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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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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

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Maritime shipping, argued Fabian Fussek, CEO and co-founder of Kaiko Systems, is the “last frontier of digitzation.” ” Kaiko Systems is a Berlin-based startup trying to digitize operations on commercial vessels. But some sectors have been left behind.

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Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews

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Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. In addition, with Vyrill’s system, L’Oréal can dig down and identify user-generated content specific to a particular product. Bam and co-founder and CTO Dr. Barbara Rosario started the company in 2015 and raised a $2.1

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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 Despite that, many CIOs are still shut out of negotiations.

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

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I’m not in the business of managing infrastructure,” says Kirkland, whose previous stints at GoDaddy and Intel helped build the technology acumen he parlays in a new type of industry he joined in 2015. “I It is the brains of everything — our core system. 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. A robust market.