Sage began the week by announcing the launch of end-to-end cloud-native packages designed to meet the needs of submarkets within the construction industry. In other news, Salesforce released Agentforce 2.0, a complete AI system for augmenting teams with trusted autonomous AI agents in the flow of work. Finally, Nextworld unveiled its second release of the year with advancements including new AI capabilities, a JD Edwards connector, and UX improvements.
Sage began the week by announcing the launch of end-to-end cloud-native packages designed to meet the needs of submarkets within the construction industry. In other news, Salesforce released Agentforce 2.0, a complete AI system for augmenting teams with trusted autonomous AI agents in the flow of work. Finally, Nextworld unveiled its second release of the year with advancements including new AI capabilities, a JD Edwards connector, and UX improvements.
Hi and welcome to episode 167 of The ERP Minute. I’m your host, Charlie DeCurtis.
Sage began the week by announcing the launch of end-to-end cloud-native packages designed to meet the needs of submarkets within the construction industry. The new packages: Sage for Real Estate Developers, Sage for Home Builders, and Sage for General Contractors, are built to address the respective challenges faced within these micro verticals. The packages include Sage Intacct’s finance and operations solution at their core with Construction Financials and Construction Management as well as specific solutions tailored to the demands of each submarket. This follows the industry-specialization trend of 2024, where ERP vendors continue to deepen their functionality offerings within vertical and micro-vertical industries.
In other news, Salesforce released Agentforce 2.0, a complete AI system for augmenting teams with trusted autonomous AI agents in the flow of work. This release introduces a new library of pre-built skills and workflow integrations for rapid customization, the ability to deploy Agentforce in Slack, and advancements in agentic reasoning and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). We are already reaching the next era of AI, further supported by this release. Salesforce will continue to pour significant resources into the delivery of AI and we are excited to see how the technology continues to erupt across the market.
Finally, Nextworld unveiled its second release of the year with advancements including new AI capabilities, a JD Edwards connector, and UX improvements. New AI capabilities include generative AI to turn spreadsheets into applications or build new ones from scratch and major advancements to Ed, Nextworld’s ground-zero agent with chat interface. Through the JD Edwards connector, customers will be able to synchronize data from JD Edward’s source table to new or existing target tables in Nextworld, invoke JD Edwards Orchestrations via Nextworld’s proprietary, no-code tool for writing business tools, Logic Blocks, and create Nextworld interactive reports over a dataset whose source truth is in JD Edwards. Finally, the UX improvements are available across the entire application development process, including workflows and its visual app builder, the No-Code Studio. Nextworld is charging forward in the market to deliver to a wider audience. They see the need to support legacy customers and beyond the new technology, they addressed what customers really need from their ERP.
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