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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

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This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015. The version of their SAP ERP system was out of support and the SAP instance they chose wasn’t available as an on-premise capable, supported hardware platform.

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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

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Ross was one of the first salespeople at Stripe back in 2015, while Ryan was an early sales hire at Google Cloud. Compounded with that fact, there is no system to reinforce a consistent, repeatable sales process, even if you have the ideal sales journey all figured out.” “Customers don’t want to talk to sellers.

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Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools

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million in funding since it was founded in 2015. Metabase was developed within venture studio Expa and spun out as an easy way for people to interact with data sets, co-founder and CEO Sameer Al-Sakran told TechCrunch. Existing investors Expa and NEA joined in on the round, which gives the San Francisco-based company a total of $42.5

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Tive, a startup developing supply chain visibility tools, raises $54M

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According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. But according to Komoni, most tracking is done manually via loose systems of emails, spreadsheets and phone calls.

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

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Kirkland, a founding member of SustainabilityIT.org, an organization to drive global sustainability through technology leadership, says Choice was the first hospitality company to make a strategic commitment to developing a cloud-native and sustainable platform on AWS. I am in the business of hospitality.

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Lilt raises $55M to bolster its business-focused AI translation platform

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San Francisco, Calfornia-based Lilt was co-founded by Green and John DeNero in 2015. Green is a former Northrop Grumman software engineer who later worked as a research intern on the Google Translate team, developing an AI language system for improving English-to-Arabic translations. .” AI-powered translations.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

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Newly appointed CEO Bart Omlo says that the proceeds from Kontent’s first external investment will be put toward expanding the company’s marketing and sales teams, opening a new office in New York and supporting product development. Over time, the product evolved into a comprehensive digital experience platform for marketers.”