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Accenture gains cloud muscle in Europe with the Linkbynet acquisition

Accenture is consistently expanding its cloud capabilities in the European market.

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Camunda got to Mars. With $100m they can go further

Mars-mission business process automation firm lands $100m to go further.

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Blue Prism must stay focused on enterprise-scale value

Despite a resurgence in announcements, it’s enterprise outcomes that will help Blue Prism cut through the RPA market hype.

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HFS Highlight: Automation Anywhere must differentiate its legitimate cloud-nativeness

AAI must find a narrative that nails the benefits of a "cloud-native platform" to differentiate in a rapidly expanding market

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Basware puts procurement pros on data-driven diversity fast-track

Basware has added diversity data to give enterprises a view of who's in control of companies they may plan to do business with.

HFS Highlight: Redwood Software gets multi-million injection to drive the automation agenda beyond RPA Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Redwood Software gets multi-million injection to drive the automation agenda beyond RPA

Redwood Software, an IT and business automation provider, has announced a $380million strategic investment from private equity fund Turn/River Capital to drive

EY does the math and acquires Pythagoras to bolster Microsoft capabilities in the UK Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: EY does the math and acquires Pythagoras to bolster Microsoft capabilities in the UK

Pythagoras' acquisition further boosts EY's Microsoft service capabilities. Going strong against its direct rivals in the UK market.

HFS Highlight: ServiceNow acquires Lightstep to manage the new complexity of cloud-native applications Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: ServiceNow acquires Lightstep to manage the new complexity of cloud-native applications

With the Lightstep acquisition, ServiceNow is doubling down on blending more AIOps capabilities across its offerings.

HFS Highlight: Cognizant acquires ESG Mobility to strengthen its digital automotive engineering capability Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Cognizant acquires ESG Mobility to strengthen its digital automotive engineering

In March 2021, Cognizant agreed to acquire ESG Mobility, a digital automotive engineering R&D provider for connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles. This in

HFS Highlight: Atos acquires Processia to bolster its PLM and Industry 4.0 capability Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Atos acquires Processia to bolster its PLM and Industry 4.0 capability

Atos announced the acquisition of Processia as it aims to strengthen its digital engineering and manufacturing capabilities to support client manufacturing

HFS Highlight: KPMG Climate Accounting Infrastructure expands the sustainability proposition Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: KPMG Climate Accounting Infrastructure expands the sustainability proposition

KPMG is moving one step closer to a holistic sustainability services offering with it’s Climate Accounting Infrastructure.

HFS Highlight: Optum’s IT Performance Services seek to address health plan and provider’s need to accelerate emerging tech adoption and enhance cybersecurity Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Optum’s IT Performance Services seek to address health plan and provider’s need to and

A review of Optum's new managed services offering exclusively for the healthcare industry.

HFS Highlight: IBM strengthens its Salesforce services value proposition in hot growth markets with the acquisition of Waeg Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: IBM strengthens its Salesforce services value proposition in hot growth markets with the

IBM acquires second Salesforce Platinum partner in 2021 to increase its value proposition in this competitive market

HFS Highlight: Appian bets on simplified pricing to scale enterprise impact Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Appian bets on simplified pricing to scale enterprise impact

Cloud-native, low-code automation platform Appian announces a new ‘all-you-can-eat’ licensing model.

HFS Highlight: IBM is embracing Open: Open Source, Open to Ideas, Open to Partnership, and Open to Innovate Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: IBM is embracing Open: Open Source, Open to Ideas, Open to Partnership, and Open to

This Highlight discusses IBM Think from May 11, 2021. With IBM going all in on AI and Hybrid Cloud many examples shared by customers spoke to embracing with to

HFS Highlight: Workato doubles down on Europe after surge in customers and use Highlight Report

HFS Highlight: Workato doubles down on Europe after surge in customers and use

Workato’s integration-led automation capabilities have made it a hit in Europe with a 289% increase in data use on its platform in the EMEA region in the last

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