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Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Acclaimed Sequel to its 2004 ERP Implementation

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In technical terms, SPE’s mission was to re-implement SAP S/4HANA from a combination of legacy SAP S/4HANA and SAP ERP Central Component systems, while making numerous value-added process improvements including standardizing document types, eliminating retired accounts, and improving overall data quality.

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Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Acclaimed Sequel to its 2004 ERP Implementation

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In technical terms, SPE’s mission was to re-implement SAP S/4HANA from a combination of legacy SAP S/4HANA and SAP ERP Central Component systems, while making numerous value-added process improvements including standardizing document types, eliminating retired accounts, and improving overall data quality.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

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Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. March 2004: Autonomy acquires NativeMinds and Cardiff Software. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business.

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To Make It Big, Most Tech Startups Have A Limited Post-IPO Window To Turn Profitable

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Covering tech startup IPOs generally involves writing about companies that lose money. But in most cases, even the most valuable one-time venture-backed technology companies went public before turning profitable. Meanwhile Palantir Technologies , which was founded in 2003, took 20 years to post its first annual profit in 2023.

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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

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For the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), effecting change for women working in IT is a holistic endeavor. But the education system isn’t the only — or biggest — problem in the tech pipeline. We like to make the distinction that it’s about fixing systems, not fixing women,” says Ashcraft.

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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Alan completed his schooling at Brooklyn Technical School in New York. In 1984, he joined Apple and due to his extraordinary contribution, he became an Apple Fellow, but that group was closed in 1997. In 2002, Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology, Colorado. In 2004, the Kyoto prize.

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Climate Innovators in the Information Age

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According to a recent McKinsey report , global sustainable investment is more than $30 trillion, a tenfold increase from 2004. A Rockerfeller Asset Management / Stern NYU study found that “Improved financial performance due to ESG becomes more marked over longer time horizons.” Second, it’s worth following the investors.