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Business Wire
02-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Manhattan Recognizes its Valued Partners at Momentum 2025
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) has announced the winners of the 2025 Manhattan Value Partner TM (MVP) Excellence Awards. Unveiled at the company's annual conference, Momentum 2025, these prestigious awards honor the company's partners that have prioritized innovation, and are delivering technologies, solutions and services that result in larger, more powerful and complete workflows to address business challenges. With exceptional industry expertise, collaboration and service they are promoting agility and flexibility, driving success, value and growth for customers. 'Manhattan is committed to recognizing innovations that adapt to industry changes, empower our customers and enhance the end-consumer experience. We value our robust partner network and acknowledge those who play a critical role in delivering high-quality solutions to our joint customers, moving supply chain and unified commerce forward,' said Eric Lamphier, senior director of Alliances, Manhattan Associates. Winners in the three categories were: Services & Engagement IBM Consulting for supporting successful implementations and driving customer value realization. As part of recent projects, they expanded their roles and deliverables in new technical areas - including extension development and rapid deployment of autonomous mobile robots. 4SiGHT Supply Chain Group for demonstrating exceptional partnership by delivering services and measurable results across multiple warehouse management (WM) implementations. Collaborating closely with Manhattan service teams, they consistently drove elevated customer satisfaction through their deep industry knowledge and commitment to excellence. Technology & Solution Google Cloud for being at the forefront of Gen AI innovations and cloud technologies, and a trusted cloud partner, supporting all customers on the Manhattan Active® Platform and Manhattan Agentic AI initiatives. Honeywell for their deep expertise in voice solutions, leading Manhattan customers to achieve record-breaking productivity while also improving accuracy. Customers leveraging Honeywell Voice for Manhattan Active realized major productivity boosts across an array of workflows. Collaboration Deloitte Consulting for collaborating on multiple net-new transformation opportunities, contributing strategic insight and execution excellence throughout the customer journey. With their strong partnership and alignment to customers' needs, they have played a pivotal role in driving mutual success. enVista for providing expert advisory services. Their collaborative approach and deep industry knowledge helped drive informed decision-making and informed software vendor selections. Their partnership was instrumental in creating value for both clients and the broader ecosystem. Receive up-to-date product, customer and partner news directly from Manhattan Associates on LinkedIn. About Manhattan Associates Manhattan Associates is a global technology leader in supply chain and omnichannel commerce. We unite information across the enterprise, converging front-end sales with back-end supply chain execution. Our software, platform technology and unmatched experience help drive both top-line growth and bottom-line profitability for our customers. Manhattan Associates designs, builds and delivers leading edge cloud and on-premises solutions so that across the store, through your network or from your fulfillment center, you are ready to reap the rewards of the omnichannel marketplace. For more information, please visit
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Manhattan Associates Unveils Agentic AI Innovation at Momentum 2025
SYDNEY, May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kicking off Momentum 2025, Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) today announced sweeping Agentic AI support within Manhattan Active® solutions that includes intelligent, autonomous digital agents to revolutionise supply chain commerce execution, optimisation, and user experiences. These out-of-the-box AI agents, powered by large language models (LLMs) and Manhattan's cloud-native, all-microservice API architecture, will autonomously perform tasks, adapt to changing conditions, and dynamically orchestrate workflows. This breakthrough marks a generational leap from traditional chatbots and static workflow configurations to dynamic, intelligent, and situationally aware orchestration across the entire supply chain and commerce lifecycle. Among the first groundbreaking AI agents announced are the Intelligent Store Manager, Labor Optimiser Agent, Wave Inventory Research Agent, Contextual Data Assistant, and Virtual Configuration Consultant. These digital agents allow users to interact with Manhattan applications using natural language, understand complex requests, bypass traditional interfaces to surface data, drive optimisation, and efficiently resolve disruptions in real time across critical supply chain commerce operations. To further empower customers and partners to innovate at their own pace, the company also launched Manhattan Agent Foundry™, a groundbreaking platform designed to enable organisations to rapidly build and deploy their own agents within the Manhattan ecosystem. Customers can now create specialised agents tailored to their unique processes and preferences, drastically reducing time-to-value, increasing automation scalability, enhancing productivity, and delivering tangible business value. They can also lean on Manhattan or third-party partners to develop these specialised agents. "Agentic AI isn't just another feature; it's a transformative innovation capability tailored to redefine the future of supply chain commerce," said Sanjeev Siotia, CTO at Manhattan. "By opening up Agent Foundry to our customers and partners, we're ensuring that AI agent creation will not be constrained by vendor development cycles. This