Top WorkTech News From the Week of December 15th: Updates from Nintex, Certinia, Appian, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of December 15th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Nintex, Certinia, 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 December 15th.

Top WorkTech News From the Week of December 15th, 2023

Appian and EY Expand Their Strategic Collaboration

Appian—a low-code and process automation provider—has formed a new strategic collaboration with EY, a global strategic and technology professional consulting services provider. The expanded partnership between Appian and EY will help clients simplify and modernize their processes with technologies like AI, process automation, data fabric, and low-code, making it easier to deliver memorable customer experiences, work more efficiently, and customize solutions to meet specific needs.

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Certinia Reveals New AI Capabilities for its Platform

Certinia, a platform provider for services businesses, has announced new AI capabilities and enhancements for its Services-as-a-Business platform. These new features will equip users with “time-saving” accounting, resource planning, and forecasting features from a single interface. Additionally, with Certinia AI, service businesses can utilize new capabilities for enhancing margin optimization, using project delivery insights to mitigate risks in scheduled work, and increasing the accuracy of cash flow predictions.

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Cognizant Acquires Thirdera, Expanding its ServiceNow Capabilities

Cognizant has announced its plans to acquire Thirdera, an Elite ServiceNow Partner specializing in advisory, implementation, and optimization solutions related to ServiceNow’s platform. The acquisition will help Cognizant expand its ServiceNow Business Group and offer clients a comprehensive experience in the ServiceNow ecosystem by providing them with professional service capabilities in ServiceNow workflows and emerging products, including generative AI. The acquisition is expected to close in January 2024.

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Fieldbin Details the New Features Coming to its Platform

Fieldbin, a field service management (FSM) software provider, has announced several new features that are available now and coming early in 2024. The new tools include a PDF Engine, currency switching capabilities, additional two-way SMS communications, Stripe improvements for access management, and a skills and categories tagging feature for employees. These updates will help users create PDFs with custom fields, generate invoices using local currencies, make it easier for contractors to align their employees with specific tasks, provide better contact between contractors and customers, and improve how users manage payment administrators.

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Nintex Announces Plans to Acquire Skuid

Nintex—a process intelligence and automation solution provider—has acquired Skuid, a low-code cloud platform that helps operational leaders design and develop business applications for their teams and departments. As part of the Nintex portfolio, Skuid will help companies unify data from across the organization, develop use case-specific interfaces, build and deploy purpose-built applications without writing code, and extend the application to trigger workflows, tasks, and document automation.

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Solutions Review Celebrates the Success of Insight Jam LIVE 2023

Solutions Review recently celebrated the success of Insight Jam LIVE 2023, the annual element of Insight Jam, an always-on community for enterprise tech end-users, experts, and solution providers. This year’s event saw 18 hours of expert panels featuring more than 100 thought leaders, sponsored by Satori and Monte Carlo, alongside more than 400 unique predictions from nearly 200 domain thought leaders (and counting).

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Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

How to Close the Developer Skills Gap Through Upskilling, by Sílvia Rocha at OutSystems

As part of Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series, Sílvia Rocha, the VP of Engineering at OutSystems, explains how upskilling and low-code can help companies close the developer skills gap. In the article, Rocha goes in-depth into the fundamentals of upskilling, how low-code can identify existing talent in an organization, and how a company can use these tools to address the developer shortage.

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