Top Worktech News From the Week of May 8th: Updates from Rootstock Software, Syspro, Celonis, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Worktech news from the week of May 8th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Rootstock Software, Syspro, Celonis, 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 top headlines of the week 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 8th.

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Top WorkTech News From the Week of May 8th, 2026

Anthropic Launches an Enterprise AI Services Venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs

Anthropic has formed a new standalone enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to help mid-sized businesses deploy Claude more deeply into their core operations. The venture is designed to pair Anthropic’s applied AI engineers with the new firm’s experienced team to identify high-value use cases, build custom solutions, and support customers over time. These companies will focus less on one-off deployments and more on operationalization by helping organizations that lack in-house AI depth move from experimentation to durable workflows across sectors.

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Bolt.new Announces an Integration Partnership with Microsoft

Bolt.new, an agentic application development platform from Stackblitz, has announced a partnership with Microsoft to make its agentic application-building platform available through Microsoft Marketplace and integrate it with Azure. The collaboration will focus on providing a faster path from prompt to production, with generated frontend code deployable inside existing Azure environments and support for Microsoft 365 and Copilot workflows. Additionally, the integration between Bolt.new and Azure includes a Microsoft Marketplace listing for Bolt.new, Azure cloud platform deployment options, Azure-native design system support, and enterprise-grade security and compliance.

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Celonis and Deloitte Launch a New Partner Solution

Celonis, a global provider of Process Intelligence, in partnership with Deloitte, has launched the Celonis SOX and Internal Controls Manager, a new application designed to modernize internal controls with process intelligence. The tool aims to replace periodic, manual testing with continuous monitoring across finance, audit, and procurement workflows, giving finance, controlling, internal audit, and procurement teams earlier visibility into control violations and operational risk. It works by pulling transactional data from multiple sources to provide end-to-end process transparency and a more automated workflow for resolving issues.

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Coder Releases Its Self-Hosted, AI Model Agnostic Coder Agents in Beta

Coder, a self-hosted AI development infrastructure provider, has announced the beta launch of Coder Agents. The Coder Agents solution is a self-hosted, model-agnostic AI coding system for enterprises that want agentic development without sending code or prompts outside their network. With this solution, teams can run the entire agent system—including the control plane, orchestration, and execution—on infrastructure they own and operate, enabling centralized governance and secure, scalable development across the organization.

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ECI Software Solutions Appoints an Industry President for Manufacturing

ECI Software Solutions, an AI-powered, cloud-based business management software and services provider, has appointed Adam Sklader as Industry President for Manufacturing. In this role, Sklader will lead the strategy for ECI’s North American and Australian manufacturing portfolio, with an emphasis on connecting fragmented systems and using integrated AI to improve visibility and decision-making on the shop floor and across operations. His background spans more than 16 years in manufacturing technology, including 13 years at IFS, where he led sales across discrete and process manufacturing.

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Eightfold AI Integrates Its AI Interviewer Tool with Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting

Eightfold AI, a talent intelligence company and Oracle partner, has integrated its AI Interviewer tool with Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting. The integration helps recruiters conduct consistent, skills-based interviews across initial evaluation, functional, and coding stages without leaving the Oracle environment. Nagaraj Nadendla, Senior VP of Product Development at Oracle, says the integration “expands access for our customers to agentic interview capabilities that fit directly into their existing workflows, delivering the speed, consistency, and depth that enterprise hiring demands. “

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EPAM Forms a Strategic Partnership with Anthropic

EPAM, a global provider of AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting services, has formed a strategic, multi-year partnership with Anthropic to bring safer, enterprise-grade AI into production environments. The collaboration will combine EPAM’s engineering delivery capabilities with Anthropic’s Claude models—Claude Code, and Claude Agent SDK—to help organizations simplify legacy operations, automate workflows, and analyze large datasets. EPAM is also developing a dedicated Claude practice of more than 10,000 Claude-certified architects, including 250 specialized, forward-deployed engineer Black Belts.

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Genpact Expands Its Alliance with Google Cloud

Genpact, an agentic and advanced technology solutions company, is expanding its alliance with Google Cloud to build agentic AI solutions for the Office of the CFO. The first offering, Finance One – Revenue Lens Agents, is aimed at improving revenue forecasting, cash flow, and finance team productivity, with additional use cases planned across accounts payable, record-to-report, and financial planning. The agents will be available through Google Cloud’s Agent Marketplace, underscoring how agentic AI is being packaged for specific business functions rather than pitched as a generic productivity layer.

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Optro Acquires Midship, an AI-Native SOX Automation Solution

Optro (formerly AuditBoard), an AI-powered GRC platform, has acquired Midship, an AI-native SOX automation solution. The acquisition will help Optro accelerate its push into AI-native audit and SOX automation and add governed AI agents to its controls management stack, as Midship’s capabilities will be integrated into Optro’s Controls Management solution, providing controls testing and SOX compliance workflows, with localization and support for global enterprises. The capabilities available immediately to customers include unstructured data ingestion, workpaper generation, and autonomous test execution.

