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Notes from building the digital state.
Applied AI, digital government, enterprise software and ventures, written by the engineers and advisers who build these systems in Oman and the UAE.
E-invoicing in the UAE and Oman: what your ERP must be ready for
Large UAE businesses have until 30 October to appoint an e-invoicing provider, and Oman's first phase follows in April. The provider is the easy part. The real work sits inside your ERP.
Read articleWhat we look for before we back an early-stage startup
We build software for a living, so we judge startups the way engineers do. Five questions we ask before we put capital or a team behind a founder.
2 min readWhy digital transformation stalls between strategy and delivery
Most programmes do not fail in the strategy document. They fail in the months after it, when nobody owns the path to a running service.
2 min readAI agents in finance: where they help and where people stay in charge
Finance teams spend a large share of their month on rule-based work. That is exactly where AI agents earn their place, as long as people keep the final say.
2 min readOff-the-shelf ERP or custom software? A practical way to decide
The choice is rarely all or nothing. Most organisations do best with a standard core and custom software only where they are genuinely different.
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