In the rapidly evolving world of machine learning and artificial intelligence, small language models (SLMs) are emerging as pivotal assets...

Coming into 2026, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region stands at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, driven by a blend...

The banking sector in Asia is experiencing a profound shift driven by artificial intelligence, with agentic AI—systems capable of autonomous...

As the calendar flips to 2026, chief information officers (CIOs) stand at a crossroads. Global IT spending is poised to...

For decades, the corporate laptop was a predictable workhorse—reliable, replaceable, and largely undifferentiated. But as 2025 draws to a close...

The gap between AI ambition and AI reality is growing. While enterprises globally have deployed AI systems in their workflows,...

In the boardrooms of Jakarta, Singapore, Tokyo, and Seoul, CIOs are no longer just asking, “How fast can we ship...

Just two years ago, boardrooms across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong buzzed with anxiety over AI's disruptive potential. Would competitors...

In Southeast Asia’s hyper-accelerating digital economy — now valued at $263 billion and growing at 15% year-over-year — software is...

AI-embedded business software is rapidly reshaping enterprise operations by automating routine tasks, enhancing decision-making, and personalizing customer experiences. By integrating...

I recently commented that "I'd love to return to (software) coding", and almost immediately the idea got shot down by...

In 2026, Asia’s boardrooms are no longer just debating digital efficiency—they are redefining decision-making itself. The era of passive automation...

IDC predicts that “By 2026, 20% of frustrated knowledge workers with no development experience will take charge of transforming how...

Across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) boardrooms, the initial excitement around generative AI has given way to a pressing demand:...

As Asian enterprises accelerate their adoption of artificial intelligence, the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has evolved from...

The Philippines is at a critical juncture in its AI journey. While government mandates and investment flows signal a strong...

A unified AI vision serves as the Guiding Principle for enterprise-wide AI adoption, ensuring that all departments work toward common...

The accelerated march of artificial intelligence (AI)—comprising generative, agentic, and advanced automation—has shifted from an experimental frontier to foundational infrastructure...

* Editor’s note: The following extends from an earlier discussion with Dr David Hardoon, global head of AI enablement at...

As organisations embrace digital transformation in 2026, agentic AI is rapidly redefining the potential of enterprise automation. Unlike traditional robotic...

As artificial intelligence transforms industries globally, Thai enterprises from across all sectors are grappling with how to harness AI's potential...

In 2025, the Asia-Pacific region witnessed a pivotal shift in the adoption of low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions. No longer seen as...

Gartner predicts that 90% of organisations will adopt a hybrid cloud approach through 2027, and the most urgent GenAI challenge...

The LexisNexis Risk Solutions Cybercrime Report (APAC edition) revealed a 37% year-over-year rise in human-initiated attacks, particularly in sectors such...

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape of Asia, low-code/no-code (LCNC) platforms have emerged as a game-changer for enterprises seeking to accelerate...

In 2025, the business landscape in Malaysia, Singapore, and much of ASEAN is being reshaped by the rapid evolution of...

By 2025, AI agents will have moved from experimental tools to indispensable partners in the software engineering lifecycle. Unlike earlier...

Three years after the introduction of ChatGPT, the AI landscape in Asia Pacific (APAC) is characterised by a critical tension:...

In 2025, CIOs across the Asia Pacific must optimise the delivery of cloud value amidst a $250 billion market surge...

In today's hyper-connected IT enterprise landscape, enabling collaboration is an operational necessity. Forward-thinking technology leaders are laser-focused on dismantling organisational...

In the race to implement artificial intelligence, many companies are discovering a harsh truth: Deploying AI without proper governance is...

Mainframe computers, often referred to as the "tech dinosaurs," continue to be indispensable components of the digital infrastructure in the...

The growing intersection of cloud computing and artificial intelligence poses unprecedented challenges for Singapore organisations. A primary concern is security....

As Singapore races toward its Smart Nation 2025 vision, its digital ecosystem is undergoing rapid transformation. Chief Information Officers face...

infrastructure continues to decline over the next two years." It predicts that by 2025, over 50% of businesses will modernise...

