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Associated Press
20 hours ago
- Business
- Associated Press
SEP Backs Enate With Significant Investment as Process Orchestration Market Grows Strongly
GLASGOW, Scotland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 25, 2025-- Enate, a UK-based software company, which provides a market leading process orchestration and AI solution used by global service providers, including IHG, TMF and EY, has secured a significant investment from Scottish Equity Partners (SEP). SEP is a leading European growth equity firm, specialising in enterprise software and technology businesses. With this investment, Enate will double down on AI and orchestration R&D, while continuing to scale customer operations across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Market demand for process orchestration software continues to grow rapidly, with Enate hitting 30% annualised growth over the last three years. According to industry analysts, the overall process orchestration market is expected to reach $22 billion by 2030. Enate's solution powers large service providers to run complex, global operations with greater consistency and control. It connects people, systems and processes through one simple platform, giving business leaders the visibility and data needed to improve efficiency and deliver global services at scale. James Hall, CEO of Enate and former Founder of GenFour said, 'We've hit a tipping point. Process orchestration is no longer a niche idea, it's a core foundation of digital transformation and AI deployment. Enate is an established pioneer of this movement. SEP's backing is a huge validation. They're experienced growth equity investors with a strong track record in enterprise software. This is about scaling up with the right partner, strengthening our product and AI capabilities, and taking Enate to even more service providers globally.' Tim Ankers, Director at SEP, commented: 'We've followed Enate's progress closely over the years and have been impressed by the value they deliver to customers. We're delighted to now be partnering with James, Kit and the team, providing significant investment to support product development and global expansion. Enate fits with our strategy of backing high-growth enterprise software companies solving real operational challenges.' Daniel Muranda, Principal at SEP, added. 'There's significant potential for service providers to improve customer experience and operational performance with orchestration and automation technologies. Enate's offering already powers some of the world's most complex organisations to do just that. Crucially, it enables the safe and scalable adoption of Generative and Agentic AI, while meeting operational and regulatory needs.' 'Too many businesses are still trying to deliver global services with spreadsheets and shared inboxes.' said Founder and CTO, Kit Cox. 'This investment signals a new chapter for Enate, as it scales to meet global demand for orchestration and AI in service delivery. Enate was built to cope with the reality of running modern services. They're often complex and chaotic, but we're changing that from the inside out.' Existing investor, Mercia Ventures, continues to support the company's growth journey. Mercia's early belief and ongoing investment have helped Enate build strong foundations, accelerate product innovation and expand internationally. Marina Fuentes, Investor at Mercia Ventures added 'We're very pleased to see this confidence echoed by SEP's significant backing, which marks another important milestone in Enate's scale-up journey.' About Enate Enate's orchestration and AI solution is purpose-built for service providers. It connects people, systems and teams into a single platform for managing work, enabling operations teams to run better services consistently, and on time. Customers include IHG, TMF and EY. Learn more at About Scottish Equity Partners Scottish Equity Partners ('SEP') is one of Europe's leading growth equity firms, helping founders and management teams in enterprise software and technology companies to achieve their global ambitions. Providing investment, alongside expertise and access to its substantial network, SEP works closely with the companies it invests in to maximise their business growth and value. SEP is a signatory to the UNPRI, the world's leading proponent of responsible investment. For further information, visit View source version on For more information please [email protected] KEYWORD: UNITED KINGDOM EUROPE INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE MOBILE/WIRELESS NETWORKS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BUSINESS DATA MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY ASSET MANAGEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA ANALYTICS OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FINANCE OTHER TECHNOLOGY SOURCE: Scottish Equity Partners Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 06/25/2025 04:00 AM/DISC: 06/25/2025 03:59 AM
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
SEP Backs Enate With Significant Investment as Process Orchestration Market Grows Strongly
GLASGOW, Scotland, June 25, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enate, a UK-based software company, which provides a market leading process orchestration and AI solution used by global service providers, including IHG, TMF and EY, has secured a significant investment from Scottish Equity Partners (SEP). SEP is a leading European growth equity firm, specialising in enterprise software and technology businesses. With this investment, Enate will double down on AI and orchestration R&D, while continuing to scale customer operations across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Market demand for process orchestration software continues to grow rapidly, with Enate hitting 30% annualised growth over the last three years. According to industry analysts, the overall process orchestration market is expected to reach $22 billion by 2030. Enate's solution powers large service providers to run complex, global operations with greater consistency and control. It connects people, systems and processes through one simple platform, giving business leaders the visibility and data needed to improve efficiency and deliver global services at scale. James Hall, CEO of Enate and former Founder of GenFour said, "We've hit a tipping point. Process orchestration is no longer a niche idea, it's a core foundation of digital transformation and AI deployment. Enate is an established pioneer of this movement. SEP's backing is a huge validation. They're experienced growth equity investors with a strong track record in enterprise software. This is