News from the week beginning August 24 2026

Geopolitical instability (55%), inflation (52%) and cybersecurity risk (52%) have defined 2026. Yet, finance leaders remain optimistic: 78% expect profits to rise and 22% forecast double-digit growth. These findings rank among the key highlights of Deltek’s latest Clarity Report, The CFO’s Agenda (registration required). The report examines how high-performing firms do differently around AI, Cyber Risk and Profitability.

Business

Ripjar has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Conrad Nicholas as Chief Product Officer, and Katie Miller joins as VP Marketing.

superglue has officially joined the Sage Intacct Marketplace. This move introduces AI-powered automation to Sage implementation projects.

Customer Story

AccountsIQ revealed how Couch, Perry and Wilkes migrated from Pegasus Opera to AIQ to solve its scaling challenge for its finance department. The project was part of a wider transformation that also included IRIS Cascade and an integration to its PPM solution Rapport 3.

Product

Interprefy has launched Media Hub, a new platform to allow organisations to organise and present the output from international events for later consumption. Interprefy already leverages AI to solve simultaneous translation for international events. With Media Hub, it aims to provide an event repository where organizers can curate, edit, and distribute content.

Aprika Business Solutions has officially announced the release of Mission Control version 1.82. This major release introduces powerful new tools for financial tracking and operational efficiency and also enhances existing mobile and billing functionalities.

Panasonic Toughbook is celebrating thirty years of innovation and Leadership in providing technology for field service teams. Field service teams in emergency services, utilities, defence, and transport rely on these laptops.

UiPath, a provider in business orchestration and automation, has launched UiPath Maestro Flow. The solution is a developer-first orchestration canvas combining the speed of modern, AI-native development with enterprise-grade durability and governance.

Deel

Deel has announced that it will focus Deel Engage on two non-profits, donating a total of $145,00. Talent Beyond Boundaries helps skilled refugees safely and legally migrate to countries where they can work and rebuild their lives. Technovation equips young people with AI and technology skills and challenges them to build real ventures that solve problems in their communities.

Deltek

Deltek has earned two 2026 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards, recognizing its Leadership Exploration and Discovery 2 (LEAD2) frontline leadership development program and its Global Mentoring Program.

Tracy Schampers, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer at Deltek, stated, “Leadership isn’t something we leave to chance at Deltek. With programs like LEAD2 and Global Mentoring, we’re deliberately building the next generation of leaders from within, to make sure they’re ready when the opportunity comes.

“This recognition validates our investment in structured, measurable career growth, and it reinforces our commitment to giving every Deltek employee a clear path to lead.”

Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced that the company’s Board of Directors has appointed Scott Reese as a director, effective immediately. Reese will serve as a Class I director, whose term expires in 2027. He will be a member of the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and its Audit and Finance Committee.

Klient

Klient announced a new eLearning course for Snap Workspace, which was launched earlier in the year. The course walks users through the interface: screenshots, best practices, FAQ, and a quiz at the end.

Nintex

Nintex announced a major evolution of the Nintex Automation CE platform, introducing a unified platform experience and Nintex Solutions. This new capability enables organizations to package, govern, deploy, and scale intelligent automation across the enterprise.

The launch brings workflows, forms, apps, documents, orchestration, and AI agents together in a single, connected experience, advancing Nintex’s vision for agentic business orchestration.

Suvrat Joshi, SVP of Product and Design at Nintex, stated, “Organizations need a simpler way to bring workflows, apps, and AI tools together into solutions that solve real business problems. With Nintex Solutions and our unified platform experience, customers can build, govern, and deploy complete automation solutions with consistency and control, making it easier to scale agentic business orchestration across the enterprise.”

Original Software

Original Software announced that Combilift, a global leader in the design and manufacture of multi-directional forklifts and innovative material-handling solutions, has chosen its platform to strengthen its ERP validation after every change.

Fearghal McCorriston, Combilift, stated, “What impressed us about Original Software was that the conversation was never just about selling us a testing tool. Michael took the time to understand how we actually work, what we were trying to achieve and what we realistically needed to get started.

“The platform gives us the opportunity to bring testing, automation, process documentation and training together. As we continue to manage regular system changes, that gives us a foundation to automate more of our testing and have greater confidence in what we’re releasing into the business.”

