Bandhan Bank collaborates with Salesforce to drive digital transformation

Bandhan Bank collaborates with Salesforce to drive digital transformation

New Project – 2025-03-20T181037.168 Salesforce announced its partnership with Bandhan Bank, a pan-India universal bank, to revolutionise its loan origination systems (LOS) and deliver a seamless, digital-first experience for customers. With over 6,300 outlets across 35 states and union territories, Bandhan Bank has been at the forefront of financial inclusion and banking innovation. This strategic collaboration marks a significant milestone in the bank’s technology-driven transformation journey, aiming to provide accessible, efficient, and technology-driven financial solutions to customers across India. Bandhan Bank has consolidated multiple loan origination systems (LOS) into best-in-class AI-driven platforms powered by Salesforce, creating an efficient and intelligent lending experience. Following its Core Banking System transition in October 2023, the bank has accelerated its digital transformation journey, enhancing product innovation and operational excellence to deliver faster, more efficient, and customer-centric financial services. With Salesforce’s Lightning Platform which is used for Housing Finance LOS and Sales Cloud for commercial loans, Bandhan Bank has streamlined the entire loan lifecycle- from customer onboarding and credit evaluation to approval, disbursal, and servicing. With AI at the core of this transformation, the bank has enhanced loan quality, trade finance, payment processing, fraud detection, and risk management, ensuring greater accuracy and security. By […]

Azizi Developments partners with SAP for comprehensive digital transformation to support expansion drive

Azizi Developments partners with SAP for comprehensive digital transformation to support expansion drive

The developer is now adopting RISE with SAP and a range of SAP solutions for its operations, to enhance efficiency and leverage the latest AI capabilities Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 21 March, 2025 – Azizi Developments, a leading private developer in the UAE, has entered a strategic partnership with SAP to drive an end-to-end digital transformation of its operations, supporting its ambitious growth plans. As a net new customer, Azizi Developments will adopt RISE with SAP Private Cloud, including SAP S/4HANA, as well as a wider range of SAP solutions that will enhance the services it delivers to its stakeholders, with a focus on its clients and staff. The signing ceremony, which was attended by the Group CEO of the Azizi Group of companies, Mr. Farhad Azizi, and Senior Vice President, SAP Middle East and Africa – South, Mr. Sergio Maccotta, as well as other senior management figures of both entities and several other key stakeholders, was held at Azizi Developments’ offices in the Conrad Hotel on Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed Road on the 20th of March 2025. This digital transformation project aims to create a unified digital architecture, streamlining operations and ensuring seamless integration across all departments. The project […]

Pakistan Leaps into the Digital Age

Pakistan Leaps into the Digital Age

With its decisive role at LEAP 2025 in Riyadh and the DNP Act of 2025—which officially developed into Pakistan’s Digital Nation—the narrative of Pakistan’s digital transformation has emerged as part of the nation’s economic and technological ambitions. This is a strategic shift in the path to innovation-driven growth, and the country is firmly on the rise as a player in artificial intelligence (AI), digital finance, and startup ecosystems, attracting global investment and partners. In making its largest international tech showcase in terms of numbers (more than 100 companies and 1,000 delegates) to date at LEAP 2025, Pakistan sent clear signals of its booming IT sector and maturing talent pool. It translated into real results like $15 million in anticipated business deals over the course of the coming year and joint ventures with Saudi and global tech firms. The event was also a good opportunity to showcase Pakistan’s achievements in AI, which is already being utilized in healthcare, media monitoring, and transportation by the National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) by means of deploying 221 AI solutions. As an instance, AI-powered diagnostic tools are changing the rural healthcare access, and smart traffic management systems of cities (Karachi and Lahore) are […]