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o9 Solutions Reveals an Integration with Snowflake

o9 Solutions, an enterprise planning and decisioning model provider, has announced an integration with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company. By leveraging Snowflake’s Connected Application framework, o9 Solutions can strengthen how enterprise data is connected to planning and decision processes. To that end, the integration will connect the o9 Digital Brain platform with the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, enabling joint customers to use governed data within planning models and across business functions. It also supports bidirectional flow so that Snowflake data can feed o9 planning models, and o9 outputs can flow back into downstream systems.

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Planview Debuts New Agent Resource Management Capabilities

Planview, an end-to-end platform for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) and Digital Product Delivery (DPD), has announced several new agent resource management capabilities to provide enterprises with a single system for planning, predicting, governing, and optimizing human and AI agent resources across their portfolio of strategic investments. The launch will enable leaders to see who and what is doing specific work, what costs are associated with it, confirm that the work is aligned with company priorities, and hold each action accountable to a human decision-maker. The agent resource management offerings will be available within the Planview platform beginning in Fall 2026.

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RELEX Solutions Introduces a New Architecture for Accelerating AI Adoption

RELEX Solutions, an AI-native platform for end-to-end planning, has announced RELEX Open, an innovative architecture for its AI-native platform. With this architecture, RELEX can provide retailers, manufacturers, and wholesalers with three clear ways to accelerate AI adoption: deploying proven planning capabilities at scale, connecting their own AI agents and systems to RELEX, and extending their platform capabilities into new operational areas of their business. Each approach will run on the same platform and can even be used together, depending on each organization’s needs.

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Rootstock Software Introduces an ERP Solution and Implementation Model

Rootstock Software, an ERP software provider for product companies, has introduced Rootstock Ready, a curated ERP solution and implementation model built to help midmarket manufacturers and distributors achieve desired business outcomes faster. The new solution is developed by a team of seasoned practitioners with an average of 20 years of industry experience and combines a core Rootstock ERP solution with template-based configuration to deliver a rapid path to go-live. Organizations that adopt Rootstock Ready will benefit from faster ERP implementations, fixed-fee models, a system that’s ready to operate at go-live, and more.

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Syspro Details the New Syspro Marketplace

Syspro, a purpose-built ERP platform for manufacturing and distribution, has launched the Syspro Marketplace, a new destination to help customers discover trusted partner solutions and extend the value of their Syspro environment. The Marketplace will bring together a growing ecosystem of specialized solutions that integrate with the Syspro platform, enabling manufacturers and distributors to access capabilities like advanced analytics, CAD integration, CRM, AI-driven automation, eCommerce, tax compliance, and financial process optimization. This initial release will focus on the high-impact capability areas most requested by customers, with additional offerings planned as the Marketplace evolves.

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Tech Mahindra and UKG Detail a New Partnership

Tech Mahindra, a global provider of technology consulting and digital solutions, has announced a partnership with UKG, a global AI platform that unifies HR, payroll, and workforce management. The collaboration will focus on helping global enterprises, particularly small and mid-market organizations in North America across sectors such as IT, retail, manufacturing, and services, maximize their productivity, efficiency, and workforce agility. Additionally, Tech Mahindra will deploy the UKG Workforce Operating Platform for its employees and expand its UKG services practice.

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Thrive Expands Its TransformIT Platform with New Functionalities

Thrive—a global technology outsourcing provider for AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and IT managed services—has updated its TransformIT platform with new AI-powered automation workflows for customers and streamlined employee lifecycle processes to accelerate deployments and expedite time-to-value. As part of that process, Thrive’s team of IT experts will work closely with each customer to ensure seamless onboarding and long-term success by delivering the high-touch service and strategic guidance organizations are looking for.

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Zyter Launches an AI-Powered Workflow and Outcomes Engine

Zyter, an execution-layer for AI-driven workflows, has announced Zyter Praxis, an AI-powered workflow and outcomes engine built to execute complete enterprise operations end-to-end. The new engine will function as a workflow execution layer for Zyter’s AI Execution Platform, helping teams turn their enterprise processes into intelligent, reusable workflow modules that execute end-to-end. Each of those modules will also combine AI agents, rules, data, and human-in-the-loop coordination into complete units of work that continuously learn and improve with every interaction.

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Andreas Welsch, the author of The Human Agentic AI Edge, joins Doug for a discussion that navigates the gap between AI promise and AI reality. They dig into why IBM reversed course and tripled its entry-level hiring after announcing 7,800 automated roles, why the DIY AI movement is quietly failing, and why the professionals most at risk this time — educated, screen-working, politically connected — are the first in history to face automation with actual power to push back.

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The Corporate Ladder Problem: How AI Is Killing Entry-Level Work

Executive Editor Tim King explores how AI is disrupting entry-level hiring, talent development, organizational structure, and the long-term future of human expertise in the enterprise. In his article, he says, “Artificial intelligence will unquestionably transform productivity, software, operations, and organizational design over the next decade. But the companies that benefit most from AI may ultimately be those that resist viewing humans purely as costs to eliminate.”

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