“We have seen ai providing conversation and comfort to the lonely; we have also seen ai engaging in racial discrimination....

Fitch Ratings recently revised its outlook for the life insurance industry in Asia-Pacific to negative from stable, attributing the revision...

Ohmyhome uses technology to bridge the gap between homeowners and home seekers, allowing them to communicate seamlessly and enable transactions...

"With substantial amounts of the economy closed due the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders need an agile strategy that allows the supply...

And we thought Zoom’s problems were limited to its inability to protect users using the communication platform, something its CEO...

We are in the middle of what is arguably one of the biggest disruptions in human history – COVID-19. Its...

Singaporean hacker, Samuel Eng, talks about challenges and opportunities in the cyber age.

In our episode “C-suite strategies for monetising data” we look at the conundrum facing business leaders – how do we...

Conversational AI is the process of enabling machines to have a conversation with the customers, with the end customers and...

FSIs that do not implement best practices may find themselves specially targeted by cyber threat actors looking to exploit weak...

There is always a struggle in development cycles to make sure you are ahead of the competition and unfortunately sometimes...

BPS and MPS will continue growing at a combined rate of 8.2% through to 2023 across APEJ according to IDC....

CrowdStrike’s 2020 Global Threat Report Communications has been one of the focal areas of interest since 2019 as consumers, enterprises,...

Business leaders are asking IT to accelerate business transformation using cloud. But how to do this when the COVID-19 lockdown...

Most business continuity practices are designed around disruption due to infrastructure failure because of calamities like fire and typhoons -...

IT must interpret what product marketing is telling them and bring together technologies, including applications, to enable the creation of...

5G is almost here. I say ‘almost’ because we have yet to see broad deployment by major mobile operators across...

Focusing too much on the ARPU story and not enough on the “what we got” angle is a waste of...

There is the view that hackers are malicious and intending to harm businesses although companies have started to embrace bug...

According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control 378,041 cases of COVID-19 have been reported since 31 December...

SCB launched nexus – “a market-first platform to connect community builders such as start-ups, investors and accelerators to the Bank”.

For CIOs the question is weighing the value of VPN on a private network against VPN on the internet (Thousands...

Data is sexy, data storage isn’t. Does anyone even care what network storage is these days? There is still interest...

When you go online and do a search, you use a concept pioneered by Karen Spärck Jones, a computer scientist...

While conversations about gender diversity and fairer rights have risen up the business and political agenda in Asia, women are...

The inherent vulnerabilities associated with healthcare devices, such as a lack of encryption of sensitive data as well as hard-coded...

Most everyone will agree the strategy and execution rests largely on the CMO. But for winning sales leaders, CX is...

Full transparency and real-time visibility across all aspects of the organization is a must. Members of the C-suite must work...

Creditdonkey says “27 million business cards are printed daily”. That is an extremely large number when you consider the number...

The report claims Hong Kong enterprises set to jettison traditional datacentres for the hybrid cloud but before that, they will...

IDC says the impact od VOVID-19 will mainly be confined to the first quarter, to fade in the second quarter,...

Data usability challenges continue to hinder productivity while a majority of CRE leaders believe automation will impact jobs and transform...

Enabling Real-time Faster Payments and high-volume transactions has been a core area of investment for Standard Chartered in line with...

A lot of businesses will start to have applications which are inherently event-driven, the mindset is already changing. In that...

Governments are struggling in many areas, following disruptions including changes in leadership, reorganizations and funding shortfalls. This will affect government...

Towards the end of 2019 and at the onslaught of 2020, predictions about the state of cybersecurity have been rich...

In 2019, ecommerce continues to spike as consumers experience the convenience of shopping online, accept the relative safety of mobile...

Anaplan commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI)...

Gartner predicts that by 2020, 100% of large enterprises will report to the board of directors the company’s state of...

Industries that are experiencing keen competition, or where market dynamics are hard to predict, these companies see open source not...

Australian retail chain Coles Supermarkets is investing in the Infor Nexus supply chain commerce network to streamline imports and reduce...

Technology continues to be the biggest catalyst for jobs in Hong Kong, as companies look for highly skilled digital leaders...

Competitive intelligence as identifying what your competitive landscape looks like, who are the potential competitors and how to displace them.

As data moves between cloud, on-premise data centres, edge computing servers and consumer mobile devices, how does an enterprise design...

Given that logistics leaders face pressure from their stakeholders to optimize logistics costs while maintaining service and performance levels, Gartner...

Data analytics can help your business gain a competitive advantage, make better decisions faster, and cut costs with more efficient...

For more than a decade, telecom service providers have been struggling to solve declining average revenue per user (ARPU). Local...

 The latest Gartner hype cycle lists Sensing & Motion, Augmented Human, Postclassical Compute and Comms, Digital Ecosystems, and Advanced AI...

Global blockchain revenues on track to hit close to US$10 billion - despite 2018 crypto winter

Cloud solutions melded with disruptive and emerging technologies – like blockchain, AI, IoT, big data and predictive analytics – can...

Digital-only banks and insurers will gain ground on traditional players in Asia Pacific in the next two years.

C-suites Lack of alignment and collaboration between C-suite, IT teams and wider business holding back digital transformation

Security and privacy are two distinct issues that are nonetheless connected. Rob Hinson, a privacy expert at OneTrust, believed that...

Augmented intelligence reduces mistakes while delivering customer convenience and personalization at scale, democratizing what was previously available to the select...

