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IBM to buy Apptio for $4.6B to help companies optimize IT spend

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billion to help enterprises optimize their IT expenditure, particularly cloud costs, as they try to navigate uncertain macroeconomic conditions. Its consulting business alone has acquired 13 companies to boost its offerings in the last few years. IBM is acquiring software provider Apptio for $4.6

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How to Create an Agile Software Factory in the Enterprise

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Disciplined Agile (DA), recently acquired by the Project Management Institute, is another recommended approach and is a process-decision toolkit that provides straightforward and practical guidance to help individuals, teams and enterprises optimize their Way of Working (WoW) in a context-specific way.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

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Global IT services giant NTT Data has bought another sliver of market share and added some new capabilities with its acquisition of Vectorform, an 80-person digital transformation consultancy based in Detroit. With many enterprises adapting to permanent work from home, demand for such tools is likely to remain strong.