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Tax research solutions provider Bizora AI has joined the Information Technology Alliance, a not-for-profit association of leading Consulting and VAR firms, CPA firms and technology product/service providers. …  Thomson Reuters and Suralink, an accounting and auditing automation platform, announced a partnership to integrate Suralink with Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Tax, Audit & Accounting and Engagement Manager. The new integrations are designed to reduce friction between systems and enable audit professionals to more easily move from client requests to analysis and execution. … Sovos, a tax compliance platform, announced the acquisition of Blue dot, an AI VAT intelligence and recovery platform headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. Its platform includes more than 150 AI models, a real-time orchestration engine, a transaction Knowledge Graph and agentic capabilities designed to automate document ingestion, reconciliation and compliance operations. Sovos intends to embed Blue dot’s AI into its compliance transaction flow. Blue dot’s AI will reconcile structured B2B invoices. Its data science and engineering teams will join Sovos’ product and technology organization. … Spend management solutions provider Expensify announced an integration with Anthropic to make Expensify one of the first expense management tools available as a connector in the Claude for Small Business plugin. With the integration, business owners can prompt Claude in plain language with requests such as: “Which expenses from last month are still missing receipts?”, “Show me what we spent on software subscriptions this quarter, broken down by vendor” or “How much did we spend last month versus the month before, and what drove the difference?” Claude then analyzes their Expensify expense, card and receipt data, and provides answers. … Cloud-specialized business and accounting platform Xero announced it is expanding its partnership with Anthropic with the release of their new Claude for Small Business workflows and integrations. Additionally, their new Xero plugin in OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now live. These developments build on Xero’s AI integrations with Claude (launched in May) and their growing connections across Microsoft 365 apps which will soon include Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Copilot Cowork. These integrations enable small businesses and their advisors to access their financial information across the tools they work in every day.  Every answer is built on live Xero data rather than an export, so everyone is working with the current numbers, and the review step and final judgement stay with the accountant and the business owner. Accountants and bookkeepers can use these integrations today, working in one client organisation at a time with the same live Xero data and the same supported workflows their clients have. Coming soon, advisors will also be able to move between a practice’s client organisations without reconnecting each time. …  Crunchafi, a SaaS technology provider for CPA firms and financial professionals announced the acquisition of BUCS Analytics. The acquisition dramatically expands Crunchafi’s capacities. It now connects to more than 150 accounting, ERP, payroll, CRM and operational systems, cloud-based and on-premises; makes firm data available to AI tools through an MCP; and extends Crunchafi into CAS with advisory-ready analytics, giving firms a clearer view of client financial health and where to focus, from routine reporting to identifying opportunities and risks across their client base. BUCS Analytics customers will continue to be supported through the transition.  …  CostPerform, an enterprise platform for cost modeling and management accounting and integraSoft, a developer of mission-critical ERP, equipment rental, and warehouse management software, announced partnerships with Infragistics’ Reveal embedded analytics software. By integrating Reveal’s self-service embedded analytics solution, these organizations are delivering real-time reporting, interactive dashboards, and advanced analytics directly within their applications. They join an expanding list of partners, including SnapFulfil, Acuity, Casebook, Scriptly, and Commodity Centre… Purchase-to-pay automation provider Yooz announced its integration with CDK Accounting enabling dealers to automatically sync payment and remittance details from Yooz directly into CDK Accounting. Previously, Yooz could send approved invoices to CDK but could not mark them as paid, requiring manual updates and creating gaps in audit records. With certification on CDK’s Accounting Post Vendor Payments API, Yooz now completes the full purchase-to-pay workflow by updating invoice payment status within CDK.  … Data connection and integration solutions provider Amalgam announced new integration with Acumatica as well as a new payments workflow. The Acumatica integration lets users pull Acumatica data directly into Excel or Google Sheets for reporting, analysis, and ongoing financial workflows. The new Invoice Payments resources can be used to build workflows around invoice data, payment tracking, and reporting, giving people more flexibility to bring invoice activity into existing Excel and Google Sheets workflows and build the reporting or processes they need around it.