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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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Why, and when, CIOs deserve a seat at the M&A negotiating table

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In all three cases, IT systems and the data they hold are crucial to the realization of those goals. Ewe is one of them, although he’s found a way to influence the discussion, providing those on the inside with a due-diligence checklist for technology. “If They’re very focused on the cybersecurity risk profile,” he says.

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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. We essentially had a swarm of big black boxes,” he says. “We

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Fed Tech News Roundup 8 July 2015

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Pentagon's Silicon Valley unit gets $1.75M for fiscal 2015 - FCW.com FCW (Today) - FCW.comPentagon's Silicon Valley unit gets $1.75M for fiscal 2015FCW.comThe Defense Department's first fulltime outreach office in Silicon Valley is up and running thanks to a July 2 memo from Deputy. Securities and. Some are already.

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Improving Security by influencing Human Behavior

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We all know that the hardening of a system or implementing 2FA does not magically improves the security of an organisation. Also for the successful improvement of security in your organisation, a holistic approach is needed. Implementing and improving security demands your approach to cover both people, process and technology.

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

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Kontent launched in 2015 as an internal startup of 18-year-old bootstrapped software developer Kentico. Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. “Kontent.ai has been a first mover and innovator in the space.”

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Inside track: Chris Bedi on his evolving CIO role at ServiceNow

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For Chris Bedi, who joined ServiceNow as CIO in September 2015, a lot: the company recently gave him a new title, chief digital information officer, and rebranded his IT team as “digital technology.” “The Another big component of the job back then, he says, was keeping the information needed to run the business “at our fingertips.”