Appointments
Unit4 is continuing to strengthen its leadership teams. It has appointed Billy O’Riordan as Senior Vice President, Professional Services and Frank Dorrien as the regional PS Director for North America. It also appointed Beata Wright as EVP/Global Head of Partner Ecosystems.
Automation Anywhere has opened several new offices in China and appointed Chern-Yue Boey as president and general manager of the Greater China Region. It now has offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Boey has made several other senior appointments in the region.
Acquisitions
K2, the low code application development company has strengthened its presence in Australia with the acquisition of its distributor SourceCode ANZ Pty Ltd (K2 Australia). MD of K2 Australia Hennie Laubscher is appointed Vice President Asia-Pacific for K2.
Business news and Results
Agiloft has revamped its online trainline for its contract and commerce lifecycle management platform.
Alteryx saw continued growth in its latest results. It increased revenue by 65% to $103.4 in its third quarter, year over year. It is aiming for full year growth of between $389 and $389 million (53-55% increase year over year).
Freshworks Inc has opened a second office US office in Denver. It is looking to hire more than 100 sales and solution engineers to its team. It now has 11 offices globally and is celebrating several other growth points. These include adding 52 new partners in Q3 2019 and passing 700 apps on its marketplace.
JDA saw a 80% growth in SaaS revenue in its Q3 2019 results and a 10% year over year revenue growth. It now has more than 550 customers using JDA Cloud.
Zendesk announced its Q3 2019 results with a 36% year over year growth to $210.5 million. It now expects to report full year revenues in the range $813-815 million.
Customer News
Scottish based Cameron+Ross has selected Deltek Vantagepoint and Deltek PIM to increased the efficiency of its professional services and enhance its project management capability.
Infor wins a new partner and a new customer in Saudi, Bugshan Barmaja Co. Ltd. The major diversified business group headquartered in Saudi Arabia, has been appointed an Infor alliance partner for the region. It will also implemented several solutions within its organisation.
Deco-Chem Inc, an ink and coatings manufacturer, will upgrade its ERP solution to Process Pro Global. Davis Chocolate, manufacturer of premium private label and co-manufactured chocolates has selected ProcessPro to assist with its food safety management SQF certification.
UNICEF Australia has selected Sage Intacct as its finance solution. It will leverage the integration to Salesforce CRM that was recently enhanced.
Research
Ivanti has unveiled research that found a surprisingly high number of business users have not migrated to Windows 10. Only 39% of the IT professional respondents reported they had completed the migration.
Salesforce has unveiled the 5th edition State of Marketing report. The research covers 4,100 people around the world.
SAP Concur has published a white paper into the personal safety concerns of employees. It identified that female travellers report high levels of harassment and sexism.
Software
Fenergo, has added a rules driven Digital KYC (Know Your Customer) solution to its CLM suite. It increases efficiency by automating client onboarding processes for financial institutions.
Kofax has announced Kofax Education Portal. It is a self service learning platform for Kofax software products. The Portal includes Kofax Learning Cloud, Kofax Quickstart Training and a redesigned education portal. It will add different Learning Clouds for more products in the coming months, starting with Kofax RPA.
Pega Care Management has updated its solution to provide better optimization of patient engagement in the US healthcare market. It includes personalisation improvements, better support for complex healthcare plans and other features.
Pipeliner announces the v2.6.0 release of Pipeliner CRM Cloud. It includes bulk update capabilities, improvements to Gmail integration and advanced global search.
Salesforce has introduced new features to support mortgage processes in its Financial Services Cloud solution.
SimPRO has updated its mobile application simPRO Mobile. It now enables field engineers to create and edit invoices and receive payment. It also includes support for Square payments.
Software AG has launched a certified connector between Adobe Marketo’s Engage platform and SAP Sales Cloud and SAP Service Cloud.
