3 strategies for delivering digital transformation in the Asia-Pacific

3 strategies for delivering digital transformation in the Asia-Pacific

Every $1 dollar of Information Communication Technology (ICT) investment drives $13 dollars in GDP output. That’s why investing in digital infrastructure is so important everywhere, including the Asia-Pacific — much of which struggles with hard-to-traverse geography. Digitalisation and digital infrastructure present significant opportunities for enfranchising communities and acting on climate change. Infrastructure is at the heart of the global digital transformation. Developing digital infrastructure is critical for growth and improving the lives of people everywhere. Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure has now evolved beyond simply connection and computing, forming an ecosystem driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), data and green technology — the Digital First Economy (DFE). DFE performance has a clear multiplier effect on GDP growth. A one-point increase in the DFE score correlates with a 3% growth in GDP . Every $1 dollar of ICT investment drives $13 dollars in GDP output. Have you read? The Asia-Pacific is ripe with opportunities for digital transformation. By 2030, Southeast Asia’s internet economy is forecasted to reach $1 trillion, driven by a fast-growing base of digital consumers and applications. South Asian countries are embracing digitisation widely and strategically. The Asia-Pacific is ripe with opportunities for digital transformation. Image: Huawei, IDC As […]

Digital Transformation Conference–Brazil

Digital Transformation Conference–Brazil

This second annual event will take a deep dive into the need for effective cybersecurity to keep up with the increasing pace of digital transformation within the industrial automation field. It will explore the development of a smart manufacturing center of excellence that targets the digital landscape as it continues to evolve. This event will provide a platform for sharing ideas and solutions to address the unfolding issues that are the result of rapid technological growth of critical infrastructures across multiple industries in such as oil/gas, chemical, water, and power generation. Who Should Attend? IT/OT technicians Engineers focused on cybersecurity Automation and control engineers Managers of plants Automation systems design engineers ​Project managers Sponsorship Opportunities Multiple sponsorship and exhibit opportunities are available for each ISA conference. View our sponsorship prospectus for more details and contact one of our sales representatives to secure your sponsorship package today. Get the Latest Updates Bookmark this page and check back often for the latest updates on this event. Sign up to receive ISA events emails to get the latest news on all of our conferences and webinars.

Intelligent Automation Driving Government Digital Transformation

Intelligent Automation Driving Government Digital Transformation

Ben Tamblyn, VP & Chief Communications Officer, Nintex; Nischay Mittal, Partner & Global Head, Zinnov; Prankur Sharma, Principal, Zinnov; Anmay Shahlot, Project Lead, Zinnov, Aayra Angrish, Consultant, Zinnov The public sector has traditionally relied on paper-based processes that are time-consuming and prone to human error. To optimize time and overcome this problem, Digitization helps transform existing processes by building process efficiency, increasing customer satisfaction levels, and improving team collaborations, among other things. In essence, government digital transformation is being bolstered by Intelligent Automation , specifically Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which is enabling advanced accuracy and transparency in the public sector service delivery and performance. Intelligent Automation Accelerating Government Digital Transformation In Public Sector Services Modern technologies like RPA and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) can help governments solve larger policy concerns such as financial aid disbursal and vaccine administration. They also help boost economic productivity and growth by helping governments track every change in their systems creating a new level of transparency. A great case in point is the US Small Business Administration automating the disbursal of financial aid to citizens, in the wake of the pandemic in 2020. This step, reduced the time taken for Data Management by up […]

Closing the Digital Divide in Government: 5 Strategies for Digital Transformation

Closing the Digital Divide in Government: 5 Strategies for Digital Transformation

MicroStockHub/Getty Images The IT Modernization Mission Change is seldom easy. Yet for government and public sector executives, the need to modernize has never been greater, as there is a growing digital divide between constituent expectations and what many governments can offer. The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the dynamic when it came to the digital imperative for government. More than ever, citizens are demanding a more connected government with integrated services, relevant experiences and self-driven service connection. Whether it’s paying taxes online or applying for benefits anytime and anywhere with the ease experienced in other aspects of their lives, citizens are seeking a government that is as modern as the technology they use in their daily lives. A failure to move forward with modernization efforts will only lead to a decline in government agencies’ ability to deliver services and potentially reinforce the prevailing view of government as inefficient, out of touch and ambivalent to the needs of its constituents. Today, some agencies are relying on legacy systems running programs that are more than a quarter century old and can no longer be supported or updated. Converting systems and applications of that age, scale and complexity to modern cloud-based solutions is difficult. […]

UST Acquires Prodigy Labs, Enhancing its Ability to Drive Digital Transformation in the Financial Sector in Canada

UST Acquires Prodigy Labs, Enhancing its Ability to Drive Digital Transformation in the Financial Sector in Canada

Addition of enhanced end-to-end financial solutions further strengthens UST’s comprehensive portfolio of services TORONTO and ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — UST , a leading digital transformation solutions company, has acquired TCB Corporation , a Canadian technology service company that operates under the name of Prodigy Labs , as part of a deal with Prodigy Ventures Inc. (TSXV: PGV) that will be worth up to CAD12.5 million . A leading provider of innovative technology solutions, Prodigy Labs plays an active role helping financial services firm drive comprehensive digital transformation campaigns. The acquisition significantly strengthens UST’s position in the financial services sector. This latest strategic move aligns with UST’s focus on delivering modern solutions that help financial institutions accelerate their digital transformation. The acquisition of Prodigy Labs will allow UST to develop solutions that make it easier for financial institutions to fully participate in the rapidly expanding financial services landscape. In addition to further strengthening the company’s digital transformation capabilities in the financial services sector, the acquisition expands UST’s presence in the Canadian market. "The Canadian financial sector is evolving in a number of exciting ways, and the acquisition of Prodigy Labs will position UST for long term […]

