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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. SaaS stacks give companies the agility they need to move fast, but often they are the cause of a huge data fragmentation. launched a contact management software.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. billion dollar test and measurement company.