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New York Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Guy Klucevsek, Multi-Genre Accordion Virtuoso, Is Dead at 78
Guy Klucevsek, a masterly accordion player who developed an eclectic body of work for his beloved, if sometimes mocked, instrument that expanded its repertoire well beyond polkas and other traditional fare, died on May 22 at his home on Staten Island. He was 78. His wife and only immediate survivor, Jan (Gibson) Klucevsek, said the cause was pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer. Praise for Mr. Klucevsek (pronounced kloo-SEV-ek) typically noted that he had elevated the profile of the accordion beyond the realms of beer halls and 'The Lawrence Welk Show.' Writing in The Village Voice in 2015 about a series of performances by Mr. Klucevsek in the East Village, Richard Gehr noted that, 'having mastered the instrument in virtually all of its classical, modern, jazz and international manifestations,' Mr. Klucevsek 'has extended it into another dimension altogether.' He recorded more than 20 albums, composed dozens of pieces and commissioned others, in multiple genres. He accompanied the performance artist Laurie Anderson on her 1994 album, 'Bright Red,' and collaborated with the dancer Maureen Fleming on 'B. Madonna,' a 2013 multimedia piece based on the myth of Persephone. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Techday NZ
23-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Nintex launches Solution Studio to simplify business automation
Nintex has announced the launch of Solution Studio, a portal which enables businesses to design and build custom automation solutions for their unique organisational processes. According to Nintex, Solution Studio is intended to streamline operations by reducing reliance on multiple disconnected software applications, giving IT and business teams the ability to centralise their workflows using AI-powered low-code automation technology. In addition to the new portal, Nintex also introduced its latest pre-built solution, Nintex Employee Onboarding, designed to automate the coordinated tasks carried out by hiring managers, HR, finance, and IT to support the integration of new employees. Industry observers emphasise the potential impact of such solutions on workplace efficiency. Maureen Fleming, Program VP, Worldwide Intelligent Process Automation Market Research and Advisory Service at IDC, said: "Organisations continue to manage many business processes manually or with a mix of disconnected software solutions, which is hindering their ability to drive efficiency and productivity. Custom solutions built on top of a process automation platform provide mid-market businesses and departments within enterprise organisations with a simple interface that allows them to easily solve complex business challenges without manual processes and multiple pieces of software." With organisations focusing on improving operational efficiency, there has been an increased demand for IT teams to consolidate technology investments and replace standard software with bespoke, business-specific applications. Historically, developing such solutions proved to be costly and resource-intensive. However, advances in artificial intelligence and low-code automation have made it possible for IT teams to build custom solutions more easily and at a lower cost, all from a single platform. Nintex states that Solution Studio provides several features aimed at simplifying the development and management of automation tools. These include configurable and reusable modules, such as templates for approval flows or document generation, which can be replicated across various teams and systems without the need for recoding. The new portal also offers a unified development environment incorporating application development, document generation, e-signature, and workflow automation functionalities. Governance is supported through a centralised dashboard, enabling oversight of solution development, tracking usage, enforcing organisational standards, and managing access rights. Bill Vencil, Associate Director at Protiviti Software Services, commented on the potential of Solution Studio: "We work with clients on a daily basis to effectively leverage, optimise, and strategically implement purpose-built Nintex solutions. We see a lot of opportunities and business cases in the marketplace for Solution Studio since it accelerates implementation of solutions to complex processes." Automating critical, cross-functional business processes such as employee onboarding can present challenges relating to limited IT resources, development costs, and lengthy deployment. Nintex argues that pre-built solutions are a viable approach to overcome these hurdles, facilitating faster and more tailored implementations for specific use cases. Niranjan Vijayaragavan, Chief Product Officer at Nintex, highlighted the focus on efficiency among organisations seeking to optimise their technology stacks: "Efficiency is top of mind for organisations today, which has led many to consolidate their business application portfolio by building custom solutions leveraging AI and low-code platforms. Our partners and customers can now easily build purpose-built solutions or leverage pre-built solutions that quickly drive value by automating complex business processes." Currently, Nintex offers two pre-built solutions. The new Employee Onboarding solution is designed to minimise the time required to complete onboarding tasks, with the aim of accelerating new employee productivity, reducing costs related to onboarding delays, and easing administrative workloads for HR, finance, and IT teams. The Licensing and Permitting solution focuses on digital transformation for the public sector by streamlining complex permitting processes, thereby improving experiences for citizens and businesses, and reducing manual tasks for government staff.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
UiPath Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Automation Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment
The UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation provides increased productivity, improved customer experiences, enhanced compliance, and accelerated digital transformation NEW YORK, May 13, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UiPath (NYSE: PATH), a global leader in agentic automation, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Automation Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment. UiPath is a Leader among the technology providers assessed in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Automation Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment®, a report that analyzes vendors across eight technology segments including: automation planning, agentic automation, end-to-end orchestration, business process automation, decision automation, robotic process automation, platform and life-cycle management, and performance measurements. The findings are based on an evaluation of each vendor's overarching vision and product capabilities and support, along with customer feedback. The UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation helps enterprises transform how they work, making their processes more efficient, flexible, and successful. With open and secure orchestration at its core, the UiPath Platform™ transforms business processes by enabling the creation, deployment, and management of highly reliable AI agents, robots, and people with scalability, flexibility, and compliance. The UiPath Platform™ enables businesses to understand, optimize, and automate complex processes end-to-end, unlocking