is part of Manhattan's ongoing commitment to path-breaking technology that heightens efficiency and resiliency. Our best-in-class customer base now has the power to create thousands of digital agents, limited only by their imagination." All agents built in Manhattan Agent Foundry are compatible with emerging industry standards, including A2A and MCP protocols, ensuring seamless interoperability with third-party agent platforms such as Google Agentspace. This reinforces Manhattan's desire to make Agentic AI a key enabler of an interconnected, AI-driven enterprise ecosystem. Agentic AI assistants and Agent Foundry will be generally available starting Spring 2025. Receive up-to-date product, customer and partner news directly from Manhattan on LinkedIn. ENDS ABOUT MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES:Manhattan Associates is a global technology leader in supply chain and omnichannel commerce. We unite information across the enterprise, converging front-end sales with back-end supply chain execution. Our software, platform technology and unmatched experience help drive both top-line growth and bottom-line profitability for our customers. Manhattan Associates designs, builds and delivers leading edge cloud solutions so that across the store, through your network or from your fulfillment center, you are ready to reap the rewards of the omnichannel marketplace. For more information, please visit View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Manhattan Associates Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Manhattan Associates Unveils Agentic AI Innovation at Momentum 2025
LONDON, May 22, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kicking off Momentum 2025, Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) today announced sweeping Agentic AI support within Manhattan Active® solutions that includes intelligent, autonomous digital agents to revolutionise supply chain commerce execution, optimisation, and user experiences. These out-of-the-box AI agents, powered by large language models (LLMs) and Manhattan's cloud-native, all-microservice API architecture, will autonomously perform tasks, adapt to changing conditions, and dynamically orchestrate workflows. This breakthrough marks a generational leap from traditional chatbots and static workflow configurations to dynamic, intelligent, and situationally aware orchestration across the entire supply chain and commerce lifecycle. Among the first groundbreaking AI agents announced are the Intelligent Store Manager, Labor Optimizer Agent, Wave Inventory Research Agent, Contextual Data Assistant, and Virtual Configuration Consultant. These digital agents allow users to interact with Manhattan applications using natural language, understand complex requests, bypass traditional interfaces to surface data, drive optimisation, and efficiently resolve disruptions in real time across critical supply chain commerce operations. To further empower customers and partners to innovate at their own pace, the company also launched Manhattan Agent Foundry™, a groundbreaking platform designed to enable organisations to rapidly build and deploy their own agents within the Manhattan ecosystem. Customers can now create specialised agents tailored to their unique processes and preferences, drastically reducing time-to-value, increasing automation scalability, enhancing productivity, and delivering tangible business value. They can also lean on Manhattan or third-party partners to develop these specialised agents. "Agentic AI isn't just another feature; it's a transformative innovation capability tailored to redefine the future of supply chain commerce," said Sanjeev Siotia, CTO at Manhattan. "By opening up Agent Foundry to our customers and partners, we're ensuring that AI agent creation will not be constrained by vendor development cycles. This is part of Manhattan's ongoing commitment to path-breaking technology that heightens efficiency and resiliency. Our best-in-class customer base now has the power to create thousands of digital agents, limited only by their imagination." All agents built in Manhattan Agent Foundry are compatible with emerging industry standards, including A2A and MCP protocols, ensuring seamless interoperability with third-party agent platforms such as Google Agentspace. This reinforces Manhattan's desire to make Agentic AI a key enabler of an interconnected, AI-driven enterprise ecosystem. Agentic AI assistants and Agent Foundry will be generally available starting Fall 2025. Receive up-to-date product, customer and partner news directly from Manhattan on LinkedIn. ABOUT MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES: Manhattan Associates is a global technology leader in supply chain and omnichannel commerce. We unite information across the enterprise, converging front-end sales with back-end supply chain execution. Our software, platform technology and unmatched experience help drive both top-line growth and bottom-line profitability for our customers. Manhattan Associates designs, builds and delivers leading edge cloud solutions so that across the store, through your network or from your fulfilment centre, you are ready to reap the rewards of the omnichannel marketplace. For more information, please visit View source version on Contacts Press Contact: Devika GoelManhattan AssociatesTel: +1 470-435-1566dgoel@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Business
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State lawmakers should not cut taxes and here's why
