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Aptean began the week by announcing its acquisition of Momentis, a provider of purpose-built software solutions for fashion, apparel, footwear, textile, and accessories industries. Blackbaud announced its financial results for its fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023. Oracle introduced new logistics capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM). Finally, SAP created a new end-to-end growth area focused on AI from their new Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO).

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Sage announced the launch of Sage Intacct on Microsoft Azure in the United States, shortly after Sage Active's debut on Microsoft Azure in France. QAD released the latest enhancements to QAD Adaptive ERP along with other QAD Adaptive Applications. Microsoft launched its 2023 release wave 1 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a rollout of new features and enhanced capabilities slated for release between April and September 2023. Sage announced a new partnership with Morehouse College, the nation’s only historically Black liberal arts institution.

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At the Sage Transform conference, several announcements were made to mark the growth and advancement of Sage. First, Sage announced the acquisition of carbon accounting solution Spherics to help SMBs measure and cut their emissions. Sage also announced new product integration with Microsoft to continue simplifying workflows for SMBs by allowing the submission and approval of certain processes directly through Teams, rather than in the Sage Intacct or Sage People application. Then Sage released the expansion of Sage Intacct’s capabilities and market reach which will enable customers to automate processes, boost productivity, and free up time to focus on running their businesses. This solution will also be expanding to continental Europe with the first launch in France, into new verticals, while also scaling existing capabilities to simplify the management of business complexities with greater insights and efficiencies. Finally, Sage announced an exciting new partnership with Major League Baseball with Sage being connected to pitching decisions and manager insights content across the league, starting from the 2023 regular season. This partnership will also include the introduction of the ‘Pitcher Power Rankings presented by Sage’ and support of the MLB’s Diverse Partners Program, supporting minority and female-owned businesses across America. In preparation for Ignite, Microsoft announced several infrastructure enhancements to its tools that will benefit ERP applications and users. Some of the new capabilities announced include the general availability of managed environments, built-in application lifecycle management in Microsoft Power Platform, interactive Power BI charts shared directly from OneDrive and SharePoint, cross-tenant dataset sharing, and advancements in AI builder. From an AI perspective, Microsoft also announced a collaboration with Haleon, a multinational consumer healthcare company, to make everyday health more accessible for people who are blind, have low vision, or have difficulty reading product labels due to low literacy. This collaboration will expand the functionality in the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide consumers with more detailed labeling information for over 1,500 Haleon products across the U.S. and U.K. IFS announced features from the IFS Cloud October 2022 release, including enhancements to help customers meet their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, new capabilities that will help global companies connect operations across sites, functions, people, and assets, and intelligent insight and accelerating automation efforts. Salesforce announced Automotive Cloud, a new product built specifically for automakers, dealers, automotive finance groups, and their customers through industry-specific automation, intelligence, and real-time analytics. QAD released its latest enhancements to QAD Adaptive ERP, along with other QAD Adaptive Applications. Qlik achieved the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s (FedRAMP) Authorized designation at the Moderate Impact Level (IL) and Department of Defense IL2, making Qlik Cloud Government one of the first SaaS platforms to achieve FedRAMP designation. Aptean announced its acquisition of Frontix BV, a provider of cloud-based Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and energy management solutions to process manufacturers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and over a dozen other countries across the globe.

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NetSuite wasted no time making significant product announcements at its annual SuiteWorld conference. First, Oracle NetSuite unveiled NetSuite AP Automation which embeds banking services into a cloud ERP system to help organizations improve profitability by making it easier and faster to process bills and pay vendors all from within NetSuite. NetSuite went on to announce NetSuite CPQ to enable sales teams to quickly configure, price, and quote complex products with complete accuracy and reliability, directly in NetSuite. Next, NetSuite demonstrated its commitment to improving warehouse operations with the release of NetSuite Ship Central, a mobile application that helps organizations optimize operations, eliminate manual processes, and accelerate customer deliveries, while equipping warehouse workers with packing and shipping capabilities on a mobile or kiosk device. Finally, NetSuite announced updates to NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, simplifying data management, accelerating time to insights, and providing access to more pre-built third-party data integrations and industry-specific content. Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises. Within the leader quadrant, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Workday, SAP S/4HANA, and Oracle NetSuite have secured their positions. Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Infor settled into the visionaries quadrant, and finally, the niche players quadrant is concentrated with SAP Business ByDesign, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and FinancialForce. UKG announced the company has been named the overall Winner in its category for the AnitaB.org 2022 Top Companies for Women Technologists, landing the highest overall score of any company with 1,000-10,000 technical employees. In a separate honor, UKG also earned a “Social Impact” award from Ragan for its UKG Close the Gap Initiative, aimed at reaching pay equity in the workplace, with UKG pledging to continue to invest in education, training, and the technology and tools needed to ensure equity of pay, both internally for UKG and its customers.
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