Technologies for digital transformation

Bengaluru: Infosys chief executive Salil Parekh said the company and industry as a whole sees more opportunities for growth in the next few years, as businesses are spending in digital technology-led transformation projects from their investment budgets and not only from their IT budgets. “AI, Automation which are driving a lot of the focus with our large clients and the savings from that is built into scale up of digital. Going beyond cost, this has become a growth driver for the company. In that sense it is independent of the IT budget because some of it is really an investment budget also,” said Parekh at the Kotak’s Chasing Growth Conference on Tuesday. He added that the interactions with its clients suggest that while IT budgets are important; part of the budget is coming from business investment as organisations are focusing on transformation. Parekh added that the investments in digital technologies are somewhat decoupling from IT budgets of organisations. … [Read more...] about Clients are spending on digital from investment budgets as well: Infosys CEO

SINGAPORE: A new digital office announced on Sunday (May 31) will recruit 1,000 ambassadors by the end of next month to help stallholders and seniors go online, as part of efforts to accelerate digital adoption in Singapore's post COVID-19 economic recovery. The digital ambassadors will cover all 112 hawker centres and wet markets in June to encourage stallholders to adopt SGQR codes for e-payment and avoid having to handle cash. This will be expanded to include stallholders in coffee shops and industrial canteens in July. The SGQR code, compatible with payment schemes such as GrabPay, PayNow and Favepay, was rolled out in 2018 as a way to simplify QR code payments in Singapore. “Our goal is to engage 18,000 stallholders to help them get onboard the unified e-payment solution by June 2021,” said the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) and the Infocomm Media Developmemnt Authority (IMDA) in a joint news release. To encourage more stallholders to use … [Read more...] about 1,000 digital ambassadors to be recruited to help stallholders, seniors go online

SINGAPORE: Property portal 99 Group - which operates several brands including 99.co - intends to hire about 100 tech employees over the next 12 months, as it looks to accelerate innovation in the real estate industry, the company on Wednesday (Sep 2). The company, which also operates iproperty.com.sg and rumah123.com, said the move will boost its efforts to develop the "next wave of tech innovations" as property hunting increasingly shifts online. 99 Group is looking for people such as front- and back-end engineers, app developers, product managers, UX/UI designers and data analysts, it said. 99 Group said that COVID-19 has hastened the need for digital transformation in the property buying and selling process, noting that it has seen a surge in listings with rich contect such as videos on its platforms. READ: The Government will always be on the side of Singaporeans, says PM Lee amid job concerns The real estate industry, like many others, has taken a hit because of … [Read more...] about Property portal 99 Group to hire 100 tech employees in move to boost innovation in real estate market

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has launched the “Review and remove malware nationwide in 2020” campaign to enhance the country's network security. The malware infection rate in Viet Nam has decreased but still remained high compared to other countries in the world. — Photo quantrimang.com The campaign aims to reduce the malicious code infection rate by 50 per cent. It also aims to cut the number of Vietnamese IP addresses in 10 popular botnets – a collection of internet-connected devices infected by malware that allow hackers to control them – in half. It would also take Việt Nam out of reports on malware infection rates. The National Digital Transformation Programme, approved by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in early June 2020, says ensuring network safety and security is key to digital transformation. All IT equipment, products, software, information systems and investment projects have mandatory components on network safety and … [Read more...] about Information and Communications Ministry enhances network security with campaign

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will set up a sustainability office and trial cleaner fuels for some of its fighter jets in its latest efforts to go green. SAF and the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) will also reduce water consumption by using more efficient water fittings, and install smart meters in all their buildings to monitor greenhouse gas emissions as well as waste and water consumption and reach required targets. “By 2030, MINDEF/SAF will reduce the growth of overall carbon emissions by two-thirds compared to business as usual,” the ministry said in a factsheet on Monday (Mar 1). “By 2050, we aim to halve the 2030 emissions in line with national strategy.” READ: Singapore unveils Green Plan 2030, outlines green targets for next 10 years This comes as Singapore on Feb 10 unveiled the Singapore Green Plan 2030, a whole-of-nation movement to fight climate change and push towards halving the country’s 2030 peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. “In line … [Read more...] about SAF to set up sustainability office, trial cleaner fuels for some fighter jets in latest push to go green