News from the week beginning 19th January 2026
The fourth Precisely 2026 State of Data Integrity and AI Readiness report has been released. Conducted by the Drexel University LeBow College of Business, the study shows that concerns about data integrity persist.
Dropzone AI has announced the expansion of its international leadership team. It has appointed Brett Candon as VP International to lead the expansion across EMEA and APAC. In addition to Candon, Dropzone AI also appointed Dan Bridges as Technical Director, International.
Sparq announced the appointment of Christa Patrylak as Chief Marketing Officer.
Boku, the global payments company, announced its unaudited trading results for the financial year ending 31 December, 2025. The firm has had a successful year, outperforming its own forecast, and remains bullish for 2026.
Gr4vy, a cloud-based payments orchestration platform, has partnered with Ecommpay. The partnership aims to give merchants instant access to a wide selection of local and international payment methods.
Newgen Software has announced its Q3 Fiscal 2026 results. Revenue growth seemed to slow slightly in the third quarter, but the trend remains upward.
Scurri announced that it completed a successful year of growth in 2025. Last year, it saw 180 million shipments through its platform, up 17% year over year from 154 million in 2024.
ServiceNow has announced significant enhancements to its global Partner Programme to accelerate AI agent innovation. This includes a newly reimagined Build Programme that opens ServiceNow’s partner ecosystem to more innovators.
Spanish Point Technologies has announced an expansion of its UK operations following several years of solid growth.
Workday has announced that it will invest CAD $1 billion over the next five years in its Canadian business. It aims to expand its presence in Canada, expand its employee footprint by investing in local talent, and strengthen its customer support in the country.
Yuki, a real-time cost optimisation platform for data platforms, has raised $6 million in a seed funding round led by Hyperwise Ventures.
evyve, the UK-based electric vehicle charging network owner and operator, has partnered with Monta. It is deploying the intelligent end-to-end charging management system across its network of around 350 rapid and ultra-rapid charge points across the UK.
The Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK) has selected Scanmarket by Unit4 to move from disconnected processes to a single, centralised supplier management solution.
Gainsight has been revealing product improvements to its Skilljar product over the past week. This week, it has already done two reveals, with more to follow. The first two product updates are a Smarter Homepage Dashboard and Course Families.
Klient has launched a new Agentic AI Agent for the Klient PSA, powered by Agentforce, the Salesforce AI Agent platform. The new Project Agent aims to augment humans within delivery teams, supporting them in managing tasks, time, and people.
Salesforce has announced major enhancements to its MuleSoft Agent Fabric solution. Salesforce says MuleSoft Agent Fabric, bridges and simplifies this fragmented landscape into a governed, cohesive agent network. It gives businesses a single control plane for all their AI agents, tools, and metadata.
11:11 Systems announced a new case study with Spence Software, a pioneer in occupational health and safety software. The case study highlights how Spence Software leverages 11:11 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to modernise its platform, ensure data sovereignty and significantly reduce operational expenses.
Ron Spence, President and CEO of Spence Software, commented, “Our partnership with 11:11 Systems lets me sleep at night. The performance and technology are first class, giving us a differentiated edge over our competition. Customer service has been very responsive. And best of all, we’ve experienced a 50% reduction in IT costs.”
For a leading US Home Décor brand, Cybage Software utilised machine learning and advanced data analytics to enhance demand forecasting and inventory management. The new retail data analytics service achieved 94% in product forecasting within 12 weeks, significantly improving inventory planning and demand prediction.
Identifying 60-80% of products with negative GMROI (Gross Margin Return on Investment), allowing the client to optimise its product portfolio. The solution also improved demand and supply management, minimising stock-outs and enhancing operational efficiency.
Details on the latest version of Costpoint, 2026.1, were included in a blog post by Tara Cannon, Product Marketing Manager at Deltek. The update introduced changes for administrators.
There is a new AI Agents Framework that enables administrators to build and deploy custom AI agents within Costpoint and across Deltek’s ecosystem. These agents enable consistent, intelligent workflows triggered by real business activity—supporting automation that is transparent, explainable, and aligned to governance requirements. The release also supports parallel processing for organisational changes and a pre-processor to manage user-defined fields more efficiently across large data sets.
There are also improvements in manufacturing and supply chain teams, including a Create RFQ agent, an AI-powered Manufacturing Order (MO) Smart Summary, and integrations with ecommerce sites. The release also includes updates for finance teams, notably around improvements to the period-end processes.
Michael Byrd, Vice President, Global Partners & Alliances of Deltek, revealed the winners of the global partner awards. The winners this year were:
Infor announced several improvements to Infor University planned for 2026. The updates will include:
Deloitte and Thomson Reuters announced an expansion of their existing relationship into the e-invoicing and e-reporting marketplace, specifically providing a managed service through a global strategic alliance in which Deloitte operates e-invoicing and e-reporting for its clients, leveraging Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Pagero.
Deloitte’s e-invoicing and e-reporting Operate offering delivers a scalable, consistent approach to digital reporting compliance across a business’s global operations. The combination of Deloitte’s experience and a market-leading platform such as ONESOURCE Pagero delivers an end-to-end solution that helps organisations overcome operational challenges and is flexible enough to respond to future developments in e-invoicing.
Camillo Speroni, Head of Partnerships and Alliances at Thomson Reuters, said, “This important alliance with Deloitte combines cutting-edge technology with the operational experience needed to deliver value across organizations’ global footprints. Together, we are delivering a best-in-class e-invoicing and e-reporting solution that helps clients truly transform and modernize critical elements of their invoicing operations.”
Thomson Reuters announced more than 120,000 law students across the United States will begin the New Year with access to CoCounsel Legal and Deep Research from Westlaw. Thomson Reuters serves more than 200 law schools across the US—including prestigious T14 institutions—extending a 150-year legacy of supporting legal education nationwide.
Lexi Raikes, Yale Law, 2027, commented, “The availability of Thomson Reuters AI Technology, CoCounsel Legal and Westlaw Advantage to law students marks an exciting step forward. CoCounsel has already proven to be a reliable, innovative tool that strengthens legal research and supplements our studies.
“I’m thrilled that my peers and I will soon have access to these expanded capabilities, and I look forward to seeing how they enhance the law school experience.”
Pat Eveland, General Manager, Government, Thomson Reuters, added, “Thomson Reuters is helping shape the evolution of legal practice by equipping law students with access to our latest AI‑enabled tools. By learning with the same technologies used in modern legal workflows, future lawyers can build practical skills and enter the profession with greater confidence and readiness from day one.”
Voestalpine Standortservice GmbH launched a modern property information system based on VertiGIS FM in October 2025 for its property and traffic management division, including the Contracts, Parcels, Buildings, Easy Connect for SAP connection, and an interface to the existing GIS.
A long-standing customer of VertiGIS products, WebOffice and GEONIS, voestalpine Standortservice GmbH is an infrastructure service provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of voestalpine Stahl GmbH based in Linz.
The project aims to centralise, transparently and efficiently, property-related processes. The company expects seamless integration between GIS and SAP data, optimised management of space, contracts, and deadlines, and fast, accurate rent and lease evaluations.
In the future, it will also be possible to create rental agreements directly in the system using templates and text modules. Further expansion of the solution is planned. The company is currently considering the Greenspaces FM module.
Zoho Books has launched CT600 & Final accounts filing for micro-entities in the UK. The update builds on its launch of Making Tax Digital for VAT (2018), Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) (2024) and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (2025). Micro-entities can now generate statutory accounts (FRS 105 micro-entity reports) and submit directly to Companies House and file corporation tax (CT600) returns directly to HMRC.
After the recent announcement of new data centres in the Middle East, it appears Zoho has plans to open data centres in Southeast Asia. Indonesia Business Post reported that Rajesh Ganestan, CEO of ManageEngine commented during ManageEngine Day in Chennai, India, “We hope we can have a data centre in Indonesia, it is part of our plan, but we cannot disclose the details.”
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