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Top WorkTech News From the Week of January 24th: Updates from Sage, Celonis, Microsoft, and More

Top WorkTech News From the Week of January 24th

Top WorkTech News From the Week of January 24th

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of January 24th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Sage, Celonis, Microsoft, 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 January 24th.

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Top WorkTech News From the Week of January 24th, 2025


Acumatica Expands its Construction Solution Offering with New Partnerships

Acumatica, a cloud-based ERP provider, has announced strategic partnerships and product integrations with JobPlanner, a project management solution, and STACK Construction Technologies, a cloud-based construction software provider. The partnerships will allow Acumatica to expand its Construction Edition solution to better meet the needs of its clients in the construction industry. Joel Hoffman, director of product management at Acumatica, says, “Our new strategic partnerships with JobPlanner and STACK exemplify our commitment to delivering powerful, integrated solutions that enhance collaboration, automate workflows, and drive better outcomes for construction businesses.”

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Camunda Releases the 2025 State of Process Orchestration and Automation Report

Camunda, a process orchestration and automation solution provider, has released its 2025 State of Process Orchestration and Automation Report. The report reveals that over 80 percent of organizations fear the “digital chaos” created by their increasingly complex, interconnected, and automated processes. Other takeaways from the report include a lack of control leading to increased compliance risks for 82 percent of organizations, 77 percent of companies reporting a higher risk of core business processes failing, and 82 percent believing that, if those risks go unchecked, they could lead to serious problems moving forward.

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Celonis Launches Four Applications as Part of its Platform Apps Program

Celonis, a process mining and intelligence solution provider, has launched four new Celonis Platform Apps Program applications. These new apps can help customers deploy solutions outside Celonis’ existing use cases, enabling them to find values in additional areas. The new applications include Celonis for Claims Management Control Center, Celonis for Software Development Lifecycle Management, Celonis for System Transformation Suite, and Celonis for CBAM App. These apps are co-created by Celonis and its partners, including Apolix, Bloomfilter, FITS-P, and Ventum, respectively.

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Ikigai Labs Details its New Demand Forecasting and Planning Solution

Ikigai Labs, an AI provider focused on enterprise tabular and time-series data, has launched a new Demand Forecasting and Planning solution. The new AI-powered tool is built to address the complexity of modern supply chains by equipping organizations with the ability to predict demand with increased accuracy. The solution leverages Ikigai’s patented Large Graphical Model (LGM) technology to deliver insights that support businesses as they respond to market changes, reduce inventory costs, prevent stockouts, and more. The company also announced the immediate availability of several workshops to showcase the new solutions.

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Microsoft and SAP Announce a Joint Initiative

Microsoft and SAP have announced the RISE with SAP on Microsoft Azure Global Acceleration Program, a joint initiative that aims to accelerate and complement the adoption of RISE with SAP. The program will provide prescriptive guidance, proven recommendations, and security principles to help organizations transition to the cloud and unlock the full potential of their SAP investments. Additional program benefits include a reliable migration framework, increased security via implementing Microsoft Sentinel for RISE with SAP, and a resilient environment to help teams equip themselves with the skills they need for an AI-driven future.

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Sage and Tractics Reveal Their Integration Partnership

Sage—a software provider for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the construction industry—has partnered with Tractics, a cloud-native construction management platform for heavy civil contractors. Together, the companies will deliver an integration between Tractics and the Sage Intacct Construction solution. It will include field apps for foremen, access to critical data for relevant users, customizable financial reporting tools, real-time access to project data, automated WIP management, multi-entry consolidation, centralized visibility into operations, and more. The integration is available now for new and existing Sage and Tractics customers.

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ServiceNow Expands its Global Partner Program

ServiceNow, an AI platform for business transformation, has announced a significant expansion to its global partner program. As part of the expansion, the company has nearly quadrupled its investment in various incentives and specializations that aim to help partners benefit from ServiceNow’s AI solutions and deliver value to their customers. Specific additions to the partner program include additional product line achievements (PLA) for Now Assist, a new GenAI Customer Value Partner of the Year award, and expanded specializations for partners.

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Smoothstack Launches a New Business Unit Focus on Public Sector Consulting

Smoothstack, an IT and workforce development solution provider, has launched Fedstack, a new business unit focused on the unique technology consulting needs of the public sector. Fedstack is a technology services and solutions provider led by a team with over a century of collective expertise in the federal consulting sector. The business unit will work with federal agencies and federal system integrator partners to address challenges in five areas: data and AI, application development, digital platforms, cybersecurity, and infrastructure.

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A Complete Guide To Agentic Process Automation (APA)

Nandan Mullakara, an expert in artificial intelligence (AI), recently shared a guide to the evolving agentic process automation (APA) market. In his article, he dives into the possible future of APA, the evolution from RPA to APA, the mechanics of agentic workflows, the role of AI agents in automation, the benefits and challenges of APA, and compares APA technologies with RPA.

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AI in the Classroom: A New Ally for Educators

J-M Erlendson, a Transformation Engineering Lead at Software AG, explains how AI can be used in the classroom and why it has the potential to become an ally for educators. Topics covered in the article include AI’s potential for elevating teaching and learning experiences, how schools can promote AI literacy, and the importance of using the technology as an aide instead of a replacement for human engagement.

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