In 2025, Agentic AI is poised to transform the business landscape across Asia, driving unprecedented innovation and efficiency. As organisations...

The Asia Pacific (APAC) region is experiencing a dynamic shift in its connectivity landscape, driven by the increasing demands of...

"Across the region, only 23% of senior leaders in the top 50 tech companies are women. The picture is stark...

A chatbot is an artificial intelligence program that chats with you. The first chatbot, Eliza, was developed by MIT professor...

The rapidly evolving tech landscape has led many CIOs and tech leaders to an arm-wrestling match: one hand wants to...

Artificial intelligence (AI) governance encompasses the processes, standards, and safeguards that ensure AI systems are safe, ethical, and aligned with...

In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and global disruptions, the supply chain landscape in the ASEAN region is...

Up to 52% of enterprise-wide digital initiatives fail to meet their business outcome targets

Rocket Software’s Praveen Kumar emphasises that large enterprises often face challenges in modernising their mainframe systems due to the intricate...

In an era where data is paramount, financial institutions, banks, and investors in Southeast Asia are increasingly harnessing artificial intelligence...

Synthetic data addresses the data shortfall needed for training AI algorithms while enhancing security and privacy

By staying ahead of the curve and embracing these advancements with a critical mindset, organisations can position themselves to adapt...

CIOs and CFOs working together can leverage technology investments to drive shareholder value, improve data governance, and optimise business processes.

McKinsey says artificial intelligence (AI) adoption (globally) increased dramatically in 2024 after years of little meaningful change. Marketsandmarkets forecasts the...

So strong is the interest around artificial intelligence and its potential to change how we do things today, Gartner predicts...

Gartner predicts that by 2028, cloud computing will shift from being a technology disruptor to a necessary component for maintaining...

The rapid growth of data and the increasing complexity of managing it in the age of AI and hybrid cloud...

Generative AI has been around since the 1960s in the form of chatbots. However, it was the introduction of generative...

A Gartner survey of HR leaders reveals that 76% say their managers are overwhelmed by the growth of their job...

A Gartner survey of 644 organisations (Q4 2023) revealed that data availability remains one of the top five barriers to...

The rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has ushered in a new era of technological innovation, offering unprecedented capabilities...

During the AI for Business Leaders Summit series, Heather Gentile, executive director of product watsonx.governance for IBM DATA AND AI,...

The Singapore Parliament passed the Cybersecurity (Amendment) Bill (the Bill) on 7 May 2024, amending the Cybersecurity Act 2018 (the...

Gartner predicts more than 70% of government agencies will use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance human administrative decision-making by 2026....

A Gartner 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey revealed that even before ChatGPT, one-third of CIOs say their organisation...

Cybersecurity is a moving target. Within the financial services industry, including banking and insurance, the threat of fraud is a...

In Asia's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the need for robust digital resilience has become paramount as the region grapples with...

KPMG asserts that with all the focus around modernisation and/or transformation over the last few years, there is growing recognition...

Historically, when new ideas are created, the excitement around the potential propels the idea forward. In some cases, the euphoria...

For the longest time, we’ve been told that the best defence against cyberattacks is to use a defence-in-depth (DID) strategy,...

Security Operations (SecOps) is where IT operations and IT security come together. It is one of those few places in...

Former cybersecurity consultant, now freelance writer and author, John Meah, wrote on Techopedia that besides the potential benefits of artificial...

126 business emails (per person) go out daily or 124.5 billion work emails get sent and received every day. The...

Mordor Intelligence estimates the Asia-Pacific data centre (DC) market at around 14.27 thousand MW in 2024, predicting it to reach...

At a recent media briefing, Elastic’s Ravi Rajendran, area vice president for ASEAN joined Chris Walker, vice president of architectural...

The WEF Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024 reveals a divide between those who are resilient and those who aren’t. Emerging technologies...

In the article, 5 priorities for digital leaders in 2024, Kimy Bettinger who leads the Leading emerging tech & tech...

From the Greek word authentikos, authentication, the act of verifying an identity, continues to evolve. Depending on the context, authentication...

IDC predicts that in 2024, 50% of APAC cities and states will pilot GenAI to improve efficacy in community outreach...

The Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024 paints a grim picture: there is a growing inequity between organisations that are cyber-resilient and...

According to InfoGov.com, the principles of Information Governance (InfoGov) empower us to refine the quality of our data, shield sensitive...

In the World Economic Forum article, Centre for New Economy and Society laments that the gender gaps in science, technology,...

Since the adoption of robotic process automation, there is this subtle expectation that automation is the future for many things...

The rising popularity of artificial intelligence (AI), as led by generative AI (GenAI), should give pause to CIOs, infrastructure leaders,...

“It will change how companies deliver value to their customers, and it will supercharge productivity. In some industries, these transformations...

While the underrepresentation of women in cybersecurity is starting to improve – 20% in 2019 compared to 10% in 2013,...

In 2023, the desire to benefit from tech-driven innovation got a boost in the arm, thanks to the perceived potential...

“People may learn from and replicate the skewed perspective of an artificial intelligence algorithm, and they carry this bias beyond...

In a joint Harvard Business Review and Google Cloud report 97% of business leaders surveyed believe that democratising access to...

Gartner’s VP analyst, Bart Willemsen says technology disruptions and socioeconomic uncertainties require a willingness to act boldly and strategically enhance...

Since the early days of mankind, jobs performed by humans have almost always been at risk with each innovation. From...

Artificial intelligence is making its presence known across all areas of industry and function. As consumers of technology, the CIO...

Mentions of artificial intelligence (AI) in corporate strategy meetings will, at some point, end with discussions on the impact of...

When asked about the growing exuberance over the use of generative AI, 54% of the surveyed security specialists believe that...

For years, there has been a recurring assertion of the need for the alignment of IT with business. The IDC...

Google AI Platform, TensorFlow, Microsoft Azure, Rainbird, Infosys Nia, Wipro HOLMES, Dialogflow, Premonition, Ayasdi, MindMeld, Meya, KAI, Vital A.I, Wit,...

The digital economy brings with it two consequences: it allows market players to go beyond their traditional borders via digital...

The ISACA Singapore and Frost & Sullivan Cyber Security Survey 2023 warned that 86% of companies in Singapore are identified...

Datacentres are playing an increasingly important role as the infrastructure backbone of the digital economy, serving as central hubs for...

At the FutureCIO Conference Hong Kong 2023, several panellists commented on the increasing presence and influence of artificial intelligence in...

Clifford Stoll, author of The Cuckoo’s Egg, an investigation into the hacking of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that led...

FutureCIO observes that in many parts of Asia, there is growing acceptance that a hybrid, multi-cloud approach to computing is...

Threat exposure management. Identity fabric immunity. Cybersecurity validation. Cybersecurity platform consolidation. Security operating model transformation. Composable security. Human-centric security design....

Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly warns that AI is “the most powerful capability and weapon...

In what may well be the norm, the Netskope Threat Labs Report, released in October 2023, claimed that Australia leads...

Gartner predicts that through 2023, less than 5% of control-tower-like deployments will fulfil their end-to-end potential due to mindset and...

The Consortium for Information and Software Quality (or CISQ) estimates that poor software quality costs US companies upwards of $2.08...

One of the characteristics of the recent decade is an increasingly connected global community with some events that occur in...

Artificial intelligence has been immortalised in movies with hits like "Bicentennial Man", "Upgrade" and its namesake "Artificial Intelligence" by Steven...

Fraud, stock-price manipulation, damage to reputation and the brand, sextortion scams that sabotage employee morale, misinformation, and disinformation. These are...

The Gartner report, Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Artificial Intelligence in Banking, reveals that 67% of banking institutions (surveyed) are currently...

In 1981, Richard Faynman presented the quandry: classical computers cannot simulate the evolution of quantum systems in an efficient way....

Backup and disaster recovery solutions came into the market in 1978. At the time, however, the primary concerns were driven...

A McKinsey global survey of executives noted that companies have accelerated the digitisation of their customer and supply-chain interactions and...

With any data, we need to ensure measures are in place to secure the data at each stage of its...

Many of the concepts and practices for data protection in general, and backup/recovery (B/R) in particular, have not changed since...

