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Vendor bake-offs measure demo quality, not fit. Here is the shorter process we run instead, and the three questions that actually separate the candidates.
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Vendor bake-offs measure demo quality, not fit. Here is the shorter process we run instead, and the three questions that actually separate the candidates.
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Four years of buyer audits, and the same three things get checked every time. None of them is the certificate on the wall.

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The close is slow because exceptions surface on day nine. Move the reconciliation to day one and the rest follows.
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