Understandably there is more than one way to skin a cat, in this case, to monetize data.

https://youtu.be/dHI4B39GKkg In the IDC Financial Insights report, Regulatory Guidelines for Open Banking: Asia/Pacific Markets and their Varying Paths to Open Banking,...

CIOs must be aware of the risk that blockchain governance issues might pose for the success of their project.

We live in a connected world where it is almost difficult to avoid using the Internet for personal or for...

a time in the future is coming when regulation will drive a wedge in the personalization journey of banks calling...

https://youtu.be/xUX4354HGN4 The StartmeupHK came and went. Now it’s back to the grind for most start-ups trying to get funding, make...

Telcos have fairly large data estates. They collect a fair amount of data, and throw away the majority of it....

For years telco revenues as measured in Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) have been on a decline. As consumers and...

https://youtu.be/e6k7IDSa9mk How much is regulatory compliance? The Thomson Reuters&nbsp Annual Cost of Compliance survey (issued November 7, 2018) raises a...

Gartner has identified seven emerging security and risk management trends that will impact security, privacy and risk leaders in the longer term....

https://youtu.be/28e137dHYeI Fifty-three percent of Asia Pacific’s connected consumers use their mobile devices to make payments. It helps that smartphone adoption...

Banks are reluctant to adopt blockchain because they don’t want to share data with others.

Googling “banking cyber threats 2019” yields 25.4 million results in a matter of 0.57 seconds. Is that alarming or fantastic?...

https://youtu.be/h1RBpl9RUNA Most organizations store and analyze data to better understand customers – this is the norm. Leonie Valentine, managing director...

https://youtu.be/kmG9i4TYWys The Institute for Robotic Process Automation defines RPA as the application of technology that allows employees in a company to configure...

I have started to lose track of the number of times we’ve covered “cashless” as a topic of interest in...

PoCs, pilots and the scaled-down application running via sandboxes will continue to be the norm, until such time as when...

https://youtu.be/bN8mfxMFOS0 <p>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLgr_4iQ7hY" title="On the Internet, no one knows you are a dog">On the Internet, no one knows you are...

What is a reasonable rate to charge for services rendered? It used to be that financial advisors could charge a...

The benefits of the cloud are well understood. The chief reason is the ability to lower capital expenditure (CAPEX) when...

Many companies view Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as a double-edged sword. It offers ideal solutions for age-old problems of business agility and...

https://youtu.be/h-JZU79kp1k For most startups the road to securing funding is a long and hard process. It’s not exactly a “beg,...

https://youtu.be/gVIZO73gdrk A global survey of bank CEOs by KPMG highlights a commitment by senior to pursue innovation – with two-thirds saying technological...

https://youtu.be/yzk-AicFeZE When was the last time you went to a bank and was greeted with a warm and sincere ‘welcome...

https://youtu.be/umGhDN2ivWM Perhaps it is not altogether surprising if security professionals view digital transformation with apprehension. While some may be up...

https://youtu.be/Io1LH0721Ss Gartner defines digitalization as “the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and...

Securing banking transactions has been a pre-occupation of banks and regulators for as long as modern banking practice has been...

https://youtu.be/lCmDD3-J93w “Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee...

https://youtu.be/8awxRzHHdAc The 2019 Asia Pacific Banking Insights: Trusting in the Banking Experience highlights the predicament that banks in the region, including Hong...

The 10th annual Temenos survey of challenges, priorities and trends in the financial services sector predicts that customers will increasingly...

https://youtu.be/umGhDN2ivWM Perhaps it is not altogether surprising if security professionals view digital transformation with apprehension. While some may be up...

Now every insurance company is trying to frame the solutions and the strategy around the customer. We have started to...

Token dongles are heading out the door even as banks continue to struggle to deliver secure banking experience for customers...

IDC predicts businesses will continues to invest in projects that utilise cognitive and AI. The IDC Worldwide Semiannual Cognitive Artificial...

A new commentary by Fitch Solutions Macro Research suggests that smart city initiatives in China gained traction after the 12th...

The perceptible shift from reactive healthcare to proactive patient care is a direct result of the technological advances in sensor...

Grid instability and power outages caused by the peaks in energy demand are emphasizing the need for cost-efficient demand response...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is basically a network of connected “smart” devices that communicate seamlessly over the Internet. More...

Image by iStockPhoto/AntonioGuillem By Jayajyoti Sengupta, head, Asia Pacific, Cognizant IoT is already influencing the latest wave of digital transformation,...

Image courtesy of iStockPhoto/Chaay_Tee By Jouko Ahvenainen Digitization is coming to all services, also linked to physical services. It will...

Location data is increasingly becoming an important component in many business strategies, including customer engagement and satisfaction, product and asset...

Image from iStockPhoto/ijeab By Jayajyoti Sengupta, Head, Asia Pacific, Cognizant IoT is already influencing the latest wave of digital transformation,...

Image courtesy of iStockPhoto/metamorworks Hong Kong carrier, 3 Hong Kong claims to be one of the first operators in Asia...

Image from iStockPhoto/visualspace In 2015, the travel and tourism trade contributed more than US$10 trillion to the global economy with...

UnaSensors is a brand new sensor-as-a-service offering that can kickstart anyone's IoT journey at a maximum retail price of US$5...

Image above courtesy of iStockPhoto/metamorworks The latest report on IDC's Global IoT Decision Maker Survey — India Perspective, reveals the...

Image by metamorworks (from iStockPhoto 692834394) A new study from Juniper Research predicts that by end of 2026 over 50 million...

    https://youtu.be/Ojb45XZhPpc It’s that time of the year when we pull together predictions about what’s in store for the...