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Software AG webMethods: The Farewell Sale

Forrester IT

Yesterday, I was surprised to learn that IBM is acquiring webMethods from Software AG (and also StreamSets, but I’ll focus on webMethods here). First, private equity firm Silver Lake completed its acquisition of Software AG (previously a publicly traded company) on September 28. It surprised me for two reasons.

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82% of Ad Sales Professionals Wish Their Companies Provided More Software for Their Jobs

IT Toolbox

The post 82% of Ad Sales Professionals Wish Their Companies Provided More Software for Their Jobs appeared first on Spiceworks. Almost two-thirds of professionals report losing a potential business due to insufficient technology resources.

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Five Tips to Scale a Software Company Quickly and Stay Competitive

IT Toolbox

How to scale up your software company and stay ahead of the competition. The post Five Tips to Scale a Software Company Quickly and Stay Competitive appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Channel Software Tech Stack 2021

Forrester IT

^CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SCREEN^ The channel software stack comprises a group of technologies that help companies develop, design, and execute plans to find, recruit, onboard, develop, enable, incent, co-sell with, manage, measure, and report on partners.

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How One Manufacturer Used GEP SOFTWARE To Save $45M in Direct Material Sourcing

This new case study, Global Heavy Equipment Manufacturer Saves $45M in Direct Material Sourcing With GEP SOFTWARE, outlines how the company partnered with GEP to streamline its direct material sourcing process and increase spend visibility, leading ultimately to savings of $45 million and improved efficiency and governance.

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Jama Software to be acquired for $1.2B in significant exit for Portland-based company

GeekWire

Jama Software CEO Marc Osofsky. Jama Software Photo) Portland, Ore.-based based Jama Software , makers of a product development platform, has agreed to be acquired by technology investment firm Francisco Partners in a $1.2 billion deal, the company announced Monday.

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Adobe’s Service Partners Are What Will Make It A Proper Enterprise Software Company

Forrester IT

Adobe strives to be an enterprise software company with the same reach and influence as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Salesforce. It built on that creative marketing and agency customer connection by acquiring Omniture, Day Software, Neolane, and more software vendors to enter the […].

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More Effective Agile Leadership

Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software

Join Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, as he distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. We all strive to be effective Agile leaders. But how do you know if you're succeeding?

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?”

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The Modern Encryption Software Checklist: The Secret to Understanding Your Data Security Needs

Understanding your data security needs is tough enough, but what can be even more difficult is choosing the right software to fit your company. Use this resource to foster a greater awareness of your needs, compare different software solutions in detail, and make worrying about data security a thing of the past.

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9 Developer Enablement Practices to Achieve DevOps at Enterprise Scale

In this eBook, Christian Oestreich, a senior software engineering leader with experience at multiple Fortune 500 companies, shares how a metrics-driven mindset can dramatically improve software quality and enable DevOps at enterprise scale.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams? This is a critical topic for senior software leaders to get right. Failure to do so hurts both your company and your relationships with stakeholders.

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Building Evolvable Architectures

Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks

The software development ecosystem exists in a state of dynamic equilibrium, where any new tool, framework, or technique leads to disruption and the establishment of a new equilibrium. This webinar will discuss what’s at stake if companies continue to use long term architecture plans.

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage. How do you help your engineers get on board with buying instead of building?

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Achieving Elite and High Performance DevOps Using DORA Metrics

Speaker: Nico Krüger, Senior Director of Solutions Engineering at Rollbar

Companies that use the Continuous Code Improvement approach have a compact feedback loop that tells them when there’s a code issue that needs to be fixed, fixes it, then goes back to writing and running code. Improve the stability of your software. Build in security from the start.