News from the week beginning April 13th 2026
At its BeyondtheBlack conference in London this week, BlackLine announced a new operating model for finance and accounting teams. Agentic Financial Operations aims to solve the key challenges of trust and governance around the use of AI within finance and accounting teams.
Enterprise Times finds out a bit more from Jeremy Ung, Chief Technology Officer at BlackLine. He spoke about the future UI of SaaS, noting, “I don’t think SaaS is really going to be confined to a web application for humans; it’s going to be voice, text, and agent-to-agent interfaces, all of which will happen through natural language as well. Those are some of the key things that we’re investing in.”
Kyckr has announced the appointment of Ian Jones as its new Chief Technology Officer. The firm also announced the appointment of Andrew Kellett as Head of Customer Delivery. Kellet will be responsible for leading global customer support and delivery.
Azul posted solid results for FY 2026. It saw strong customer demand driven by Finance (43% YoY), Retail (120% YoY), Healthcare (606% YoY) and Telecommunications (241% YoY). Customers have flocked to its latest tools, Azul Prime, Core and Intelligence Cloud. It shows that, despite Oracle’s constant price increases, organisations remain committed to Java and are buying solutions to help them succeed.
Panasonic and NEP announced a partnership to advance IP-based live production through the integration of NEP Platform and Kairos.
At its BeyondtheBlack conference in London this week, BlackLine announced a new operating model for finance and accounting teams. Agentic Financial Operations aims to solve the key challenges of trust and governance around the use of AI within finance and accounting teams.
Certinia has announced the launch of Veda, a new AI-powered intelligent operations engine designed to revolutionise professional services organisations by moving them from manual, reactive processes to autonomous, proactive workflows.
Veda leverages Certinia’s experience and advanced AI reasoning, powered by Salesforce Agentforce, to deliver trusted, rules-driven workflows that deliver measurable ROI. It is embedded within Certinia’s PS, CS, and FM Cloud solutions, integrated across the Salesforce platform, and available in Slack.
ExpenseIn, an AccountsIQ company, has announced a partnership with SAAF Education. SAAF Education provides finance, payroll, HR and recruitment support for Schools, Academies & MATs. Therefore the new partnership will enable SAAF to offer a modern expense management solution to its clients.
Panasonic has launched its new TOUGHBOOK 40mk3. The company says it is the most rugged and modular Panasonic TOUGHBOOK ever made. It features the latest Intel AI Boost neural processing unit (NPU) for processing mission-critical data at the edge, and market-leading processing power, modularity, and graphics performance. Panasonic says it provides a balanced solution for the modern mobile worker.
Sparq has announced the launch of The Shop. A dedicated practice within Sparq designed to take AI out of the conference room and inside real operational systems.
Simpplr has published the State of Internal Communications 2026 report. The report analyses the current state, challenges, and future directions of internal communications (IC) in organisations. It finds that internal comms is trusted, stretch and a little stuck!
CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux, today announced that RLC Pro and RLC Pro Hardened are the first commercial Enterprise Linux platforms to ship with federally validated cryptography and post-quantum readiness built in, on the same distribution, out of the box.
Deel announced the winners of its startup competition, The Pitch, Paris Edition. They were Everrreach Labs, Allude, Lemrock, Pack – AI Change Management Platform, Pearl, FlyRank AI, Legitify, Sairen, Evolve, Alpic, Leadbay (YC F25), Cleo Labs, Cede Hub, PRESAGE.
Deltek published a case study about how ELU Konsult AB, one of Sweden’s leading technical consulting firms in construction and geotechnics, has selected Deltek, the unified, intelligent platform for project-based work powered by Dela AI, to transform its project and financial operations.
Gainsight, the retention engine powering the world’s most customer-centric companies, today announced support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across Gainsight CS and Staircase AI. For the first time, customer success and post-sales leaders can direct AI agents to run retention workflows on their behalf, drawing on the full picture of every customer relationship to take action, from flagging risk to orchestrating renewal plays, in minutes instead of weeks.
