Blackbaud kicked off their bbdevdays annual developers’ conference this week by showcasing recent enhancements alongside customer and partner achievements. SAP and WalkMe Ltd. announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which SAP will acquire WalkMe, a provider of digital adoption platforms. Qlik made two major AI-related announcements with the unveiling of Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Answers alongside expanded capabilities with the Snowflake Data Cloud through its adoption of Snowflake Cortex AI. Celonis announced multiple product enhancements and AI-enabled features during its online Celonis: Next Event.
Hi and welcome to episode 142 of The ERP Minute. I’m your host, Rebekah McCabe.
Blackbaud kicked off their bbdevdays annual developers’ conference this week by showcasing recent enhancements alongside customer and partner achievements. Recent momentum includes new AI capabilities, increased security options with total database encryption now available for Blackbaud CRM, Altru, and K-12 education products, enhancements to Raiser’s Edge NXT, modernized SKY APIs for Blackbaud Grantmaking, and more. These enhancements demonstrate Blackbaud’s commitment to investing in the improvement of their products by offering even deeper functionality to current customers.
In other news, SAP and WalkMe Ltd. announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which SAP will acquire WalkMe, a provider of digital adoption platforms. WalkMe’s solutions help organizations navigate constant technology change by providing users with advanced guidance and automation features that enable them to execute workflows seamlessly across any number of applications. Solutions like WalkMe make the ERP user experience all the more efficient, accelerating the time it takes businesses to train their teams and realize value within their system.
Then, Qlik made two major AI-related announcements with the unveiling of Qlik Talend Cloud and Qlik Answers alongside expanded capabilities with the Snowflake Data Cloud through its adoption of Snowflake Cortex AI. Both announcements aim to accelerate the adoption of AI. Qlik Talend Cloud will deliver no-code to pro-code, AI-augmented data integration capabilities, and Qlik Answers will offer AI-generated answers with full explainability from unstructured data. Additionally, the strategic development with Snowflake will enrich Qlik’s capabilities, leveraging Cortex AI functions, including vectoring, embedding, and completions within the RAG architecture.
Finally, Celonis announced multiple product enhancements and AI-enabled features during its online Celonis: Next Event. Enhancements include Process Intelligence Graph capabilities, including Oracle EBS transformations and fast data model search, process copilots to deliver faster insights, AI-powered applications, Celonis Process Management, and much more.
AI will continue to take shape within the ERP space in the next few users, enabling vendors to create solutions, like those announced by Qlik and Celonis, that will change the way we interact with our software. This is only the beginning and we expect to continue to see announcements like this from the major ERP vendors.
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