about scaling up with the right partner, strengthening our product and AI capabilities, and taking Enate to even more service providers globally." Tim Ankers, Director at SEP, commented: "We've followed Enate's progress closely over the years and have been impressed by the value they deliver to customers. We're delighted to now be partnering with James, Kit and the team, providing significant investment to support product development and global expansion. Enate fits with our strategy of backing high-growth enterprise software companies solving real operational challenges." Daniel Muranda, Principal at SEP, added. "There's significant potential for service providers to improve customer experience and operational performance with orchestration and automation technologies. Enate's offering already powers some of the world's most complex organisations to do just that. Crucially, it enables the safe and scalable adoption of Generative and Agentic AI, while meeting operational and regulatory needs." "Too many businesses are still trying to deliver global services with spreadsheets and shared inboxes." said Founder and CTO, Kit Cox. "This investment signals a new chapter for Enate, as it scales to meet global demand for orchestration and AI in service delivery. Enate was built to cope with the reality of running modern services. They're often complex and chaotic, but we're changing that from the inside out." Existing investor, Mercia Ventures, continues to support the company's growth journey. Mercia's early belief and ongoing investment have helped Enate build strong foundations, accelerate product innovation and expand internationally. Marina Fuentes, Investor at Mercia Ventures added "We're very pleased to see this confidence echoed by SEP's significant backing, which marks another important milestone in Enate's scale-up journey." About Enate Enate's orchestration and AI solution is purpose-built for service providers. It connects people, systems and teams into a single platform for managing work, enabling operations teams to run better services consistently, and on time. Customers include IHG, TMF and EY. Learn more at About Scottish Equity Partners Scottish Equity Partners ('SEP') is one of Europe's leading growth equity firms, helping founders and management teams in enterprise software and technology companies to achieve their global ambitions. Providing investment, alongside expertise and access to its substantial network, SEP works closely with the companies it invests in to maximise their business growth and value. SEP is a signatory to the UNPRI, the world's leading proponent of responsible investment. For further information, visit View source version on Contacts For more information please contact 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
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Camunda and Liferay Announce Partnership
This partnership empowers businesses to achieve agile collaboration and deliver exceptional digital experiences through intelligent automation. Diamond Bar, CA, June 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Camunda, and Liferay, Inc., are joining forces to build and deliver cutting-edge digital experiences. By leveraging Liferay's enterprise cloud platform and Camunda's advanced orchestration and automation capabilities, businesses can now unify internal and external processes for seamless, personalized experiences. Our partnership with Camunda enables organizations to seamlessly integrate internal operations with external engagement, driving agility and innovation through intelligent automation. Camunda and Liferay will focus on empowering businesses to accelerate their digital transformation by seamlessly blending powerful process automation with dynamic digital experiences. This collaboration combines Liferay's intuitive, personalized user experiences with Camunda's robust process orchestration and automation platform, enabling organizations to streamline complex workflows, automate manual tasks, and drive operational efficiency. Digital transformation has driven businesses toward automation and AI, but complex digital infrastructures in large organizations make end-to-end process automation challenging. Process orchestration is essential for coordinating tasks, integrating systems, and enabling centralized updates, ensuring compliance, reducing technical debt, and maximizing AI investments. The Camunda Connect Partner Program is a global ecosystem of partners spanning every region of the world. Partners receive top-tier training and support, aiming to tackle automation challenges with process orchestration. We welcome Liferay into the program", highlighted Christiana Christenson, VP Global Partners at Camunda "We are excited to have Camunda join us in empowering businesses to design, execute, and monitor complex workflows, providing real-time process visibility and enhancing agility with Camunda's process orchestration and automation platform", said Linda Hartman, Vice President of Partnerships at Liferay. "Additionally, the partnership will also enable businesses to empower their business users with low-code/no-code capabilities, driving innovation and faster time-to-market'. About Liferay Liferay helps organizations build for the future by enabling them to create, manage, and scale powerful solutions on the world's most flexible Digital Experience Platform (DXP). Trusted globally by over a thousand companies spanning multiple industries, Liferay's open-source DXP facilitates the development of marketing and commerce websites, customer portals, intranets, and more. Learn how we can use technology to change the world together at © 2025 Liferay, Inc. All rights reserved. About Camunda Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate and automate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity, increase efficiency, and fully operationalize AI. Built for business and IT, Camunda's leading orchestration and automation platform executes any process at the required speed and scale to remain competitive without compromising security, governance, or innovation. Over 700 companies across all industries, including Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone, trust Camunda with the design, orchestration, automation, and improvement of their business-critical processes to accelerate digital transformation. To learn more, visit CONTACT: Yotam Levy Liferay 1-877-LIFERAY 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
Forbes
17-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How Enterprises Can Keep Up With Rising Complexity
