With summer drawing to a close, most announcements were around partnerships. There were still some significant product announcements, though. With one week left in August and bank holidays on both sides of the Atlantic, expect fewer announcements next week. However, once September starts, the news will quickly ramp up with numerous conventions due to start.
Appointments
FourKites continues to strengthen its Strategic Advisory Council, announcing that Vineet Khanna will join it.
After thirteen years as CEO of Gainsight, Nick Mehta is to step down from the role. He has named Chuck Ganapathi as Chief Executive Officer.
Business
Forterro has reported strong H1 2025 results, as the firm continues to expand both organically and through acquisition.
Fourkites has announced its latest global Premier Carrier List (PCL), which recognises carriers that have demonstrated superior tracking capabilities across all modes of transport.
Partnerships
Epicor has announced that it has become a founding shareholder of BMDS Data Yard, a joint venture between BMF (Builders Merchants Federation) and NMBS (National Merchant Buying Society).
Payoneer has announced a strategic partnership with programmable financial services company Stripe. The collaboration marks an expansion of Payoneer’s Online Checkout offering for cross-border merchants looking to sell direct-to-consumer.
Precisely and Opendatasoft are partnering to create an integrated marketplace to provide access to trusted AI-ready data.
Workday has announced that it has selected DailyPay as its strategic partner for delivering On-Demand Pay.
Product
AccountsIQ has launched a Non-Financial Metrics tool that extends finance visibility into a wider set of business metrics.
Research
Accenture has published a report that examines how European organisations are investing in, adopting and seeing value from AI.
Research by monday.com has revealed that 99% of retailers are leveraging some form of AI within their business. With the growth of out-of-town retail parks and malls, it is the smaller retailers that seem to be benefiting most.
Unit4 has published the Unit4 State of the Digital Nation report. The report examines public sector technology maturity trends in several countries.
Cybage Software
Cybage Software revealed three case studies last week. The first detailed how the firm helped the UK’s largest private software company to compress release cycles and achieve faster go-to-market without sacrificing quality.
Cybage partnered with the client through a sustainable engineering engagement. This was focused on accelerating delivery across engineering, QA, automation, and BA services. A key enabler was the adoption of GitHub Copilot across the SDLC, which supported developers with context-aware code generation, automated unit-test creation, inline documentation, and faster troubleshooting.
As a result, the backend development cycles were accelerated by nearly 12%. While UI feature delivery improved by 15–20%, enabling faster release of customer-facing features. Automated unit-test generation reduced developer effort by 50%, resulting in higher coverage and greater release confidence.
A leading provider of cloud-based supply chain management solutions for the F&B industry, headquartered in California, turned to Cybage to accelerate the onboarding of new partners onto its platform by streamlining the integration with each partner’s existing systems.
Cybage addressed the client’s business requirements by delivering a unified platform that brought together growers, shippers, manufacturers, logistic providers, retailers and operators, enabling streamlined collaboration among them across the supply chain.
They accelerated partner onboarding by leveraging robust integration capabilities, allowing the new partners to join the platform quickly without any delays.
Thirdly, Cybage assisted a US-based market research firm that works with Fortune 500 firms to modernise its digital platform to enhance participant engagement and streamline operations across web and mobile mediums. Cybage developed a cross-platform mobile application using Flutter that extended the client’s digital presence beyond the web portal.
They developed and implemented backend APIs for the mobile application, designed to seamlessly scale and support both the current mobile app and the future planned web portal. To ensure cost effectiveness, they hosted the backend on AWS Lambda.
Datadog
‘In Process’ Authorisation for GovRAMP High
Datadog, Inc. announced that it is now ‘In Process’ for GovRAMP High Authorisation. This designation reinforces Datadog for Government’s commitment to delivering secure, scalable observability for the public sector, supporting the stringent cybersecurity requirements of state and local government agencies and educational institutions.
Ryan Gault, Regional Director, SLED East at Datadog, said, “This status reflects our continued investment in helping the public sector strengthen operational resilience and improve cost-efficiency. Observability is foundational to delivering secure, high-performing digital services. With Datadog for Government now ‘In Process’ for GovRAMP High, we’re enabling agencies to gain end-to-end visibility, reduce downtime and make smarter use of their IT resources.”
Flight Centre Travel Group
Flight Centre Travel Group, one of the world’s largest travel companies, is using the Datadog platform to support a global observability strategy across its Corporate travel division. The partnership is helping Flight Centre Corporate drive operational efficiency, enhance resilience, save on cloud costs, and deliver a seamless digital experience for customers and employees.
Grant Currey, A/NZ CTO at Flight Centre Corporate, commented, “Before Datadog, we had multiple tools across various environments, which were limiting our ability to effectively proactively manage performance at a global scale. We now have a globally consistent observability layer that provides complete visibility into our systems’ health and enables our teams to prevent issues before they escalate.”
Deel
Deel has announced AI Workforce which will allow customers to launch, manage and create AI agents on the Deel platform. AI Workforce is an integrated hub to launch, manage and create AI agents and workflows, hosted on the Deel platform. Deel AI Workforce will allow businesses to easily add AI agents to a company’s workflow, surfacing information from Deel’s HR and payroll platform, where critical data and core processes already live.
Alex Bouaziz, Co-Founder and CEO of Deel, commented. “AI agents mark a turning point for global work,” said “For HR and payroll leaders that means going above simply automating tasks. It’s about baking AI into already-used and loved technology to remove the barriers that slow teams down. This will allow human creativity, ideas, talent, and opportunities to move as freely as the businesses they power.”
