Top WorkTech News From the Week of January 26th: Updates from Oracle, Deloitte, Cognizant, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of January 26th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Oracle, Deloitte, Cognizant, 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 26th.

Top WorkTech News From the Week of January 26th, 2024

BillingPlatform Receives a $90 Million Growth Equity Investment

BillingPlatform, an enterprise revenue lifecycle management platform, has received a $90 million growth equity investment from FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investor with over twenty-five years of experience in the enterprise technology, financial services, and transaction processing markets. The investment will help BillingPlatform expand its market growth, enable new revenue streams, optimize its go-to-market strategies, improve customer satisfaction, and reduce revenue leakage. FTV Capital joins Columbia Capital as an institutional investor with a minority investment in BillingPlatform.

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Cognizant Details a New Collaboration with ServiceNow

Cognizant has announced a collaboration with ServiceNow that will enhance Cognizant’s WorkNEXT modern workplace services offering with generative AI capabilities. With ServiceNow’s GenAI tools, Cognizant WorkNEXT can help enterprise clients transition from a transactional experience model to a ‘total experience’ model, focusing on experience, execution, engineering, and engagement solutions. The collaboration will also provide clients reduced lead times for deploying and training AI systems.

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Configit Appoints a New Vice President of Global Partner Business

Configit, a configuration lifecycle management (CLM) solution provider, has appointed Max Mirbax as its Vice President of Global Partner Business. In his new role, Mirbaz will help the company develop and enhance its global partnerships, strengthen its market presence, and drive strategic growth initiatives. He will also manage Configit’s existing relationships, identify new partnership opportunities, and ensure those partnerships align with the company’s business goals.

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Deloitte Acquires Giant Machines

Deloitte has acquired all of the assets of Giant Machines, a company that focuses on strategizing, designing, and engineering digital products. The acquisition will help expand Deloitte Digital and Deloitte Engineering capabilities, enabling the company to provide clients with services that deliver strategic, scaled engineering solutions. Giant Machines’ custom learning experiences will also join Deloitte’s existing suite of “award-winning” training programs for engineering talent.

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Deloitte and UiPath Expand Their Business Alliance

Deloitte and UiPath have expanded their business alliance with a new focus on bringing AI-powered intelligent automation solutions to SAP implementations and operations. The expansion will be a “catalyst” to develop an AI-led delivery methodology and unique solutions for autonomous business operations. UiPath and Deloitte will also create a co-innovation market collaboration that combines Deloitte’s SAP implementation skillset and AI talent pool with UiPath’s AI and automation functionalities.

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Eptura Grows its Executive Leadership Team with Several New Appointments

Eptura, a global worktech solution provider, has expanded its executive leadership team by appointing Fabrice Martin as Chief Product Officer and Sean Kearns as Chief Revenue Officer. It also appointed four new regional sales leaders overseeing company growth in North America, APAC, and EMEA. Martin brings years of experience in marketing, product management, enterprise sales, and entrepreneurship to Eptura, while Kearns will provide the company with his tech sales experience.

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Newgen Releases its Cloud Content Management Accelerator on the Guidewire Marketplace

Newgen, a unified digital transformation platform provider, has announced the availability of its Guidewire Cloud-validated accelerators on the Guidewire Marketplace. This collaboration will provide Guidewire customers access to Newgen’s Contextual Content Services Cloud platform, providing them with improved customer experiences, increased productivity, enhanced user productivity, better regulatory requirement compliance, more collaboration with stakeholders, and faster turnaround times.

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Oracle Announces Details on New OCI Generative AI Services

Oracle has announced the general availability of its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI service alongside innovations that will make it easier for organizations to utilize generative AI. With this announcement, the OCI Generative AI service now includes multilingual capabilities that support over one hundred languages, an updated GPU cluster management experience, and flexible options for fine-tuning with retrieval augmented generation (RAG) techniques. Additionally, Oracle will embed its generative AI capabilities into its database portfolio, enabling users to develop AI-powered applications.

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Rootstock Software Debuts an Implementation Certification Program for Partners

Rootstock Software, a manufacturing ERP solution provider, has revealed details on its new Implementation Certification, which will allow Rootstock partners to show prospective clients that they have the knowledge and expertise necessary to manage and complete an implementation. The certification is part of the Rootstock Implementation Curriculum and covers five steps: Partner Learning path, Product Certification, Methodology Coursework, Implementation Capstone, and Certification Approval.

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Leveraging Integration to Outsmart Disruptions and Create an Agile Supply Chain, by Mahesh Rajasekharan

As part of Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series, Mahesh Rajasekharan, CEO and President at Cleo, explains how leveraging integrations can help companies create an agile supply chain less affected by disruptions. The article also goes into the impacts of supply chain disruptions, how to strive for an agile supply chain, and how integrations can improve supply chain agility and visibility.

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Becoming Software-Centric: An Organizational Approach to Digital Transformation, by Jiani Zhang at Capgemini Engineering

As part of Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series, Jiani Zhang, the Executive Vice President and Chief Software Officer at Capgemini Engineering, outlines a software-centric, organizational approach to digital transformation. This approach includes revenue models, business architecture evaluations, and organization structure innovations.

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How AI Does and Doesn’t Work for Accessibility, by Navin Thadani at Evinced

As part of Solutions Review’s Contributed Content Series, Navin Thadani, CEO and Co-Founder of Evinced, dives into how AI can work for accessibility, outlines a few potential problems with AI in accessibility, and, ultimately, explains how companies can experience the upsides of using AI in their accessibility initiatives.

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