Gong, the leading revenue AI company, released new research revealing an AI trust barrier that stands between companies innovating with AI and those stuck in exploration and confusion. The study, which was supplemented by findings from Gong Labs, showed that 58% of companies (US: 63% | UK: 52%) had stalled AI projects.
Here’s why: it’s not a lack of budget – it’s a deficit in trust. The research explored how concerns about data privacy, security, and transparency lead to a lag in adoption.
IFS Ultimo announced that Alkane Resources Björkdalsgruvan AB went live with Ultimo EAM. Björkdalsgruvan is one of northern Europe’s largest gold mines. The mine is located outside Skellefteå, Sweden. Björkdalsgruvan completed the project with the assistance of Ultimo’s implementation partner, SQL Systems Sweden AB.
Ultimo also published a case study that explains how Mourik Infra B.V. modernised its asset management platforms from spreadsheets to a combination of Ultimo EAM + ArcGIS.
Interprefy, the specialist language partner providing multilingual meeting technology and services, returned to Bastide UTS Nîmes tournament for a second consecutive year on April 3-4, 2026, delivering captions and subtitles that helped thousands of spectators follow live interviews, coaching exchanges and other spoken moments throughout the tournament.
Klient announced that Release 51.3.3 is now generally available. There are improvements to Timesheets, Resource planner, Kanban boards and the QuickBooks integration. Klient will host a webinar on April 23rd to provide more details.
NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, announced that it has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud through a 4-year Enterprise Agreement to accelerate the deployment of NetApp storage solutions within Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped (GDC), Google’s sovereign cloud platform delivered by World Wide Technology (WWT).
The NetApp data platform within this full-stack, air-gapped private cloud solution delivers the built-in security organisations need to handle sensitive information and meet data sovereignty requirements.
Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade open source database software, support, and services, today announced a new partnership with Chainguard, the trusted source for open source. With the partnership, Percona now supports Chainguard builds across its database software portfolio. Thus, giving organisations a path to secure, production-ready container images for open source databases with expert support.
Percona also announced that Kyle Davis has joined the company as General Manager, Redis/Valkey Ecosystem. In this role, Davis will lead Percona’s Redis and Valkey offerings, guiding strategy and direction for the company’s database solutions and services.
Percona also announced the transition of Percona Everest into an independent open source project called OpenEverest. This is the first open source platform for automated database provisioning and management.
The move reflects Percona’s commitment to open collaboration and to building a long-term, community-driven platform for managing modern data infrastructure.
Percona, the open source database software, support, and services company, announces a bold new brand identity built around a single, non-negotiable idea: The Way Is Open. Not as a slogan. As a market stance. A direct challenge to the lock-in, cost inflation, and false promises of openness that have come to define modern data infrastructure.
QuantWare, the world’s highest-volume supplier of commercial quantum processing units, announced it won the 2026 Gold Edison Award for High-Density Computing Infrastructure. The award recognised QuantWare’s Tenor-D64 for combining high performance with integration-ready design and commercial accessibility to accelerate scalable quantum computing.
Unit4 announced momentum in the adoption of Scanmarket by Unit4 across its major markets as users again position the company as a leader in Info-Tech Research Group’s Strategic Sourcing Data Quadrant Report. Securing it two years in a row is a clear signal of the consistency, reliability, and sustained customer satisfaction in its Source-to-Contract (S2C) technology.
It comes as the company continues to invest in product innovation that matters to procurement teams, including embedding artificial intelligence (AI) into its S2C product. Which is a key part of its product vision and journey to 2030.
Zoho revealed the Q1 updates to Bigin. It has introduced support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) in Bigin. The solution is also smarter, more connected, and more powerful than ever. From AI-driven actions to a brand-new Outlook add-in, Q1 was packed with features designed to save time and boost productivity.
Zoho announced the launch of the brand-new Zoho Vault desktop app for Windows and Mac. Designed with your feedback and real-world needs in mind, this powerful new addition brings seamless, secure, workforce password management straight to your desktop.
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