News from the week beginning 5th January 2026
Enterprise Times published its latest interview. We spoke to Varun Goswami, Global Head of Product and AI at Newgen Software. We talked about AI, everything from reactive tools to autonomous, trustworthy agents as it relates to Enterprise AI.
The latest episode of the Enterprise Times Podcast features Nadir Merchant, GM of Kaseya’s IT Operations Suite and former CTO of IT Glue. He discusses how SMBs and the MSPs that serve them should approach adopting AI. He argues that AI can transform organisations if used correctly.
Elite, the global legal tech SaaS provider, has announced two appointments to support growth over the year ahead. It has appointed Diane Holman as its Chief Human Resources Officer. It also announced the appointment of Kirk Rogers as Head of APAC Sales.
Freshdesk has announced the appointment of Kady Srinivasan as Chief Marketing Officer.
Anywhere365 Group B.V. (“AnywhereNow”) has announced the sale of IQ Messenger. It is a communication platform for healthcare institutions. Main Capital Partners has bought the product for an undisclosed sum.
Infosys has announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate enterprise adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Aprika unveiled the latest version of its Mission Control PSA solution. Adding Phases, a new layer for projects and updating scheduling and resourcing, amongst other things.
Epicor announced the schedule of the final on-premises releases for three of its main products: Kinetic, Prophet 21, and BisTrack.
InsureVision has announced a set of AI tools at CES 2026. Those tools use video-based risk intelligence. That means using dashcam technology as the source for assessing what happened. The two tools it announced are: TeslaStick for personal lines embedded insurance, and FleetVision for commercial fleet risk assessment.
Other World Computing (OWC) has released two new storage devices at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. The company says it is the first to offer storage solutions that use Thunderbolt 5. Both use NVMe M.2 SSDs, delivering peak write speeds of 6600 MB/s and sustained throughput of 5990 MB/s.
Percona has decided that the time has come to turn Percona Everest into OpenEverest. The decision was taken after the company reviewed what its customers were asking for and how that aligned with the Percona Business Model.
Precisely has completed the FedRAMP authorisation process for its Data Integrity Suite for Government, Data Governance Service.
Several research papers were published. Kantata published the State of Professional Services Industry report. They found that the industry is undergoing significant change, with AI as a catalyst.
A new study reveals that Instagram and Facebook are the apps that collect the most user data. The research, undertaken by IT Asset Management Group (IT-AMG), analysed the privacy policies of over 5,000 apps from the Apple App Store. These apps were selected from a broader list of the top 100 apps in each category, with duplicates and those missing data removed.
11:11 Systems (“11:11”), a leading managed infrastructure solutions provider, announced the completion of its acquisition of Ntirety, a managed and professional IT services firm.
Brett Diamond, CEO, 11:11, said, “11:11 has been actively working with many former VCSPs to guarantee secure, compliant, high-performing cloud services and determine the best path forward for both their customers and their business. Ntirety has a strong global VMware business with incredible in-house expertise and amazing customers, and we are thrilled to welcome them to 11:11’s award-winning, resilient cloud platform.”
Over the past three years, 11:11 Systems has acquired five major VMware-based businesses — iland Cloud, Green Cloud Defense, Unitas Global, Sungard Availability Services and Faction — establishing an unmatched foundation of operational expertise and commercial insight.
Cybage Software revealed how it enabled a leading hospitality brand to migrate 21 properties to Opera Cloud PMS. With 100% automation coverage for high-priority scenarios and zero defect leakage during functional testing. The result: resilient resort operations, faster migrations, and predictable performance at scale.
Deltek revealed details of the latest update to Deltek PIM in a blog by Linda Dininger. The update includes some significant improvements. The integrations to Autodesk Docs, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams were improved. It is also possible to switch between classic and smart views. All search results and filters will be maintained during the switch.
Klient gave a taster on LinkedIn of its forthcoming release, 50.11. The update will bring practical improvements across time tracking, workspace experience, surveys, and planning tools. These updates are designed to reduce friction, speed up daily tasks, and give teams better visibility from day one.
The update will include:
Monta announced a strategic partnership with Team Emobility, a German end-to-end provider of EV charging solutions. Team Emobility will use Monta’s technology to power and manage its growing network of charging stations across Germany.
The partnership brings together Team Emobility’s deep expertise in designing, installing, operating and managing charging stations, with Monta’s intelligent, scalable software platform. The result is a seamless charging experience for drivers and a future-proof operational setup for site owners, fleets and partners.
Ben Viezens, Enterprise Sales Director at Monta, commented, “With Team Emobility, Monta has established a partnership with a fast-scaling EV solutions partner in Germany that is focused on the most relevant topics for the EV industry, such as energy management, eTruck charging and home reimbursement. This supports our ambition to make EV charging frictionless for all, no matter the use case.”
Planful published a case study about how McLarens, a leading global insurance professional services provider with more than 230 offices across 45 countries, relies on Planful. Daniel Rahm, VP of FP&A, explains how the firm moved from spreadsheets to Planful. The firm uses a variance analysis report that sources data direct from Planful into a Spotlight Excel Report.
It has enabled the organisation to change how it views and leverages variances across several criteria. Rahm notes, “It has made a big difference, from our side, how we perceive it, but also from the audience that receives the reports.”
He added, “Using and trusting Planful gives me peace of mind. Which, for me, is very significant.”
Planful Spotlight for Microsoft 365 gave McLarens the flexibility of Excel with the structure and drill-down capabilities of an enterprise platform. Regional finance teams could work in a familiar environment while accessing real-time, consistent data. At the same time, leadership gained a clearer view of performance drivers across business units, regions, and currencies.