Gong
Gong announced it is working with Ironclad, a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, to help the company deliver greater efficiencies, insights, pipeline visibility, and processes. Using Gong, Ironclad’s revenue teams have saved more than 10,000 hours and increased NDR.
Dallas Stonhaus, Chief Sales Officer, Ironclad, commented, “Being an AI-forward company, we knew we needed an AI-forward partner to bolster our sales and revenue retention programs here at Ironclad. Gaining better visibility into our customers’ sentiment and status is critical to sustaining our growth, as is removing inefficiencies our sellers faced to enable them to close deals faster.
“Implementing Gong has been key to giving our teams the speed, understanding, and efficiencies they need to drive toward our ambitious business objectives. We see it as a strategic platform that can continue to move us forward and gain a competitive edge through AI-powered insights and capabilities.”
Infor
New courses on Infor U Campus
Infor U announced the availability of three enhanced and newly structured courses. The three courses are:
- Landmark Technology: Configuration Console Advanced Topics – Using Landmark Pattern Language (LPL) (OM) – Instructor-Led Training
- Financials & Supply Management: Configuring and Administering Global Ledger (OM) – Instructor-led Training (with a self-directed learning option)
- Financials & Supply Management: Configuring and Administering Lease Accounting (OM) – Instructor-Led Training (with a self-directed learning option)
Turtle & Hughes
In a short blog, Infor revealed how Turtle and Hughes are leveraging Infor AI to build a pricing widget that displays a recommended price and range. Pricing is shown in either dollars or gross margin percentage for any selected item SKU. The widget also includes competitor pricing for comparison, empowering sales reps to remain competitive while capturing margin opportunities where possible.
Within four months of a partial rollout, the AI-driven pricing has helped drive a $700,000 increase in revenue, a 1.3% increase in gross margin, and 98% faster item pricing, leading to a quicker quote turnaround.
David Magee, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Turtle, commented, “Technology is only valuable if the business owns it. With Infor, we’ve been able to let the business lead and IT support that innovation, not the other way around. What’s more, we were able to go from concept to live deployment in just 12 weeks—a personal record in my 30 years in tech.”
Nintex
Nintex announced that it is working with the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business to provide students with experiential learning opportunities that integrate low-code application development technologies into the curriculum.
Students from the Leeds School of Business can engage in a course that leverages Nintex Apps and Nintex for Salesforce to design, build, and customise digital solutions within Salesforce that reflect real-world business challenges.
Matthew Brady, instructor in Information Analytics at the University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business, noted, “We’re not just teaching tools — we’re teaching students how to solve real problems with Technology used to power business. As organisations of all sizes prioritise operational efficiency, they are turning to custom solutions instead of bolting on numerous software tools.
“The use of low-code platforms like Nintex empowers students to build production-grade solutions in a 2-week sprint. They leave the course with portfolio projects, new career paths, and confidence that they can drive impact in any industry.”
Planful
Planful announced two customer wins last week. The first saw Horizon Brands select the Planful platform. The second saw Knox Company go live after an implementation conducted by Bakerfield Solutions that took less than two months to complete. Knox replaced a multitude of spreadsheets with Planful FP&A with the assistance of the partner. The LinkedIn post highlighted three of the benefits:
- Run integrated forecasts in minutes, not days
- Align workforce planning directly with financial forecasts
- Give executives real-time P&L visibility for faster, more confident decisions
Workday
Fiscal 2026 Q2 Results
Workday announced results for the fiscal 2026 second quarter ended July 31, 2025.
- Total revenues were $2.348 billion, up 12.6% YoY
- Subscription revenues were $2.169 billion, up 14.0% YoY
- Operating income was $248 million (10.6% of revenues), more than double last year in Q2
Carl Eschenbach, CEO, Workday, commented, “Workday delivered another solid quarter, driven by our AI and platform innovation, international momentum, and an ecosystem that continues to grow alongside us. Customers are choosing Workday because we help them unlock value today and prepare for what’s next—whether that’s navigating AI transformation, streamlining operations, or creating more meaningful work for their people.”
Zane Rowe, CFO, Workday, commented, “Our second quarter results reflect the strength of our platform and our continued progress across several of our growth initiatives. Following our first half momentum—and also incorporating the acquisition of Paradox—we are increasing our fiscal 2026 subscription revenue guidance to $8.815 billion, representing growth of 14%, and increasing our fiscal 2026 non-GAAP operating margin guidance to approximately 29%.”
Acquisition
Workday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Paradox, a candidate experience agent that uses conversational AI to simplify every step of the job application journey. Paradox focuses on high-volume frontline industries, which employ nearly 3 billion workers globally.
The addition of Paradox will give Workday an AI-powered talent acquisition suite to help customers more efficiently find, hire, and onboard every type of worker – from the frontline to the back office – for every type of work, from full-time to contingent.
Gerrit Kazmaier, President, Product & Technology, Workday, said, “Hiring is one of the most critical moments in the employee experience, yet too often it’s slowed down by outdated processes and disconnected tools,” said “By bringing Paradox’s candidate experience AI agent into Workday, we’re giving organizations a smarter, faster, and more engaging way to connect with candidates.
“Together, we’ll help our customers move from transactional recruiting to transformative hiring that helps deliver talent in less time, and with a better experience for everyone.”
Adam Godson, CEO, Paradox, commented, “From day one, our mission has been to help our customers’ recruiting and hiring teams spend more time with people and less time with software,” said “Workday’s global reach and comprehensive platform provide the perfect runway for us to accelerate our mission, bringing our proven conversational AI to a much bigger audience and helping more companies around the world transform their hiring processes.”