new levels of growth, efficiency, and innovation at lower cost and less risk. "The UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation is an open and trusted platform that enables advanced orchestration by seamlessly integrating agents, robots, and people to create true agentic workflows," said Mark Geene, SVP & General Manager of AI Products at UiPath. "UiPath is uniquely positioned to provide customers with solutions that help them rapidly scale, completely transform their workflows and adapt to rapidly changing business demands, resulting in increased productivity, improved customer experiences, enhanced compliance, and accelerated digital transformation." "UiPath is recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Automation Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment for its continued innovation and unique platform capabilities. UiPath offers a broad platform of sophisticated automation functionality and strong vision for end-to-end orchestration and delivery of agentic automation capabilities, with the opportunity to disrupt traditional business process execution," said Maureen Fleming, VP, IDC business process automation research at IDC. "Customers have expressed their satisfaction with UiPath's support in identifying and training people in business teams, facilitating change management and scaling project implementation with its Citizen Development Program." Key capabilities of the UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation: UiPath Maestro™: a new orchestration layer that automates, models, and optimizes complex business processes end to end with built-in process intelligence and KPI monitoring to enable continuous optimization. Maestro provides the centralized oversight needed to safely scale AI-powered agents across systems and teams. Controlled Agency: ensures AI agents operate within clearly defined guardrails—ensuring security, predictability, and performance. The platform features robust governance, real-time vulnerability assessments, and stringent data access controls to protect enterprise environments. UiPath Agent Builder: empowers business technologists and seasoned developers alike with intuitive low-code tools and advanced coding environments. Developers can rapidly prototype agents in UiPath Agent Builder within UiPath Studio, while having the opportunity to customize when needed. This means both technically oriented business professionals and experienced programmers can easily create sophisticated, scalable automations that can adapt to complex business requirements and evolving enterprise needs. Open, Multi-Agent Framework for the Enterprise: UiPath integrates with third-party agent frameworks, supporting sophisticated multi-agent systems that work across complex, cross-functional workflows. This open approach breaks down silos and future-proofs enterprise automation strategies. UiPath IXP (Intelligent Xtraction & Processing): introduces multi-modal, AI-based classification and extraction for unstructured data. Built for high-complexity use cases like claims adjudication, loan origination, and electronic batch records, IXP brings enterprise-grade scale to document processing. Register for an excerpt copy of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Automation Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment research here. About IDC MarketScape:IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers. About UiPathUiPath (NYSE: PATH) is a global leader in agentic automation, empowering enterprises to harness the full potential of AI agents to autonomously execute and optimize complex business processes. The UiPath Platform™ uniquely combines controlled agency, developer flexibility, and seamless integration to help organizations scale agentic automation safely and confidently. Committed to security, governance, and interoperability, UiPath supports enterprises as they transition into a future where automation delivers on the full potential of AI to transform industries. For more information, visit View source version on Contacts Media ContactUiPathpr@ Investor Relations Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Automation Anywhere Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Automation Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Automation Anywhere today announced its position as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Automation Platforms (BAPs) 2025 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US52034624e). A copy of the IDC MarketScape excerpt is available here. According to the IDC MarketScape report, "Business automation technologies have evolved from fragmented solutions into comprehensive business automation platforms (BAPs). These platforms enable enterprises to address diverse process improvement needs through a single system supporting multiple integrated automation technologies. By eliminating the complexity and cost of managing and integrating multiple disparate technologies, enterprises use these platforms to decrease time to value at a lower unit cost as they automate and improve their business processes." The report noted that, "Organizations heavily focused on executing an automation strategy or focused on agentic process automation should consider Automation Anywhere." "We expect to see business automation platforms play a major role in broadening the use of automation as GenAI is used to simplify development and AI agents used to automate knowledge-centric tasks," said Maureen Fleming, program vice president, Convergence of AI and Automation at IDC. "Over the next several years, AI agents combined with orchestration and human-in-the-loop interactivity with copilots will largely disrupt how our enterprise processes operate." The IDC MarketScape highlights several additional strengths exhibited by Automation Anywhere, supporting the company's position as a Leader, which include: "Strong vision for use of AI-powered solution development and delivery of agentic automation capabilities, with the opportunity to disrupt how business processes are traditionally built and executed." "Strong RPA and human-in-the-loop task management capabilities, especially with its near-real-time self-healing capabilities." "Support for SaaS or managed hosting on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure." "Efficient collaboration between the Automation Anywhere team and clients that ensures timely updates on potential core technical issues during new version releases (This helps clients identify potential compatibility problems and ensures smooth transitions)." "We believe Automation Anywhere's long history of being a Leader in the automation space, from RPA to today's advanced Agentic Automation, is validated by this IDC MarketScape recognition," said Mihir Shukla, co-founder and CEO at Automation Anywhere. "We leverage this expertise to provide our customers with the most innovative and comprehensive solutions, ensuring they can confidently embrace the automation-first era and accelerate their journey toward becoming an Autonomous Enterprise." For inclusion, vendors had to operate in at least two regions worldwide, utilize two or more automation or AI technologies as part of their platform, and offer complex orchestration capabilities utilizing multiple task automation and connectivity technologies. About Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere is the leader in Agentic Process Automation (APA) and guided by its vision to fuel the future of work by unleashing human potential through automation. Learn more at About IDC MarketScape IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors. Logo - View original content: SOURCE Automation Anywhere, Inc.
