Top Worktech News From the Week of July 31st: Updates from Workiva, BlackLine, 8×8, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Worktech news from the week of July 31st. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Workiva, BlackLine, 8×8, 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 some of 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 31st.

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Top WorkTech News From the Week of July 31st, 2026

BlackLine Announces the General Availability of Verity Prepare

BlackLine, an Agentic Financial Operations Platform for the Office of the CFO, has announced the general availability of Verity Prepare, a multi-agent AI system that brings governed automation to accounting’s most manual and time-intensive close processes. The platform is built to analyze supporting documents, match transactions, identify reconciling items, and assemble audit-ready reconciliations, while preserving human oversight, transparency, and audit trails. This can help teams accelerate the financial close while keeping accountants firmly in control through complete auditability.

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Fenergo Releases a Governed Orchestration Layer

Fenergo, a SaaS financial technology solution provider, has launched Fen-AI, a governed orchestration layer for client lifecycle management in regulated financial services. The new platform, built on its Fen-X legal entity system of record, will underpin the KYRA agent suite for onboarding, periodic reviews, ongoing monitoring, and material client changes, with every action, source, decision, and rationale captured in an audit trail. This means humans can stay focused on higher-value decisions, make judgment calls, and handle exceptions and oversight.

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Freehand Raises $75 Million in Funding

Freehand, a company that builds autonomous AI agents that run supply-chain spend, has raised $75 million in funding co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from PSP Growth, Nexus Venture Partners, and others. With the funding, Freehand will expand its AI team to help Fortune 500 companies manage supply chain spend. Nitin Jayakrishnan, co-founder and CEO of Freehand, says, “Enterprises spend $16 billion a year on supply chain software and another $348 billion hiring people to do what this software cannot. We built Freehand to close that gap–with AI Agents that decide, act, and take accountability for outcomes.”

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LightSource Reveals the LightSource AI Workforce

LightSource, an operating system for direct materials sourcing in enterprise procurement, has launched LightSource AI Workforce, which introduces five new capabilities that eliminate manual sourcing work in the stages where time is spent most: data analytics, item ingestion, RFQs, and supplier activation. These features will enable procurement teams to focus on strategic work and bring products to market faster. The solution is built on an architecture that separates AI reasoning from data operations, offering a safeguard for teams concerned about AI fabricating figures.

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Panopto Expands Its AI-Powered Video Knowledge Capabilities

Panopto, an AI-powered video knowledge management provider, is adding a new set of capabilities to make video-based knowledge more usable across learning and operations. The update includes AI Quiz Generation, Connect Analytics, a Knowledge Insights Data Connector for BI tools such as Power BI and Tableau, a user management API, and a Workday Learning integration. With these capabilities, organizations can scale their abilities to create more engaging learning experiences, understand how video knowledge is being consumed, connect learning to business and program outcomes, and strengthen governance.

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Tricentis Acquires Tabnine

Tricentis, an agentic quality engineering company, has acquired Tabnine, an AI-coding platform purpose-built for secure, context-aware enterprise software development. As part of the acquisition, Tricentis will integrate Tabnine’s Enterprise Context Engine technology into the Tricentis Agentic Quality Engineering Platform to further enhance its quality and testing agents for large enterprise environments. Dror Weiss, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tabnine, says, “Tricentis is solving software quality at the scale and complexity where that understanding matters most. Bringing our technology into that platform is exactly what it was built for.”

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Workato Launches AIRO, a Multi-Agent System

Workato, a Control and Execution Platform for Enterprise AI, has made AIRO generally available worldwide, extending its control-and-execution platform into a multi-agent system for enterprise automation. AIRO offers business users the resources they need to discover, plan, engineer, operate, and improve processes, with built-in AI assistance. The new solution is built on the Workato platform, the neutral layer that governs every AI agent and executes agentic actions across more than 14,000 applications, and brings together five capabilities that continuously discover, engineer, and improve enterprise solutions.

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Workiva Debuts New AI Agents and a Persistent Intelligence Layer

Workiva—an audit-ready platform for trust, transparency, and accountability—has announced three purpose-built AI agents alongside Workiva Knowledge, a persistent intelligence layer grounded in an organization’s data, instructions, and content. These agents are designed to help companies in advanced solution tiers accelerate their reporting and compliance outcomes by providing the control and traceability offered by the Workiva platform. Together, the agents and intelligence layer will offer enterprise teams governed AI at the speed and scale their organizations require.

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8×8 Expands Its Platform with New AI-Powered Features

8×8, a global business communications platform provider, has announced its latest platform release, which extends its AI-powered intelligence, routing, and automation features to every customer team, helping them move beyond the contact center to address the full organization. These additions—including four new features, a native integration with Synthflow, and forecasting and scheduling improvements to the 8×8 Workforce Management (WFM) platform—will connect the right people at the right time, elevate customer support efforts, reach customers everywhere, and optimize the workforce.

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