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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

This approach goes a long way toward explaining how Amazon was able to externalize its computing infrastructure — first to Merchant.com, the company’s ecommerce-as-a-service platform for retailers to build their own online stores, and then to Amazon Web Services, a broader offering that has since taken a life of its own.

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PepsiCo IT redefines direct-to-store business model success

CIO Business Intelligence

Whether they are placing orders, making deliveries, or creating invoices, frontline employees need a dependable, feature-rich edge device that they can take into stores and reliably connect with key enterprise systems. Moving all the systems in our ecosystem to Okta was a major accomplishment.

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