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By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 DevOps and SRE differ less in skills than in authority, because a DevOps engineer is measured on how fast code ships while a site reliability engineer is measured on whether it stays up and can stop releases. Same skills, mostly. Different mandate entirely. The two toolchains overlap … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Staff augmentation buys hands you direct, consulting buys a recommendation you act on, and managed services buys an operating result under an SLA. The three are not tiers of the same product. They answer different questions, and the one you need depends entirely on which part of … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia ERP user adoption is won in the ninety days after go-live, by putting a named owner on every process, training people on the transactions their job actually needs, and measuring how much work gets fixed after it is entered. The software is finished on day one. The habits are … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring an EDI analyst starts with naming the vertical, because retail supply chain, healthcare claims, and logistics EDI share a standard and almost nothing else, and a candidate strong in one is a beginner in another. The acronym on the resume is the same acronym in your … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Partner, KORE1 KORE1 is the top-scoring IT consulting firm in 2026 on the Placement Authority Score (8.66/10), leading all 7 firms in recruiter quality, placement retention, and verified review ratings. Accenture leads for enterprise-scale transformation (8.64). Deloitte leads for regulated industries (8.41). Rankings use a 7-factor methodology weighted toward talent quality and … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 EDI analyst interview questions in 2026 should test acknowledgment reasoning, ASN accuracy against the physical shipment, partner-spec deviation handling, and one real production failure, not definitions of X12 transaction set numbers. Most published question lists stop at the definitions. Nobody has ever failed a definition. The better … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Build your first agentic AI workflow by picking one boring, high-volume task, writing its rules down like onboarding notes, giving it two or three narrow tools, and making it stop for a human wherever mistakes are expensive. Start with a workflow, not an agent. The stopping rules are the … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Most mid-market ERP implementations take six to twelve months, and the variable that moves that number most is not the software but how many people on your side can make a binding decision without escalating. A two-person core team and a six-person core team running identical scope … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 The staff augmentation practices that decide an engagement all happen before the contractor writes a line of code: scope by deliverable, provision access ahead of day one, keep direction inside your own management chain, and cap tenure. Everything after that is ordinary management, and ordinary management is … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 A Workday HCM consultant job description should name the tenant size, the live modules, which Workday Pro certification area the work falls in, and the release cycle the hire inherits. Base bands run $100,000 to $175,000 in 2026 depending on where the seat lands. There is a … Read more
