Top WorkTech News From the Week of September 6th: Updates from Jitterbit, ECI Software Solutions, Deloitte, and More
The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy WorkTech news from the week of September 6th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from companies like Jitterbit, ECI Software Solutions, Deloitte, 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 6th.
Top WorkTech News From the Week of September 6th, 2024
Accenture Expands its Partnership with Unilever
Accenture has expanded its strategic partnership with Unilever to simplify its digital core and apply generative AI to maximize efficiency, improve business agility, and more. As part of this expanded collaboration, the two companies will launch a multi-year program to establish a foundation for a “new industry standard” for gen-AI-powered productivity. The program will include scaling use cases that effectively reduce costs and maximize operational efficiencies for global businesses. To that end, Unilever will leverage Accenture’s GenWizard platform to accelerate its technology and digital product development efforts.
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Broadcom Launches an On-Premises Version of its Enterprise Agility Platform
Broadcom, a global technology provider, has launched Rally Anywhere, an on-premises offering of its enterprise agility platform. Rally Anywhere is designed to help teams plan, prioritize, manage, track, and measure at every level of their organization, helping them deliver maximum customer value, remain compliant with strict data sovereignty policies, and meet heightened security demands. As part of this announcement, Broadcom’s ValueOps Value Stream Management (VSM) solution is available as SaaS or on-premises, providing organizations with a VSM platform capable of supporting their global digital transformations.
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Certinia Announces the General Availability of its Customer Success Cloud Solution
Certinia—a cloud-based PSA and ERP software built on the Salesforce platform—has announced the general availability of Certinia Customer Success (CS) Cloud. The CS Cloud offering is designed to help companies monitor customer success performance, manage their success plans, track progress toward company objectives, streamline playbook management, improve how they collaborate with customers, optimize resource management, and more. Additionally, when paired with Certinia’s Professional Services (PS) Cloud solutions, CS Cloud enables users to orchestrate success across the customer lifecycle by maximizing profits via unified customer engagement.
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Deloitte and AuditBoard Announce a Custom Integration
Deloitte—a global audit, assurance, consulting, tax, and risk advisory services provider—has announced a custom integration with AuditBoard, a cloud-based audit, risk, compliance, and ESG management platform. The integration will connect AuditBoard’s risk platform with SAP’s enterprise software solution, helping companies enhance operations, provide connected data views, and more. Specifically, the integration will connect AuditBoard’s Internal Audit & Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) solutions with SAP’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance Process Control module, enabling users to create a single source of truth across their business.
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Deloitte Integrates UiPath’s Functionality Into Deloitte Ascend
Deloitte has announced that UiPath’s automation functionality is now integrated into its Ascend platform. The integration will allow companies to accelerate project timelines and deliver high-quality outcomes by automating repetitive or manually intensive tasks. With Ascend, companies can expedite project delivery, drive operational efficiency by automating tasks, reduce the costs of moving applications to the cloud, and develop SAP solutions with embedded automated business-as-usual (BAU) operations.
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ECI Software Solutions Completes its Acquisition of Khameleon
ECI Software Solution, a global provider of cloud-based business management software, has completed its acquisition of Khameleon Software, a cloud-based ERP software that focuses on supporting the needs of project-based dealers. The acquisition will expand ECI’s growing distribution portfolio to support its growth plans for commercial furniture dealer clients. Khameleon’s ERP will be added to ECI’s TeamDesign solution, giving clients the advanced technologies they need to increase profitability, scale their businesses, and manage their needs. The Khameleon team will also be joining ECI’s Distribution division.
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Eptura Expands its Leadership Team
Eptura, a global worktech provider, has appointed Kathie Jones as Chief Financial Officer and Virginia Miracle as Chief Customer Officer. As CFO, Jones will spearhead Eptura’s revenue operations, accounting, and financial planning efforts to drive operational excellence. Meanwhile, as Chief Customer Officer, Miracle will leverage her years of experience in customer success to help Eptura strengthen its customer engagement, improve client relationships, and connect people and workplaces. Virginia is focused on strengthening our customer engagement and global client relationships, furthering our vision to connect people and workplaces digitally.
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Jitterbit Details the Release of Jitterbit Harmony
Jitterbit, a business transformation solution provider, has announced Jitterbit Harmony, a unified, AI-infused low-code platform designed to simplify complexities, future-proof operations, and drive innovations for global organizations. The Harmony platform consists of iPaaS, App Builder, EDI, and API products capable of empowering users with the functionalities they need to adopt AI and scale at their own pace. It also features robust integration, low-code application development, and API management capabilities to support organizations as they automate and orchestrate business processes, workflows, and overall operations.
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Onfleet and Fairmatic Release a New Integration
Onfleet, a last-mile delivery management software platform, has announced an integration with Fairmatic, a fleet insurance company. The new integration is designed for companies with ten or fewer vehicles in their fleets and will help them develop a better understanding of driver performance. Specifically, the integration gives fleet managers access to in-depth driver analytics on individual driver performance, miles driven, the number of active drivers, and more. This data can be used to determine whether specific users are eligible for reduced insurance rates.
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Progress Announces Early Access for MarkLogic Server 12
Progress, an AI-powered infrastructure software provider, has announced the early-access release of Progress MarkLogic Server 12. With this release, Progress will expand on the search capabilities of MarkLogic Service by delivering native vector support and new relevance-based algorithms, providing customers with advanced capabilities for harnessing the power of AI in the enterprise. As a result, customers can easily integrate generative AI technologies into their enterprise applications with a flexible Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern and ground LLM models in their private data sets.
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TraceLink Details the Magnum Release for its Opus Platform
TraceLink, an end-to-end digital network platform for the life sciences and healthcare supply chain, has announced the Magnum release of its flagship platform, Opus. Opus is a no-code network digitalization platform designed to democratize access to supply chain integration and orchestration. The release includes a reimagined user experience, a pre-built enterprise system integrations catalog, drag-and-drop editing for multi-enterprise solution experiences, no-code workflow configuration, and reporting for end-to-end supply chain processes.
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