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Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars

TechCrunch

Risk factors Prewave founders Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith Image Credits : Prewave Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting these risks.

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

An organization or an IT system is in difficulties when an event results in a decrease of its value output. The decline in the value is the period of time a system absorbs the stress, and recovery is when the value output is on the rise. Taleb stated that there are “systems” that break when exposed to a stressor. See figure 1.

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Unpacking Murray & Roberts’ turbulent journey to the cloud and back again

CIO

We started with a serious migration from the first quarter of 2017 because a lot of our equipment was end of life, so it was an all-or-nothing approach. It took a bit longer than anticipated but by November 2017, we were almost fully across and functioning. So what systems are in place now in M&R’s on-premises data center?

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

CIO

When Grayling joined the company in 2017, he focused on business process transformation, which went well as long as the processes concerned didn’t cross the boundary between SAP instances — a challenge he encountered while transforming source-to-pay processes across the two systems by implementing SAP Ariba.

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Bosch picks up Five.ai after the self-driving startup pivoted to B2B and then put itself up for sale

TechCrunch

From what we understand, if required due to sanctions, Bosch would put funds into a holding account if needed. A year and a bit ago we thought we would probably build the entire thing and take it to market as a whole system,” co-founder and CEO Stan Boland told me back in 2020. That was a hard truth for Five, too. “A

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Agile Development: The State of DevOps Tools in 2018

G2 Crowd Software

Agile development is faster and closer to the user. These agile processes allow collaborating teams to optimize productivity and deliver more fine-tuned solutions to end users. Select 2017/2018 DevOps funding list. Tuesday, December 12, 2017 BuildSupply undisclosed GREE Ventures and 5 other investors.

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Be agile or be disrupted – Why agile Engineering is vital for the future of Engineering

Capgemini

Agility promises high potential, even beyond the IT industry. Now that agility has successfully revolutionized the software industry, the question on everyones’ minds is “How it can be applied to other industries?” After all, the idea of tackling IT challenges with an agile approach also exists in other industries.

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