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10/29/2024

Exploring the Power of AI in Software Development - Part 1: Processes

AI tools are evolving from simple assistants to intelligent agents that automate and optimize various development phases, enabling developers to focus on complex tasks and innovation.

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10/29/2024

Exploring the Power of AI in Software Development - Part 2: More Processes

AI’s growing role in automating repetitive tasks, improving quality, and aiding knowledge transfer, thereby streamlining SDLC workflows.

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10/1/2024

xtype Raises $21M from Norwest Venture Partners and ServiceNow Ventures to Fuel Innovation on the ServiceNow Platform

xtype Raises $21M from Norwest Venture Partners and ServiceNow Ventures to Fuel Innovation on the ServiceNow Platform xtype has attracted the attention of global investors due to the success of its innovative multi-instance management platform, helping enterprise customers scale their ServiceNow investments. The new funding will support xtype’s mission to help companies globally expand their ServiceNow operations. This round also included participation from returning investors Columbia Capital, Inner Loop Capital, and SaaS Ventures.

Ron Gidron
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9/20/2024

How IT Leaders Can Assess and Evaluate Risk to Mitigate IT Outages

IT leaders can mitigate risk for IT outages by auditing infrastructure, training staff, using automation, and ensuring clear communication.

Scott Willson
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8/16/2024

Aren’t We Transformed Yet? Why Digital Transformation Needs More Work

"Aren't We Transformed Yet?" delves into digital transformation challenges using enterprise platforms and emphasizes the need for automation and multi-environment visibility.

Scott Willson
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8/9/2024

Platform Owners Must Master Platform Optimization to Drive Innovation

The New Stack Article: Platform owners must optimize by addressing inefficiencies, improving automation, and enhancing governance to drive innovation.

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8/7/2024

How to Supercharge DevOps to Reduce Time to Market

DevOps practices are being challenged by the rise of platform-based development. This article explores the unique challenges and opportunities presented by this shift, providing practical strategies for applying DevOps principles in a platform context.

Scott Willson
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7/3/2024

Future-Proofing Development with Low-Code/No-Code Solutions in the Age of AI

Here's how low-code/no-code solutions are addressing the developer shortage and transforming application development.

Scott Willson
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7/2/2024

The real problems IT still needs to tackle for platforms

Platforms like ServiceNow and Salesforce (to name a few) were introduced to address and solve the many overwhelmingly burdensome tasks associated with building enterprise-specific applications and keeping companies agile, automated, and scalable. However, to adopt these platforms in the organization and maximize their value, they require development practices, principles, and discipline similar to classic software development.

Ron Gidron
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5/31/2024

Harness the Power of Platform Engineering: 4 Steps to Success

Digital businesses demand faster application delivery. Platform engineering offers a solution by creating self-service platforms that improve developer productivity, security, and time-to-value.

Scott Willson
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4/23/2024

Has xtype made clones easier for ServiceNow customers?

xtype has unveiled its latest product to assist ServiceNow customers. xtype Clone View is now available on the ServiceNow marketplace. The new product is also included within xtype Enterprise. The platform engineering solution that helps enterprises to deliver new ServiceNow features and applications. By automating software deployment and release management, increasing productivity, security, and compliance.

Ron Gidron
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4/10/2024

The First 100 | How Founders Acquired their First 100 Customers | Product-Market Fit

Ron Gidron is the co-founder and CEO of xtype.io, a technology company that accelerates software development for large companies like Zurich Insurance, Heineken, HP, Abbot Laboratories, and IBM. Xtype has also recorded over 75,000 customer deployments using its product in the past year and has raised $10.8 million to date.

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4/5/2024

There’s one metric that can’t be ignored in your workflow: developer satisfaction

Every organisation relies on a range of metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of its projects and processes. These measurements are integral to understanding where improvement is needed and, ultimately, ensuring that initiatives are on track to meet their goals. Typically, organisations rely on measures like cost, time, efficiency, productivity and customer satisfaction. Software development is no different. A robust suite of metrics will cover process, product, project, people and quality. But, with a significant emphasis on agility and efficiency, one area that is often overlooked is developer satisfaction.

