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With AWS re: invent occurring this week, several vendors have significant things to say. Databahn has announced that its data pipeline platform is now available on the AWS Marketplace. The two listings are: Databahn Highway and Data Fabric Smart Edge. The products form the core of its AI-powered, high-performance data fabric platform.Datadog has announced a new strategic collaboration with the cloud giant and a raft of new products. The company already has over 100 AWS-specific integrations. These sixteen new solutions deepen that relationship.
Salesforce also held its World Tour London event this week. Zahra Bahrololoumi, Salesforce UK & Ireland CEO, delivered the keynote address at the Salesforce World Tour event at London’s ExCeL Centre. Bahrololoumi discussed the launch of Agentforce 360. A new platform that connects customers, employees, operations, and agents in a seamless way.
Salesforce also reported multiple contract successes with Workdry, Simplyhealth, and Nexo for its Agentforce platform.
Business
AAB, a leading professional services firm across the UK, Ireland, and the USA, has announced the acquisition of GS Verde. A professional services firm based in Bristol that advises businesses on sales, acquisitions, and mergers.
Thomson Reuters has announced a 5-year partnership with Imperial College London to create the new Frontier AI Research Lab at the University.
Customer Stories
Azul has revealed that Ausgrid, the largest electricity distributor on Australia’s east coast, has migrated its Java applications to the Azul Platform Core. The project reduced its Java licensing costs by 80%. With the firm also seeing a 99% reduction in vulnerabilities across its IT environment. Before Azul, the electricity distributor had relied on Oracle for its Java platform and support.
Newgen Software has announced that Old Second National Bank (OSNB) has implemented its Digital Account Opening and Maintenance Solution.
Interviews
Richard Evans joined WSO2 earlier this year and took over as Country Manager in May. Enterprise Times talked to him back then about his goals and ambitions for WSO2. At Oxygenate UK, we caught up with him again to see how he was doing and where WSO2 is heading.
Product
Datadog has announced the general availability of Bits AI SRE after its soft launch in June at DASH. The release comes after 2,000 customers have tested and used Bits AI SRE in production for almost six months. The results of that testing show that customers have seen troubleshooting times plummet. Customers now report that what used to take hours of manual troubleshooting is now resolved in just minutes.
At Zoholics Saudi Arabia, Zoho announced the availability of VAT-compliant Zoho POS for Saudi businesses. The firm also highlights recent updates to the Zoho One suite of applications, making it even more attractive to businesses.
Research
There is a huge shortage of talent in various technical areas. Research commissioned by Deel has identified a major cause of the current talent shortage in both the US and the UK. In the UK, 60% (US 55%) of business leaders have said that visa restrictions have led to critical hiring delays.
Deltek has launched a new blueprint to guide Architectural, Engineering and Consulting firms through strategic growth. Alongside a short announcement, Deltek has published “The Growth Blueprint”. A 14-page report that lays out five pillars to give UK small and mid-sized firm leaders practical steps to strengthen visibility, build resilience, and secure sustainable, long-term growth.
The five pillars that enable firms to growth sustainably are: Clarity, Control, Cash, Clients and Connection. These make up the growth formula.
Research by Gong Labs found that companies that have embedded AI into revenue processes are 65% more likely to increase win rates. The Second Annual State of Revenue AI report examines how AI is impacting revenue organisations. The report found that those teams leveraging AI have generated 77% more revenue per representative. It is no wonder that 96% of respondents believe their teams will be using AI by 2026.
Zenrows has published the findings from a survey of 250 leaders in UK SMEs on competitor intelligence. Carried out by 3Gem, the survey looked at knowledge-based businesses with fewer than 250 employees. It found that only 53% regularly collect and use competitive data. Despite this low figure, respondents believe that 37% of their competitors use business intelligence most or all of the time, and a further 54% use it some of the time.
Agiloft
Agiloft announced the appointment of Jason Barnwell as Chief Legal Officer (CLO). Barnwell will serve as a transformational CLO.