Fintech 2023: The year of digital transformation

Fintech 2023: The year of digital transformation

The fintech sector has experienced rapid growth in recent years, with the adoption of digital financial services increasing globally. As we look towards 2023, it’s clear that this trend will continue, with several key trends set to redefine the fintech space. Digital payments to see further adoption With a worldwide transactional value of $8,488bn in 2022, digital payments will continue to be the most significant fintech segment in 2023. With UAE as one of the leaders in the fintech space, rapidly establishing a solid base for the industry, the digital payments sector saw a transaction value of $26.28bn just in the region. This trend is set to continue, with the number of users in this segment projected to reach 7.90 million by 2027. The growth of digital payments can be attributed to the level of convenience and security and the increasing prevalence of mobile and online shopping. Furthermore, with the rise of e-commerce and the shift towards contactless payment methods due to the Covid-19 pandemic, digital payments will likely continue to be a key driver of growth in the fintech sector. The prevalence of alternative financing post Covid-19 Another trend in the fintech sector is the rise of alternative […]

Safeguarding democracy: why digital transformation of the electoral process is critical

Safeguarding democracy: why digital transformation of the electoral process is critical

by Titilayo Adewumi, Managing Director at SAP West Africa LAGOS, Nigeria, 31 January 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- As Africa’s largest democracy gears up for its hotly contested elections, the question of technology’s role in enhancing the voting process is once again in the spotlight. Nigeria goes to the polls in February to elect a new President, House of Representatives, and Senate, as well as new State Assemblies and Governors. More than 84 million of the country’s 211 million citizens are eligible to vote, but mobilising voters and getting them to the polls has proven challenging in recent years. Voter turnout at Nigeria’s elections has declined over the past few election cycles, with only 30-35% of eligible voters turning up to cast their vote at the ballot come election day . In some regions the voter turnout is as low as 8.3%, according to Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, driven in part by a general lack of young voters making their way to the poll. Among the factors contributing to the low voter turnout are inadequate voter education, ineffective voter mobilisation, and low trust in state institutions. And despite the importance of elections to the broader democratic and nation-building effort, […]

Red Hat, Oracle to help organisations boost their digital transformation

Red Hat, Oracle to help organisations boost their digital transformation

Open source solution provider Red Hat and Cloud major Oracle on Tuesday announced a multi-stage alliance to offer customers a greater choice of operating systems to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The organisations will now be able to standardise their cloud operations with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on OCI, which enables customers to gain a common platform that stretches from their datacenter to the OCI distributed cloud. "Customers can also easily plan to migrate existing workloads which are currently on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to OCI without many changes in the stack. This collaboration will allow companies to accelerate their digital transformation efforts in a much smoother way," said P. Saravanan, Vice President, Cloud Engineering, Oracle India. Customers can also contact both Red Hat and Oracle support to help resolve potential issues, with an expanded transparent, joint support agreement. Red Hat Enterprise Linux forms the backbone of Red Hat’s hybrid cloud technology portfolio, which includes Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now certified on OCI’s flexible virtual machines that offer from one up to 80 CPU cores in single CPU increments, and from 1GB memory per CPU up to a total of 1024 GB, depending […]

Digital Transformation: Gaining a Competitive Edge through Technology

Digital Transformation: Gaining a Competitive Edge through Technology

Organizations start using the cloud to execute multiple tasks within their organizations. Fremont, CA: Utilizing big data, data analytics, and the cloud can benefit your organization by ensuring that you develop a data strategy that captures data across the value chain. As a result, you realize that organizations from various value chains are gathering a lot of data. All the way from marketing to operations to processes to after-sales. Consequently, this has been transfused into even more and more industries, such as mining, where, for example, a local mining company is using big data analytics to accurately predict when their machines will need maintenance. The phenomenon of Big Data has resulted in organizations having a large amount of data at their disposal that can be used for solving large business problems. Cloud computing The cloud is another technology that organizations have leveraged to improve their organization in the last five to ten years. It’s like having a supercomputer stored somewhere else, which your computer connects to, to perform tasks. You can now no longer be limited by the hardware limitations of your organization in terms of how much data can be processed, how many tasks can be executed, and […]

Digital transformation – from mainframes to the ‘deeply digital’ organisation

Digital transformation – from mainframes to the ‘deeply digital’ organisation

The next generation of successful organisations will be the ones that embrace the potential of digital transformation, or so it has been said with increasing frequency in the last decade. But is the term as useful in understanding the future of organisations as its advocates claim? While some see digital transformation as a trend that has existed since the 1950s, an alternative view is that today’s digitalisation is a distinct phase because it describes the way technology and data now define rather than merely support operations. Digital transformation, then, is a term that reflects the new operational reality for every organisation. Interest in digital transformation has also merged with the need to rebuild organisations after a period of disruption caused by the pandemic, supply chain and employee shortages, and economic uncertainty. However, these problems have also encouraged new thinking and problem solving. Organisations want to invest but without repeating past operational missteps. Nevertheless, what remains up for debate is how organisations should harness the idea of digital transformation to make such change possible. Clearly, while every organisation is digital to a greater or lesser degree, not every organisation today is using advances in digital technology as effectively. How do […]