Top Worktech News From the Week of November 13th: Updates from Apptio, Syntax, LeanDNA, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Worktech news from the week of November 13th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Apptio, Syntax, LeanDNA, 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 and developments.

With the launch of the SR Expert Network, we’re putting expert perspectives first. Each week, our Expert Insights section brings you thought leadership from the SR Expert Network, Contributor Network, and Insight Jam community, alongside our latest virtual events and original editorial—including conversations about the human impact of AI on education. With that in mind, here is some of the top worktech news and industry thought leadership from the week of November 13th.

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Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

SRX: A Forbes Council Alternative for Enterprise Tech Experts

Solutions Review recently announced the Solutions Review Expert Network (SRX), a Forbes Council alternative for enterprise technology thought leaders. The Solutions Review Expert Network (SRX) is a monetized contributor membership built around enterprise technology expertise. Members can contribute up to three original pieces of unique perspectives or best practices per year, sharing their perspectives through a publication focused on the issues influencing how organizations evaluate, adopt, and implement technology in this AI moment.

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Building Trustworthy AI: The Technical View

Kevin Petrie, the Vice President of Research and Head of the Data Management Practice at BARC, offers expert insights on building trustworthy AI from a technical perspective. He says, “We have no clean, empirical measure of whether an unstructured input or output is trustworthy. Given this ambiguity, data teams must use many levers to ensure that AI-driven decisions and actions satisfy their business’ trust requirements.”

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How IT Leaders Should Evaluate Agentic AI Beyond the Demo

Margaret Onisick Lawless, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Gravyty, explains how IT leaders should evaluate agentic AI beyond the demo. She says, “The goal isn’t simply to determine whether the agent completes the task. IT leaders should evaluate whether it recognizes uncertainty, asks for additional information, explains what prevented it from proceeding, chooses an appropriate alternative or escalates to a person.”

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Top WorkTech News From the Week of November 13th, 2026

Apptio Launches New Platform Updates and Connections for Frontier AI Systems

Apptio, an IBM company, announced several portfolio updates and connections for frontier AI systems to help enterprises track AI costs and usage alongside broader technology spending. Alongside the new connectors, Apptio has expanded its AI cost management capabilities across its portfolio, enabling organizations to forecast spending, evaluate costs against business results, and decide which AI investments to scale. The announcement also includes natural-language analysis and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for external AI tools.

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ECI Software Solutions Acquires uniPoint Software

ECI Software Solutions, an AI-powered, cloud-based business management software and services provider, has acquired uniPoint Software, a quality management software company. The acquisition will deepen the integration between uniPoint and ECI’s products and connect quality, production, and business data, enabling manufacturers to trace defects, identify recurring problems, and assess the cost of poor quality. uniPoint Customers will retain their existing teams and contacts, while also gaining dedicated support and access to ECI’s manufacturing portfolio.

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FormAssembly Announces Its New Digital Process Automation Platform

FormAssembly, a digital process automation platform, has announced the general availability of its new platform, which combines data collection, workflow automation, and integrations in a single no-code environment. The platform introduces the “next generation” of the company’s built-in agentic AI assistant, Fai, designed to help teams build forms, workflows, and integrations in seconds using plain-language instructions. Additional features and updates include proactive governance and auditability, conversational intake agents, and headless MCP support.

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LeanDNA Reveals a Self-Paced Training and Certification Program

LeanDNA, an intelligent supply chain execution platform, has announced LeanDNA Academy, a self-paced training and certification program for users of APEX, its AI-powered supply chain orchestration platform. Daniel Taylor, VP of Solutions & Services at LeanDNA, says, “Software only pays off when people use it well, and in most supply chain teams that know-how sits with one or two people. The Academy turns it into something a whole team can have and benefit from.”

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Smartsheet Introduces an Integration for Claude Sheets

Smartsheet, an AI-powered enterprise work management platform, has introduced Send to Smartsheet, a new integration that transfers plans and trackers from Anthropic’s Claude Sheets into team-managed workflows. Available through the Smartsheet connector for Claude, the feature creates a new sheet in a selected workspace while preserving dates, numbers, and dropdowns. Teams can then assign owners, set deadlines, automate approvals, and connect work to projects and dashboards.

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Syntax Details a New Business AI Practice

Syntax, a global technology solutions provider, has launched Business AI, a unified services practice aimed at helping mid-market organizations move AI initiatives from experimentation into production. The offering combines fixed-fee use-case discovery, activation packages for existing licensed AI capabilities, subscription-based delivery teams called AI Pods, and managed AI services. Additionally, by drawing on its SAP and Oracle expertise, Syntax’s new practice addresses integration with core enterprise systems, governance, security, and ongoing operations.

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Vector Solutions Debuts a Commercial Version of Its Learning Studio Capability

Vector Solutions, an AI-enabled performance platform for critical industries, has launched the commercial version of Learning Studio, enabling administrators to adapt eligible training courses to company policies, equipment, terminology, and work environments. With this release, users can duplicate courses, revise content and assessments, and create versions for different sites or roles, with AI-assisted drafting subject to administrator review.

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