NatWest partners with OpenAI for simplification and customer experience

NatWest partners with OpenAI for simplification and customer experience

UK-based NatWest Group has partnered with OpenAI to support bank-wide simplification and improve customer experience. Through this collaboration, NatWest aims to optimise its ability to meet clients’ needs faster and more efficiently, and increase productivity across its bank. By leveraging Open AI’s insights and technology, the bank will upgrade how quickly and widely it deploys its developments in GenAI. NatWest partners with OpenAI New AI services for NatWest NatWest is committed to developing its digital assistant services, offering new ways in which customers can utilise AI to support them with complex tasks such as identification, reporting, and resolution of fraud and scams. For colleagues, this means developing modern tools to assist with fraud and complaints handling. Additionally, this approach is overseen by the bank’s Artificial Intelligence & Data Ethics Code of Conduct to ensure customers and employees are safe and utilising AI in a responsible and ethical manner. Data ethics ensure security, privacy, and transparency in data collection and sharing, while AI ethics extends these principles to ensure AI algorithms that use the data are unbiased and fair. NatWest’s works ensuring that its AI systems are subject to human oversight and promote human agency, consider social and environmental impacts, […]

This Week's Top 5 Stories in Technology

This Week’s Top 5 Stories in Technology

This week, Technology Magazine features Nvidia’s Founder and CEO Jensen Huang announcing new technology at GTC 2025 (image credit: Nvidia) Technology Magazine highlights this week’s top stories from interviews at MWC2025, to Nvidia’s announcements at GTC, to the opportunities and dangers of AI Nvidia GTC: What’s Next for the Global Technology Sector? Founded in 1993 as a graphics processor company, Nvidia has undergone a remarkable transformation over three decades to become the central hardware provider for the AI revolution across the world. It has accelerated companies across the world as businesses seek to harness Gen AI for competitive advantage and the demand for more powerful and efficient hardware has intensified, placing significant pressure on technology providers. Now, at its annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), the company has made several announcements that are sure to transform the global AI and technology market again, from new platforms to accelerate Gen AI, to innovations to address the challenges faced by multiple sectors implementing AI . Technology Magazine looks at some of Nvidia’s top announcements that are set to transform the technology industry across the world. Nvidia’s GTC 2025 (image credit: Nvidia) “The age of AI has started. A new computing era that […]

SAP Takes on Digital Transformation Project for UAE's Azizi Developments

SAP Takes on Digital Transformation Project for UAE’s Azizi Developments

SAP SE Equities SAP DE0007164600 Software Market Closed – Xetra 12:40:19 2025-03-21 pm EDT After market 01:39:04 pm 251.95 EUR +0.72% 251.08 -0.35% 07:27am UAE Stocks Close Mixed Amid Geopolitical Uncertainties MT 05:00am SAP Takes on Digital Transformation Project for UAE’s Azizi Developments MT Summary Quotes Charts News Company Financials Valuation Consensus Ratings Calendar Sector All News Analyst Reco. Highlights Insiders Transcripts Press Releases Official Publications Other languages Trading Ideas MarketScreener Strategies Share This article is reserved for members Unlock the article: REGISTER NOW! 100% Free Registration Already a customer? Log In Share © MT Newswires – 2025 Latest news about SAP SE UAE Stocks Close Mixed Amid Geopolitical Uncertainties 6h ago MT SAP Takes on Digital Transformation Project for UAE’s Azizi Developments 8h ago MT JPMorgan places SAP on ‘Positive Catalyst Watch’ Mar. 20 DP SAP SE : JP Morgan reiterates its Buy rating Mar. 20 ZD Nvidia Launches Family of Open Reasoning Ai Models for Developers and Enterprises to Build Agentic Ai Platforms Mar. 18 CI Sap To Launch Ai Agent Service In Japan, CEO Says – Nikkei Mar. 16 RE European Equities Traded in the US as American Depositary Receipts Tread Water in Thursday Trading Mar. […]

Why G-Cloud 14 is more than a catalogue of ‘shiny new toys’

Why G-Cloud 14 is more than a catalogue of ‘shiny new toys’

image: ©imaginima | iStock Nick Denning, CEO of IT consultancy Diegesis and veteran of multiple successful digital transformation projects, looks at how G-Cloud 14 can help to secure day-to-day operations while delivering digital innovations Recent turbulence in global trade and tariffs has grabbed headlines, column inches and social media focus in 2025. This has perhaps obscured important changes in public sector procurement and opportunities which are happening much closer to home. New Procurement Act – Live A new Procurement Act 2023 governing public procurement went live on 24 February 2025. This impacts both public sector buyers and the suppliers hoping to win their business. These changes followed closely after the launch of G-Cloud 14 in 2024, which included enhancements to facilitate easier procurement of cloud services and solutions. The new Act aims to improve how public procurement is regulated, making it more open to new entrants, such as small businesses, social enterprises, and new providers. The goal is to facilitate greater transparency and scrutiny of how taxpayers’ money is spent throughout the whole commercial lifecycle. The changes and enhancements brought with G-Cloud 14 should also support this goal. Find new solutions and suppliers The Crown Commercial Service says G-Cloud […]