Frost & Sullivan forecasts that by 2030 global infrastructure investment needs will increase by 50% over the next decade driven...

Gartner says the mass availability of generative AI has become a top concern for enterprise risk executives in the second...

Do me a favour. Watch the video before proceeding with reading this article. It will help make the rest of...

The digitalisation of operations and the increasing use of streaming and internet usage drive demand for data and boost the...

Sometimes referred to as “smart automation” or “intelligent automation,” Gartner defines robotic process automation or RPA as an umbrella term...

Events drive the business landscape. Defined as a change of state, every transaction, decision or internal initiative creates an event...

History suggests that the ideals of customer experience can be traced to the development of market research as a method...

"A software supply chain attack occurs when a cyber threat actor infiltrates a software vendor’s network and employs malicious code...

Gartner Sr director analyst Richard Addiscott says business leaders now widely accept that cybersecurity risk is a top business risk...

IDC predicts that by 2025, 90% of global organisations will be staring down the barrel of a crippling IT skills...

A Gartner survey revealed that 55% of organisations that have previously deployed AI always consider AI for every new use...

Gartner defines a large language model (LLM) as a specialised type of artificial intelligence (AI) that has been trained on...

The Deloitte 2023 Global Future of Cyber Survey identifies enhancing risk management as important to the success of the organisation...

According to the Forbes Advisor survey, the most popular applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in business include customer service (56%),...

The Alibaba Cloud-commissioned survey by NielsenIQ, The Next-Generation Cloud Strategy in Asia, reveals continued interest in the use of cloud...

Gartner defines a data strategy as a highly dynamic process employed to support the acquisition, organisation, analysis and delivery of...

The 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey noted that even before ChatGPT, one-third of CIOs say their organization had...

Alan Turing, a British polymath who explored the mathematical possibility of artificial intelligence, suggested that humans use available information and...

A Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study revealed that as much as 70% of digital transformation initiatives fall short of meeting...

In the Equinix-sponsored IDC paper, A Blueprint for DX Success: Start with Hybrid Infrastructure and Connected Ecosystems, the analyst noted...

George Leung Siu-kay, CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, reveals that companies in Hong Kong are struggling...

There is a growing desire among organisations to become more data-driven. The view is that data should be the foundation...

In a poll of 2,500 executives, 45% reported that the publicity of ChatGPT has prompted them to increase artificial intelligence...

Rockwell Automation's 8th annual State of Smart Manufacturing Report reveals that the number one obstacle manufacturers face in 2023 is...

“If your CEO is talking about agility and innovation, you need to be talking about cloud.” David Linthicum, chief cloud...

Network operations teams are struggling with the rapid change in the cloud and dynamic resource orchestration, rendering older technology inadequate...

Adoption of a cloud-first technology is becoming an acceptable strategy or norm for many organisations. As more organisations in Asia...

According to Forrester, a customer experience (CX) leader, is in-charged of aligning the organisation around customer value. From the C-suite...

Gartner predicts that by 2026, 70% of boards will include one member with cybersecurity expertise. In the meantime, however, CISOs...

Network security consists of the policies, processes and practices adopted to prevent, detect and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or...

IDC research vice president, Dave McCarthy says the cloud is no longer considered a location but rather an operating model...

Gartner says application modernisation services address the migration of legacy to new applications or platforms, including the integration of new...

Forrester's Top Cybersecurity Threats in 2023 lists among other things the potential to weaponize artificial intelligence variants like Generative AI...

“Against a backdrop of unrelenting social and economic pressures, marketing leaders look toward a future where smarter marketing leads to...

Digital transformation is easy to say, arguably hard to implement and failures continue to occur even as we learn from...

The COVID-19 crisis continues to have a significant impact on individuals, society, businesses and the wider economy across the globe....

ResearchAndMarkets forecasts that the embedded finance industry in the region is expected to grow by 39.7% on an annual basis...

CISOs and security professionals are in an unenviable position: they deal with relentless cyberattacks from across an expanding attack surface,...

A survey of 1,200 large organisations representing US$125.2 billion in annual cybersecurity spending, with US$19 billion spent in Asia Pacific,...

Cisco's latest Cybersecurity Readiness Index says globally only 15% have a mature level of preparedness to handle security risks. The...

