For Masergy’s MacFarland, Liquidity Falls from the Cloud

  Plano, Texas — When it came to liquidity, Masergy was beginning to appear a bit “long in the tooth,” says Chris MacFarland, commenting on the timing of his arrival at the managed services and cloud communications firm where he now serves as CEO. Back in the summer of 2008, MacFarland, a company outsider at the [...]

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Middle-Market Leader Interview: A Talk With BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker

  As CEO of a $25 million financial solutions firm, Therese Tucker built BlackLine Systems by understanding the needs and demands of Fortune 1000 accounts when it comes to such thorny automation feats as the financial close. Yet, as a middle-market firm, BlackLine itself has needs that are more closely aligned with that sector, which, [...]

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Functional Expertise Trumps Tech as More Middle-Market Firms View Cloud Not as IT, but as Growth Stimulus

  As more middle-market IT leaders find themselves inundated with questions regarding the latest swarm of cloud computing applications, we asked Todd Burner, a senior director at CEB, to field a few of our questions regarding the cloud and its impact on the organizational dynamics inside middle-market firms. Burner has been studying the complexities of cloud [...]

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As Functional Knowledge Trumps IT Knowledge in the Age of the Cloud, Middle-Market Firms Behold a Flattened World

  What was once best left up to the IT department to procure and deploy is now “embedded” in the business, according to Harry Wallaesa, a seasoned business leader whose varied career includes tours of duty as CIO of Campbell Soup Company, president and COO of Safeguard Scientific, and chairman of technology firm Compucom. Middle [...]

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