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3/28/2024

Unleashing Value for ServiceNow Solutions: xtype and Precision Bridge team up to Drive Customer Success and Improve Efficiency

xtype, a platform engineering startup that triples value for ServiceNow customers, is announcing their latest partnership with Precision Bridge, a smart cross-platform data migration and integration service. Dedicated to enhancing the ServiceNow customer experience, xtype and Precision Bridge have entered into a strategic partnership that will help their customers deliver value at an increased rate on the ServiceNow platform.

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3/7/2024

Revolutionizing ServiceNow Solutions: xtype and NewRocket Forge Groundbreaking Partnership to Propel Customer Success and Efficiency

xtype, a platform engineering startup, is announcing its partnership with NewRocket, a global, full-service Elite ServiceNow partner. The partnership will see the organizations collaborating to help customers deliver value on ServiceNow faster, extending their combined reach to support and positively impact even more customers using the platform. The announcement is a testament to the xtype's upward trajectory in the ServiceNow global community and follows only shortly after xtype was awarded Build Platform Partner status on ServiceNow.

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3/4/2024

The First Customer - Solving The Most Common Pain Points of ServiceNow Customers with Ron Gidron

Ron shares insights from his background growing up on a farm in Israel to becoming an entrepreneur in the tech industry. Despite his humble beginnings, Ron's journey led him to work with companies like Mercury Interactive before venturing into entrepreneurship. He emphasizes the entrepreneurial spirit he developed from his farming roots, highlighting the similarities between farming and entrepreneurship.

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2/28/2024

Ron Gidron, CEO of Xtype on creating ecosystem success.

This podcast interview focuses on the entrepreneurial journey to create a serious business by daring to focus on some fundamental flaws of one enterprise platform. My guest is Ron Gidron, Founder and CEO of Xtype.

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2/6/2024

Shaping an Enabling and Sustainable Workplace Culture in IT Teams

Here are four steps IT leaders can take to create an enabling and sustainable workplace culture for their teams.

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2/1/2024

Accelerating Success: What the DevOps Sector Needs to Know in 2024

If 2023 has proved anything in DevOps, it's that staying ahead of the curve is not a strategic choice but a necessity. The software development landscape has experienced a plethora of changes this past year, including the swift and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, agile frameworks becoming mainstream, and evolving job roles within the DevOps sector. If 2023 was an opportunity to explore the enhanced DevOps methodologies that could expedite software delivery, 2024 is the year to embrace them wholeheartedly.

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1/31/2024

xtype’s Scott Willson highlights the parallels between the DevOps philosophy and digital transformation

Perhaps the biggest challenge with digital transformation lies in understanding where the transformation occurs. Digital transformation doesn't begin or end by offloading workloads or moving core systems to the cloud. It doesn't come about through the development a cool customer-facing app. Paralleling its philosophical forerunner, DevOps, the process of digital transformation begins by looking inward. It is a matter of organization. "Digital transformation initiatives should be focused not on customer solutions, but on day-to-day business fundamentals," says Scott Willson, head of product marketing for xtype.io, a software startup that works primarily with large enterprise clients that use the ServiceNow cloud computing management platform. "You've got to be the best version of yourself before you can put your best foot forward for your customers."

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1/23/2024

xtype deepens its support of native ServiceNow features and is proud to be a Build Platform Partner of ServiceNow

Continuing xtype's mission of empowering ServiceNow teams to meet any level of demand from the business, the update will give developers the ability to drive improved business outcomes using native ServiceNow tools on xtype.

Ron Gidron
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1/5/2024

Top 10 financial services and fintech stories of 2023

About a year ago, faced with the end of support of a tool used to sync instances of its ServiceNow platform, Zurich Insurance turned to ServiceNow development partner Xtype.io for a replacement, which has saved its development team days every time new applications are developed and rolled out.

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12/12/2023

Podcast - Scale your SaaS: Unlock Efficiency - Say Goodbye to Environment Inconsistencies on ServiceNow This New Year!

Embarking on the entrepreneurial journey in the tech industry can be like a roller coaster ride - it’s exciting, filled with energy, and demands unyielding dedication. In this episode of Scale Your SaaS, host and B2B SaaS Sales Coach Matt Wolach had a candid conversation with Ron Gidron, Founder and CEO at xtype. Read on to delve into the whirlwind of experiences, insights, and lessons learned while scaling a tech startup, particularly in targeting the enterprise sector.