The authors of the paper, Thinking Outside-the-Box for Cyber Defense: Introducing an Innovation Framework for the 21st Century, noted that...

Gartner predicts that global end-user spending on public cloud services will grow to US$591.8 billion in 2023, a 20.7% growth...

Gartner says businesses are challenged to bring value and innovation wherever their customers are. For CIOs and infrastructure and operations...

The Harvard Business Review (HBR) paper, Balancing Cloud Costs and Business Goals with FinOps, acknowledges that cloud computing has become...

Gartner predicts that the software market will reach US$1 billion by 2025 indicating that demand for software will continue. Among...

We are all familiar with the concepts of risks and uncertainty. Risk is a quantifiable element of doing business, whereas...

Years back, one of my KPIs as country head was to build a partner network in the Philippines. At the...

A database is a collection of structured information, or data, typically stored electronically in a computer system. A data architecture...

The explosion in cloud computing adoption, including computing, storage, and connectivity, has led to some finance leaders asking what we...

Gartner says the endlessly expanding digital footprint of modern organisations is introducing new security challenges. The pandemic response has accelerated...

2023 has ushered in a unique set of challenges compared to prior years as companies are continuing their paths towards...

The IBM Institute of Business Value report, 2023 Global Outlook for Banking and Financial Markets, paints three themes facing banks...

World Backup Day just whisked by with little fanfare. And that is not surprising. Compared to topics like ChatGPT, datafication,...

The IDC Cloud Pulse 2Q22 Survey noted that data sovereignty and industry compliance have factored highly in discussions about the...

"How do you like your eggs?" Country Roads Magazine has 100 ways for cooking an egg. For something as simple...

One of the factors that led to the widespread adoption of the iPhone during its early days was the simplicity...

A partnership arises when two or more parties agree to collaborate towards a common goal. According to CompTIA, the best...

Dave McCrory coined the term data gravity back in 2010 using the metaphor of gravity to explain the phenomenon of...

In 2020, threat actors focused their efforts on Covid-19-related threats, ranging from email threats, and business email compromise, to social...

Citing self-reported company data, Statista revealed that in 2021 female employees makeup between 45% (Amazon), 37% (Facebook), 34% (Apple), 33%...

This is the fourth edition of the Global Women in PR (GWPR) Annual Index reveals that progress towards equality continues...

At Future Enterprises Awards 2022, Maria Beatriz “Abet” Adversalo took the coveted CIO of the Year award in recognition of...

In a prior PodChats for FutureCISO dialogue with Mel Migriño, chairman and president of the Women in Security Alliance Philippines,...

According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022, it will take 132 years to close the global...

Banks and other financial institutions have always been a magnet for cybercriminals out to make a hefty payday by perpetuating...

Elevators and escalators are mechanical machineries for moving people built as far back as 1889 and 1892 respectively. They are...

Mordor Intelligence forecasts Indonesia’s oil and gas market to see a CAGR of more than 5% during the forecast period,...

The Center for Sustainable Systems defines green information technology (green IT) as an approach to reduce the environmental impacts associated...

28 January 2023 is Data Privacy Day – “an international effort to create awareness about the importance of respective privacy,...

“Rewarding and challenging” is how the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) describes a career in human resources. According to...

Futurist Bernard Marr sees a turbulent 2023 for global markets adding that communications service providers (CSPs) will not be insulated...

The Q3 2022 Data Centre Report by Knight Frank reveals an increasing trend towards greater localisation of data centre facilities....

A Cybersecurity Ventures report, Women in Cybersecurity 2022, estimates that women held about 25% of cybersecurity roles globally, up from...

People remain one of the most important assets for many organisations – big and small. The Great Resignation is a...

IDC has predicted that the idea of digital sovereignty will gain greater traction in the coming years. In Europe, 2022...

2022 was a colourful year for Asia-Pacific (APAC) with the continuing pandemic, the Ukraine-Russia war, and the strain on the...

On 19 January 2023, Nutanix hosted a media briefing on the topic of “Patchwork IT Tearing at the Seams: Three...

