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Microsoft Is Building A Cloud-Based Phone Company — And Taking On A Public Company It Helped Grow

Microsoft spent years building Teams into a strong challenger to Slack. Now it’s using its software suite to take on another cloud success: Twilio. The Redmond-based tech giant announced Tuesday that it had launched Azure Communication Services, a new suite of tools that it says is the “first fully managed communication platform offering from a major cloud provider.” In short, the services will give developers a way to add text messaging, voice and video calling Read more about Microsoft Is Building A Cloud-Based Phone Company — And Taking On A Public Company It Helped Grow[…]

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This Cloud Software Startup Used By The U.S. Air Force Just Raised $30 Million From VCs And The CIA

As the coronavirus outbreak forces workers to stay at home, software engineers have faced a challenge accessing secure networks they’d typically only use at the office. The U.S. Air Force is no exception. To solve the problem, the Air Force recently turned to an Austin-based startup called Coder. The company’s cloud-based portal solves the secure access problem for engineers working on code. At the Air Force, that can mean software that monitors the service’s fighter Read more about This Cloud Software Startup Used By The U.S. Air Force Just Raised $30 Million From VCs And The CIA[…]

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How To Manage Software In The End-User Era

In the last 20 years, we’ve seen a dramatic change in the way software is acquired and consumed in enterprise businesses. In previous software eras, the acquisition model for most large organizations was top-down. During the 1980s and 1990s, software makers sold directly to IT leaders, who then would distribute software throughout the organization. From 2000 to about 2015, department-specific selling arose as the predominant force in the market. Title makers such as Salesforce focused Read more about How To Manage Software In The End-User Era[…]