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11/16/2023

Five Essential Components Of A Successful DevOps Team

In today’s fast-paced digital world, DevOps has emerged as an essential philosophy, bridging the gap between software development and IT operations. A successful DevOps team not only speeds up the delivery process but ensures quality and reliability. However, creating such a team requires a harmonious amalgamation of tools, culture, processes, collaboration, and more.

Ron Gidron
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11/15/2023

Why the Future for Enterprise Success Has to be Agile

In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, enterprises are constantly seeking ways to innovate, stay competitive, and drive growth. But with legacy systems that can’t keep up, and being outpaced by dynamic startups and the demands of customers, they need to transform in a way that is sustainable and allows for digital transformation goals to be reached.

Scott Willson
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11/14/2023

SaaS Enterprise Sales: How To Succeed – Even With a Limited Market Size

Welcome to The Messy Growth Show – the podcast that explores the messy journey of growth in business and life. In this episode, hosts Christian Godoy Jørgensen and Søren Skovdahl Hansen sit down with Ron Gidron, founder of xtype, to uncover the raw and insightful truths about starting and growing a business from the ground up.

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10/24/2023

xtype hits $10.8 million In Funding, Amplifying Its Impact In The ServiceNow Market Amidst Soaring Demand

The startup has seen accelerated growth with major enterprise deals with a number of global enterprises across healthcare, financial services and manufacturing, including Zurich Insurance and Heineken.

Ralf Paschen
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10/24/2023

xtype erhält 10,8 Millionen Dollar an Investitionen und verstärkt damit seinen Einfluss auf den ServiceNow-Markt inmitten einer steigenden Nachfrage

Das Startup verzeichnete ein rasches Wachstum und schloss mit einer Reihe globaler Unternehmen aus den Bereichen Gesundheitswesen, Finanzdienstleistungen und Produktion, darunter Zurich Insurance und Heineken, bedeutende Verträge ab.

Ralf Paschen
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10/4/2023

ServiceNow Series E124: Ron Gidron, Founder and CEO at xtype

Today’s guest is Ron Gidron, Founder and CEO at xtype. Today ServiceNow teams struggle with environments inconsistency which inhibits their ability to deliver at speed. xtype believe that the ServiceNow platform is the most agile development platform on the market and provides native ServiceNow products to meet any level of demand from the platform with speed, reliability and compliance. They serve some of the largest organizations in the world, enabling them to accelerate their digital transformation with ServiceNow at unprecedented scale and velocity.

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9/19/2023

Ron Gidron, CEO of xtype: “The cliché’s true. Get ready to be met with scepticism, disbelief, and disappointment”

We hope that Ron Gidron isn’t easily offended. In particular, we hope that he doesn’t mind if we suggest that xtype is one of the least sexy products we are covering in our TakeOff series of interviews with startup founders. No blockchain, no ridiculous claims, no glamorous offices. Instead, xtype does what so many less successful startups forget: it solves a clear, well-defined problem. “I founded xtype to help customers unleash the full potential of ServiceNow, the most robust platform for managing IT and developing enterprise applications,” he told us. But only, as he explains later, after finding the right team to create it. One of Ron’s key messages to wannabe startup founders: you can’t go it alone.

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8/31/2023

Zurich Insurance slashes ServiceNow application development time

Zurich Insurance has reduced the time it takes to develop and roll out ServiceNow applications from a week and a half to a day and a half through a syncing tool. About a year ago, faced with the end of support of a tool used to sync instances of its ServiceNow platform, Zurich Insurance turned to ServiceNow development partner Xtype for a replacement, which has saved its development team days every time new applications are developed and rolled out.

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8/29/2023

Leading From The C-Suite: Ron Gidron of xtype On Five Things You Need To Be A Highly Effective C-Suite Executive

As part of our series called “Five Things You Need To Be A Highly Effective C-Suite Executive” we had the pleasure of interviewing Ron Gidron. Ron Gidron is the co-founder and CEO of xtype, a platform engineering solution for ServiceNow (R) that allows enterprise customers to meet any level of demand from the platform and drive improved business outcomes at scale. Passionate about the intersection of software, users, and market trends, Ron has over two decades of experience in enterprise technologies and cloud computing, and has held various product and leadership roles within startups and some of the world’s largest technology companies.

