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Metabyte and the business of finding the missing skill
A staffing company with a sideline in invention, Metabyte has put engineers behind enterprise systems, stereoscopic games and cable television. Its next bet turns the hiring problem into a software product.
Pragma Edge and the case of the missing file
An order can cross half a dozen systems and still disappear from view. Pragma Edge has built a business around making those handoffs visible - then making them less troublesome.
Cleo and the eight-week handshake
Winning the customer is only the beginning. Cleo works on the awkward interval between a signed deal and two companies whose systems can finally talk.
Fortra Bought a Cybersecurity Arsenal. Now It Has to Make the Pieces Talk.
The company once helped operators run overnight jobs on IBM machines. Four decades and a long acquisition spree later, it is trying to turn a cabinet of famous security tools into one coherent defense - while learning what happens when one trusted product becomes the way in.
Redwood Software Makes the Software Nobody Notices - Until It Stops
The 33-year-old automation company has turned midnight batch jobs, SAP dependencies and financial-close checklists into a sizable software portfolio. Its pitch is simple: the best critical process is the one your staff never has to rescue.
Stonebranch Runs the Night Shift: How Enterprises Replace Brittle Job Schedules Without Ripping Out the Mainframe
Stonebranch sells a control room for the awkward middle of enterprise IT - where mainframes, SAP, cloud services, data pipelines, and file transfers all need to move in sequence. Its pitch is simple: modernize the choreography without throwing out the orchestra.
Kevin Bombino Turned a Rock Tour Into an Operating System
Before Files.com moved billions of transactions each week, its founder learned logistics by booking 32 summer-camp gigs for a college rock band. The music stopped; the systems thinking stayed.
Files.com Built a Control Tower for the Files Nobody Can Afford to Lose
Banks, airlines and retailers still run on files - lots of them, moving at strange hours between systems that were never meant to cooperate. Files.com has built a profitable business by turning that unglamorous mess into visible, automated infrastructure.