Deloitte opines that a new global economic order seems imminent in 2023. The ripple effects from a more fragile and...

“In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity” Albert Einstein In times of recession, the often approach taken is...

Gartner says the role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is growing, and the scope of digital business intensifies....

Indeed.com says a people manager is a leader who cares about every employee's growth and well-being and manages people effectively....

FutureCIO has covered data protection for some time now. A 2023 Gartner prediction cautions that through 2025, powerhouse cloud ecosystems...

For decades, many businesses in Asia were supported on the bedrock of proprietary software and closed system architectures. The pandemic...

The chief technology officer, also known as a chief technical officer or chief technologist, is an executive-level position focused on...

FutureCIO has covered data protection for some time now. A 2023 Gartner prediction cautions that through 2025, powerhouse cloud ecosystems...

We’re drowning in data these days. And the data deluge is not going to stop anytime soon. Our thirst for...

It can be argued that COVID-19 was the catalyst for even faster adoption of technology-led innovation (the Economist even suggests...

For years now, companies worldwide have been engaged in an uphill battle to modernise their IT applications to meet agility...

However we want to look at it, every software application we use today runs off from some computing device –...

In 2017, Olam Group redefined its purpose to ‘Re-imagining global agriculture and food systems’. Charged with leading and executing this...

The impact of the pandemic and the rapid acceleration of digital initiatives in a short time forced organisations to control...

FutureCIO has covered data protection for some time now. In 2020, Gartner predicted that by 2023 65% of the world’s...

Mordor Intelligence forecasts data centre transformation to reach US$15.45 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 12.88% during the...

Zuellig Pharma calls itself a digital-first integrated healthcare services provider. But it wasn’t born digital by any stretch of the...

IDC says Asia/Pacific organisations continue to refine hybrid working practices and organisational culture to accommodate new ways of working that...

The workplace of the digital economy can be described as the convergence of old practices with new technologies, with the...

The recipient of the CIO of the Year award at the IDC Future Enterprise Awards 2022 for Singapore, Jimmy Ng,...

Ransomware remains one of the more dreaded cyber threats of the decade. But for a ransomware attack to be initiated,...

A persistent pandemic around the world and global geopolitical conflicts continue to dominate headlines. Navigating uncertainties and managing supply chain...

The Forrester 2021 State of Enterprise Breaches report revealed that in the past 12 months, organisations were breached an average...

According to Forrester, in 2022 organisations saw the extent to which systemic risks, including climate change, supply chain, and political...

Gartner says customer demand and buying behaviours continue to fluctuate unpredictably amid pandemic waves, supply chain disruption, inflationary price increases...

The Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report warns that downtime costs and consequences are worsening as industry efforts to curb...

Damien Green, president and CEO of Manulife Asia, wants the insurer to become the digital customer leader in its industry...

It is that time of the year when prognosticators come out of the woodwork to provide some guidance in terms...

The prevalence and severity of mobile-related compromises continues to escalate in 2022. Perhaps even more interesting is that small and...

According to Check Point Research, global attacks increased by 28%in the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same period...

First came automation – the realisation that some aspects of workflow can be done by machines. Next came the integration...

Central to the success of any environmental, social and governance (ESG) commitment is data. Any organisation that chooses to commit...

We’ve had two years of experience dealing with unrelenting uncertainties. Some have come out stronger, others not so much. As...

The 2021 ISACA-Frost & Sullivan Survey: The Singapore Cybersecurity Landscape, revealed that 63% of respondent organisations were adopting the cloud...

Unlocking transformational business performance improvement requires securely employing software and data at scale—and with speed—across the enterprise IT landscape. We...

According to Reader’s Digest, 123456 is the most common password in use today, ahead of 123456789 and 1234567890. It is...

With Asia on the cusp of economic recovery following over two years of volatility arising from multiple crises seemingly contriving...

Most boards now regard cybersecurity as a business risk rather than solely a technical IT problem, according to a recent...

According to Productiv’s 2021 report, State of SaaS Sprawl, enterprises have on average 254 apps in their app portfolio. The...

Gartner defines robotic process automation (RPA) as a productivity tool that allows a user to configure one or more scripts...

