Top WorkTech News From the Week of March 8th: Updates from Deltek, Appian, HCLTech, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of March 8th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Deltek, Appian, HCLTech, 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 March 8th.

Top WorkTech News From the Week of March 8th, 2024

Accenture Announces Plans to Acquire Udacity

Accenture has agreed to acquire Udacity, a digital education platform with years of expertise in developing and delivering technology courses that combine the benefits of online learning and human instruction. Udacity’s team of over 230 professionals will join Accenture LearnVantage, which was also announced today, providing Accenture clients with technology learning and training services. The acquisition will also help Accenture expand its capabilities in integrating proprietary content, expert services, and scalable learning technology.

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apexanalytix Launches a Neural Engine Solution

apexanalytix—a global supply chain risk management data, software, and service provider—has announced the apex Neural Engine, an AI-powered solution that leverages “cutting-edge” technology to improve how suppliers engage and manage their buyer relationships. With this platform, companies can address queries from any third-party or internal team member, maintain compliance, develop private knowledge bases with generative AI, and create public, private, and segment-specific knowledge bases to answer questions.

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Appian Debuts a Case Management Studio Solution

Appian, a business process automation software provider, has announced the general availability of Appian Case Management Studio. This new AI-powered modular case management designer enables users to configure case management applications for their business operations. Organizations can use the Appian Case Management Studio to accelerate application delivery, empower business users with intuitive configurations, create a quicker path to ROI, democratize development processes, automate repetitive work with AI capabilities, and improve workflows.

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Apryse Details the New Features Available in LEADTOOLS Version 23

Apryse, a document processing technology provider, has launched LEADTOOLS Version 23. The announcement comes shortly after its acquisition of LEAD Technologies, and the update will expand the platform’s offerings with several new features. These include a new Excel API, the LEADTOOLS Excel Web Editor, a redesigned React Medical Web Viewer, and additional .NET MAUI support across its product line. The release will also help developers optimize productivity and customize SDK functionalities based on internal application needs.

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Beroe and PRISM Announce a New Strategic Partnership

Beroe, a SaaS procurement intelligence platform, has announced a strategic partnership with PRISM, a global geopolitical and macro risk advisory service. The partnership will provide Beroe’s customers with integrated reports, alerts, and insights generated by PRISM’s political risk experts, all available in Beroe LiVE.Ai, its AI-powered procurement intelligence solution. All Beroe LiVE.Ai users will have immediate access to these PRISM insights, with further analysis available for an additional charge.

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Cleo Forms a Partnership with XLNC Technologies

Cleo, an ecosystem integration software provider, has formed a business-technology partnership with XLNC Technologies, an Information technology-enabled services (ITES) provider for companies in logistics, manufacturing, and other markets. The partnership will help XLNC’s customers strengthen their ecosystems, improve their supply chain data exchange, optimize business process integrations, enhance business efficiencies, broaden global reach, maintain security compliance, and gain real-time visibility into transactions.

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Deloitte Reveals a New Solution Suite for the Investment Management Industry

Deloitte has announced InvestAcceleration, a new solution suite for the investment management industry. The suite provides companies with an industry-specific approach to implementing Workday Financial Management faster, making it easier to obtain real-time data, unlock business insights, and utilize industry-specific capabilities. It will also equip Deloitte and Workday’s joint clients with digital transformation practices, use cases, and cloud migration tools that can help speed their time to value.

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Deltek Announces Details on its CEO Succession Plan

Deltek, a global software provider for project-based businesses, has announced that Bob Hughes will join the company as President and CEO, succeeding Mike Corkery, its current President and CEO. Corkery will transition to a full-time Group Executive role at Roper Technologies, Deltek’s parent company, on April 10th, 2024, where he will provide guidance to several of Roper’s businesses, including Deltek. Hughes has over twenty years of experience in the enterprise software industry and most recently served as the Chief Customer and Strategy Officer at UKG.

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HCLTech Releases a New GenAI Platform

HCLTech, a global technology company, has launched HCLTech AI Force, a new GenAI platform designed to accelerate time-to-value by helping companies transform their software development and engineering lifecycles. The new platform is built on Azure OpenAI and can be integrated with Microsoft GitHub Copilot. It will provide companies with a collection of GenAI-based solutions that inject additional intelligence into every stage of software development. This will help improve the developer experience, maximize efficiency, and support faster release timelines.

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Onapsis and Deloitte Enter Into a New Strategic Alliance

Onapsis—an ERP, cybersecurity, and compliance solution provider—and Deloitte have announced a new strategic alliance to help mutual clients transform and secure their SAP-centric digital transformation projects. The partnership will combine Deloitte’s SAP cyber risk management capabilities with Onapsis’ platform, which focuses on securing the ERP systems of its clients. Deloitte and Onapsis have also jointly developed several solutions that Deloitte will provide to shared clients.

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Onfleet Appoints a New Chief Technology Officer

Onfleet, a last-mile delivery management software platform, has named Kjell Hedstrom as its Chief Technology Officer. Hedstrom brings years of engineering leadership experience to the role, having previously held the Head of Engineering role at Ganaz, VP of Engineering at Flowhub, and Senior Engineering Manager at ClassPass. In this new role, Hedstrom will report directly to the CEO, lead Onfleet’s engineering team, and help ensure the company maintains its innovative engineering culture.

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Syntax Systems Expands its Generative AI Solution Portfolio

Syntax Systems, a global technology solutions provider, has expanded its Generative AI Portfolio to support mid-market and larger enterprise clients. The portfolio comprises services and technology solutions that draw from private data, ERP systems, and business applications. These services and solutions can help organizations craft GenAI-powered solutions, build enterprise APIs powered by LLMs on the cloud of their choice, deploy conversational AI chatbots, and more.

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Xactly Expands its Revenue Platform with New Composability Functionalities

Xactly—a sales performance management and revenue intelligence solution provider—has revealed new functionality allowing composability across its Intelligent Revenue Platform. The new technology will empower organizations to drive sustainable revenue growth and provide them with planning, designing, managing, and forecasting capabilities. This will streamline processes for critical SPM workflows, enable new capabilities to combine territory management with sales forecasting, and simplify composing new solutions to meet business needs.

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The Latest Episode of The ERP Doctors Podcast is Now Live

In the latest episode of The ERP Doctors podcast, hosts Sam Gupta and Dan Aldridge talk about recent mergers, acquisitions, and releases in the ERP marketplace, including several of the announcements covered above. There’s also an interview with Paul Byrne, the co-founder of Dragon ERP, a leading SAP S/4HANA implementation partner. In his conversation with Dan, they talk about talk about SAP’s 2027 ECC support deadline, the RISE program, and the oft-ignored human side of ERP implementation.

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