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Industry Insights
Companies Are Making Big Bets on Developer Ecosystems
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion. At first glance, it may seem like an odd pairing—one of the wo...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppMarket / Jun 19, 2018
Industry Insights
Financial Times: Europe Risks Falling Behind in Digital Transformation
Here’s a selection of recent digital economy news from around the world that we’re talking about at AppDirect. Europe Risks Falling Behind in Digital...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDirect / Jun 11, 2018
Technology Insights
Evolution of the AppDirect Kubernetes Network Infrastructure
At AppDirect, we embraced Kubernetes—an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications&mdas...By Alexandre Gervais / AppDirect / Jun 07, 2018
Strategy & Best Practices
Executive Q&A: How MSPs Can Differentiate in the Digital Economy
CANCOM is one of the leading providers of IT infrastructure and services in Germany and Austria. As the company’s Manager Business Development Public ...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppMarket / Jun 04, 2018
Industry Insights
Four Tools Your Team Needs to Drive Customer Success
For companies in the digital economy, you know that the barriers for customers to churn are extremely low. That’s why you’re investing in ways to driv...
Strategy & Best Practices
10 B2B SaaS Companies That Crushed Their Growth Goals—and How They Did It
SaaS adoption has skyrocketed over the past decade. In 2011, just 13 percent of companies used SaaS...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDirect / May 29, 2018
Industry Insights
News Roundup: New Survey Finds Large Digital Transformation Gap
Here’s a selection of recent digital economy news from around the world that we’re talking about at AppDirect. Survey from SAP Finds Large Digital Tr...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDirect / May 28, 2018
Events
AppDirect’s Digital Economy Series Brings Industry Innovators to NYC
New York City has always been a global hub for commerce and innovation, which made it an ideal location to host AppDirect’s latest Digital Economy Ser...By Trevor Drewry / AppDirect / May 18, 2018
Industry Insights
New Survey Points to the Huge Impact of Digital Transformation
Last month, Dell EMC released the results of a survey that provides some blockbuster new evidence that digital transformation can have a huge impact o...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDirect / May 16, 2018
Industry Insights
News Roundup: Why Do So Few Old-Line Companies Have Platform Strategies?
Here’s a selection of recent digital economy news from around the world that we’re talking about at AppDirect. McKinsey Quarterly Five Fifty: Platfor...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDirect / May 11, 2018
Industry Insights
How B2B SaaS Vendors Can Find Success in the Channel
“The SaaS business model is broken. There, I said what's needed to be said.” That tough but true statement comes from a recent column by Sunir Shah, ...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDirect / May 10, 2018
Industry Insights
Can Telcos Escape the Commoditization Trap? New eBook Provides Answers
Earlier this year, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, former CEO of Telenor and current chairman of the GSMA, sat down with McKinsey & Co. to discuss what operators...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDirect / May 09, 2018
Industry Insights
News Roundup: Digitally Transformed Companies Get Products to Market 20 Times Faster
Here’s a selection of recent digital economy news from around the world that we’re talking about at AppDirect. Digital Transformation Pays Dividends ...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDirect / Apr 30, 2018