At the BigCommerce Summit Travis Hess held last week, the Chief Executive Officer BigCommerce provided the keynote address at Tottenham Hotspur football club in north London. Hess focused on understanding the market, organisation, sales, marketing, and partnerships to drive growth and efficiency.
At the event BigCommerce also announced a corporate partnership with the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED). The collaboration reinforces the company’s commitment to driving digital transformation and growth in the electrical distribution industry.
Appointments
Datatonic, the leading cloud data + AI consultancy and Google partner of the Year, has appointed Scott Eivers as Global Chief Executive Officer.
DocuWare has announced several leadership changes, which became effective on April 1st, 2025. Max Ertl has stepped down as Co-President. The new core leadership is Michael Berger, CEO; Michael Bochmann, Chief Product & Technology Officer; Benedikt Dischinger, Chief Financial Officer; Uta Dresch, Chief Operating Officer; Hermann Schäfer, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer.
FourKites has strengthened its leadership team with the addition of Sree Mangalampalli who was appointed Vice President of Digital Transformation Solutions, and Jimmy Sebastian as Vice President of AI Products.
Acquisitions, Business and Finance
Anywhere365 has unveiled a new brand as the company evolves from its roots following recent acquisitions. The firm will now be known as AnywhereNow.
Freshworks launched a new partner program. The aim is to increase revenues from partners through the creation of better-aligned agreements with firms that want to work with Freshworks.
Gainsight has announced the acquisition of Skilljar, a learning management platform focused on product training and adoption.
Infosys has announced a collaboration with Linux Foundation Networking (LFN). The LFN facilitates collaboration and operational excellence across open-source networking projects.
Precisely has acquired enterprise storage vendor DTS Software for an undisclosed amount. It takes Precisely back to its mainframe data roots.
Pulsant has acquired SCC’s two UK data centres in Fareham, Hampshire and Cole Valley, Birmingham.
Customer Stories
Interprefy, a provider of multilingual meeting technology and services, will offer its translation and transcription capabilities to fans at the Bastide Médical UTS Nîmes tournament. It will also display real-time French subtitles on stadium screens for the 8,000 spectators.
Podcast
Enterprise Times published a podcast in which Editor Ian Murphy speaks with WSO2’s Queen of AI, Rania Khalaf. He learnt more about WSO2’s AI Strategy at WSO2Con in Barcelona.
Product
Aera Technology has published some data about how its Inventory Management capabilities are assisting customers. With the US implementing trade tariffs yesterday, there has never been a greater focus on inventory costs.
Contentful has launched a host of new features and partnerships that the company says deliver a modern, flexible solution for creating digital experiences at scale.
At KubeCon Europe, the Linux Foundation has announced Valkey 8.1. It is the latest version of the in-memory data store. This was created a year ago when Redis decided to drop its open-source licence for its in-memory, key-value database.
OpenText has announced the availability of Titanium X, which includes Cloud Editions 25.2. This release adds new enterprise capabilities in the areas of AI, data security and process automation.
Panzura has integrated its Symphony solution with IBM Storage Deep Archive on the IBM Diamondback tape library. It delivers a secure, low-cost, and automated archiving solution for customers who have very large quantities of data.
Percona has announced that Percona Everest will now support Red Hat OpenShift for open-source cloud database deployments.
Rootstock has revealed its latest update to its ERP solution. The Spring ’25 release includes a comprehensive update to user experience. With several improvements to the finance module and the introduction of new AI-powered enhancements.
Research
Deltek has published its annual Clarity report that highlights trends and insights for UK Architecture, Engineering and Consulting Firms. The 6th Annual study shows that the industry is both ambitious and optimistic for 2025.
Cybage Software
Cybage Software continues to publish case studies about projects it has delivered. Last week, is revealed how it enhanced streaming data processing through AWS microservices and automation for a digital marketing agency.
It designed and deployed an attribution model for a major streaming network. Created customized landing pages for partners. Implemented advanced automation test suites. It provides round-the-clock infrastructure and DevOps support along with the identification of automation opportunities.
When a global leader in digital transformation needed a tailored solution to optimize product selection & quote generation, Cybage created an automated, integrated, and scalable approach using Salesforce CPQ, Google Sheets, and Certinia.
Deltek
Deltek revealed how Jordan & Skala Engineers, a firm specializing in mechanical, electrical, plumbing, sustainability and low-voltage consulting, upgraded from Deltek Vision to Vantagepoint in October 2023.
The firm is now using Vantagepoint dashboards to streamline financial and project management processes, significantly improving efficiency and decision-making. Leadership and project teams can now easily access real-time data on estimated revenue for forecasting, market performance, success rate and other key financial metrics.
Brittany Schultz, Director of Marketing, explains, “With our entire team working within Vantagepoint, everyone is on the same system, which significantly streamlines our workflow. The data is captured directly in the dashboards, eliminating the need to consult multiple teams for essential project information.”
The firm is also using Vantagepoint CRM to track opportunities. They are now able to track the effectiveness of event and campaign performance. Such as assessing the ROI of sponsorships and booths.