Techday NZ
21-05-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
Nintex unveils Solution Studio to streamline business automation
Nintex has launched Solution Studio, a portal designed to allow IT and business teams to build custom business automation solutions tailored to their unique operational processes. According to Nintex, Solution Studio aims to address the challenges organisations face when using a mix of off-the-shelf software products. The new portal enables businesses to design process automation applications configured to fit their internal systems, workflows, approvals, and data handling requirements. The company stated that the portal is part of a broader initiative to help mid-market organisations streamline their technology stacks, with a particular focus on low-code and AI-powered custom development. "Organisations continue to manage many business processes manually or with a mix of disconnected software solutions, which is hindering their ability to drive efficiency and productivity," said Maureen Fleming, Program VP, Worldwide Intelligent Process Automation Market Research and Advisory Service at IDC. "Custom solutions built on top of a process automation platform provide mid-market businesses and departments within enterprise organisations with a simple interface that allows them to easily solve complex business challenges without manual processes and multiple pieces of software." Increasingly, businesses are seeking to consolidate their IT investments and replace separate off-the-shelf software with purpose-built applications to optimise resources and improve operational efficiency. Traditionally, the development of custom solutions has required significant investment in both time and resources. Nintex states that with the introduction of AI and low-code capabilities in Solution Studio, IT teams can create bespoke applications in a more cost-effective and timely manner. Solution Studio provides several features designed to facilitate the development and management of business process automation. Among these is the ability to create configurable and reusable modules, such as automated approval flows or document generation components, which can then be deployed across teams and operations without the need for additional custom coding. The portal also integrates a unified development environment for designing and launching full-stack solutions, including workflow automation, e-signature, and document generation tools. The platform allows organisations to enforce governance, maintain oversight, track solution usage, uphold standards, and manage access to solutions via a single dashboard. Bill Vencil, Associate Director, Protiviti Software Services, commented on the potential impact of Solution Studio. "We work with clients on a daily basis to effectively leverage, optimise, and strategically implement purpose-built Nintex solutions. We see a lot of opportunities and business cases in the marketplace for Solution Studio since it accelerates implementation of solutions to complex processes." Nintex also revealed the introduction of a new pre-built solution, Nintex Employee Onboarding, which automates key tasks and processes for hiring managers, HR, finance, and IT during the onboarding of new employees. The intention behind the pre-built solution is to address cross-departmental procedures that are often hampered by limited IT resources, high development costs, and prolonged implementation timelines. Pre-built solutions are positioned as a way for organisations to deploy automation for critical business functions cost-effectively and efficiently. The company currently offers two such solutions. The new Employee Onboarding tool aims to decrease the time required to complete onboarding, reduce costs associated with onboarding delays, and alleviate administrative workloads for HR, finance, and IT teams. The second offered solution, Licensing and Permitting, is designed for the public sector and focuses on digitising and streamlining complex permitting processes to enhance services for citizens and businesses while reducing manual workloads for government staff. Niranjan Vijayaragavan, Chief Product Officer at Nintex, highlighted the prevailing trends influencing businesses' technology strategies. "Efficiency is top of mind for organisations today, which has led many to consolidate their business application portfolio by building custom solutions leveraging AI and low-code platforms," he said. "Our partners and customers can now easily build purpose-built solutions or leverage pre-built solutions that quickly drive value by automating complex business processes." Nintex's stated objective with Solution Studio and its range of pre-built solutions is to provide both mid-market and larger organisations with a platform to address their specific process automation requirements within a single unified environment.
