Factories of the future

New manufacturing sites join the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network as leaders in applying Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies. A community of world-leading manufacturers using Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to enable bottom-line growth, despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s unprecedented disruption, 93 per cent of manufacturers achieved an increase in product output…

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Public Cloud services spending to grow 38 per cent in 2021

In Asia Pacific, excluding Japan to reach US$ 48.4B Organisations in APAC are adjusting to the new normal and reinventing themselves for both pandemic preparedness and competitiveness. As economic activities return to pre-COVID levels, majority of enterprises are building new technology enabled business models, with a focus to regain growth…

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The most in-demand tech sectors and jobs

As COVID-19 chaos continues to impact technology projects, find out the important roles, CIOs will need on their IT teams. Organisations have been forced to reprioritise their technology objectives and strategies in response to the disruption caused by COVID-19. The pandemic has led to a greater reliance on technology and…

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Australian aged care facilities turn to digital transformation

Implementation will help aged care providers meet digital expectations. Not-for-profit welfare company Wintringham, home and community care provider for the Finnish community Finncare and Victoria-based aged care organisation MannaCare have turned to Epicor Software Corporation to further their digital transformation and meet the expectations of the digital age. The software…

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Specialist staff needed for all types of data centres

Greater investment, more training and more creative approaches to employment will be needed. As the data centre build-out continues across the globe, many more people will be needed to design, build and operate this critical infrastructure. The demand will exacerbate staffing shortages — but by how much? The Uptime Institute…

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Singapore’s cyber risk surveillance

Monetary Authority of Singapore states there’s an analytical approach to assess and monitor cyber risk to the financial sector Cyber risk is an emerging source of systemic risk in the financial sector, and possibly a macro-critical risk too. It’s therefore important to integrate it into financial sector surveillance. According to…

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Going digital, faster to address key areas hurt by COVID-19

Organisations are investing heavily in technology to address immediate concerns. Pre-COVID-19, private and public organisations were on a journey towards a digital business model, travelling at varying speeds. But the scale of the pandemic has forced a dramatic acceleration, both in the speed of change and the required investment in…

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Leveraging digital technologies key to Asia’s COVID-19 recovery

Asia Development Bank releases its annual economic report Digital platforms and other technology-based tools are providing new growth opportunities for businesses of all sizes and across all industries in Asia and the Pacific—a trend which could contribute significantly to the region’s sustainable recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, according…

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Singapore fortifies against any potential SolarWinds attacks

There was no indication thus far that Singapore’s CII and Government systems have been adversely affected by the SolarWinds breach. The Minister for Communications and Information S. Iswaran has assured the Singapore Government that the SolarWinds attack didn’t affect any departmental or enterprise networks. According to Minister Iswaran said there…

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