IFS Ultimo
In a LinkedIn post, IFS Ultimo revealed that it has renewed its SOC 2 Type. The company received a report confirming that the framework is deeply embedded across departments and has become a way of working at IFS Ultimo.
IFS Ultimo also celebrated the go-live of NLX Beverage Solutions in February after a ten-month project supported by MaxGrip.
Precisely
Precisely revealed how leading French insurer Abeille leverages spatial analytics and location data to improve claims processes and empower confident decision-making across the business.
Abeille uses a powerful combination of its location intelligence and data enrichment solutions, including Precisely Spectrum Spatial, Precisely Spectrum Geocoding, and highly curated address and property datasets, to strengthen risk mitigation, optimize underwriting, and enhance customer experiences.
Rosine Gergaud, Geomatics Project Manager and Head of the GeoAnalytics team at Abeille Assurances commented, “As climate-related risks continue to evolve, it has become essential to enrich our data with spatial information – not only for prevention but also for effective risk management.
“In order to ensure access to accurate, automated geographic information, the GeoAnalytics team was established to develop spatial analysis for all entities of our business. I’m extremely proud to have been involved in this project for so many years and to see positive results for Abeille Assurances’ teams.”
Rocketlane
Rocketlane announced a partnership with Forsys, a global leader in Lead-to-Revenue transformation. This collaboration marks a shared vision to empower businesses with seamless, high-velocity, and scalable service delivery across the customer lifecycle. As a strategic reseller, Forsys will bring Rocketlane’s next-gen PSA platform into its suite of solutions, enabling enterprises to align their delivery engine with revenue-driving outcomes.
Srikrishnan Ganesan, CEO of Rocketlane, added, “We’re excited to partner with Forsys. Their deep domain expertise and transformation-first approach make them a powerful strategic reseller. Together, we’re redefining service delivery excellence to help businesses accelerate their value delivery, elevate client partnerships, and drive measurable operational impact.”
Srinivas Vemuri, Chief Operating Officer and SVP of Cloud Solutions, Forsys, said, “Our partnership with Rocketlane is a natural extension of our mission to deliver complete, value-driven solutions to our customers. By including Rocketlane into our offering, we’re enabling enterprises to streamline service delivery, enhance operational visibility, and synchronize execution with broader revenue objectives.”
Sama
Sama has launched Sama Automate, a new data automation platform that seamlessly combines cutting-edge AI capabilities with essential human validation. It balances machine learning automation with human judgment, creating a solution that increases efficiency while maintaining quality standards. Early implementations have shown a 40% reduction in annotation time while meeting quality SLAs. They aim to further reduce that effort by 10x before the end of 2025.
Duncan Curtis, SVP of AI product and technology at Sama, commented, “With the new Sama Automate platform, we are focused on balancing the best of AI with the expertise of human validation.
“This hybrid approach has proven ideal for clients that want to enhance their workflows without sacrificing the quality of their model outcomes, and it allows us to deliver strategic value across the lifecycle of model development. It also assures our team stays on the cutting-edge of AI skills and capabilities, evolving to provide more sophisticated model valuation while offloading rote annotation to AI.”
Workday
Three Link Solutions (Three Link), a leading provider in deploying and optimizing Workday solutions, announced a new partnership agreement with Workday, Inc., the AI platform for managing people and money.
As a Workday Services Partner, Three Link supports its Workday clients by providing full deployment services across the Workday platform in addition to supporting clients throughout their entire life cycle on Workday.
This includes assisting Three Link clients across a wide range of implementation and support offerings, from evaluation, design, configuration and testing to managing Workday’s releases, which help clients better prioritize their resources, time and energy to capture business value faster.
Greg Knowlton, Founding Partner of Three Link, said, “Leveraging our extensive functional, technical, and processing expertise as a Workday Services Partner, we empower companies to transform and modernize their systems. This not only enhances their business processes and data but also delivers significant value to a company’s employees, vendors, and clients.
“Our goal is to help businesses maximize their Workday investment. In essence, we are addressing our clients’ increasingly complex needs while supporting Workday’s mission to enable enterprises of all sizes to build better businesses.”
Zoho
Zoho announced new capabilities in Zoho PDF Editor. The update enables users to reorder, extract, and rotate PDF pages, add watermarks, and collect signatures. New features include the ability to:
- Combine PDF documents
- Split and extract PDF pages
- Rotate PDF pages
- Replace PDF Pages
- Export PDFs as images
- Add watermarks
- Insert wet signatures
- Password protect PDFs
- Support automated fields such as Date, Author Name, and Document Name
- Export PDFs as fillable PDFs
After being awarded 2024 ANZ Zoho Partner of the Year, SQiBLE has been elevated to Premium Zoho Partner, a prestigious achievement reserved for only the most elite and accomplished Zoho partners.
Kylie Harker, SQiBLE CEO, commented, “This is an outstanding milestone for our entire team. We’ve collaborated with Zoho for years, and to now be recognised at the highest level as a Premium Partner is truly incredible. Seeing the level of excellence required to become a Premium Partner makes me incredibly proud.
“Not only have we developed four groundbreaking products for Zoho integration, but we’ve also built a thriving community of satisfied customers. I couldn’t be prouder of our team.”