House Speaker Murrell Smith during a press conference about income tax legislation at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Photo by Travis Bell/STATEHOUSE CAROLINA/Special to the SC Daily Gazette) A camel, it has been said, is a horse designed by a committee. A committee of state GOP leaders recently designed a 'historic' income tax-cut plan. But what they delivered was a camel: lopsided, ungainly, and reeking of a bad attitude. Worse, they put the cart before the camel, announcing the tax-cut plan with much ballyhoo and bunkum before realizing that it doesn't cut taxes for most South Carolinians. It actually raises taxes for 60% of South Carolinians (or nearly 1.7 million tax filers) for tax year 2026, as per estimates released by the state Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office a week after the big announcement. The bill includes huge tax cuts for some, but those cuts overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy. Roughly 9,900 tax filers with more than $1 million in income would see their taxes cut by an average of $31,000, according to reporting by S.C. Daily Gazette Editor Seanna Adcox. Many others would get little or nothing. The bill was supposed to be fast-tracked for approval, but now House leaders have postponed debate while they explore other options. No, I'm not making this up. This was a hugely embarrassing episode of DOGE-level ineptitude by the people who are supposed to be leading our state. At least the bill was shelved for the moment. But Rep. Brandon Newton, chairman of Ways and Means' tax policy subcommittee, said Republicans remain 'committed to passing income tax reform this year.' That means another tax-cut camel may soon be galumphing along the dusty road to the Statehouse. Whatever rough beast emerges out of ongoing discussions, the General Assembly should reject it. State lawmakers should not cut taxes. The postponed bill slashed taxes by more than $200 million, with a provision to cut $200 million in taxes every year when revenue projections rise by 5%. A revised bill might cut taxes by that amount as well. We simply can't afford that. Our state has too many critical needs that should be addressed right now, including infrastructure, education, health care, crime and public safety. We should remember that the General Assembly just cut taxes over the past few years by a whopping $1 billion, on top of sending $1 billion back as rebates in 2022, limiting the ability of lawmakers to deal effectively with the state's top needs, such as fixing our notoriously awful roads. A bold new plan called Momentum 2025 offers great hope for upgrading our roads, but it carries a price tag of $1 billion a year. There's no plan, however, to fund Momentum 2025, as Adcox pointed out in an excellent commentary tracing the history of our road woes. The state faces other critical concerns, such as the teacher shortage that results in potentially thousands of South Carolina students beginning each school year without a fully qualified teacher in the classroom. We've got dire healthcare challenges in South Carolina as well. An estimated 521,660 South Carolinians under age 65 lack health insurance, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We should follow the lead of 40 other states in expanding Medicaid, drawing down billions in federal funds and investing some state money to provide health care coverage for an additional 360,000 low-income South Carolinians. In addition, with Medicaid threatened by cuts on the federal level, state lawmakers may need to step in to protect South Carolina's most vulnerable citizens. South Carolina also needs to invest more in children, especially in the areas of prenatal care and childcare. South Carolina ranks near the bottom of the nation for child care affordability. Overall, our state ranks among the worst in the nation for the well-being of children, according to the annual Kids Count. The S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice, meanwhile, has been plagued by overcrowding and other unsafe conditions. South Carolina desperately needs to invest more in law enforcement as well. Our state has one of the highest murder rates in the nation and one of the highest rates of fatalities on the road, which includes one of the highest rates of drunken driving deaths. One study called South Carolina 'the most dangerous state for drunk driving in America.' A tax cut doesn't solve those problems. And state lawmakers have made big new promises to South Carolinians this year, including plans to spend $60 million that we can't afford on school vouchers. You can bet Republicans will want to spend a lot more on that in the future as well. Lawmakers who support a big tax cut argue that it's needed to keep South Carolina growing, but that's not a problem. We're already one of the fastest-growing states in the nation. Finally, it would be irresponsible to cut state taxes with the U.S. economy in a tailspin as the stock market and consumer confidence plummet. With Washington in chaos, we need sober heads in Columbia to address our state's most pressing needs, and that doesn't include a big annual tax cut. State leaders have to be the adults in the room.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Yahoo
Trip.com Group Unveils Momentum 2025: Travel's Next Big Trends That are Gaining Speed
SINGAPORE, Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As the global travel industry continues to reinvent itself, Group today released its forward-looking report, Momentum 2025: Travel's Next Big Trends. Based on insights from over 6,000 travellers across six Asia-Pacific markets, this report forecasts the trends and innovations shaping the future of travel, including technology-driven personalisation, niche travel experiences, and a renewed focus on meaningful, immersive journeys. Below is a snapshot of key highlights, download full report here. 1. Experiential Dining to Dominate Travel Itineraries Culinary tourism is on the rise, with 60% of users searching for food-related content since early 2024. Across Asia-Pacific, travellers are drawn to food festivals (62%), hotel dining (60%), and street food tours (52%) as top culinary experiences. Urban food lovers from Hong Kong and Singapore show a particular enthusiasm for street food tours, while travellers from Japan and South Korea prioritise hotel dining for its blend of convenience and luxury. When it comes to preferences by demographic, wine and beer tasting are most popular among men, while women gravitate towards cookery classes for a hands-on experience. Millennials, on the other hand, display a keen interest in interactive food art events. Globally, cities like Tokyo, Paris, and Bangkok have become culinary meccas, celebrated for their diverse and vibrant food scenes. These trends highlight an increasing demand for immersive, culturally rich food experiences. Catering to this surge, the food guide and booking platform offers travellers access to over 50,000 restaurants and expertly curated food guides across 300 cities, enhancing the way travellers explore the world through taste. 