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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower CTO

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

SAFe is particularly well-suited to complex projects that involve multiple large teams at the project, program, and portfolio levels. An ART is a team comprised of agile teams that, along with stakeholders, develop one or more solutions in a value stream. Apply systems thinking into all facets of development.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

CIO

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. For Moncrieff, the conversation was really around ownership, transparency, and cost.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. AIOps platforms are one relatively new driver of such partnerships.

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

TechCrunch

CEO Ross Rich says that the new funds, which bring Accord’s total raised to $17 million, will be put toward the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams. The brothers say that they discovered the challenges of modern B2B sales firsthand as their teams scaled from a handful of reps to thousands on the go-to-market team.

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Sharing Responsibility for Data Security in the Cloud

CIO

The security-shared-responsibility model is essential when choosing as-a-service offerings, which make a third-party partner responsible for some element of the enterprise operational model. But outsourcing operational risk is untenable, given the criticality of data-first modernization to overall enterprise success.

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Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

Now Nord Security , the startup behind one of the bigger paid VPN providers, NordVPN , is announcing significant funding at a “unicorn” valuation to build out both its consumer and enterprise business lines to capitalize on that growth. firm Versprite.