Download an overview of Sphere's Technical M&A Due Diligence Capabilities Companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A failure rate is between 70% and 90%. How do you protect yourself against a bad acquisition? Software and technology is an incredible source of capacity, competitiveness, innovation, quality, and agility. It
Five Must-Haves When Choosing A Software Development Partner In our increasingly application-driven economy, creating software and services that business units demand has put IT and development teams under more pressure to deliver. To alleviate this strain, teaming up with an outside market-savvy software development partner gives your business a distinctive edge. But it takes time and
Feature Requests Vs. Technical Debt: What Is The Right Balance? We recently hosted a Tech Debate on the subject of technical debt and its’ impact in software development with two subject matter experts, Mark Friedgan, CEO of Credit Ninja and Mike Sandler, CIO at Eligo Energy LLC. The debate focused on striking the right
Leon Molchanovsky is a partner with Galaxy Innovation, a company that focuses on helping organizations make strategic technology decisions that further their goals and objectives. Leon participated in a Tech Debate in London where the panel discussed opportunities forming from the intersection of the digital and physical realms. Fortunately, I was able to talk with
Can security, compliance, innovation, and Agile methodologies coexist? On September 17, 2019, in Austin, Texas, a TechDebate panel of Agile and technology experts will gather to address this question. To get a sneak preview, I had the chance to talk with one of our panelists, Will Simpson, founder and CEO of the consultancy Ten
Peter Caron, Chief Product Officer at UBIX.AI, was one of the participating panelists in our July TechDebate discussing the challenges and merits of agile development. Peter has spent his career in product management, and much of this experience has been working on data science-driven products. I had the opportunity to talk with him further
At our July TechDebate in Chicago, the panel discussed the value and challenges of agile development methodology from several different perspectives. After the event, I had the opportunity to have a follow-up conversation with the event’s moderator, David Radzialowski, owner of Third and 10 Product Consulting. Sphere Software hosts a series of TechDebates around
Belinda Hardman is a senior project manager/Scrum master for Morningstar. She shared her wealth of project management expertise within the technology sector during a recent TechDebate in Chicago in which the panel discussed the applications of agile development to traditionally non-agile projects. Thankfully, I had the opportunity to speak with Belinda about the topic
Cloud computing as a business is fairly new. It was introduced by Amazon in 2006, followed by Google beta product in 2008, and last but not least - Microsoft released its first version of Azure in 2010. Since then clouds have been evolving at an astonishing pace, constantly improving performance, inter-communication, and adding new
A child asks her Father: Daddy, what are clouds made of? The Father answers: High-performance computing mostly, my child. Introduction to High-Performance Computing In the past few years the Cloud business has truly taken off and the existence and significance of cloud computing can no longer be ignored. At least not if you want
