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TechCrunch Experts: 3 articles on growth marketing and software development

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Our interview also covered how they work with clients, with Agley explaining what advice they’d offer to a client with a budget of $25,000: Let’s say it’s an early-stage SaaS subscription business. When it comes to growth marketing, ‘so much of CRO is psychological’ Software consulting.

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ERP modernization: Still a make-or-break project for CIOs

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Two ERP deployments in seven years is not for the faint of heart,” admits Dave Shannon, CIO of the hardware distribution firm. The company wanted to leverage all the benefits the cloud could bring, get out of the business of managing hardware and software, and not have to deal with all the complexities around security, he says.

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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions

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This on-demand approach also vastly reduces the upfront costs of buying processors and scales up or down based on workload, notes Tom Richer, a former CIO and current CEO of CloudBench, a Google Partner and CIO consultancy. “To We’ve already seen the cost of AI really start to negatively impact cloud budgets,” he says. “In

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Aware of what tech debt costs them, CIOs still can’t make it an IT priority

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It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. Therefore, always-lurking tech debt gets put on the backburner, says Daniel Saroff, group vice president for consulting and research at IDC.

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Hungry for resources, AI redefines the data center calculus

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But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say. Power efficiency gains of new hardware can also give data centers and other organizations a power surplus to run AI workloads, Hormuth argues.

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For founders who want to launch apps, ‘being non-technical is not a limitation’

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To get a look at how Intent tailors its approach to client needs and how the company helps clients get their products from inception to the market, we spoke with Wojciech Borkowski , its head of business development, and CTO Peter Tuszynski. Help TechCrunch find the best software consultants for startups.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Zero-based budgeting can be a good approach for discretionary spending.