🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-12-26
Reflecting on my journey from Nortel in the '90s to the hybrid cloud with SAP’s evolution.
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I was born in 1972. So was SAP.
20-ish years later, my early career started at Nortel Networks. By 1998, CRM and computer telephony interface (CTI) had become a big thing while the word Internet occurred ~35 times in the Nortel Networks Annual Report that year.
By 1999, CRM was big enough that Nortel Networks went on to buy Clarify.
Nortel to buy software maker Clarify - CNET
The networking equipment giant agrees to buy Clarify, a maker of software that automates corporate sales and customer service needs, in a stock deal valued at $2.1 billion.
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