Top Worktech News From the Week of April 25th: Updates from IFS, Aquant, Nexthink, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Worktech news from the week of April 25th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from IFS, Aquant, Nexthink, 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 April 25th.

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Top WorkTech News From the Week of April 25th, 2025

ActivTrak Releases New Workforce Optimization Tools for the C-Suite

ActivTrak, a workforce analytics company, has announced several executive solutions designed to elevate workforce optimization to the forefront of C-suite priorities. The new offerings focus on financial loss analysis and activity alignment. They will translate workforce data into actionable executive insights that enable smarter decisions around performance improvement, resource allocation, and organizational design. The Financial Loss Analysis tool is available now in ActivTrak’s BI solution library, and the Activity Alignment offering is available as part of the BI solution library and in-app.

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Aquant Launches New AI-Powered Field Service Tools

Aquant, an agentic AI platform for professionals servicing complex equipment, has released two new features to help service teams meet the demand of fieldwork. The releases include AI in Offline Mode, which gives technicians access to all of Aquant’s Agentic tools even in areas with limited to no connectivity, and Call Assist, a voice-accessible extension for Aquant’s Agentic AI support platform. With service calls increasingly occurring in remote or constrained environments, these features will help users increase equipment uptime, reduce service costs, and deliver consistent support, regardless of where they work.

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IFS Releases New Industrial AI Features

IFS, an enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software provider, has released details on the new Industrial AI-powered features introduced with IFS.ai into the latest IFS Cloud 25R1 release. The update includes 200+ AI-based capabilities designed to automate workflows, leverage industrial agents throughout asset lifecycles, and more. With industrial AI and sustainability at its core, the new release will incorporate agentic industrial AI capabilities that enable customers in asset- and service-intensive industries to drive value from industrial AI at scale.

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IFS Launches the Nexus Black Program

IFS also announced the launch of IFS Nexus Black, a strategic innovation program designed to expedite high-impact AI adoption for industrial organizations. Nexus Black combines advanced AI technologies with a deep industrial context and a dedicated delivery team to support customers as they manage complex challenges in asset-intensive industries. The program is built on the foundation of IFS.ai and aims to streamline the development and deployment of AI capabilities.

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MiO Debuts Its Core Product Offering

MiO, a mobile inventory and ordering tool for enterprise systems, has announced the launch of its core product offering. The company’s product is a fully customizable and ERP-integrated mobile and desktop software designed for wholesale teams and retail, grocery, and convenience stores. Its solution is based on a “four-pronged approach” that features in-store mobile ordering, real-time inventory tracking, smart warehouse workflows, and optimized delivery routing.

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Nexthink Shares Findings From a Study on AI, Adoption, and Employee Experiences

Nexthink, a Digital Employee Experience (DEX) management company, has announced the findings of its latest research report, ‘The Science of Productivity: AI, Adoption, and Employee Experience.’ The research surveyed 1,100 IT leaders and found that most respondents (95 percent) believe the upcoming wave of AI-powered digital transformation will be the most impactful and intensive seen thus far. It also found that the majority of IT leaders believe their organization’s success over the next three years will be highly contingent on their ability to effectively deploy AI.

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The Soul of ERP with Judith O’Callaghan and Tom Pierce – Evolving ERP

In this episode, Judith O’Callaghan is joined by Tom Pierce, the president and founder of Integrated Information Systems (I2S), for a conversation about the evolution of ERP from its origins in Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to modern systems integrating AI. They explore how ERP has shifted from decentralized to centralized approaches and is now moving back toward balancing centralized information with decentralized execution.

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