SaaS

Following their merger in August 2022, Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) and The NPD Group (NPD) have unveiled a new combined organisation name and brand identity: Circana. Circana™ is one of the leading global advisors on the complexity of consumer behavior. Through unparalleled technology, advanced analytics, cross-industry data and deep expertise, Circana provides clarity that helps clients take action and unlock business growth. The Circana brand was created in partnership with global brand consulting firm Landor & Fitch. 

UiPath, a world-renown enterprise automation software company, has announced that data science teams using Amazon SageMaker, an end-to-end machine learning (ML) service, can now connect to UiPath to quickly and seamlessly connect new machine learning (ML) models into business processes without the need for complex coding and manual effort.  

Nitro Software, an SaaS eSignature and PDF document solutions provider for businesses, announced that Nitro Sign was again named a Leader in the GigaOm Radar Report for E-Signature Solutions. Nitro Sign provides firms with high-trust electronic signatures that meet or exceed global security and compliance standards, including multiple layers of protection and identity verification. The solution also offers flexible integrations and APIs.

Yugabyte, the leading open source distributed SQL database company, recently announced the general availability of YugabyteDB Voyager—a unified database migration solution to the cloud. With YugabyteDB Voyager, organizations of all sizes can leave behind the limitations of legacy and single-cloud databases, and accelerate their cloud and application modernization initiatives by seamlessly evolving to an end-to-end cloud native, distributed architecture.

AG5's SaaS solution offers the first interface firms can use to track employees' skills that is directly linked to production lines. It delivers scalable capacity planning and insights for audits and training programs that still rely on Excel, or pen and paper. AG5's plug-and-play software solution simplifies skills management with appealing and sharable skill matrices. AG5's clients report an 80% reduction in audit preparation times and 15% savings on employee training.

Laserfiche, the SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation, announced the winners of the 2023 Laserfiche Run Smarter® Awards. The awards were first launched in 2005 to honor people and organizations that use Laserfiche to improve productivity, build innovative processes and achieve exceptional business results.

HubSpot, the CRM platform for scaling companies, has announced that Dan Bognar has joined the company as Vice President of Sales & Managing Director for the JAPAC region. Bognar joins HubSpot with over three decades of tech sales, business consulting and leadership experience gained through his work at Salesforce and DocuSign, where he’s held positions as EVP & COO and JAPAC Group VP of Sales & General Manager, respectively. 

Property data and analytics provider, CoreLogic Australia, has partnered with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, to launch its Market Trends solution on Snowflake Marketplace. Market Trends’ availability on Snowflake Marketplace will enable joint clients to seamlessly access CoreLogic’s housing market metrics and data-driven insights to: facilitate faster decisions, build property-related marketing content quickly, and increase operational efficiencies. 

Lending technology organisation, Tic:Toc has been approved as an unrestricted Accredited Data Recipient (ADR) by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), under the Consumer Data Right (CDR). As Australia's first digital-lender and platform company, Tic:Toc has set the industry standard for automated credit underwriting processes.

Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software firm, announced a partnership with WSB to lead civil infrastructure owners and contractors to adopt infrastructure digital twins. WSB has launched a digital construction management solution and advisory service, based on Bentley’s SYNCHRO, to help the civil infrastructure market overcome challenges of adopting model-based digital workflows and leveraging the power of construction digital twins.