  In this presentation, we will focus on a recent applications of the GoSam 2.0
automated framework which goes beyond the official scope of this code,
originally designed for one-loop fixed order calculations. In particular, we
describe a customized version of GoSam that has been recently employed to study
the production of a top-antitop pair in association with a vector boson or with
the Higgs boson to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. In the context
of these calculations, the modified version of GoSam was used to evaluate the
NLO hard functions which are needed to carry out the resummation of soft gluon
emission effects. We also briefly comment on the ongoing efforts to generalize
integrand reduction and unitarity for higher order calculation, towards the
goal of developing efficient alternative computational techniques for the
evaluation of scattering amplitudes beyond one loop.
