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Businesses are investing time and effort in building digitally-enabled services. AirBnB doesn't disrupt the market without a strong focus on the software platform. Software development as a business process to drive innovation. The numbers speak for themselves. The organisations that have the capabilities to deliver high quality software reliably and quickly are the ones that are the ones set to succeed at becoming software focused.

In this e-guide we look at how businesses can transform their software development teams to deliver software efficiently and reliably.

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