regrello

Salesforce has announced its acquisition of Regrello, an AI-native solution that automates complex business processes. Once the transaction closes, Salesforce will integrate Regrello with Agentforce and Slack to help customers turn their manual activities into agentic automations, increasing the speed and quality of business processes. Aman Naimat, CEO at Regrello, says, “Joining Salesforce gives us the reach and platform to bring agentic process automation to more organizations, helping teams break free from old, slow, and expensive ways of working to agile, AI-powered execution.” The acquisition is expected to close in Salesforce’s third fiscal quarter of 2026.

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Tredence Releases an Agentic AI Playbook for CDAOs and AI Leaders

Tredence, a data science and AI solution provider, has announced the Agentic AI Playbook, a “first-of-its-kind” strategic guide for CDAOs and AI leaders navigating the transition from AI pilots to enterprise-scale modernization. The playbook aims to offer a practical framework for reimagining workflows, decision-making structures, and leadership models in the GenAI era. It’s anchored in five strategic lenses: Business Value Realization, Human + AI Agents = Co-Intelligence, Business Process Reengineering, Technology Evolution, and Governance and Compliance.

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Xurrent Debuts an AI Fabric for Service Teams

Xurrent, an AI-powered Service and Operations Management platform for enterprise managed service providers (MSPs) and corporate IT teams, has launched Sera AI, an AI fabric designed to streamline IT operations through real-time automation, intelligent ticketing, and contextual support. With this solution, service teams can automate request summaries at scale, eliminate repetitive tasks by generating knowledge articles, optimize response and resolution with sentiment-aware ticket classification, scale automation with AI trained on hundreds of proven use cases, and deliver faster outcomes with always-on AI that learns and adapts continuously.

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GPT 5: The Last Foundational Model – Insight AI

In the latest episode of Insight AI, Doug and Doug dig into ChatGPT-5’s game-changing “routing” intelligence and why this might be the last foundational model we ever see. They also explore how the industry is witnessing a seismic shift from basic pattern-matching AI to world models that can actually think contextually, and why this could spell trouble for entire industries built on human expertise. If you’re curious about where AI is headed, this episode delivers the insights without the hype.

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What to Expect from the Solutions Spotlight with PCG and Infor on September 24th, 2025

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has again partnered with industry experts from PCG, an ERP business transformation advisory service provider, to discuss the technologies and operational trends that automotive suppliers must adopt to stay relevant and competitive in the next era of industry mobility. The panel of industry experts will also identify the specific trends that require suppliers to embrace new technologies for their systems and processes.

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