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““The fact is that the majority of software businesses today are leaving money on the table by focusing strictly on the production and delivery of software at the expense of other customer needs in the process, whether that’s operational assistance (services), improved decision-making (telemetry analytics), or the ability to amortize their capital outlay over longer periods of time (subscription models).””

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