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How we pivoted our deep tech startup to become a SaaS company

TechCrunch

The process wasn’t precisely linear, but (looking back) we did four core things to conclude SaaS was our model: Assessed what was truly disruptive, scalable and profitable about our technology. Two years later, I joined as a growth-stage CEO after leading two energy technology companies to scale and acquisition.

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Are Products Really Better Than Services? Maybe It’s Time To Reevaluate 

Crunchbase News

This preference underscores an inclination toward the scalability and predictability that products can offer. This preference underscores an inclination toward the scalability and predictability that products can offer. But, at least based on my firsthand observations over the years, this conventional wisdom might need a reassessment.

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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

TechCrunch

The proceeds bring the company’s total raised to $17 million, which CEO Sankalp Arora says is being put toward expanding Gather’s deployment capacity and go-to-market plans as well as hiring new machine learning engineers. ” Gather isn’t the first to market with a drone-based inventory monitoring system.

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Understanding the Dynamics of Custom Software Development

The Crazy Programmer

After endless searching, they finally decide to seek out a software development company, like BairesDev , to turn their ideas into a reality. Compared to commercial off-the-shelf software products (COTS), custom-developed software is built to meet a narrow, specific set of requirements. Why Choose Custom Software Development?

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

But Southwest’s technology was also cited by experts and the company’s leadership as contributing to the calamity. “IT In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations.

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What Is Custom Software? Unlocking the Power of Tailored Solutions

Invid Group

This blog post will discuss the idea of custom software’s benefits and why it has become a crucial resource for companies in various industries. As a result, companies can produce more work with more precision and efficiency. Scalability and flexibility: A business can develop and expand alongside custom software.

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

CIO

Financial technology and services company Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) uses the low code WaveMaker to develop the user interfaces for the customer-facing applications it builds for its bank customers, using APIs to connect those applications to the customer’s or FIS’ back-end systems.