Leveraging Agiloft’s CLM platform with AI on the inside, Barnwell will accelerate Agiloft’s ongoing commitment to excellence in legal and contracting transformation – leading internal legal operations, offering informed guidance on product development and the customer community, and bringing the perspective of a transformative legal leader to both Agiloft and its customers.
Eric Laughlin, CEO at Agiloft, said, “Bringing Jason on as our CLO is exciting for Agiloft and for the industry. Jason knows how to unlock the potential of legal teams, harness AI and data, and make contracting a true driver of business value.
“At the same time, his leadership sends a signal to legal leaders everywhere of what modern contracting that drives real business value can achieve. I look forward to seeing how his impact will set a new standard for what modern data-first CLM can do – for our customers and the industry as a whole.”
Azul
Azul announced the successful closing of its previously announced majority strategic investment from Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. This closing marks a significant milestone in Azul’s growth journey. It strengthens its ability to meet the rising demand for high-performance Java platforms, scale its innovation, expand its global reach and deliver even greater value to customers.
As previously announced, existing investors, Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital, have also made new investments in the company and will retain significant minority stakes alongside Azul’s employees.
Scott Sellers, Co-Founder and CEO of Azul, commented, “The closing of this transaction marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Azul. We’ve built a differentiated business at the center of Java performance, efficiency and modernization — one that’s increasingly essential to organizations navigating AI transformation, infrastructure cost pressures and platform independence.
“With Thoma Bravo’s backing and continued support from Vitruvian and Lead Edge, we’re excited to capture the global growth opportunities ahead.”
Cybage Software
Cybage Software revealed how it helped a data privacy and consent management SaaS vendor transform its content delivery using the Model Context Protocol SEO. The team built an automated system to deliver daily SEO-focused topic ideas. Thus strengthening enterprise SEO solutions and streamlining content workflows. Synced topics to an internal content calendar to support planning across SaaS and B2B operations.
It transitioned the ecosystem into a Claude-powered Model Context Protocol (MCP) for scalable, high-quality content aligned with SEO practices. It added a Knowledge Graph and Style Guide layer to produce publishing-ready, brand-aligned, AI search-optimised content.
The results were impressive and included a 3x acceleration in SEO Content delivery, a 100% reduction in manual effort, and 95%+ editorial consistency across AI-generated content, meeting quality standards at scale.
Cybage Software also helped a US-based construction finance technology company by delivering a comprehensive QA automation and testing framework. The results included:
- 900+ QA stories completed and 800+ issues identified, strengthening product stability and release confidence through proactive defect resolution in CLA+.
- Accelerated validation cycles and reduced time-to-market across application versions, achieved through automated regression and smoke tests, significantly boosting testing efficiency.
- 30+ structured requirement documents created, improving requirement clarity and alignment, enabling faster planning, accelerated execution, and seamless collaboration.
Deltek
Deltek published a case study about Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM), a world-class naval shipbuilder that has designed and built more than 1,500 vessels. The firm adopted Deltek ProPricer to transform its pricing methodology.
After using ProPricer for 8 years, its pricing processes have undergone a significant transformation. FMM slashed bid cycle times to a fraction of what they once were, eliminated endless back-and-forth with primes, and gained confidence in every estimate.
With ProPricer enforcing consistency across rate tables and cost relationships, errors are caught automatically. Change order problems are also a thing of the past, as FMM can price the largest of them in just a couple of hours once the estimates are complete. There is no more negotiating on form and format. What took weeks now takes hours.
Infor
Infor announced two significant milestones in its relationship with AWS. It has launched Infor Velocity Suite as a private offer in AWS Marketplace and has become a Launch Partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, deploying Infor LN.
Jeanne Newberry, Senior Vice President, Ecosystems and Business Development, Infor, commented, “Enterprises across all industries are seeking proven, efficient ways to modernize business operations in the cloud.
“Our deep collaboration with AWS empowers enterprises to innovate faster while enabling them to meet data sovereignty requirements, especially as we become a Launch Partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, launch Velocity Suite in AWS Marketplace, and continue to deliver new solutions built on AWS for our customers.
