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With fresh capital, Symend aims to build a better debt collection system

TechCrunch

A 2016 whitepaper from the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals International found that debt rose from $150 billion to over $600 billion in the previous five years. ” With fresh capital, Symend aims to build a better debt collection system by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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

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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.” DealPoint , Sales Hacker ) to develop similar sales orchestration offerings.

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AoAD2 Practice: Test-Driven Development

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Test-Driven Development.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

In November 2021 it turned on a new ERP system intended to support international growth with improved operational visibility and financial reporting capabilities. The company was forced to develop new processes to keep information flowing around the business, and hire a third-party consultant to sort out the ERP system at a cost of $3.8

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO

“Digital is a powerful business lever,” says Alessandra Luksch, director of the Digital Transformation Academy Observatory at Politecnico di Milano, which has been mapping trends in ICT spending by Italian organizations since 2016. “In This commitment to the business is inescapable.

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Accounting platform Synder raises $2M to automate e-commerce bookkeeping

TechCrunch

It was originally founded as CloudBusiness in 2016 and developed accounting automation and management of business finances for small and mid-size businesses. Small businesses sometimes are not sharing this information due to competition, but if something is working and easy, they will definitely share it.”.

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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

CIO

Even so, many clients tell Gartner they are not ready to trust Oracle as their primary provider, Wright says, due to past experiences with Oracle’s aggressive sales practices. The platform provides support for custom development, cloud infrastructure for hosting, as well as unique cloud business applications.”