Infor continues to roll out the customer wins and stories this week. Galva Coat is upgrading its Baan IV solution to Infor CloudSuite Industrial.
FinancialForce launched its Financial Planning, Forecasting and Analysis module.
Pick of the week
Workday is historically seen as primarily an HCM vendor. Now it has revealed the increasing momentum of its financial solutions with some significant wins in its Q4 fiscal. American Financial Group, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Christmas Tree Shops, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Nuffield Health, Sharp HealthCare, and SS&C Technologies deployed Workday Finance.
Sheri Rhodes, chief customer officer, Workday, commented: “Leading organizations recognize that today’s environment requires faster, more flexible finance processes to work at the speed of business. Workday leads the way with an intelligent data core that allows customers quick and reliable access to financial and operational data for planning, analysis, and execution — all within Workday.
“As a result, an increasing number of large, complex enterprises are replacing their legacy technology with Workday to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and help them drive breakthrough performance.”
Every Workday success is a competitive win, and its solutions are no longer restricted to HCM and Finance. Workday Financial Management, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Accounting Center, Workday Prism Analytics, and Workday Spend Management, which includes Workday Strategic Sourcing.
Appointments
Xentral made several senior appointments to its management team. Ramon van Alteren is VP Product & Engineering, Norman Rohr is VP Marketing & Comms, Stefanie Richheimer is VP Sales, Cornelia Lass is VP People
Business
HansaWorld achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. Jennifer O’Carroll, HansaWorld’s International Operations Manager, commented: “Cybersecurity is in top 5 things that buyers of ERP software review these days. While our products have always been top of the industry in this regard, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification recognizes that we are at the highest standard for security.”
Boston Consulting Group has partnered with SAP. The joint transformation offering will allow companies to identify the business value in sustainability. They will help the right climate ambitions and powering an actionable sustainability road map.
Technology One has partnered with UNIQ YOU. TechnologyOne will provide advisors to provide high school students with real-life experience and industry insights to inspire female participation in the technology sector.
Xero officially opened its new Australian headquarters in Hawthorn, Melbourne.
Customer
Doozy Solutions partnered with Beerfarm, a rising Australian craft beer, to implement Crafted ERP’s industry-leading solution across sales, accounting, inventory and warehouse management, beer production, compliance and quality control.
Genpact a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, has selected Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), and Workday Professional Services Automation (PSA) to help scale its global business and support better data governance across the organization and its customer ecosystem.
Riverina Water has rolled out Infor CloudSuite Public Sector to power the organisation’s landmark digital transformation project following a competitive tender process.
TN Robinson, an independent electrical wholesaler, based in the Northwest of England and North Wales, has switched to Intact iQ ERP.
The Harvard COOP Group has implemented Oracle NetSuite. It replaces Sage Intacct and several other applications to consolidate financials, eCommerce, point-of-sale, and CRM on a single solution.
Microsoft has chosen to adopt the RISE with SAP solution on Microsoft Cloud. It is shifting the company’s SAP ERP software systems to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition.
VAI has partnered with Nylas, a provider of communications APIs for business productivity automation that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider globally. Nylas’ platform capabilities are now part of VAI S2K Sales Force.
Financial Reports
Visma published its annual report, which showed that 2021 revenue increased 20% to EUR 2.1 billion, while EBITDA grew 28% to EUR 590 million. Visma also set a new record for acquisitions, with 42 companies joining the Visma family.
Funding
Alliants, the customer experience technology specialists, has secured a minority stake investment from Zendesk Inc, the global customer experience software company.
Product
IRIS Software Group has launched a Video Parents’ Evening Module in IRIS Reach and IRIS ParentMail. It takes parents’ evenings to the next level by providing teachers and parents with an engaging, in-app meeting experience at home.
SoftOne and the National Bank of Greece are introducing the innovative OnePay service. It is a new Fintech solution that automates the management and reconciliation of all types of receivables collection for any business. The service is included in the SOFTONE Group ERP systems (Soft1 ERP & Atlantis). It can also be used by any other business software via SoftOne’s EINVOICING cloud service.
