Top WorkTech News From the Week of June 9th: Updates from Mendix, Shippeo, Deltek, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of June 9th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Mendix, Shippeo, Deltek, 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 June 9th.

Top WorkTech News From the Week of June 9th, 2023

Applause Introduces New Capabilities for Training Generative AI Models

Applause—a testing and digital quality provider—has announced new capabilities designed to help clients train, test, and validate high-quality generative AI models. With Applause’s unique model, companies can improve customer experience, reduce bias, and combat some of the most significant challenges involved in deploying AI: accuracy, trust, vias, inappropriate content, and ethical/regulatory compliance.

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Datadog Drops a New Tool to Help Teams Automate End-to-End Remediation Processes

Datadog, a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, has announced the general availability of Workflow Automation, a new product that enables teams to automate their end-to-end remediation processes. Workflow Automation uses out-of-the-box actions and pre-built templates that users can employ to automate remediation processes across systems, apps, and services. These features will help companies identify, investigate, and resolve service disruptions, security threats, and other issues.

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Deltek Releases the Newest Version of its Costpoint Solution

Deltek, a global software provider for project-based businesses, has announced a new version of Costpoint, its ERP for government contractors. The latest release adds enhanced functionalities, new features, and a “forward-thinking” design specifically built to help clients manage government contracts and operations. These new features include an improved time entry experience, automatic email reminders, updates to the user experience, and new capabilities for its project accounting, source-to-pay, contract management, and small business offerings.

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Genpact and Google Cloud Announce a Collaboration to Help Businesses Accelerate AI Adoption

Genpact, a global professional services firm, has announced that it’s working with Google Cloud to help businesses accelerate their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. The partnership will also support companies as they learn to take advantage of generative AI and use it to drive actionable business insights. Together, the companies will leverage Google Cloud’s GenAI capabilities to empower companies across industries with the technology they need to accelerate cloud, data, and analytics modernization journeys.

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Mendix Details its New Technology Partner Community Strategy

Mendix—a Siemens business and global enterprise application development solutions provider—has revealed its new strategy for building a robust technology partner community. The new community will help software startups, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, enterprises, and systems integrators accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Mendix also announced an expansion to its collaboration with Amazon Web Services, which will broaden the scope of its cloud deployment and development operations for companies worldwide.

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Pigment Raises $88 Million in a Series C Funding Round 

Pigment, a business planning platform, has raised $88 million in a Series C funding round led by ICONIQ Growth, with help from previous investors Meritech, IVP, and FirstMark. The investment brings the company’s total amount raised to nearly $250 million. The company will use the new funds to drive its sustainable growth initiatives and invest in product innovations, including new automations for collaborating planning efforts, sales planning features, and Pigment AI, a chat-like interface for automating tasks.

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Pipefy Debuts a New AI-Powered Solution

Pipefy, a global no-code process automation provider, has announced Pipefy AI, a new technology solution that combines AI functionalities like OpenAI and GPT-4 with Pipefy’s no-code process management and automation platform. Pipefy AI will enhance users’ process management efforts by providing enhanced data insights that help them accelerate and optimize the speed of building processes. The new tool will also enable users to ask questions about their current operations or data sets and receive an answer in seconds.

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Quickbase Expands its Platform with New Capabilities

Quickbase, an application platform provider, has announced the newest generation of its platform at Empower 2023, its flagship customer event. The latest version of the platform will provide customers with innovative capabilities designed to centralize information and processes across complex business environments. These capabilities include an updated user interface, tools for setting up custom logic for data validation, native integration with Snowflake, mobile dashboards, and scaled solution management, a feature that allows app builders to manage multiple apps as a single unit.

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Riverbed Releases New Intelligent Automation Workflows for its Unified Observability Solution

Riverbed, a unified observability solution provider, has released new intelligent automation workflows for its Alluvio Unified Observability portfolio. The capabilities are powered by the Alluvio LogiQ Engine and use pattern recognition, automation, and correlation to help IT reduce escalations and focus on the most critical issues with up-to-date information that’s sent to IT service management (ITSM) tools. These intelligent automations are designed to improve the digital employee experience (DEX) by helping with incident responses, automated ticket generation from the integration with ServiceNow, security forensics automation, and expanded desktop remediations.

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Shippeo Launches a Transportation Process Automation Solution

Shippeo, a multi-model shipment visibility platform provider, has revealed Transportation Process Automation, a new solution designed to “transform” automation in supply chain management initiatives. The new solution uses Shippeo’s real-time transportation visibility data as its foundation to help companies anticipate risks, collaborate amongst teams, automate end-to-end supply chain transportation processes, and achieve higher performance, resilience, and customer satisfaction levels. The announcement was made at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2023 conference in Barcelona, Spain.

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Solutions Review is Hosting Nexthink for a Solutions Spotlight Event on June 22nd

On June 22nd, Solutions Review will be hosting a Solutions Spotlight webinar event with Nexthink. The webinar will focus on addressing critical challenges in complex digital workplaces and highlight some of the ways Workplace Experience—a digital workplace observability and automation platform that’s powered by Nexthink Infinity—can help companies optimize productivity. Alongside a live product demo, the Spotlight event will also feature a Q&A with two Product Managers from Nexthink.

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Tines Extends its Solution Suite with a Case Management Product

Tines, a no-code automation platform for security teams, has launched Cases, a new solution for case management. With the Cases solution, security and IT teams can improve how they track incidents, manage response activities, and investigate security breaches. The new solution will also extend the strength of the Tines platform by helping teams collaborate on anomalies, identify trends, and develop automations that remediate them in less time.

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How Low-Code/No-Code Automation Can Fight the DevOps Talent Shortage, by Venkat Thiruvengadam of DuploCloud

As part of Solutions Review’s Expert Insights Series, Venkat Thiruvengadam, the founder and CEO of DuploCloud, explains how low-code and no-code automation tools can help companies address the DevOps talent shortage industries face. In the article, Thiruvengadam discusses the innovations that keep the market moving, how low-code/no-code solutions will change this year, and more.

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SaaS Management Tools Reduce Software Waste & Provide Unique Value Beyond Initial Discovery, by Sethu Meenakshisundaram of Zluri

As part of Solutions Review’s Expert Insights Series, Sethu Meenakshisundaram, one of the co-founders of Zluri, explains how SaaS management tools can help companies reduce software waste. Additionally, Meenakshisundaram outlines three of the most significant reasons to keep ongoing SaaS management. These include better access control, improved security, and usage data management.

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How to Mitigate the Technician Shortage with Field Service Management, by Brad Hawkins of ServicePower

As part of Solutions Review’s Expert Insights Series, Brad Hawkins, the Chief Product Officer at ServicePower, explains how field service management can help companies mitigate the technician shortage. For example, the article outlines how field service management can optimize a workforce by closing skills gaps, improving efficiency, maximizing technician satisfaction, and creating positive business outcomes.

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