News from the week beginning 8th December
AccountsIQ has reported significant momentum. Reporting 38% year-on-year workforce growth, fuelled by increasing demand for scalable finance software solutions. This expansion is underpinned by strategic investment and the broadening of the market presence. Notably highlighted by the acquisition of UK-based ExpenseIn.
Azul has announced the acquisition of fellow Java solutions vendor, Payara.
Mobility Mojo has announced a business update revealing how it is solving one of the biggest challenges organisations face, especially those operating in Europe, workplace accessibility.
Zoho has announced that it will open its first office in Israel following 24% growth in the country in 2024.
Kingspan Light, Air + Water has selected Expereo’s managed Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) to help it take control of a fragmented network that had grown through acquisitions.
Workday has reported ongoing growth in higher education throughout the UK and Ireland. The University of York is the most recent institution to select Workday to enable its digital transformation.
Certinia has announced its Winter ’26 release, adding a raft of updates across its solution portfolio. The release adds or strengthens capabilities to its PSA, Financial Management and Customer Success solutions. As in previous releases, it has also strengthened its AI capabilities and the underlying platform architecture as increasingly larger organisations use its solutions.
Kantata has extended its partnership with Avalara to add a globally compliant E-Invoicing solution to its platform.
Precisely has continued its year of AI-enablement of applications with the addition of Gen AI to its EngageOne RapidCX Customer Communications platform.
Rootstock Software has announced the launch of a new suite of managed services to help customers manage their ERP installations. The service was developed and brought to market following the recent acquisition of Praxis. Praxis offered a suite of managed services around Salesforce and Rootstock.
SIOS announced the availability of SIOS LifeKeeper v10. This is the first release in which SIOS has unified the timing for both Linux and Windows releases. It says it will continue to unify product roadmaps in the future. In addition, the company has streamlined its product line-up and pricing strategy. That will make it easier for customers to engage and purchase everything they need in a single package.
Zoho has significantly enhanced its financial management tools with the launch of an enterprise edition of Zoho Billing and Zoho Spend. Zoho Billing Enterprise Edition is a powerful modern enterprise revenue management solution. It supports different revenue models, automates revenue processes, customer lifecycle management and reporting that includes revenue recognition.
Zoho Spend delivers enterprise spend management, including travel and expense management, procurement, AP automation, and Payroll. Combined, they deliver an enterprise solution that provides visibility into expenditure and income.
Tipalti has published a report it commissioned, titled “The State of AI in Finance: Exploring the AI Trust Gap.” The report examines how AI is transforming the finance function. It highlights a significant shift as organisations are adopting to various degrees. There are still barriers to adoption and a lack of trust in AI. There are two driving forces: one sees 97% of respondents as either somewhat or extremely optimistic about the benefits that AI can offer.
Unit4 has launched an international study, “Mission Impact Through Unified Insight: Modernising the Nonprofit Enterprise, commissioned by IDC. The research highlights how nonprofit organisations are keen to embrace AI to support their strategic ambitions. However, these organisations are held back by significant back-office issues.
The report suggests a greater focus on technology integration will be key to fulfilling goals in 2026 and beyond. Unit4 is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organisations.
10x Banking, the cloud-native core banking platform, has partnered with audax Financial Technology, a comprehensive digital banking technology solutions provider supported by Standard Chartered, to transform how banks in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East scale new digital offerings and modernise their core banking services.
Antony Jenkins, Founder and CEO of 10x Banking, said: “This partnership shows banks don’t need to choose between speed and resilience; they can have both. By combining 10x Banking’s modern core with audax’s digital agility, banks in high-growth regions can innovate at pace, minimise risk, and deliver lasting customer value.”
Agiloft announced the release of its AI-driven Obligation Management solution, a suite of breakthrough capabilities that empowers enterprises to transform contracts into actionable business intelligence. Powered by Agiloft’s CLM with AI on the inside, the feature set transforms static contract text into data-driven intelligence, helping legal and contracting teams eliminate manual review, prevent value leakage, and improve compliance.
BlackLine announced the expansion of its global cloud footprint to Saudi Arabia, with the availability of a locally hosted cloud region environment built on Google Cloud Platform. This new regional deployment provides organisations with a secure, locally hosted cloud environment that offers lower latency and meets data-residency and security requirements.
Blackline meets Saudi Arabia’s NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls (ECC) and Cloud Cyber Security Controls (CCC) requirements, the regulatory standards mandating cybersecurity protections for providers operating in the Kingdom. Organisations in the Kingdom can now access BlackLine’s unified, secure, and AI-powered financial operations platform while keeping data within the region.
Owen Ryan, Chief Executive Officer of BlackLine, commented, “Expanding our regional availability ensures we can support customers wherever they operate, particularly in markets with stringent data residency requirements. This deployment underscores our commitment to delivering secure, intelligent, and future-ready financial operations for organisations across the globe.”
