The Top 5 Things Nobody Ever Tells You About Selling Your Business

So you think you are ready to sell your Tech, eCommerce or Internet Business --- or --- you have been thinking about the potential to sell your business successfully over the next 6-12 months. But you aren’t sure what the process looks like, what to expect and you cannot imagine adding even more workload to your already hectic life, balancing a family and a growing business?

Small to Medium Sized Businesses and those Businesses that are considered in the Lower Middle Market tend to be very private sales, so it is not always easy to identify what you should expect in the M&A process – the real hidden secrets are hard to find. This paper helps to lay out those hard to find secrets and lift the veil so that you know what to expect when selling a business. And a business owner that puts her blood, sweat and tears into a business should be excited and rewarded when she sells – not let down or surprised.

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Preparing a Tech or Internet Company for Sale

Website Closers has never been busier. The drive, demand and motivation for the eCommerce, Amazon, Technology and Internet Companies at the focus of our sector continues to increase at unprecedented levels.

And right along with that excitement comes increasing valuations and deal multiples. Our firm focuses on selling digital companies at the highest valuations possible, and in order to get there, our clients first need to prepare themselves and their companies for the most exhilarating day of their lives – the day they close their business.

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Whitepaper: Security Monitoring

Rooted in 20 years of experience and with hundreds of customers, Cygilant SOCVue Security Monitoring collects security events across your IT infrastructure, network, and applications. Our Security Analysts triage and investigate potential security incidents to give you rapid actionable recommendations.

Combining log management and security information and event management (SIEM) technology with machine learning, Cygilant helps you to proactively eliminate threats and meet compliance objectives.

Cygilant saves you time spent digging through the noise of thousands of events, or analyzing raw log files, to determine what is happening in the network.

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Whitepaper: Benefits of SOC-as-a-Service

Companies of all sizes need to improve their incident detection and response capabilities. Cybersecurity, however, is hard work. Resource constraints, including not having enough skilled staff, funding or time, combined with an ever-increasing amount of threats and compliance requirements are leaving businesses at a disadvantage and causing team burnout. A SOC-as-a-Service exists to help companies of all sizes extend both their team and their cybersecurity protections.

SOC-as-a-Service providers introduce security best practices into an organization, improve security data collection, processing, and analysis - and supplement an organization's internal skills.

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Whitepaper: Cygilant SOC-as-a-Service

Cybersecurity is hard work. Resource constraints - not enough time or limited resources - and ever increasing threats coupled with compliance requirements is leaving your business at a disadvantage and causing team burnout. Cygilant SOC-as-a-Service exists to help you.

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2020 Report: State of the CDP

In the 2020 Tealium State of the CDP Report, we asked over 300 U.S. decision makers in marketing and data/analytics how they are leveraging CDPs today, the challenges they face with current vendors and their future plans for CDP technology. The results reveal that many organizations are still searching for the right solution: 58% of respondents with CDPs said they are planning to switch to a different provider within the next 12 months.

Something needs to change for customer data to reach its full potential. Businesses need greater clarity into what CDPs do, how to select the right CDP and how to optimize the technology — or they risk missing out on enormous CDP benefits.

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Adopt cloud native development

Cloud-native application development is a key part of open transformation and can help you compete in a digital world. By focusing on technology, processes, and people, you can deploy innovative, open approaches that support business agility, transformation, and success. Align your cloud technology with your business needs.

This open transformation can help you further accelerate innovation and customer engagement. Combining open processes and culture with cloud-native applications development approaches can create lasting improvement in your organization. You can also deliver more value to customers and gain many benefits for your organization.

    IT-focused outcomes include:

  • Faster application updates.
  • Rapid application deployment.
  • Quicker fault recovery.
  • Improved accuracy.

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Best Practices for Managing Risks in Your Cloud Deployment

IT teams are embracing the cloud for its scalability, reliability, flexibility, and rapid deployment capabilities, helping them achieve performance and cost-savings goals.

According to Gartner, by the end of 2019, we’ll see, “30 percent of the 100 largest vendors’ new software investments will have shifted from cloud-first to cloud-only.”

But for enterprises transitioning from on-prem architectures, a move to the cloud opens up new and uncharted territory when it comes to managing risk. Complex, distributed resources in the cloud call for an update to the standard risk management and security approach.

For security teams tasked with securing cloud environments, holding on to pre-cloud tools and mindset is no longer going to work, as the challenges and tools needed to secure cloud environments are different from what was required to secure pre-cloud architectures. Even worse, copying pre-cloud solutions means that the drawbacks of pre-cloud architectures are brought into the cloud world. Only by fully embracing the cloud and its values can enterprises take full advantage of its benefits.

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Whitepaper – API-led architectures enable integration with SAP

Many businesses are now considering various options as they migrate to SAP S/4HANA. Numerous organizations rely on SAP platform solutions, many of which were implemented during the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2040, SAP will end mainstream maintenance on all instances of ERP installations forcing enterprises to migrate to SAP S/4HANA, or re-implement complex ERP installations, which can come with many challenges.

Read this whitepaper, written in collaboration with Capgemini, to learn:

  • How to prove the business value of a migration to SAP S/4HANA.
  • Why an API-led architecture is the best approach for SAP S/4HANA integration with existing systems, providing agility and shielding an organization’s technology stack from future changes to other systems.
  • The main principles of a Center for Enablement (C4E) and how it enables enterprises to implement software design with governance and high delivery speeds.

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Whitepaper – Top 5 Salesforce Integration Patterns

Getting the most value out of your IT investments is now more crucial than ever. Integrating Salesforce with your enterprise architecture is key to enabling sales teams, enhancing customer loyalty, and growing market capabilities.

Read this whitepaper to learn how to:

  • Streamline business processes and maximize services and solutions.
  • Integrate Salesforce with custom applications, databases, ERP, and CRM systems.
  • Synchronize CRM systems, migrate from legacy CRM systems, broadcast ERP data into your CRM system, and more.

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