Top WorkTech News From the Week of July 26th: Updates from Capgemini, Acumatica, Cleo, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of July 26th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Capgemini, Acumatica, Cleo, 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 July 26th.

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

Accenture Acquires Camelot Management Consultants

Accenture has announced its acquisition of Camelot Management Consultants, an international technology consulting firm focusing on SAP technologies. Camelot’s expertise in supply chain management, analytics, data strategy, and modernization will help Accenture expand its ability to help organizations develop resilient supply chains capable of meeting the demands of today’s business landscape. The acquisition will further enhance Accenture’s SAP and AI-driven supply chain capabilities, helping clients build the intelligent and resilient supply chains that today’s business landscape demands.

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ActivTrak Launches New Pricing Plans

ActivTrak, a workforce analytics platform provider, has launched two new pricing plans to allow more organizations to access its employee productivity monitoring capabilities. These plans include an enhanced version of the Essentials plans alongside a new Essentials Plus plan. The updated Essentials offering includes offline meeting tracking capabilities via calendar integration, pre-configured alarms to alert users about specific behaviors, and a new dashboard for tracking organizational updates. Meanwhile, the Essential Plus plan introduces new features like offline meeting tracking, activity breakdown dashboards, automated exception reports, expanded data reports, and more.

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Acumatica Debuts a New Program for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Acumatica, a cloud-based ERP solution provider, has announced a new program to help it identify small and mid-sized businesses that could benefit from its cloud-based solution offerings. With this no-cost Alliance Program, Acumatica aims to foster collaboration at scale, drive co-innovation for growth initiatives, and partner with industry, technology, and finance experts to enhance operational efficiency. Companies that join the Alliance Program will receive various benefits, including access to Acumatica’s go-to-market strategy, training portals, industry expertise, social syndication platforms, and marketing automation tools.

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Advantive Acquires Pepperi, a Sales Platform for Wholesalers and Distributors

Advantive, a software provider for specialized manufacturing and distribution businesses, has acquired Pepperi, an omnichannel B2B sales platform for wholesalers and distributors. The acquisition will help Advantive strengthen its international footprint, drive transformational outcomes for its customers, and provide clients with a “purpose-built” solution for a unified commerce experience. Ofer Youvexcel, the Pepperi CEO, says, “By joining forces with Advantive, we will be able to offer our customers even more ways to optimize their operations.”

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Capgemini and SAP Expand Their Partnership

Capgemini has announced an expansion of its long-standing partnership with SAP. The strategic partnership aims to help organizations address challenges by implementing generative AI technologies across HR, sales, procurement, and sustainability processes. The partnership combines Capgemini’s expertise in data, AI, and large-scale SAP transformations with SAP’s Business AI portfolio to support clients who are focusing on enhancing processes. Additionally, Capgemini will expand its dedicated Global SAP Center of Excellence (CoE) to focus on three goals around realizing business value: driving faster go-to-market, augmenting processes with AI, and upskilling the workforce.

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Cleo Details a New Partnership with BeyondTrucks

Cleo, an Ecosystem Integration software provider, has announced a technology partnership with BeyondTrucks, a multi-tenant SaaS transportation management system (TMS) for the logistics industry. The partnership aims to provide joint carrier customers with a cost-efficient, reliable, and future-proof EDI connection to the BeyondTrucks TMS offering. It will also enable BeyondTrucks to focus on the continued development of its SaaS TMS platform so it can address the modernization needs of medium and large fleets while Cleo helps customers manage their EDI integrations.

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Fortis Acquires the NetSuite Payment Division of MerchantE

Fortis—a payments technology provider for ERP customers, scaling businesses, and software brands—has acquired MerchantE’s NetSuite payment division, marking a significant milestone in the company’s embedded payments solutions offering. The strategic acquisition will help Fortis’ customers enhance their payment operations and accelerate the deployment of new, embedded financial and commerce-enabling services. It will also strengthen Fortis’ position in the embedded ERP payments market and expand its continued investment in the NetSuite ecosystem.

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How Do We Get Students Interested in Manufacturing? Let Them Run Their Own Enterprises.

Robert Zaruta, the President and CEO of the Northwest Industrial Resource Center (NWIRC), explains that the secret to getting manufacturing students invested in the industry is to let them run an enterprise of their own. In the article, Zaruta says that “student-run enterprises” can be a win-win for everyone, as they give students the experience they need while supporting the broader industry with the products produced by those students.

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