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8/23/2023

Ron Gidron, CEO of xtype, on EM360 Podcast

Ron joins the EM360 Podcast to discuss The Future of Automation for Enterprises.

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8/22/2023

The Future of Optimizing DevOps with Agile Deployment Solutions

Scott Willson, Head of Product Marketing, has joined the DEVOPSdigest Vendor Forum. His blog discusses how environment synchronization is key to optimizing automated CI/CD pipelines.

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8/16/2023

Welcome to the age of digital acceleration

People have long talked about digital transformation as an end goal. Once businesses transform, they will realize their ambitions, achieve their goals and enjoy the rewards.

Ron Gidron
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8/15/2023

Meet Ron Gidron, CEO and Co-Founder at Platform Engineering Solution: xtype

Meet the founders of xtype. The company provides native ServiceNow products to meet any level of demand from the Now platform with speed, reliability, and compliance.

Ron Gidron
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8/10/2023

The steps to take before AI embeds ServiceNow challenges

Since its founding twenty years ago, ServiceNow has grown to become the operating system for running a business. Companies love it because no matter what they need to do, ServiceNow likely has a module for it. Whether the focus is customer, employee, tech or operations, ServiceNow has it covered.

Ron Gidron
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7/1/2023

Meet xtype, the startup helping companies to scale and innovate on ServiceNow

As part of our quick fire questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Ron Gidron, Chief Executive Officer and cofounder of xtype, about software development, accelerating digital transformation, and their ambition to become the de facto standard product for platform engineering in ServiceNow.

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6/13/2023

Accelerating Digital Transformation – Scott Willson, xtype.io

The power of automation can enable a greater pace of digital acceleration for ServiceNow customers, supporting them to achieve better business outcomes, particularly in these challenging economic times. By letting intelligent automation take the lead in application deployments, increasing delivery speed, and in tackling backlogs, ServiceNow professionals have time to focus on driving innovation that will give their companies a competitive edge. xtype allows native ServiceNow products to meet any level of demand with speed, reliability, and compliance, serving some of the largest organizations in the world, enabling them to accelerate their digital transformation with ServiceNow at unprecedented scale and velocity.

Scott Willson
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5/25/2023

Alldus Podcast - Knowledge 23 Recap

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5/4/2023

xtype launches xtype View™ The World’s First ServiceNow® Store Application to Provide Multi-Instance Visibility

xtype, the agile software delivery company, today launches xtype View™, the world’s first multi-instance viewer and platform engineering dashboard designed for ServiceNow professionals.

Ron Gidron
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4/19/2023

Beschleunigte ServiceNow-Bereitstellung, hohe Skalierbarkeit und Geschwindigkeit für Unternehmen auf der ServiceNow®-Plattform

WIEN, 19. April 2023 -- xtype, ein Unternehmen für agile Softwarebereitstellung, hat sein speziell für die ServiceNow-Plattform entwickeltes und natives Produkt auf den Markt gebracht. xtype ist das erste Out-of-the-Box Produkt für ServiceNow, das die Automatisierung für die schnelle Bereitstellung und Freigabe von Anwendungen und Updates sowie den Abbau von Backlogs effektiv nutzt.

Ron Gidron
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4/19/2023

Meet xtype: Accelerate ServiceNow delivery and enable enterprises to unleash high scale and velocity on the ServiceNow® platform

COVINA, Calif., April 19, 2023 -- xtype, an agile software delivery company, has launched its purpose-built and native to ServiceNow platform engineering product to market. xtype is the first out-of-the-box product for ServiceNow to effectively use automation to quickly deploy and release applications and updates and clear software development backlogs.

Ron Gidron
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9/14/2022

xtype raises $5.8m seed to accelerate ServiceNow app development for enterprises

TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 14, 2022 -- xtype, the DevOps platform that accelerates ServiceNow app development, announced today $5.8 million in seed funding in a round led by Columbia Capital with participation from Inner Loop Capital and SaaS Ventures. The company will use the funds to accelerate its product roadmap by growing the development team, as well as increase its presence in the US market, expanding its sales and customer success teams.

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