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Why Investing in the Database Market Is More Interesting Than Ever

CIO

Premji Invest deploys a “crossover format” (investing in both private and public companies) across the technology, healthcare, consumer, and FinTech landscapes; it has backed market leaders like Outreach, Sysdig, Heyday, Anaplan, Coupa, Moderna, Carta, Flipkart, Looker (acquired by Google), and DataStax. Why invest in the database market?

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Decoding the Qualtrics deal: Was the firm a good fit for SAP?

CIO

Even though Qualtrics is still a market leader and a strong product, it just didn’t fit very well with SAP’s strategy,” said Hyoun Park, principal analyst at research firm Amalgam Insights. Qualtrics is oriented from the contact center and is in a crowded market.

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8 strategic imperatives for SAP transformation success

CIO

Pivoting away from a serial approach to evaluation and selection, forward-thinking IT leaders are instead employing an integrated sourcing strategy tailored to facilitate business and IT transformations. On the sell side, vendors have revamped their go-to-market strategies, service offerings, and partnerships.

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Learning from my failures: Lessons from a 2-time founder

TechCrunch

Here are the lessons I’ve learned that I believe can help any entrepreneur succeed: Delay fundraising until you have a strong initial offering that has shown some level of success in creating happy customers with profitable marketing. We even have marketing strategies that we only use when the market is strong.

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How to Lose With AI

CIO

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Consumers love smart personalization. Only human leadership can create that. About Bryan Kirschner : Bryan is Vice President, Strategy at DataStax. Developers get fired up about building AI-powered apps. They promise to offer “inspiration.”

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What it takes to succeed as a CIO today

CIO

The market for technology talent has been white hot over the past year. Dan Roberts: What are some of the macro trends you’re seeing that are affecting the technology industry and market for talent? China, for example, has an alternate universe as far as social media and ecommerce are concerned.

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Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as Europe’s food delivery market continues to heat up

TechCrunch

To offset the thin (or even negative) margins that are typically associated with a lot of delivery startups, Glovo aims to become the market leader in the 20 markets in Europe where it is live today, in part by expanding its “q-commerce” service — the delivery of items to urban consumers in 30 minutes or less.

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