Panasonic

Panasonic Projector & Display’s latest high-brightness projection technology played a central role in Hungary’s St Stephen’s Day celebrations. Illuminating some of Budapest’s most recognisable landmarks as part of an ambitious city-scale audio-visual production.

A total of 67 new Panasonic PT‑RQ45K and 16 PT‑RQ35K 3‑Chip DLP laser projectors were deployed to create monumental projection mapping onto both sides of the Hungarian Parliament Building and the historic Széchenyi Chain Bridge. As well as buildings along the Pest side of the Danube. The installation represents the largest deployment of Panasonic PT‑RQ45K projectors worldwide to date.

Precisely

Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, announced it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Intelligence Platform Software 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US54118226, August, 2026). The IDC MarketScape evaluates vendors on their ability to deliver comprehensive data intelligence capabilities, including data definition, profiling, quality, lineage, cataloging, and stewardship.

Matt Waxman, Chief Product Officer at Precisely, stated, “As AI becomes embedded in everyday business operations, the quality of every outcome depends on the data underneath it. We believe this recognition from the IDC MarketScape reflects our strategy and continued investment in helping customers build trusted, AI-ready data at enterprise scale.”

Thomson Reuters

Greenberg Traurig deploys Co-Counsel Legal

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has deployed the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, Thomson Reuters’ agentic artificial intelligence (AI) for legal professionals. The rollout gives lawyers across the firm’s global offices access to AI that can plan, research, and draft across a matter.

Greenberg Traurig Chief Executive Officer Brian L. Duffy stated, “What distinguishes Greenberg Traurig is not technology alone, but the talented professionals who use it to help solve complex challenges for our clients.

“We have historically embraced innovation where it can create meaningful value, and the deployment of CoCounsel Legal reflects that philosophy. By combining this technology with the experience and judgment of our lawyers, we are enhancing our ability to deliver efficient, forward-looking, and client-centered legal services.”

Thomson – A new AI model

Thomson Reuters announced the launch of Thomson, the company’s first proprietary large language model, developed in-house. Frontier labs have typically spent billions of dollars on compute and years of infrastructure investment to reach the frontier.

Thomson Reuters took a different path: starting from a strong open-source foundation and investing $40 million to train Thomson into the right intelligence for the jobs that matter most, covering talent and compute. The result is a model Thomson Reuters fully controls, without the heavy inference costs of typical frontier models.

Joel Hron, Chief Technology Officer, Thomson Reuters, stated, “For years, the AI industry has treated scale as the answer: bigger models, more compute, more money. Thomson shows there is another path: Start with a strong foundation, specialize it deeply for the work that matters, and you can build intelligence that is highly capable, far more efficient and entirely under your control. We think that changes the economics of professional AI.”

Workday

Workday announced results for the fiscal 2027 second quarter ended July 31, 2026. Total revenues were $2.649 billion, an increase of 12.8% from the second quarter of fiscal 2026. Subscription revenues were $2.471 billion, an increase of 13.9% from the same period last year.

Operating income was $313 million, or 11.8% of revenues, compared to an operating income of $248 million, or 10.6% of revenues, in the same period last year.

Aneel Bhusri, Co-Founder, CEO, and Chair of Workday, stated, “We had a strong Q2, with AI driving more than 25% of our new ACV and more than 5,500 customers now using at least one of our organic agents. Because of Workday’s deterministic rails, customers can trust our agents with the work that matters, and you’re seeing that in the numbers.”

Zoho

Google Gemini Connectivity

Zoho announced connectivity for several applications to Google Gemini. Initially available in India data centres, Zoho plans to roll this out globally soon. Users can connect Zoho CRM, Zoho Mail, Bigin by Zoho CRM, Zoho Desk, and Zoho Projects with Google Gemini to bring work context into the conversation.

QuickNav in Zoho Directory

Zoho has introduced QuickNav, a unified search capability built for easy navigation in Zoho Directory, helping admins quickly find and access resources from one place. It helps admins get to the right page or action in fewer steps—whether it’s adding an application or policy, accessing reports, including successful and failed sign-ins, or resetting the MFA or password of a searched user.

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