Key Takeaways: Ascend Technologies has acquired Chicago-area managed services provider Xamin, expanding its presence in financial services and adding deeper Governance, Risk, and Compliance expertise to its technology portfolio. Announced August 3, 2026, the transaction combines Xamin’s experience serving banks, c
Key Takeaways: Net at Work has acquired Kinzit Technologies, extending an aggressive expansion strategy that combines geographic reach, application expertise and managed IT services for small and mid-size organizations. Southgate, Mich.-based Kinzit Technologies brings managed services and cybersecurity capabiliti
Key Takeaways: A bank can no longer treat regulatory compliance, customer experience, communications infrastructure, and technology architecture as separate workstreams. A payment modernization project may affect fr...
Key Takeaways: A delayed discharge can begin with something as ordinary as a missing referral document. The EHR contains the clinical record, the payer portal holds an authorization, and a separate scheduling applic...
Key Takeaways: A payment exception arrives at 9:10 a.m., but the operations team does not see it until a nightly batch finishes. By then, the customer has called twice, a service representative has opened a manual t...
Key Takeaways: Sett & Lucas Guides TalentBurst Staffing Sale to Epitec Key Takeaways: • TalentBurst sold its IT, Engineering, and SLED staffing operations to Epitec. • The acquisition broadens Epitec’s national reach across commercial and public-sector staffing. • Integration quality, contract continuity, and comp
Key Takeaways: Inforcer Lands $50M as Microsoft 365 Risks Reshape MSP Work Key Takeaways: • Inforcer has raised a $50 million Series C to expand its Microsoft 365 security and AI management platform for managed service providers. • Demand is growing as small and mid-sized businesses adopt AI-enabled cloud products
Key Takeaways: A professional-services firm can publish twice a week and still remain effectively invisible to the buying committee it wants to reach. The issue is rarely a lack of raw expertise. More often, special...
Key Takeaways: U.S. retail sales were projected to reach roughly $5.5 trillion in 2024, according to National Retail Federation research. Capturing even a narrow slice of that demand depends increasingly on whether ...
Key Takeaways: A customer calls a store about inventory, but the call reaches an unattended desk phone. An associate then contacts another department through a personal messaging application, while the regional offi...