With summer unfolding and record temperatures forecast for the UK this week, news volume has slowed. However, consolidation in the market continued this week. The number of firms in the PSA market is reducing, and private equity continues to drive consolidation.
Two major announcements this week saw BigTime software and Projector merging. The former, backed by Vista, acquired Projector PSA and will invest in both PSA solutions aiming to become a leader in the space. Enterprise Times also spoke to Yanick Abraham, who has just completed the merger of Drakya, the Salesforce consulting firm he founded and Klient, the PSA vendor he acquired in 2020.
Planview has opened a new APAC headquarters with a new office in Singapore. It also revealed recent regional hires as it looks to expand there. It has lured senior leaders from Ramco Systems and Blue Yonder.
Clovine
Clovine provided another release note giving a very high-level overview of recent updates. This week it included a new workspace for Designs and Functions, giving little detail about what it includes. It also added a payment function for its android mobile app. Further integration to Google enables login via a Google account. The portfolio report was improved with a task list, and member list added. There were also several bug fixes.
Kantata OX
Kantata unveiled the latest Kantata OX (Mavenlink) updates. In-app notifications have become generally available. The notifications can include such things as:
- The submission of Expense reports for approval
- The creation of new Posts in calendar meetings
- When a start date changes on a task or project
- Mentions in posts
In addition to In-app notifications, Slack notifications were also released. It means that notifications surfaced in Kantata OX are also surfaced in a Slack channel.
Workday
Workday achieved FedRAMP approval for Workday Government Cloud. This includes projects, though it wasn’t clear whether it also included PSA.
