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Are you truly getting the flexibility you need from your enterprise SaaS vendor (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft etc.) and are your contracts set up well to provide it? Adam Mansfield, UpperEdge’s Practice Leader, dives into the critical issues surrounding flexibility in SaaS agreements and shares his thoughts on how customers can fix the likely issues that exist.
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Big tech is transforming every aspect of our world. But how, and at what cost? This season of Land of the Giants – The Disney Dilemma – focuses on Disney’s ability to weather the ups and downs of the business cycle and changing tastes and explores what has kept it successful for over 100 years. The entertainment giant has leveraged nostalgia and its intellectual property to build a beloved brand, but after an acquisition spree that included Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Fox, can it sus ...
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