UiPath has announced on Tuesday a new partner enablement strategy to extend the company’s advanced training platform for its partners.

“Our partner community has become a powerful force in driving the tremendous growth of RPA, and this program is designed to provide them with an unmatched combination of sales and field enablement to help them continue to serve customers and grow their business with us,” said Cheryln Chin, global vice president of systems integrators at UiPath.

The strategy is based on the launch of UiPath Academy for Partners, which allows partners to customize their approach to enablement, achieve profitability and establish differentiation in the market.

The new UiPath Academy for Partners was built based on partner feedback and gives individuals a curated learning experience tailored to their specific job role. The new approach further democratizes access to UiPath training and delivers the same curriculum to both UiPath partner teams and UiPath employees through a user-friendly site.

UiPath will offer three new benefits to partners, including improved partner learning experience, enhanced enablement opportunities and access to product announcements and launch training.

The new user experiences will allow partners to access a deep library of materials directly from the existing Business Partner Portal, including UiPath Explorer for process discovery and recording, UiPath Process Gold for process mining, UiPath Apps to engage multiple business users, and UiPath Insights for enhanced performance dashboards.

With enhanced enablement opportunities, partners will be provided with additional tools to help them engage more effectively with customers and close deals quickly. Additionally, with access to product announcements and launch training, partners will be able to enroll in the same product training modules that the UiPath sales, presales, and delivery teams enroll in.

“Together with UiPath, our partners are seizing the unique opportunity to deliver transformative solutions to customers worldwide, added Chin.

About UiPath

UiPath is leading the ’automation first’ era—championing a robot for every person and enabling robots to learn new skills through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Through free and open training, UiPath brings digital era skills to millions of people around the world, improving business productivity and efficiency, employee engagement, and customer experience.

Tara Murphy Dougherty has been promoted to CEO of Govini to grow the company’s influence within the business and defense sectors, the company announced on Tuesday.

Chris Taylor stated, “We are thrilled to promote Tara to CEO of Govini given her breadth of business and defense experience. Coupled with her strategic vision for the organization, we are now set for our next stage of growth.”

Murphy Dougherty has served Govini since Feb. 2018, starting her career at the company as vice president of the National Security Practice. She was promoted to president of the sector in June 2018, and has remained in the role until her recent appointment as CEO. In the roles Murphy  Dougherty led strategy and growth and supervised Govini’s work with all federal clients.

Prior to Govini she held leadership positions in technology across industry, government, and non-profit sectors, including at Palantir Technologies and serving as Chief of Staff for Global Strategic Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, among other senior roles.

She served as a non-resident senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from March 2014 to Feb. 2018. Murphy Dougherty also served with the business development team at Palantir Technologies between Jan. 2014 and Feb 2018.

Additionally, she worked as the special assistant to the assistant secretary of defense from Jan. 2012 to Dec. 2013 and a policy analyst from June 2010 and Dec. 2011 with the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Murphy Dougherty began her career at CSIS as a research associate in Jan 2006 and became a fellow in Jan. 2010, where she served until Oct. 2010.

“I am very excited for the opportunity to lead such a talented and dedicated group of people into our next phase,” said Murphy Dougherty. “Govini remains committed to delivering objective, decision-grade data and analytic capabilities across DoD and the national security enterprise, so leaders can better direct investments to innovation and modernization.”

About Govini

Govini transforms the business of national security through data science and machine learning. The company’s unique dataset and analytic platform are utilized at scale across the OSD, Joint Staff, military departments, and defense agencies to help implement core tenets of the National Defense Strategy. With Govini, DoD’s data scientists and analysts solve challenges pertaining to strategic portfolio analysis, resource analysis, industrial base assessments, science and technology surveillance, and supply chain analysis.

These capabilities enable defense leaders to achieve superior innovation and modernization outcomes on shorter timelines and at a lower cost than traditional methods. Govini has offices in Arlington, Virginia, San Francisco, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

SAP has joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership community to reduce the amount of plastic in the ocean and promote a cleaner and healthier environment by 2030, the company announced on Tuesday.

“SAP is committed to a significantly cleaner ocean by 2030,” said Christian Klein,  SAP’s Co-CEO and member of the Executive Board. “We want to achieve this objective together with customers, NGOs, governments and partners and will provide them with the tools, insights and solutions to eliminate waste and maximize resource productivity”

SAP’s Plastic Cloud technology,  which has collected existing and live data from across the plastics supply chain to introduce new ideas for waste reduction,  will allow businesses to find alternatives to single-use plastics, scale design for circularity, invest in materials collection infrastructure and ensure a better consumer experience.

