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Top WorkTech News From the Week of September 13th: Updates from Deloitte, iGrafx, Oracle NetSuite, and More

WorkTech News September 13th

WorkTech News September 13th

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of September 13th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Deloitte, iGrafx, Oracle NetSuite, 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 September 13th.

Top WorkTech News From the Week of September 13th, 2024


appCD Closes a Seed Funding Round and Rebrands as StackGen

appCD, a generative infrastructure-from-code company, has closed a $12.3 million seed funding round. The company also announced its rebranding as StackGen and appointed Arshad Sayyad as Chief Business Officer. The seed funding was led by Thomvest Ventures, with additional participation from existing investors FireBolt Ventures, WestWave Capital, and Secure Octane. StackGen will use the funding to accelerate its ongoing product development, enhance its go-to-market strategy, and fuel company growth.

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Deloitte Launches AI Factory as a Service

Deloitte has announced the launch of AI Factory as a Service, a new suite of generative AI capabilities built on the NVIDIA AI platform. The AI Factory as a Service suite aims to provide organizations with a scalable collection of AI software and use cases that enable them to deliver customized GenAI workflows. The suite is built around a holistic multi-disciplinary approach that combines Deloitte’s data science, model design, and industry knowledge with the capabilities of the NVIDIA AI platform. Features include workload management and monitoring tools, real-time large language model (LLM) interference, high-performance storage, data governance, and the NVIDIA AI stack, encompassing IaaS, PaaS, and database services.

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Deloitte Unveils Deloitte Academies

Deloitte also unveiled details on Deloitte Academies, a new suite of immersive learning experiences designed to equip workforces with skills in high-demand fields like AI and sustainability. Deloitte Academies also provides tailored learning experiences for multiple work segments, including executive development, technical skill-building, and more. Anthony Stephan, chief learning officer for Deloitte US, says, “Deloitte Academies will focus on highly engaging experiences to build a resilient workforce through both tech and human skills development. Our goal is to help our clients create a future-ready workforce that can drive significant impact, adapt quickly to changes, and reach their full human potential.”

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ECI Software Solutions Appoints a New CMO

ECI Software Solutions, a global cloud-based business management software provider, has appointed Ray Wizbowski as Chief Marketing Officer. With over twenty years of marketing experience across industries, Wizbowski will spearhead ECI’s marketing strategy and focus on driving brand growth, optimizing the company’s position in the marketplace, and enhancing customer engagement. Wizbowski previously worked with Diligent, where he helped the company increase its pipeline coverage, aligned go-to-market functions between marketing and business development representatives, and led a rebranding initiative.

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IBM Expands its Oracle Expertise with Accelalpha Acquisition

IBM has announced its plan to acquire Accelalpha, a global Oracle services provider specializing in helping clients digitize their core business operations and accelerate the adoption of Oracle Cloud Applications. The acquisition will expand IBM’s Oracle consulting expertise in the supply chain, logistics, enterprise performance management (EPM), finance, and customer transformation markets. Once the transaction closes, Accelalpha will bring its global team of consultants to IBM Consulting, where they will help clients modernize their operations with Oracle Cloud Applications.

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iGrafx and Cornerstones Announce a New Partnership

iGrafx, a process intelligence and management solution provider, has announced a new partnership with Cornerstones, a consultancy specializing in business transformation with an emphasis on ERP implementations. The collaboration will enable the companies to offer modern business process management (BPM) capabilities that help clients across industries achieve successful ERP implementations and process optimization initiatives. It will also enable organizations that work with Cornerstones to leverage iGrafx’s RPM technologies to document, model, and improve their business processes.

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Oracle NetSuite Reveals a Suite of New Product Updates

Oracle NetSuite has announced several new product updates and AI innovations for its solution suite. These updates build on the company’s existing AI capabilities and will help organizations increase efficiency, accelerate growth, and more. Specific additions include a new procurement offering, updated project management capabilities, additional training resources, enterprise performance management (EPM) tools, new partner integrations, updates to the NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, enhancements to the user experience, and an integrated benefits solution that enables employees to shop for benefits plans.

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Oracle Introduces New AI Capabilities to the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite

Oracle has announced details on the new AI capabilities available in the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite. The new functionalities extend the generative AI capabilities already embedded in the suite to help organizations improve how they execute complex tasks, drive efficiencies, and automate workflows across their finance, supply chain, sales, marketing, and HR departments. Specific additions include over fifty new AI agents, AI-powered skills insights in Oracle Cloud HCM, and AI innovations in Oracle’s cloud-based ERP, SCM, CX, and Fusion Cloud Sustainability solutions.

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ServiceNow Details the AI-Powered Updates Available in the Now Platform Xanadu Release

ServiceNow, an AI platform provider for business transformation, has released an extensive collection of AI updates for the Now Platform Xanadu release. This release introduces hundreds of additional AI capabilities to help users enhance productivity, improve customer agility, and optimize employee experiences. It also expands ServiceNow’s Now Assist portfolio of generative AI tools with new enterprise functions, including security, sourcing, and procurement operations. Finally, the update features the official launch of the previously announced Now Assist integration with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.

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Skillsoft Reveals a New Suite of Compliance-Centric Training Resources

Skillsoft, a learning experience platform, has launched the Skillsoft Compliance Suite, a new offering for the company’s broader compliance training solutions. The Compliance Suite introduces several features headline by Dynamic Content, which can enable learning administrators to deliver risk-based training programs personalized to each employee’s specific role, geographic location, required regulations, and management responsibilities. Skillsoft also added several updates to its solution, including risk dashboards, analytics, a new curriculum for emerging regulations, an AI-powered learning coach, and more.

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TraceLink Announces Opus Link Actions

TraceLink, an end-to-end digital network platform for intelligent supply chain orchestration, has announced Opus Link Actions, a collection of pre-built API integrations that connect the Opus platform and its suite of multi-enterprise solutions with an expanding list of ERP systems. With these integrations—the first being NetSuite, which is available now—companies can benefit from optimized data transmissions, real-time data exchange, support for complex queries that don’t require custom development, and faster integration deployments.

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Evolving ERP – Dan Aldridge and Daniel Mateo

This episode of Evolving ERP features Dan Aldridge from PCG talking with Daniel Mateo from SAPNERGY Consulting. Their conversation focuses on SAP S/4HANA, its impact on businesses, and the challenges and opportunities of migrating from older SAP systems. They also discuss the value of business process reengineering, the role consultants play in SAP projects, the potential future of SAP’s cloud offerings, and implementation strategies like the brownfield, greenfield, and bluefield approaches.

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Red Hat is Joining Solutions Review for a  Solutions Spotlight Webinar Event

On September 25th, Solutions Review will host a Solutions Spotlight webinar with Red Hat. During the hour-long presentation, attendees will learn how the new capabilities available in RHEL 9.4 and 8.10 can help companies improve security, optimize performance, elevate business infrastructure, and equip developers with advanced tools. The webinar will also feature a Q&A section with Eric Hendricks, Senior Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat.

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