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Enterprise AI implementation solutions provider Superglue said it has joined the Information Technology Alliance (ITA) as a Silver Technology Partner. ITA brings together leading consulting, VAR and CPA firms. The partnership brings AI-agent-driven ERP implementations to ITA’s community, helping members grow their business transformation business without adding headcount. ITA members can meet the superglue team at the ITA Fall Collaborative in San Antonio, November 8 to 10. … Small business accounting solutions provider Xero announced it has partnered with accounting and advisory solutions provider Bookkeeper360. The integration brings Xero and Melio’s industry-leading accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) capabilities directly into the Bookkeeper360 platform, enabling Bookkeeper360 to offer those services to its clients under its own brand. … Top 25 firm Armanino said it is expanding its FP&A technology offerings through a new partnership with Martus Solutions, a cloud-based budgeting and financial planning platform. Armanino clients can now purchase Martus software and implementation services directly through the firm, creating a single point of contact for technology and advisory support. The partnership strengthens Armanino’s ability to match growing organizations with FP&A technology based on their size, needs and existing systems. … Crowe, a top 10 firm, announced a partnership with agentic analytics and automation company Alteryx to expand its abilities to help tax departments operationalize artificial intelligence. Through Alteryx’s analytics and automation platform, Crowe will help organizations deploy AI in ways that are repeatable, trusted and scalable. Governed data automation provides the foundation for AI-enabled workflows that improve confidence while maintaining consistency and control. … Inkle, a CPA and bookkeeping firm for U.S. companies, announced that it has acquired the bookkeeping division of Finally, a financial operations platform for small businesses backed by PeakSpan Capital.  The acquisition is part of Inkle’s strategy to expand its US small business customer base and combine AI-enabled accounting technology with experienced service teams. As part of the transaction, approximately 100 Finally team members in the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Miami, Boca Raton, and New York join Inkle. Finally bookkeeping clients will continue to work with the same bookkeeping teams, now operating on Inkle’s platform. The transaction was structured as an asset purchase and is an all-cash transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed. … ADP and PNC Bank announced a strategic partnership that will bring ADP’s payroll and HR capabilities directly into PNC’s digital banking platform. By embedding ADP’s AI-enabled payroll and HR capabilities into PNC’s digital experience, businesses can manage critical operations with greater confidence and accuracy. PNC Payroll by ADP will give small business banking customers access to payroll, HR, time tracking, insurance and retirement solutions directly through their digital banking platform. It will combine digital self-service capabilities with access to 24/7 live ADP payroll experts. ADP brings more than 77 years of experience helping businesses manage payroll and navigate the federal, state and local requirements that affect the workplace. AI-powered capabilities help automate routine tasks while ADP’s payroll experts provide the guidance businesses need to effectively pay and manage their people. … AI-driven bookkeeping solutions provider Digits is now compatible with the iPhone Duo, which holds open in two screens. The user checklist is on one side, the client on the other. Bills and invoices on a side-by-side board. A question from a firm on the left, the receipt on the right. Reports are full-width and interactive, like they look on a desk, except the desk is in your pocket. Close it and everything folds down to one screen. Open it and it all spreads back out. … BlackLine, an agentic operations platform, and S3NS, a joint venture controlled by Thales in partnership with Google Cloud, announced their partnership in France for a new offering hosted on a trusted cloud infrastructure, further expanding BlackLine’s European cloud footprint. Thales, a global leader in Defense, Aerospace, Cyber, and Digital, will be the first customer to implement BlackLine’s platform on this new infrastructure. The platform will run on PREMI3NS, the trusted cloud offering from S3NS. To support the rollout, Thales’ digital services division will build and operate the local deployment, highlighting the company’s dual role as both a flagship customer and a key integration partner. … Top 25 firm Armanino announced it is teaming up with Abacum, an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform, combining an integration relationship with a value-added reseller arrangement, giving Armanino clients direct access to Abacum’s platform alongside Armanino’s advisory expertise. The collaboration expands Armanino’s growing ecosystem of AI-native finance and accounting solutions, bringing Abacum’s FP&A capabilities into a technology portfolio that also includes solutions supporting accounting, tax and other specialized finance workflows. The firm has announced similar relationships with Rillet, Ramp and Accrual as it helps clients modernize specific areas of the finance function through purpose-built AI platforms.