To support its evolving ERP environment, which includes some entities on SAP and others on legacy systems, McLarens collaborated with Planful partner Bakerfield Solutions. Together, they streamlined data acquisition and integration. Thus ensuring that critical financial data flowed cleanly and securely into Planful for analysis.
Sirion, a global leader in contract lifecycle management (“CLM”) software, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement under which Haveli Investments, L.P. (“Haveli” or “Haveli Investments”), an Austin-based technology-focused investment firm, will make a majority investment in the company.
Ajay Agrawal, Founder and CEO of Sirion, commented, “Contracts sit at the heart of every major enterprise transaction — from procurement and sales to employment and partnerships — and they increasingly define how value flows through an organization.
“At Sirion, we built AskSirion and agentOSTM for this moment — a purpose‑built AI foundation that brings intelligence, structure, and automation to contracting at enterprise scale. This partnership allows us to accelerate that vision and continue building the platform our customers rely on to run their businesses.”
Sumit Pande, Senior Managing Director at Haveli Investments, said, “Sirion is one of the best examples we have seen of a system-of-record software company combining proprietary small-language models with frontier LLMs and creating next-gen agentic AI workflows.
“As AI becomes increasingly central to how enterprises operate, we see strong structural tailwinds for AI-first platforms that sit at the core of business workflows, and we look forward to partnering with Ajay and the entire Sirion team on the company’s next phase of growth.”
Haveli’s investment provides Sirion with additional capital and operational support to help accelerate product innovation, expand global reach, and deepen customer impact, while remaining focused on the platform and capabilities customers rely on today. The transaction enables continued investment to scale the business and strengthen Sirion’s leadership in the CLM category.
Thomson Reuters released its 2026 Report on the State of the US Legal Market. The annual report states that the legal industry is experiencing a tectonic shift that has helped many law firms thrive during this transformative era, driving unprecedented demand growth and increasing profits per lawyer for AM Law 100 firms by 53.7% since 2019.
Raghu Ramanathan, President, Legal Professionals, Thomson Reuters, commented, “Law firms are facing a fundamental shift in the legal industry’s economic landscape, standing at a critical inflection point where they must navigate evolving client demands, rising expenses and a necessary transformation of their operating models.
“The shifting landscape will unlock further demand and lead certain law firms to becoming fully tech-centric employing tech-pricing structures, as other law firms move towards being an elite, partner-heavy boutique dedicated to delivering highly specialized and bespoke legal counsel. The question isn’t whether traditional operating models can survive but whether law firms are committed to truly transform.”
As NRF 2026 kicks off, Workday announced strong momentum in retail and hospitality, fuelled by new customer wins and AI innovations designed to support frontline workers. More than 1,800 retail and hospitality companies worldwide use Workday.
These include Alterra Mountain Company, Brookshire Grocery, Hungry Jack, OSI Restaurant Partners LLC, Rainbow USA, Inc., and Zaxby’s. The firms use Workday to hire faster, boost operational efficiency, control labour costs, and better match staffing to customer demand.
Keith Pickens, Global Managing Director for Retail, Hospitality, and Transportation, Workday, commented, “Retail and hospitality organizations are changing quickly, with new customer expectations and evolving workforce challenges.
“Our customers want simple, flexible tools that work in the real world. The growth we’re seeing shows that Workday is helping organizations run better stores, support their frontline teams, and adapt faster.”
Workday announced that Paradox Conversational ATS is now available on the Workday platform. Built for organizations that hire at scale, the solution replaces logins, long forms, and manual steps with a simple, conversational experience, helping organizations hire frontline workers faster and with far less effort.
This new offering builds on Workday’s growing portfolio of AI solutions following its acquisition of Paradox and the launch of the Workday Paradox Candidate Experience Agent.
Aashna Kircher, Group General Manager for the office of the CHRO, Workday, commented, “Frontline hiring breaks down when the process is slow, complex, and doesn’t meet workers on their own terms.
“Paradox Conversational ATS removes that friction by helping to streamline up to 90% of hiring tasks and letting candidates apply in minutes via their phone, helping customers hire faster and collectively save millions of hours of manual work each year.”
This week Zoho continued its application updates with blog posts that covered the updates to Trident and Zoho Analytics.
Zoho Sheet continues its enhancements from 2025. Subashree Ramamurthy revealed a new list of 2026 features, including those focused on data entry and collaboration. It will be possible to add multiple items from a pick list. It will be possible to use forms to collect data. Users can quickly create forms, setting properties and mandatory input fields to help collect data.
It also introduces Workflows in Zoho Sheet—a streamlined approach for teams to create, edit, and finalise documents. Enabling a workflow for your team ensures accountability, clear communication, and an efficient overall process.
Other updates include the ability to mark a spreadsheet as the final version and to customise email notifications to keep the owner informed of changes or comments.
Zoho has added SAP Business One (B1) integrations to Zoho Flow. It integrates with SAP S/4HANA and SAP HANA. It is now possible to build workflows that connect SAP Business One with the rest of your tech stack.
Organisations can automate routine processes without relying on custom code. SAP Business One integration is now available in Zoho Flow for users on the Professional plan. It is also available for customers using Zoho Flow through Zoho One or Zoho Creator 6.
Zoho Tables is now available on Zapier. The combination brings a flexible modern spreadsheet-database with a powerful integration package. It enables companies to transform data as it passes from one application to another. Zoho Tables becomes a central data hub, while Zapier keeps every connected app up to date in real time.
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