The company has updated the Plastics Cloud to help companies produce environmentally responsible products by providing global insights, giving a better understanding of material that are used and its impact. SAP will focus on local recycling infrastructures and policies.

The research will allow the company to determine a more accurate model of the environmental and business impact from the use of recycled or reusable materials and packaging. Additionally, SAP’s software will help companies adapt to changing regulations, including extended producer responsibility policies.

Plastics Cloud offers links to a secondary materials marketplace based on Ariba Network, which connects packaging and consumer products companies to new sources of recycled plastics and plastic alternatives. The new initiative will also help with the UK digital waste map and other environmental efforts.

“Many of our customers have also made commitments to a cleaner planet. We will support them in achieving their ambitious goals, and together we can accelerate the move to a restorative and regenerative economy,” concluded Klein.

About SAP

SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP® system. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers’ businesses into intelligent enterprises.

SAP helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want – without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables more than 437,000 business and public customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference.

Jacobs has joined The Valuable 500, an organization that seeks to ensure disability inclusion is on business leadership agendas, to Jacobs to  encourage corporate diversity, including disability, in the workplace, the company announced on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum (WEF).

“As a member of The Valuable 500, Jacobs is committed to the journey of becoming a more accessible and inclusive company, leveraging our Inclusion & Diversity platform to encompass disability in the workplace on a global scale, while empowering employees to bring their full, authentic selves to work,” said Steve Demetriou, Jacobs chair and CEO.

Demetriou spoke as co-chair of the Infrastructure and Urban Development Governors and has participated on the “Expanding the Definition of Workplace Diversity ” panel in the Equality Lounge. He spoke on how to expand the scope of diversity and allow the company to reach new talent, catalyze real change, and foster an inclusive workplace.

“Through our ACE (Access. Connect. Empower.) Employee Network and our Mental Health Matters program, we actively support the adaptive challenges and mental health of our people and communities and continually encourage employees to find strength in our differences.”

Jacobs will join The Valuable 500 alongside Accenture, BAE Systems, Boeing, Deloitte, IBM and others. Within the organization, Boeing has made efforts to boost diversity in STEM, the company announced in Sept. 2018.

The company placed a $10 million investment to help the National Science Foundation (NSF) provide students and company employees access to online science, technology, engineering and math training.

Boeing has pledged to match NSF’s $10 million funding for STEM to reskill initiatives under the agency’s directorate for education and human resources as well as a $1 million Boeing gift to support women and veterans in STEM fields through the NSF program to increase diversity.

About Jacobs

We deliver impactful global solutions to create a more connected, sustainable world — from intelligence to infrastructure, cybersecurity to space exploration. Our 52,000 employees across 50 countries work every day, challenging the expectations of today to reinvent the way we’ll all live tomorrow.

Accenture has announced the new global innovation center for situational awareness in Singapore, the company reported on Tuesday. The center will help public safety organizations in Asia Pacific develop solutions and respond to threat and risk to their citizens, while maintaining clients’ trust and confidence.

“Improving situational awareness is crucial for public safety agencies to better anticipate threat, risk and harm, allowing them to respond to public safety-related incidents faster and in a more informed way,” said James Slessor, leader of Accenture Public Safety. “By responsibly using innovative technologies, these agencies can better anticipate public safety incidents, improve the safety of first responders, and deliver services to citizens and communities more effectively.”

The goal is to enable public safety organizations to make more informed decisions and deliver better service and public safety outcomes to the citizens and the communities they serve.

Accenture’s center will utilize situation awareness technologies and help develop assets to enable clients to responsibly use innovative technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things, blockchain, augmented reality and virtual reality.

Additionally, Accenture will partner with leading technology companies, including SAS, to develop situational-awareness solutions, using AI and new analytics, to support public safety agency operations. The technology specialists will use design thinking methodologies to resolve the challenges faced by public safety agencies and transform agency data into real-time intelligence.

“Our new center provides a space for government agencies to collaborate with each other and with the private sector to apply innovations that will ultimately increase their situational awareness and accelerate their digital transformation journeys.” concluded Wee Wei Ng, head of Accenture’s Health & Public Service in Singapore.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives.