Top WorkTech News From the Week of August 2nd: Updates from OutSystems, Celonis, Deltek, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of August 2nd. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like OutSystems, Celonis, Deltek, 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 2nd.

Top WorkTech News From the Week of August 2nd, 2024

Acumatica Appoints a Chief Engineering Officer

Acumatica, a cloud-based ERP solution, has appointed veteran technology leader Miten Mehta as its chief engineering officer. Before joining Acumatica, Mehta served as the senior vice president of engineering at Salesforce, co-founded LifeON24, and led engineering organizations at Microsoft. As Chief Engineering Officer, Mehta will use his years of experience to lead a growing and geographically diverse team of global engineers, developers, and designers responsible for architecting, developing, and deploying Acumatica’s ERP solution.

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Celonis Launches the Celonis Platform Apps Programs

Celonis—a global process mining and intelligence solutions provider—has launched the Celonis Platform Apps Program. This offering will enable companies to maximize value with domain-specific applications built by partners of the Celonis Ecosystem. The program starts with four purpose-built applications co-created by Celonis and partners Process Lab, Marcadus, Ashling Partners, and KMLZ. These apps include a cross-border payment solution for banks, a maintenance control center for manufacturers, a plant maintenance navigator tool, and a tax compliance solution for businesses across markets.

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Conga Appoints a New Chief Revenue Officer

Conga, a revenue lifecycle management solution provider, has appointed Jeff Laiutenbach as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Lautenbach joins the company with fifteen years of experience leading global cloud businesses and has previously held positions at Rent, Cornerstone OnDemand, and Jive Software. As Conga’s Chief Revenue Officer, he will lead the company’s global sales efforts, including its field sales team, sales operations, pre-sales functions, and partners. He will also work closely with Conga’s Chief Marketing Officer to help drive the brand’s go-to-market strategy.

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Deltek Expands its C-Level Leadership Team

Deltek, a global software provider of project-based businesses, has expanded its C-Level leadership team with two new appointments. These include Margo Martin’s promotion to Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer and the appointment of Becca Harness as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Martin has been with Deltek for over twenty-five years, first as a first as a Senior Support Analyst and most recently as its Group Vice President of Customer Success. Meanwhile, Harness previously served as the VP and CISO at Quickbase and brings twenty-five years of experience to her new role at Deltek.

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HARMAN Details a New Collaboration with Celonis

HARMAN—a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics that focuses on connected technology solutions for the automotive, consumer, and enterprise markets—and its Digital Transformation Solutions business unit have detailed a new AI-driven partnership with Celonis. The partnership will combine HARMAN’s expertise in business transformation, AI, machine learning (ML), and technology implementation with Celonis’ process intelligence platform to help enterprises improve their processes. HARMAN will also use Celonis’ technology to accelerate its SAP S/4HANA migration efforts.

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OutSystems Announces a New Workflow Solution

OutSystems, an AI-powered low-code platform provider, has announced Workflows, a new business process modeling and workflow automation solution. With OutSystems Workflows, companies can streamline “mission-critical” workflow applications and maximize collaboration between their IT and business departments. It comes equipped with extensive UX/UI customization options, advanced data management capabilities, a web-based interface, and simplified system integration. Companies can use Workflows to improve consumer-facing services, incorporate AI agents directly into their workflows, and manage internal processes.

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Pluralsight Debuts an AI-Powered Assistant

Pluralsight, a technology workforce development company, has launched Iris, an AI assistant designed to help leaders discover content that’s relevant to their questions, goals, and learning objectives. Iris is available now in Pluralsight Skills and will help Pluralsight learners navigate the platform’s library of technology courses, hands-on labs, and skill assessments, providing them with a personalized learning experience that maximizes engagement, improves training outcomes and enabling faster application of technical skills in the real world.

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TrueCommerce Updates its Vendor Management Inventory Product

TrueCommerce—a global provider of supply chain and trading partner connectivity, integration, and omnichannel solutions—has announced several updates to its Vendor Management Inventory (VMI) product. The enhancements are designed to help manufacturers across industries improve how they manage inventory in their distribution networks, providing suppliers and distributors with additional accuracy and visibility into their ordering processes. The new and updated features include lot/batch management, an automated planner, demand-driven replenishment, and external forecast integration.

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Wrike Introduces New Features for Professional Services Teams

Wrike, an intelligent work management platform, has announced several new features to improve workflows for professional services teams. The new functionalities provide the Wrike for Professional Services suite with updates that power every stage of the client service delivery (CSD) workflow, including timesheet approvals, dashboard templates for reporting, intelligent skills management, ERP integrations to streamline billing the process, and advanced capacity and resource planning. These will help professional services teams consolidate their efforts on a single platform.

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Evolving ERP – Dan Aldridge and Anders Green

In the latest episode of the Evolving ERP show, Dan Aldridge from Providence Consulting Group (PCG) is joined by industry veteran and ALOX4 founder Anders Green. Together, they talk about the challenges of transitioning from older ERP systems to modern cloud-based solutions, the importance of industry-specific functionality in ERP software, and the potential impact of AI on ERP and manufacturing processes.

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