Top WorkTech News From the Week of September 27th: Updates from Celonis, Apromore, Hyperscience, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of September 27th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Celonis, Apromore, Hyperscience, 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 27th.

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Top WorkTech News From the Week of September 27th, 2024

Airbase Introduces an AI-Powered Accounts Payable Solution

Airbase, a procure-to-pay solution for mid-market and larger organizations, has announced an AI-powered Touchless AP (accounts payable) product. With this new solution, companies can handle every step of the accounts payable process with minimal human intervention. Its primary features include real-time fraud detection, in-depth spending analytics, expanded vendor management tools to simplify vendor onboarding, and AI-driven automations to process invoices, handles, approvals, and payment schedules.

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Apromore Expands its Platform with New Features

Apromore—a global process mining and business process improvement technology provider—has detailed several new updates for its platform. These enhancements include a GenAI-enabled Copilot, advanced process analytics to help companies improve their operations, and the Apromore Compliance Center, a dedicated module for streamlining compliance management and reducing risks and costs. The company also introduced a new Variant Comparison tool to help businesses compare process variants from a single, integrated view.

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Betterworks Launches a Private LLM Designed to Power its AI Tools

Betterworks, a performance management software company, has launched a private Large Language Model (LLM) designed to power its suite of AI tools. The private LLM offering aims to equip clients with ensured data security, enabling them to leverage AI technologies without compromising their privacy or compliance initiatives. Doug Dennerline, the Betterworks CEO, says, “Releasing our private LLM is just another step to ensure organizations can confidently leverage AI while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance.”

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Celonis and Ardoq Announce a Joint Solution

Celonis, a process mining and intelligence solution provider, has launched a joint solution with Ardoq, an enterprise architecture (EA) provider. The new offering uses the Celonis Process Intelligence platform and Ardoq’s modern EA technology to close the gap between business and IT teams by creating a digital twin of an organization. The digital twin will illustrate the correlation between business process performance and IT operations to help CIOs improve their ability to align their technology investments with specific business priorities.

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Coupa Appoints a New Chief Product and Technology Officer

Coupa, a spend management platform provider, has announced that Salvatore Lombardo has joined the company as its new Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). Lombardo previously served in several leadership roles for SAP, including various product and development management roles across procurement, suppliers, logistics, warehouse, customer management, and custom projects. As Coupa’s CPTO, he will spearhead the vision, articulation, and execution of the company’s innovation roadmap. He will also be directly responsible for overseeing the continued expansion of the company’s product and development teams.

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Crowdbotics Reveals New Features for its Application Development Platform

Crowdbotics, an enterprise app development solution provider, has announced the availability of several new capabilities for its AI-powered application development platform. The new features include a Technical Recommendations tool that utilizes AI to decompose requirements into functional specifications. This tool complements another new feature, Application Code Generative, which can generate up to fifty percent of required code to lighten developer workloads. Other additions include a tool for estimating cloud consumption costs, an integration with Jira, and an Azure Deployer.

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EZO Details New Features for its Computerized Maintenance Management System

EZO, an enterprise asset management solution provider, has announced new features for its Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). These updates are designed to help organizations improve their management of maintenance activities in commercial and institutional facilities. The company will be exhibiting the latest additions to its CMMS solutions at this year’s annual Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) conference, scheduled for October 7-10, 2024, at the Rosen Centre Hotel and Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL.

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Harness Releases Several Updates to its Software Development Solution

Harness, an end-to-end platform for complete software delivery, has released several product updates as part of its annual {unscripted} 2024 event. The most notable addition to its platform is a multi-agent AI architecture designed to help companies improve their workflows, increase productivity, and optimize the work experience for software developers. Other additions include AI-powered QA assistants, productivity insights, a DevOps assistant, and a coding assistant capable of generating code, unit tests, and more.

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Hyperscience Announces New Features for its Hypercell Platform

Hyperscience, a hyperautomation solution provider, has announced the latest updates for its Hyperscience Hypercell platform. These updates will help organizations further embed AI and machine learning technologies into their business, enabling them to automate back-office processes, accelerate transformation efforts, and more. The updates include a new long-form extraction model to help users understand unstructured documents, enhanced audit logs, tools for streamlining the lifecycle management of AI/ML models, improved model portability, and additional features for handling document variability.

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Whatfix Raises $125 Million in a Series E Funding Round

Whatfix, a digital adoption platform (DAP) provider, has secured $125 million in a Series E funding round. The funding was led by Warburg Pincus, with participation from existing investor SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Whatfix will use the investment to “expand its category leadership” and deepen its market presence in the global public sectors across the US, EMEA, and APAC regions. It will also use the funds to grow its integrated product suite via organic growth strategies and strategic acquisitions that help it extend into DAP-adjacent offerings.

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Expert Insights Section

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Bridging the AI Divide: Upskilling Strategies for Enterprise Software Teams

As part of the Mini Jam LIVE, Q3 2024 edition, the Solutions Review team gathered a panel of industry experts to share their insights and commentary on what makes a successful AI upskilling strategy, how teams can implement them, and why it’s essential to foster a culture of continuous learning. Speakers include John Santaferraro from Ferraro Consulting, Anders Green of ALOX4, Donald Farmer from TreeHive Strategy, Paul Byrne of Dragon ERP, and Vinnie Mirchandani from Deal Architect.

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Evolving ERP – Judith O’Callaghan and Kyler Cheatham

On this episode of Evolving ERP, industry powerhouses Judith O’Callaghan and Kyler Cheatham discuss Phase 0 planning in depth. They discuss the importance of thorough preparation, assessing organizational readiness, data cleansing, team selection, and more. Their conversation also goes into composable ERP solutions, clean core concepts, and the need for expert guidance during digital transformations.

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Revolutionizing Machining Operations with Artificial Intelligence, by George Chen of DELMIA

In a recent article shared with the Insight Jam community, George Chen—the Senior Offer Marketing and Business Development Manager at DELMIA—examined how artificial intelligence can help companies optimize and streamline their machining operations. His article outlines some real-world examples of AI-powered CNC machining and goes into how AI can provide additional advancements in predictive maintenance, process optimization, and real-time quality control.

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