Jakob Freund is the CEO of Camunda, a software company innovating end-to-end process orchestration. Digital transformation efforts are pushing many businesses to automate more. For the typical enterprise, however, increasing the level of automation is becoming more complicated than expected. My company commissioned an independent research firm to survey 800 senior IT decision-makers, business leaders and software architects for the 2025 "State of Process Orchestration & Automation" (SOPO&A) report. The results indicated that "organizations average about 50 components/endpoints" in their automated processes, a number that has increased 19% year-over-year. These endpoints include people, systems (including legacy systems, microservices and AI) and devices. Paired with the rapid pace of innovation around tools like generative AI and agentic AI, many are concerned about their ability to integrate even more technologies into their existing workflows—without disrupting their overall automation efforts. In fact, 77% of organizations surveyed for the SOPO&A report say "a lack of control has resulted in increased risk that core business processes are not working anymore." An overwhelming majority say that if left unchecked, these risks could lead to an 'automation armageddon,' where automation errors snowball into catastrophic consequences. Organizations can't afford these compounding risks, so the time to act is now. The topic on everyone's minds is incorporating more AI into automated business processes to increase efficiency and improve customer experience. However, the adoption of AI hasn't gone as smoothly as many companies surveyed for the SOPO&A report would have liked: Eighty-five percent of organizations said "they face challenges being able to scale and operationalize AI across their organization." Research from McKinsey also shows that only 1% of C-suite executives describe their generative AI rollouts as mature. These same leaders surveyed by McKinsey are increasing their investments in AI, with 92% expecting to boost spending in this area. To get the maximum benefit and ROI from AI, 93% of organizations surveyed for the SOPO&A report agree that AI "will need to be orchestrated across their business processes." The same orchestration principles hold true for other technologies involved in an automated process, along with the people who use them. Combined with inflexible legacy systems, many organizations face issues with outdated processes and a general inability to keep up with the rate of change. Other McKinsey research found that "as much as 70 percent of the software used by Fortune 500 companies was developed 20 or more years ago." To help increase the efficacy of their automation efforts, 89% of companies surveyed for the SOPO&A report are orchestrating older technologies and human workflows alongside what's new. Well-coordinated processes are the secret to automation success for many of the organizations surveyed. In fact, 72% of organizations surveyed for the SOPO&A report "believe process orchestration plays an important role in digital transformation." By improving their processes, these companies have experienced real business benefits from their digital transformation efforts. For example, more than half of the companies that have leveraged process orchestration in the SOPO&A report have improved their customer service and customer experience. By standardizing processes with orchestration, 44% of these same organizations have become more efficient. Yet, not all organizations are at the level of process orchestration maturity they desire: Eighty-two percent of companies surveyed for the SOPO&A report still say "they need to have better tools to manage how their processes all intersect." As many organizations look toward future trends like the fully autonomous organization, orchestration will become even more important. While the idea of automated and AI-based systems making decisions independently sounds appealing, organizations must make sure they can trace these AI-powered decisions and maintain compliance with industry regulations. By centralizing and orchestrating processes, organizations can gain better visibility into their process outcomes, regardless of the endpoints involved, and reduce the risk of error. It's all about taking back control while still keeping up with a rapid rate of change that otherwise would seem too difficult to manage. Automation teams who orchestrate their processes prove that it is possible to move fast without breaking the core business processes that give their organizations a clear competitive advantage. As we've seen from the data, automation on its own isn't enough. Without orchestration, things can get messy fast—more tools, more complexity and more risk. The good news is that with the right approach, it's possible to stay in control even as everything speeds up: A major obstacle to orchestration maturity is misalignment between business and technical stakeholders. Without a shared language, even the best automation tools can't deliver business value. Organizations should adopt visual process modeling standards like Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) to bridge the gap. These standards make process automation understandable for everyone, from IT architects to line-of-business leaders. Cross-functional alignment also means involving stakeholders earlier. Instead of treating orchestration as an IT-only initiative, bring different business functions into the planning phase. This fosters shared ownership and helps ensure that automation outcomes map directly to business needs. Many enterprises are sitting on a mix of legacy systems, SaaS platforms and manual business processes. Rather than waiting for a massive digital transformation, organizations should begin by orchestrating what they already have. Start by identifying high-impact processes that touch multiple systems or teams. Use orchestration to link systems together—even if some of them are outdated or siloed. This creates a foundation for end-to-end automation, which is more powerful than isolated fixes. At the same time, avoid point solutions that create more silos, like AI technologies or RPA bots deployed without governance or oversight. Instead, orchestrate around a vision that spans business functions, channels and data sources. Orchestration maturity doesn't stop at deployment. Leading organizations treat automation like a product: launched, monitored and iterated over time. This requires real-time visibility into process performance. Ensure that your team is tracking key metrics, identifying bottlenecks and responding quickly to changes. The goal is to shift from reactive triage to proactive optimization. That way, teams can forecast outcomes, simulate improvements and make better decisions. Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify?
