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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

Trigent

Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.

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RedRoute wants answering customer service calls to be as easy as using ‘Alexa’

TechCrunch

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. Image Credits: RedRoute.

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Transport and Logistics App Development

Mobilunity

In the transport business, it is all about planning, monitoring and execution. This is the key to running a successful transport business, and achieving it sounds a lot easier than it is. Transport businesses face loads of challenging factors such as planning, communication, maintenance, speed and reliability.

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VanMoof raises $128 million to become the world’s leading e-bike brand

TechCrunch

The company designs and sells electric bikes that are quite popular in some markets. VanMoof X3 e-bike review: Transportation revelation. Instead of relying exclusively on off-the-shelf parts, the company works with a small set of suppliers to manufacture custom components. On paper, they are identical.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

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. The investment seems minuscule given that Southwest Airlines was a $33-$38 billion market capitalization airline in 2017.

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Acton’s latest acquisition hints at the future of docked micromobility

TechCrunch

The term “shared micromobility” often calls to mind that Lime e-bike on the nearest street corner or the Voi e-scooter parked next to the bus stop, either of which could on any given day be standing upright or knocked over onto the pavement. That might be changing. Acton , a U.S. Acton , a U.S.

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Singapore’s Neuron is taking the slow and steady approach to micromobility

TechCrunch

and Canada will use the funds to invest in its proprietary technology and double down in existing markets, focusing on cities that want an exclusive or semi-exclusive relationship with operators, according to Zachary Wang, Neuron’s co-founder and CEO. Singapore’s Neuron Mobility has raised a $43.5