The Australian Government’s Annual Cyber Threat Report 2022 reported that losses from business compromised email (BEC) scams are up 21%...

Encryption is meant to protect information so that when it falls into the wrong hands, it is unusable. But what...

Enterprises are accelerating their adoption of digitalisation and agile methodologies, dramatically changing their risk profiles. According to Gartner, many organisations...

Futurist, Bernard Marr, writes that businesses have faced huge challenges and undergone an ‘incredible amount of change’ over the past...

Deloitte Hong Kong Digital Leader Allen Wong believes that the business landscape has changed since the onset of the pandemic...

Every business wants to climb out of the crises that we’ve been mired in since 2020. For many business leaders,...

Activities like video conferencing, mobile work, and cloud computing – all of these have been around well before the pandemic....

One of the defining characteristics of the digital economy is our increased dependence on third-party organisations. Whether we are manufacturers,...

"Developers and DevOps professionals continue to be in the hot seat as their organizations or their customers demand that convenient...

Enterprises continue to mature in the art of acquiring data whether this is structured or unstructured. But having data alone...

“Five years ago, an ESG program was a nice-to-have. Now it’s a business imperative as investors, employees and regulators put...

The 2021 Gartner CEO Survey: The Year of Rebuilding revealed that social responsibility and ESG mentions in top business priorities...

An Application Programming Interface (API) is the connective tissue of the digital ecosystem, It allows software applications to interact with...

For most of our online lives, our accounts are protected by a username and password. These protect the data stored...

This October 2022 is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. What started as a US initiative to create awareness about safe practices online...

The InfoSec Institute estimates there is a worldwide staffing shortage of nearly three million in the ranks of cybersecurity professionals,...

Hybrid and remote work have amplified the impact of distributed and complex IT environments. Running workloads and applications across both...

In 2016 during its Investor Day event, then J.P. Morgan CFO, Marianne Lake commented that the firm is more than...

“In most enterprises, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of potential sustainability ideas and projects that IT could support. The...

Sometime in 2020, enterprise architect, technologist and author, Ernesto Garbarino, posed the question: Is VMware still relevant in the cloud...

If disruption was the word of the times for much of 2020 to 2021, modernisation was the strategy that underpinned...

The chief technology officer (CTO) is the architect of an organisation’s technology-led engagement strategy. Andrew Weaver, co-founder and CEO of...

Forrester defines digital transformation as the journey of moving to a digital-first business model with the speed and nimbleness to...

Gina Smith, a research manager for DevOps in Asia/Pacific with IDC explains that with the COVID-19 pandemic going into its...

Backdrop: Proofpoint’s The Human Factor 2022 report reveals that more than 20 million messages attempted to deliver malware linked to...

Cybersecurity is turning into a social phenomenon. Investor interest, public pressure, employee demands, and governmental regulations are strengthening the incentives...

Backdrop: During a Huawei media roundtable coinciding with the vendor’s Intelligent Finance Summit 2022 event, Ryan Ding, president of the...

The Forrester State of Application Security 2022 report noted that applications are the top cause of external breaches. Software supply...

Back in February 2012, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook (now Meta), stated “there is a huge need and a huge...

The world is experiencing a level of disruption and business risk not seen in generations. Some companies freeze and fail,...

If someone comes to you and declares cloud migration to be as easy as A, B and C, someone wants...

Data, data everywhere. Not a drop of insight. At times this rings true. Organisations have mastered the art of capturing...

IDC is forecasting Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) spending on AI systems to rise from US$17.6 billion in 2022 to around US$32...

Organisations are migrating to the cloud to improve efficiencies and scale with greater digital transformation. Cloud plans and adoption have...

Gartner defines Security Service Edge (SSE) as the convergence of network security services delivered from a purpose-built cloud platform. As...

Back in 1996, a Microsoft employee developed peer-to-peer (also referred to as point-to-point) tunnelling protocol (PPTP) to provide a more...

Brent Ellis, a senior analyst for Forrester, defines data resilience as a combination of data durability (ensuring the data is...

Whether for personal use or accessing your corporate network, authentication and authorisation are two critical concepts in access control. At...

“Data has become the most important asset of any organisation and data and analytics are more critical than ever. New...

