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After 30 years, ‘Crossing the Chasm’ is due for a refresh

TechCrunch

When I was at Open Market in the 1990s, our CEO gave out the recently published book “ Crossing the Chasm ” to the executive team and told us to read it to gain insight into why we had hit a speed bump in our scaling. Despite our exuberant optimism, we keep getting the potential market size wrong. The reason?

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Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform

TechCrunch

Meet Thynk , a new company that wants to build the definite enterprise software solution for the hospitality industry. When it comes to software-as-a-service companies, entrepreneurs choose to address a specific segment. Due to talent shortage, some support roles have been centralized by regions or countries.

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NLP helps Eli Lilly work at a global scale

CIO

With more than 30,000 employees spread across more than 60 affiliate locations and 14 manufacturing sites around the world, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly operates at a truly global scale. It became a great opportunity that a Lilly software engineer picked up and ran with, initially as a great learning opportunity.”.

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Merck Life Sciences banks on RPA to streamline regulatory compliance

CIO

The pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated one, especially for multinationals doing business across the globe. Merck Life Sciences, a leading chemical and pharmaceutical company, with 60,000 employees working across 66 countries, was one of them. Dependency on human resources is both time-consuming and fraught with errors.

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How API-led modernization can transform research and development at pharmaceutical companies

Capgemini

According to MuleSoft’s annual Connectivity Benchmark Report , 89% of IT leaders say data silos are an obstacle to digital transformation, and pharmaceutical companies are no strangers to this issue. In the digital era, they have a range of new data-driven challenges to meet as they strive to bring new drugs to market faster than ever before.

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Growing Our Global Delivery and Medtech Software Development Expertise with the SMEDIX Acquisition

Perficient

For more than 25 years, we’ve grown our presence, our talent, our skills, and our global footprint so that we can continually provide critical Agile software development and delivery services to the world’s biggest brands. We see great opportunity in SMEDIX and its ability to design and develop medtech software solutions.

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Tive, a startup developing supply chain visibility tools, raises $54M

TechCrunch

According to a 2020 Statista survey , 41% of executives in the automotive and transportation industry alone said their company lost $50 to $100 million due to supply chain issues, a figure which has likely climbed higher since. That’s led companies to boost spending on supply chain software in recent months. Last year saw $11.3

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