Digital Transformation 101: A handy primer

Digital Transformation 101: A handy primer

Robert Slepin, chief digital officer and senior vice president at Markham, Ontario-based SE Health and emeritus CIO adviser at Epic Photo: Robert Slepin Robert Slepin is chief digital officer and senior vice president at Markham, Ontario-based SE Health and emeritus CIO adviser at EHR giant Epic. SE Health is one of the largest diversified home health organizations in Canada that includes a dedicated research center, health career college, futures lab and global enterprise. The provider organization has facilitated transformation in the areas of aging, education, Indigenous health and end-of-life care. Slepin has more than 35 years in health IT. He said a combination of being in the right place at the right time and several key decisions were pivotal in giving him opportunities to gain practical experience in digital transformation and in shaping his career as a healthcare CIO and digital advisor. Past employers and clients have included Johns Hopkins Medicine International, Stanford Children’s, Sutter Health, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Alberta Health Services, Hamilton Health Sciences, University Health Network and others. His experience includes serving as a health system CIO and as CIO or program director and/or advisor for numerous health information system companies, including ones specializing […]

Casa Grande Embarks on Digital Transformation with Metronet's Fiber-Optic Network Installation

Casa Grande Embarks on Digital Transformation with Metronet’s Fiber-Optic Network Installation

In an effort to enhance the digital connectivity of Casa Grande, Metronet has announced the onset of its ambitious project to install a full-fledged fiber-optic network across the city starting next Tuesday. This initiative is set to span approximately 18 months, promising to usher in a new era of high-speed internet for the community. According to the City of Casa Grande’s announcement , citizens should prepare for the visible presence of construction crews who will be undertaking both aerial and underground installations in their respective neighborhoods. The installation process orchestrated by Metronet will embroil seasoned crews marked with their distinctive company insignia, ensuring that residents can easily recognize their operations as they unfold around homes and local businesses. In its construction approach, Metronet has resolved to employ existing infrastructure such as poles in regions already beset with overhead utilities, and in areas where the urban landscape has been sheathed beneath the earth, a more refined technique of horizontal underground drilling is slated to be deployed, aiming to mitigate disturbances to the local topography and private properties. Metronet seems aware that their expansive works could stir queries and even anxieties among the citizens they are endeavoring to serve. In response, […]

BPX Expands Its BPM Services to Help Enterprises Achieve Digital Transformation

BPX Expands Its BPM Services to Help Enterprises Achieve Digital Transformation

BPX Expands Its BPM Services to Help Enterprises Achieve Digital Transformation BPX expands BPM services to streamline operations, boost efficiency, and drive growth as digital transformation gains priority. Digital transformation continues to gain priority among enterprises. Business Process Xperts (BPX) is expanding its Business Process Management ( https://businessprocessxperts.com/business-process-management-bpm-consulting/ ) services to help organizations streamline operations, enhance process efficiencies, and drive long-term business growth. The new suite of BPM services, therefore, focuses on automation, workflow optimization, and data-drivenness in decision-making to facilitate enterprise digital transformation. "Digital transformation is no longer a luxury service, but it is a need of the hour for enterprises that want to stay competitive," Nikhil Agarwal, Founder of BPX, states. "With our enhanced BPM services, we empower organizations to redesign the flow of their work, bring in automation, and create agile workflows that lead to efficiencies and scalability." Get Insights from BPX to Streamline your Business Processes: https://businessprocessxperts.com/contact/ Strategic Shift Towards Intelligent BPM The expansion of BPM services is thought to be able to meet a rising demand for digital-first business models. Today, organizations face challenges such as inefficiency in process, limitations of a legacy system, and lack of visibility at a cross-functional level. To counter […]