Esker has announced the launch of Esker Pay, an extensive set of integrated payment capabilities and strategic Fintech partnerships to help businesses unlock cashflow.

US vendor Springbrook Software which sells financial, HR, billing and other software to government in the US, has acquired the New Zealand firm MAGIQ Software. The two companies mostly occupy the same market space - enterprise resource planning. MAGIQ has about 550 customers in Australia, New Zealand and the US, compared with Springbrook’s 1,100.

Enterprise compliance SaaS provider EncompaaS has completed a $A14 million capital raise led by CVC Emerging Companies, Future Now Capital, and Marshall Investments. The SaaS entrant will now further develop and take its suite of cloud-based enterprise content management and compliance products to global markets.

Alteryx, Inc. has acquired Hyper Anna, a leading cloud platform for generating artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automated insights from data. Based in Sydney, Hyper Anna enables anyone, regardless of technical background, to access AI-driven insights.

Blue Prism is adding Process Intelligence Powered by ABBYY Timeline within its robotic process automation (RPA) platform, to allow users to quickly uncover the best automation opportunities from data scattered across the organisation.

EzeScan’s Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT accounts payable solution is now available as a SaaS offering in the EzeScan CLOUD.  This means fast deployment with an affordable monthly subscription, without the software, hardware, or management headaches. 

Yubico’s range of hardware authentication security keys has been enhanced with a new series that supports fingerprint recognition for secure passwordless and second factor logins. The YubiKey Bio does not require any batteries, drivers, or associated software.

MSAB has announced an updated mobile forensics solution for digital data recovery, XRY, which comes with added support for more devices, Apple facial recognition decoding, support for iOS 15 and Android 12 Beta, plus many more improvements.

US Start-up Mindee, the creator of an API platform designed for developers to eliminate manual data entry, has emerged from stealth mode and announces today that it has raised $US14 million. Mindee helps developers automate workflows in their applications by standardising the document processing layer.

Anvil, a paperwork automation platform, has launched Workflows, a no-code tool that helps companies remove the complexity and frustration from paperwork and endless PDFs.