News from the week beginning February 23rd 2026

Last week Deel published finding from a survey that found more unforeseen changes in how AI is affecting the workplace. The research, based on a survey of 500 HR leaders conducted in February 2026, found that AI is a new driver of longer probation periods.

At ZohoDay 2026, the Zoho leadership shared its vision for the future. It is poised to disrupt several software industries with its comprehensive suite, or rather suites of applications. Expect more pieces to follow.

Business

11:11 Systems has continued its spending spree with the successful acquisition of Brisbane-based Digital Sense. It made its move after Aussie Broadband decided to split its VMware business into a separate unit.

NetApp announced its third-quarter 2026 financial results. Net revenues reached $1.71 billion for the third quarter, reflecting a 4% increase compared to the prior year.

Sirion has announced the completion of Haveli Investment’s major investment in the AI-native Contract Lifecycle Management vendor. The investment was completed only a month after the original announcement in January 2026.

Customer Stories

Panasonic revealed that CPL deployed the Panasonic KAIROS IP-based live video production platform at the annual Camper Calling Music Festival to share the event with the audience on large screens.

Product

Gong has launched Mission Andromeda—a major new release that also adds a new product to its portfolio: Gong Enable. Gong Enable is an AI-powered sales-readiness solution that helps organisations transform, develop, and scale their revenue teams. The release also includes new AI-powered features such as conversational guidance, unified account management, and secure AI interoperability.

Precisely has announced new AI agents for the Data Integrity Suite.

SAP SE have renamed its SAP Emarsys solution to SAP Engagement Cloud. The company says this reflects SAP’s strategy to make engagement a core enterprise capability across the SAP portfolio.

Thomson Reuters has announced that CoCounsel, its professional-grade AI technology, now has over 1 million users. CoCounsel is now available in 107 countries and is used by legal, risk, compliance, tax, accounting, audit, and global trade professionals.

Unit4 has further modified and streamlined its proven Success4U program, making it the default rather than an optional approach for implementation, adoption, and continual customer success delivery.

Workday has announced major updates to its Contract Lifecycle Management solution. One announcement is an EU data residency option for Workday CLM. Workday will offer the application hosted in Frankfurt for German organisations. In addition, the firm announced AI-powered language support for German, French and Spanish. It intends to extend support to other languages later in the year.

Aera Technology

Aera Technology announced that it has been named to The Hackett Group’s 2025–2026 “50 to Watch” procurement provider list. The selection underscores Aera’s ability to optimise and automate critical procurement decisions that evaluate cost, risk, service, resilience, and compliance in real time, driving measurable outcomes.

Bertrand Maltaverne, Lead Analyst, Upstream Procurement at The Hackett Group, said: “The Aera Decision Cloud platform acts as a digital decision layer above existing ERP, source-to-pay and supply chain systems, helping organisations connect siloed functions and move faster from insight to action without replacing systems of record.

“Recent enhancements introduce agentic decision orchestration, enabling AI agents to reason over context, coordinate tasks, and work with unstructured information while remaining human-supervised. This clearly places Aera among the 50 to Watch.”

BlackLine

BlackLine announced the winners of its 2025 Global and Regional Partner Awards, celebrating firms that have shown exceptional dedication to customer success, innovation, and transformative growth.

Michael Otto, SVP of Global Alliances & Channels at BlackLine, commented, “Our partners play a vital role in helping companies create future-ready finance operations. These collaborations have been pivotal in supporting BlackLine’s strategic growth initiatives and delivering exceptional customer value.

“This year’s winners set the bar for what’s possible when expertise meets collaboration. Their expertise is instrumental in unlocking AI-enabled finance transformation for our mutual customers, helping those customers not only solve today’s challenges, but also prepare for the future of finance.”

Cybage

Cybage Software published two case studies last week. The first saw the Cybage team improve retail engineering outcomes with GenAI-embedded SDLC practices for a leading ecommerce retailer in the automotive aftermarket.

In the second, Cybage built a future-ready HR experience for a UK finance brand. The modernisation program drove measurable gains across engineering efficiency, product quality, and business performance, accelerating time-to-market and elevating end-user experience. Benefits included a 20–30% faster feature development and 30–40% faster unit test generation through AI-assisted engineering.

It lowered long-term maintenance costs and improved scalability for future enhancements with a unified cross-platform codebase. Additionally, it enhanced user experience through an intuitive, high-performing UI, driving increased end-user satisfaction and product adoption.

Epicor

Epicor published a video case study detailing how Stokis Group is transforming its 13-company network on Epicor. The firm faced an ageing set of ERP systems and decided to seek a new ERP and select a single ERP for all companies within the group to deliver visibility. Epicor met the diverse requirements.

Lex Pijnenburg, Business Application Manager at the Stokvis Group, “We try to look at Epicor as the epicentre of our information technology. What belongs with customers, with suppliers, quotes order, we want to put in Epicor. Epicor do everything.”

Freshworks

Freshworks announced that its Board of Directors authorised a stock repurchase program of up to $400 million of the company’s outstanding Class A common stock. Dennis Woodside, CEO & President, stated, “This follow-on share repurchase program demonstrates our confidence in the company’s long-term strategy, durable growth and dedication to disciplined capital allocation.

“In addition to achieving GAAP profitability in 2025, we generated over $223M in free cash flow and $0.76 per weighted average diluted share, both nearly tripling from 2023. With this program we plan to repurchase shares that we believe the market substantially undervalues, while retaining sufficient cash to invest in future top line and bottom-line growth.”

Nintex

Nintex announced the release of NintexK2 release 5.9. The release enables users to create custom interface controls that solve specific problems, ensure everyone can use their applications regardless of ability, and migrate legacy workflows without having to start from scratch. It adds three controls to the Nintex Gallery:

• CAPTCHA without JavaScript injection
• An Arabic calendar with full date compatibility
• Drag-and-drop file uploads.

In addition, the Nintex K2 release 5.9 includes runtime forms designed with WCAG 2.1 Level A compliance in mind. It also includes a conversion tool that translates Nintex for SharePoint workflows into K2 workflows through a wizard interface. Other integration improvements include enhanced integration diagnostic with REST broker codes, support for JSSP, and enhance support for OData v4.

Rootstock

Rootstock highlighted five shifts that emerged from its recent manufacturing tech survey. Ohad Idan, Vice President of Product at Rootstock Software, said, “Technology by itself cannot solve today’s complex manufacturing challenges. One of the recurring issues we see among product-based companies is that they’re moving to new Technology before clearly defining their desired outcomes.

“What’s needed is alignment with core business processes and well-defined metrics for success. When this foundation is in place, advanced systems can drive measurable and lasting impact.”

The five shifts are:

• Workforce Pressure intensified
• AI investment shifted sharply toward supply chain execution
• Predictive AI adoption accelerated
• ERP expectations expanded to workforce retention
• Tariffs and trade policy uncertainty have increased operational complexity.

Sirion

Sirion, a global AI-native leader in Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software, announced that it has been named to The Hackett Group’s 2025-2026 ’50 to Know’ list as part of its annual assessment of the global procurement technology market. The program recognises emerging, leading, and enduring solution providers shaping the procurement technology market.

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters announced that it plans to repurchase up to US$600 million of its common shares under an amended normal course issuer bid (NCIB) approved by the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), and to return US$605 million to shareholders through a return of capital transaction.

Workday

Insperity

Insperity, Inc. and Workday, Inc. announced the general availability of the Insperity HRScale solution, a comprehensive HR services and technology offering built for small and midsized businesses.

This combines Insperity’s professional employer organisation (PEO) model and full-service HR support with the powerful Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) suite. Thus, creating a dynamic new way for businesses to streamline HR administration, strengthen HR compliance and gain workforce insights. So they can focus on running and growing their businesses.

Paul Sarvadi, Insperity’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “Growing businesses shouldn’t have to choose between personalised HR support and the power of enterprise‑grade Technology.

“With Insperity HRScale, we‘re bringing together best-in-class Workday technology and Insperity‘s full-service HR expertise in one unified solution, combining the best of both companies. We believe this new solution allows businesses to move faster and reduce cost, complexity and risk – improving likelihood, degree and speed of success.”

Results

Workday announced results for the fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and full year ended January 31, 2026. Total revenues were $2.532 billion, an increase of 14.5% from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025. Subscription revenues were $2.360 billion, an increase of 15.7% from the same period last year. For FY 2025, total revenues were $9.552 billion, an increase of 13.1% from fiscal 2025. Subscription revenues were $8.833 billion, an increase of 14.5% from the prior year.

Back in the CEO role, Co-Founder and Chair, Aneel Bhusri commented, “We built Workday to bring innovation back to the worlds of HR and finance, and AI gives us the chance to do it all again. We operate at the heart of the global enterprise, where trust and accuracy matter most. That gives Workday a unique opportunity to bring AI directly into the HR and finance workflows our customers rely on every day and to deliver real, measurable value.”

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