“These milestones demonstrate our commitment to delivering next-generation industry solutions that unlock the full potential of cloud and generative AI technologies for our customers worldwide.”
NetApp
NetApp announced a new capability that enables enterprises to simplify and improve the efficiency of their workflows by connecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI and Analytics services directly to their NetApp data, both in the cloud and on-premises.
Amazon S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP enable customers to accelerate AI and analytics projects by allowing FSx for ONTAP-resident file data to be accessed via the S3 API by AWS’s extensive portfolio of AI/ML and analytics services—all while the data remains in place and is fully accessible for read / write via file protocols.
Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Storage and Services at NetApp, said, “By connecting FSx for ONTAP data natively to AWS’s wide range of AI, ML, and analytics services, the new integration with Amazon S3 Access Points unleashes the potential to connect to more than 100 exabytes of enterprise data stored on NetApp systems for transformative use cases like generative AI and analytics uses cases built on AWS.
“The introduction of S3 Access Points for Amazon FSx is a game-changer for both FSx for ONTAP and for on-premises ONTAP users. Customers can now use advanced cloud services directly integrated with enterprise applications and data architecture.”
Nintex
Tad Finer joins as CRO
Nintex announced the appointment of Tad Finer as Chief Revenue Officer. Finer brings more than 20 years of experience leading revenue and sales strategy and operations for high-growth software and technology companies.
Stephen Elop, Acting CEO and Chairman of the Board at Nintex, commented, “Tad’s experience leading and scaling sales teams is critical as Nintex continues to grow globally. Tad’s strategic acumen and ability to bring alignment across revenue teams will be critical as Nintex continues to deliver the power of agentic business orchestration to customers around the world.”
Unveiling the next Nintex Platform update
Nintex will demonstrate details of the recent update to the Nintex Platform during the Nintex Showcase webinar on December 9th. The update will include coverage of the following improvements and additions.
On the Nintex Cloud Automation platform, the general availability of its AI Assistant and AI-to-Map Converter (now GA). Industry-ready vertical solutions: vendor management, inventory management, and loan origination. Table forms, bulk content management upgrades. Enhanced reporting APIs for deeper insights.
For Salesforce users, there are expanded integration features for smoother automation inside.
For Nintex K2 Platform users, the firm has added Custom controls for SmartForms, Multi-file upload, Accessibility enhancements, and Integration upgrades, including extended OData and EST Broker support.
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters announced strategic partnerships with leading audit innovators Trullion, Audit Sight, Crunchafi, Fieldguide, Validis and Valid8 Financial. These collaborations provide audit professionals with best-of-breed capabilities that complement and enhance Thomson Reuters Cloud Audit Suite and Audit Intelligence solutions.
These strategic partnerships enhance Thomson Reuters Guided Assurance – part of the Cloud Audit Suite – through integrations with Trullion, Audit Sight, and Crunchafi. Users can apply Thomson Reuters’ trusted PPC methodology to automate key procedures and seamlessly document their work end-to-end, all within Guided Assurance.
Dave Wyle, General Manager of Audit at Thomson Reuters, said, “For decades, firms have relied on Thomson Reuters PPC methodology as the gold standard for audit quality, and our vision for AI in auditing starts from that foundation.
“By embedding PPC directly into Guided Assurance and partnering with AI innovators, we’re automating key steps of the methodology itself – not changing it – so firms can move faster and gain efficiency, while staying grounded in the trusted frameworks that support peer review and regulatory scrutiny. Our goal is to meet firms where they are, giving them the flexibility to adopt the automation strategy that best fits their needs.”
Zoho
Zoho announced that Zoho Payroll is now localised for Canada. The solution already supports businesses in India, the US, and the GCC. Zoho Payroll for Canada brings together:
- Automated calculations and deductions
- Accurate federal and provincial compliance
- An English – and French-language interface
- Access to view year-end T4 and RL-1 forms
- Instant pay stub downloads
- An employee self-service portal
- Insightful reports
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