2. Travellers Inspired by Media Content The power of films and television on travel choices is stronger than ever, with 70% of travellers across the region planning trips inspired by what they've seen on screen. Romantic comedies and adventure films, in particular, have sparked wanderlust, with Millennials leading the trend at 72%. In Malaysia, a remarkable 91% of travellers credit media for shaping their travel plans, influenced by fan-favourites like Emily in Paris and Running Man. In South Korea, 66% of respondents cited movies and TV shows as key motivators. Shows such as Culinary Class Wars have inspired trips focused on food exploration. This culinary media influence extends to Thailand, where popular programs like MasterChef and Iron Chef are inspiring travellers to seek out dynamic food experiences abroad. Destinations featured in iconic productions are also seeing increased interest. New Zealand's breathtaking "Middle-earth" landscapes and the historic charm of Kyoto, Japan, continue to draw fans eager to experience these magical places firsthand. This trend reflects a growing connection between travel and storytelling, as more people turn their favourite on-screen moments into real-world adventures. 3. Cruise Tourism Sees Major Growth Cruising is set to become a major growth segment in 2025, driven by scenic sea views, fresh ocean air, and diverse onboard experiences. According to the report, 44% of travellers place a high value on onboard dining, 38% are drawn to all-inclusive packages, and 31% prioritise live shows and entertainment. Popular cruise destinations include Tokyo, Jeju Island, and the Maldives. Among Singaporean travellers, affordability (57%), scenic views (52%), and all-inclusive travel (51%) are the most attractive features of cruise holidays. Meanwhile, scenic sea views are the top draw for 62% of respondents aged 55 to 64 in Hong Kong. 4. Entertainment Travel: Big Events Driving Movement Entertainment-driven travel is set to soar, with concerts and sporting events becoming major travel motivators in 2025. Following the global phenomenon of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in 2024, which drew record-breaking crowds worldwide, nearly two-thirds (66%) of travellers now plan to organise trips around live events. This trend isn't just local—66% have already travelled internationally to watch their favourite artists perform, turning concerts into full-fledged travel experiences. In 2024, sports tourism was driven by marquee events such as the UEFA Euro. Now in 2025, football remains the top choice for live sports travel, followed closely by basketball and the ever-growing popularity of Formula 1. Enthusiasts are not just attending these events but seeking destinations that offer complementary experiences, such as exploring local landmarks and culinary hotspots in between match schedules or race weekends. In 2025, entertainment travel is poised to become even more immersive, with fans blending cultural exploration with their passion for live events. This growing demand signals a shift toward more experience-oriented travel, where the thrill of a concert or sporting event becomes the centrepiece of a memorable journey. 5. The Social Media-Driven Explorer Social media will continue to shape where and how people travel. Viral travel content on platforms like TikTok has already influenced 45% of travellers' decisions. Popular destinations including Tokyo and Bali will further benefit from this trend, as users seek destinations with "Instagrammable" appeal. social-sharing Trip Moments travel platform is expected to play a key role in fostering this community-driven exploration. 6. Emerging Micro-Trends for 2025 Dark Sky Stargazing: A growing number of travellers (37%) are planning trips to remote areas for optimal stargazing experiences. Underwater Hotel Stays: Immersive travel experiences, such as underwater hotels and cultural immersion retreats, are gaining traction. AI and Travel Innovation: AI-powered tools will revolutionise travel planning by offering hyper-personalised experiences. Over half of travellers (58%) already use AI for travel recommendations. dynamic tools, like and are designed to enhance this journey by offering itinerary planning from real-time suggestions based on user behaviour. The rise of AI-powered personalisation and sustainable travel will shape the next phase of the industry. Travelers are increasingly prioritising journeys that reflect their values, including cultural preservation and environmental protection. Group's investments in AI and eco-conscious travel solutions position it to lead this transformation, creating seamless and impactful travel experiences for every traveller. About Group Group is a leading global travel service provider comprising of Ctrip, Skyscanner, and Qunar. Across its platforms, Group helps travellers around the world make informed and cost-effective bookings for travel products and services and enables partners to connect their offerings with users through the aggregation of comprehensive travel-related content and resources, and an advanced transaction platform consisting of apps, websites and 24/7 customer service centres. Founded in 1999 and listed on NASDAQ in 2003 and HKEX in 2021, Group has become one of the best-known travel groups in the world, with the mission "to pursue the perfect trip for a better world". Find out more about Group here: Follow us on: X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. SOURCE Group