CPiO has unveiled a new Sage X3 interactive product tour, designed to offer organisations a clearer, more practical view of the platform before making a major investment decision. The guided, click-through experience lets users explore Sage X3 at their own pace, without the need to book a full demonstration.
Cybage published two customer stories last week. The first saw it streamline the global freight operations of a prominent transportation and logistics firm. The new platform included carrier integration and a planning system. The robust digital framework simplified field operations, enhanced tracking accuracy, and boosted overall efficiency. Key improvements included:
In the second, Cybage completed a transformation of the service operations for a global hospitality leader using ServiceNow. The team fragmented systems and departments by consolidating multiple tools into an integrated ServiceNow platform with seamless integrations to legacy and third-party systems.
It also standardised service delivery through a common service catalogue, governed workflows, and consistent processes across all properties. Improvements included:
Deltek unveiled the Top Federal Opportunities for FY 2026 report. The latest edition of Deltek’s annual flagship series from GovWin IQ highlights federal bellwether opportunities for government contractors in the coming fiscal year. It also revealed key trends that the firm is seeing.
Kevin Plexico, SVP of Information Solutions at Deltek, commented, “Government contractors rely on the early access to accurate information Deltek provides to gain critical insights that help them plan for the year ahead, no matter how market conditions may shift.
“Each year, our team of analysts supporting GovWin IQ leverages its unparalleled expertise to identify key opportunities for federal contractors and ensure that they can make the most informed decisions to grow their business.”
Columbus, the global digital consultancy, announced an ambitious three-year expansion roadmap to deliver world-leading Infor M3 solutions to businesses across three key UK industries. It aims to double its regional footprint by 2027.
Columbus is the largest independent Infor M3 partner in the world. It aims to build on its proven success in the US and the Nordics to deliver world-class Infor M3 CloudSuite expertise to UK-based companies.
Chris Mean, CEO for Columbus UK & US, commented, “We’re incredibly excited to deepen our partnership with Infor and expand our joint capabilities into the UK market. This collaboration strengthens our ability to deliver industry-leading solutions that drive real value for our customers. Together with Infor, we’re ready to bring innovative, scalable and future-ready technologies to even more organisations across the UK.”
Wolfgang Kobek, Executive Vice President & General Manager, International Business for Infor, stated, “Infor’s expanded partnership with Columbus into a key market for us – the United Kingdom – is testament to the strong foundation and relationship already forged in Germany, the Nordics, Benelux and the US.
“Our focus on delivering industry-specific cloud solutions that provide real-time data insights aligns well with Columbus’ customer centric goals to avail clients to leading-edge, sector-specific expertise.
“The recent launch of Infor’s role-based industry AI agents can help automate workflows in niche sectors from dairy to automotive – Infor’s goal is to continuously innovate to provide the tools necessary for our partners to achieve strategic objectives and improve customer outcomes.”
Finance and leasing firm Orix Metro Leasing and Finance Corp. has launched Project NXT – Core (Controllership Operations & Revenue Ecosystem), a strategic digital transformation initiative to modernise its financial systems and internal processes. The initiative is being rolled out in partnership with cloud solutions provider Oracle NetSuite and technology integrator ABBE.
Planful revealed how Apollo Therapeutics implemented Planful in under 2 months, enabling them to reduce monthly reporting tasks from hours to seconds. The article explained why the company selected Planful, citing ease of use, multi-currency support, integration support, and collaborative workflows.
Gary Collins, Apollo’s VP of Finance, commented, “Planful gives me confidence in the numbers without the risk that someone copied actuals or other data incorrectly. A benefit and curse of being in a fast-growing company is that you never know what’s next. Now we have the agility and flexibility we need to deal with whatever happens. I’m confident in Planful and that it can scale alongside our business.”
QuantWare announced VIO-40K, a new generation of its breakthrough Quantum Processor Unit (QPU) scaling architecture VIOTM that enables the creation of QPUs with 10 KiloQubits (ten thousand qubits). The firm claims it is 100x larger than anything available in the industry today, and exponentially more powerful. However, it fits in a smaller package than today’s QPUs.
Matt Rijlaarsdam, CEO of QuantWare, commented, “For years, people have heard about quantum computing’s potential to transform fields from chemistry to materials to energy, but the industry has been stuck at 100-qubit QPUs, forcing the field to theorise about interesting but far-off technologies.
“QuantWare’s VIO finally removes this scaling barrier, paving the way for economically relevant quantum computers. With VIO-40K, we’re giving the entire ecosystem access to the most powerful, hyper-scaled quantum processor architecture ever.”
Zoho announced that Zoho Payroll is now live across all six GCC countries — UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Businesses operating anywhere in the Gulf can now manage Payroll, compliance, and employee experience from a single, unified platform.
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