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Microsoft acquires Seattle startup Suplari, which uses AI to analyze corporate spending

GeekWire

Founded in 2016, Suplari analyzes procurement and spending data flowing into various enterprise systems. Investors include Amplify Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Shasta Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, and Workday Ventures. It can provide recommendations for cost savings, risk exposure, and other efficiency gaps.

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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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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Comments ().

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

The partnerships we are seeing between MNOs and hyperscale cloud service providers and the platform models being built with enterprises, systems integrators and infrastructure wholesalers are typical of the partner models of future techcos. improving customer experience, reducing costs and improving operating performance.

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Top 10 Transformational Impacts of the Cloud in 2013

Cloud Musings

will turn to cloud services brokers to manage the growing complexity. problem by integrating heterogeneous infrastructure services; whereas. software developers will turn to PaaS for integrating disparate Web. services to deliver seamless user experiences to their customers. Connect via: CLOUD COMPUTING WORKING GROUP.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft has bought Minit, a developer of process mining software, to help its customers optimize business processes across the enterprise, on and off Microsoft Power Platform. NTT Data adds Vectorform to service portfolio. Addison Group buys HCM specialist ArcLight Consulting. ERPx developer Unit4 is under new ownership.