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Palantir alums raise $25M from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and other VCs for their finance startup, Mosaic

TechCrunch

Along that journey, we tried all the off the shelf tools that exist and they had a really hard time keeping pace with the needs and the requests of the business,” CEO Moallemi recalls. “We The trio describe Mosaic as a “strategic finance platform” that is designed to ingest data from a number of systems — ERPs, HRISs, CRMs, etc. —

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO

For example, CIOs can buy an off-the-shelf system that costs X in license fees today and 20% of X every year as long as they are using it or they could choose to build the system in a manner where instead of X they incur 1.5X The year 2023 seems to be no different. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1%

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A Guide To Software Consulting: Role, Benefits, Process, and Tips

Openxcell

It is not always easy to follow plans when things change. It can be risky to experiment and change plans in a fast-growing industry. Role of software consultants Strategic Planning A software development consultant helps companies define technology strategies that align with their goals. What is software consulting?

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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

Altexsoft

The annual IHS Markit Supply Chain Survey Report found that 63 percent of companies don’t have sufficient technology to approach their top priority optimization strategy, i.e., spend analytics (the situation within other strategic areas is similar). “Control towers are the artificial intelligence (AI) of supply chain.

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Free Business Plans for Small Business Owners and Start-ups

Strategy Driven

Because that’s the thing – your business plan is important. Any funder worth his or her salt wants to see it right off the bat. Any funder worth his or her salt wants to see it right off the bat. A lot of those mistakes are the result of poor planning. Score’s Business Plan Template for Startups.

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Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

Altexsoft

Besides, due to the specific nature of the industry with high-value one-off payments, a big number of businesses across the world, and rapid customer consumption of services, the travel and hospitality sector is a huge target for fraud. In 2019, the travel and hospitality industry accounted for a whopping 10.3 percent of global GDP.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Training is unfairly blamed and scapegoated for pieces of the organizational mosaic that Strategic Planning and cohesive corporate Vision should have addressed early-on. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive. I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management.