Merriam-Webster defines identity as “the qualities, beliefs, etc., that make a particular person or group different from others.” These qualities...

The ResearchAndMarkets Global Sheconomy Research Report 2022: Transformational Growth Due to Increasing Economic Power of Women predicts the increasing the...

Gartner defines the chief technology officer as having overall responsibility for managing the physical and personnel technology infrastructure including technology...

Despite all the advances in technology and the innovations it has enabled, enterprises remain vulnerable to unpredictable forces. It’s hard...

* Editor's note: This article is co-produced by Sukhpreet Kaur The global energy ecosystem is currently undergoing a massive transformation, and...

Depending on who you talk to some would say that the pandemic is bad for the SHEconomy. On the one...

A few years back, I had a conversation with the CIO of an insurance company in Hong Kong. This was...

Discussions around enterprise blockchain often lead to cryptocurrency, NFT and more recently metaverse. But what about in the real world...

It is July 2022. Currently, most businesses understand the importance of data. A few have been truly transformed by it...

* Editor's note: This article is co-produced by Sukhpreet Kaur Michael Araneta, AVP, IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific commented that "A...

The ongoing complexity of IT systems, along with evolving regulations are the major challenges faced by IT security professionals. IDC...

Back in 2020, DigiPlex published, Will your IT withstand a sustainability review, which acknowledged that digitalisation has increased energy consumption....

SHEconomy founder and author, Benja Stig Fagerland, says gender equality is not a women’s issue but a business one. She...

One of the innovations of the internet is the introduction of software robots or bots that allow repetitive tasks to...

Backdrop: Cyber threats have taken yet another twisted turn with the police and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA)'s...

“There is a growing desire to create computer systems that can communicate effectively to collaborate with humans on complex, open-ended...

Making supply chain investments, such as factory capacity and inventory, are made from historical performance rather than an understanding of...

* Editor's note: This article is co-produced by Sukhpreet Kaur How do we communicate today? “According to research, face-to-face communication is...

The idea of automation and robotics may have their roots when the Greek philosopher Aristotle envisioned a world where the...

Backdrop: With the launch of HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, HPE looks to modernise the private cloud experience with...

There is a growing perception that digital transformation is about moving a business’ critical applications to the cloud. By migrating...

It’s been 13 years since we were introduced to bitcoin and blockchain. Lauded as a disruptive technology for its transparency...

Depending on who is talking, opinions on evolving hybrid workplace practices and strategies will vary. Similarly, studies around what is...

The IEEE defines a robot as an autonomous machine capable of sensing its environment, carrying out computations to make decisions,...

IDC predicts that by 2024, 60% of A2000 investments in business automation will be for multimodal codeless automation platforms that...

According to theGlobalEconomy.com the average unemployment rate among seven countries in ASEAN in 2022 stood at 4.13% compared to 6.13%...

Businesses today are collecting troves of data but having massive stores of data doesn’t mean anything if an organisation is...

A Salesforce survey (of US consumers) noted that 82% of consumers expect to continue contacting customer service at pandemic-level rates,...

Years back, my manager said he supports “remote work” for those that ask for it provided they “report in their...

Geopolitical disagreements, trade tension, natural calamities – disruptions to global trade and commerce are a normal recurrence. A 2012 World...

Gartner predicts that by 2025, IT spending on public cloud computing will overtake spending on traditional IT. It added that...

According to British writer and lay theologian, Clive Staples Lewis, two heads are better than one “not because either is...

We are midway into 2022 and while we still hear of talks of a “return to normal”, I am no...

Oxford Languages define identity as the fact of being a person or thing. According to the World Bank ID4D data,...

The chief information security officer is the head of all information security operations within a company. He or she is...

For some years now, leaders will often say that “data is the new currency” and in a data-driven environment, they...

Futurist, Bernard Marr, says concepts we find in metaverse date as far back as 1838 when scientist Sir Charles Wheatstone...

“Only one Earth” is the campaign for World Environment Day (WED) 2022. The United Nations (UN) says it is a...

We continue our series on the hybrid workplace at FutureCIO. This time we are joined by Carol Fong, group CEO...