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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business. The 2010s: Autonomy’s unravelling September 2010: Ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker is named CEO of HP.

Software 105
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Hasso Plattner stepping down signals another turning point at SAP

CIO Business Intelligence

He was the driving force behind R/3 development in the early 1990s, and in 2010, his pet project, the in-memory database HANA, had major market presence. Despite some criticism, Plattner’s influence on SAP strategy can’t be overstated, especially regarding product strategy. But for Plattner, hesitation is incomprehensible.

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Cropin’s agriculture industry cloud to provide apps, data frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

The third layer, Cropin Intelligence, uses the company’s 22 prebuilt AI and deep-learning models to provide insights about crop detection, crop stage identification, yield estimation, irrigation scheduling, pest and disease prediction, nitrogen uptake, water stress detection, harvest date estimation, and change detection, among others.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

And alongside these major changes, Volvo is also resetting its business model and switching to direct sales in that part of the network of global dealers broadens their roles where instead of just selling Volvo cars, they become distributors.

Software 130
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Generative AI: A paradigm shift in enterprise and startup opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

Deep learning emerged in academia in the early 2000s, with broader industry adoption starting around 2010. Sales and marketing : AI can analyze customer behavior and preferences and generate personalized product recommendations. This can help businesses increase sales and customer engagement.

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How to sell IT services to the Canadian government

CIO Business Intelligence

The downside: as in the US , the federal sales cycle is slow, with the gap between initial government requests for proposal (RFPs), bid filing and analysis, contract awards, and payment for work done taking up to two years or more. “The Federal government sales cycles are far longer than those experienced in the private sector.

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Performing Social Network Analysis to Fight the Spread of COVID-19

Sisense

Data is everywhere and every company is focused on what to do with their available data stores: customer journey follow-ups, harvesting precious behavioral insights, performing market analyses, and uncovering sales predictions through Machine Learning, just to name a few. Defining a social network.