Top Worktech News From the Week of February 7th: Updates from Zoho, Appfire, NetSuite, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Worktech news from the week of February 7th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Zoho, Appfire, NetSuite, 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 February 7th.

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Top WorkTech News From the Week of February 7th, 2025

Appfire Acquires Flow, Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) Software

Appfire—a global provider of software built to enhance, extend, and connect the world’s leading platforms—has acquired Flow, the enterprise software product for Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI), from Pluralsight. The strategic acquisition will enable Appfire to serve engineering teams better and bring an SEI platform into Appfire’s portfolio to complement its other products. Randall Ward, founder and CEO of Appfire, says, “By introducing Flow to our portfolio and broadening the scope of our technology category, we’re helping enterprises better understand developer productivity, R&D investments, and more through leveraging the platforms and ecosystems we serve.”

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Celonis Appoints a New Chief Product Officer

Celonis, the global provider of process mining and process intelligence solutions, has appointed Daniel Brown as its Chief Product Officer. Brown will work with Celonis’ engineering, sales, and marketing teams to continue delivering solutions that enable companies to improve productivity, efficiency, and sustainability and get the most from game-changing technologies like AI. Before Celonis, Brown served as Chief Product Officer at Certinia for more than six years and previously held several leadership roles during his fifteen-year tenure at Microsoft.

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NetSuite Announces New AI Innovations and Product Enhancements

Oracle NetSuite, the global business management software provider, has announced a collection of AI innovations and product updates to help organizations maximize efficiency and accelerate growth. The new AI capabilities and tools include a new Prompt Management API, NetSuite CPQ AI Assistant, and NetSuite Expert for SuiteAnswers, which will help teams streamline data entry, optimize product configurations, accelerate issue resolution, and centralize the management and deployment of large language models. Other additions include a NetSuite connector for Outlook, an Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS) edition of NetSuite SuiteSuccess, and enhancements to the NetSuite Advanced Procurement and SuiteBilling suites.

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Zoho Expands Zia with New AI Agents and Functionalities

Zoho Corporation, a global technology company, has introduced several new features and solutions to its Zia suite. These additions will help enterprises access, build, and distribute intelligent, autonomous digital agents. The new offerings include pre-built Zia Agents, a new Agent Marketplace, and the Zia Agent Studio, which offers no-code and low-code experiences that allow users to develop autonomous agents with skills relevant to specific needs. Those agents can be deployed to any Zoho application and summoned using the Ask Zia functionality. Moving forward, Zia Agents will also be deployable in third-party applications.

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Evolving ERP – Dan Aldridge (PCG) and Doug Shannon

In the latest episode of Evolving ERP, Dan Aldridge and Doug Shannon discuss the future of ERP systems in terms of AI and automation. Their conversation explores how AI could transform ERP from being primarily database-driven to becoming more intelligent and interactive while maintaining essential human judgment for critical business processes. They also discuss Satya Nadella’s comments about the future of SaaS and debate whether AI-driven interactions will eventually replace ERP interfaces.

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Future of Work: Take the 2025 Skiilify Survey of Tech Professionals Now

In collaboration with Skillify, the Solutions Review and Insight Jam teams developed a survey to help facilitate the shift from reactive measures to proactive strategies. The Survey for Tech Professionals aims to explore the areas that will shape the future of tech work, including the evolving role of soft skills, the impact of AI on your job, and strategies for navigating uncertainty while maintaining the drive for innovation.

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What to Expect from the Solutions Spotlight with Infor and PCG on February 13th, 2025

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with aerospace and defense (A&D) experts from PCG, an ERP business transformation advisory service provider, and Infor, the global enterprise software provider, to discuss how A&D solutions can help organizations improve performance, be more secure, and meet regulatory requirements, all at a lower cost of business. The hour-long webinar will also feature a live product demo of the Infor CloudSuite A&D solution.

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Workflow Automation for Manufacturing: It Doesn’t Have to Be All or Nothing

Josh Roth, Pipefy’s General Manager in the U.S., explains why workflow automation for manufacturing doesn’t have to be “all or nothing.” For example, the article describes the challenges manufacturers face when automating workflows, what workflows can be automated, and the potential workflow disconnect between departments and functions.

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