Features

Under the "One Single Cloud Service" project title, the 28-hotel group unifies its communication and collaboration systems using Microsoft Office 365, enabling US$300K-500K cost reduction per hotel over four to five years, and saving 20 IT man hours per month per hotel.
Carol Ko 10-Apr-2013
Donald Brown, CEO and Founder, Interactive Intelligence
CEO and founder Donald Brown announced at the company’s Interactions 2013 event that the company will next year launch a multi-tenant ‘totally cloud and web-based’ contact center offering, built on Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) cloud computing platform.
Melissa Chua 13-May-2013
Osamu Numata, country manager, Japan, Savvis
The newly appointed Savvis Japan country manager speaks about his business expansion plan in Japan; how Savvis may win over local CSPs; and his personal call for government support for a more level play field in the local data center services market.
Carol Ko 10-May-2013
Fred Laluyaux, Anaplan's CEO and President
How may a business data modelling/ planning SaaS be useful to Finance, Sales and Operation with varying operation cycles? What is "hyperblock architecture?" What makes Anaplan's CEO think his software surpasses Microsoft's Excel and Access?
Carol Ko 06-May-2013
Raju Daryanani, VP of IT infrastructure and info-security, Mandarin Oriental
Mandarin Oriental adopts cloud computing to support mobile communications for its large mobile staff on all smartphone devices, instant communication and cross-device document sharing, plus mobile email access.
Carol Ko 17-Apr-2013
Mandarin Oriental embarks Single Cloud Service, deploys Office365 to 5,000 users
Under the "One Single Cloud Service" project title, the 28-hotel group unifies its communication and collaboration systems using Microsoft Office 365, enabling US$300K-500K cost reduction per hotel over four to five years, and saving 20 IT man hours per month per hotel.
Carol Ko 10-Apr-2013
Applications with high probability of being migrated from servers to a SaaS model in the near future include payroll/HR, accounting/finance, CRM and business intelligence, data mining and analytics. Research showed 30% of SMBs worldwide would like to purchase cloud services in bundles with certain countries such as China well exceeding the global average.
Melissa Chua 10-Apr-2013
Bradley Miller, managing director, Spring Professional, North East Asia
Recruiter Spring Professional fleshes out the "soft skills" requirement that recruiters of "cloud professionals" look for; why candidates need to respond well to "negative comments;" and why cloud professionals are rare species in the human resource marketplace.
Carol Ko 03-Apr-2013
Bradley Miller, managing director, Spring Professional, North East Asia
Some of the "must-know" items of a cloud professional are software development, telecoms, network security, risk management and information security, preferably also knowledge of the legal and regulatory requirements, plus a string of other soft skills.
Carol Ko 03-Apr-2013
Completed in December 2012, this big data deployment has enabled NUS to capture real-time analytics to improve the user experience of its online learning management system, Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE).
Asia Cloud Forum Editors 01-Apr-2013
Cebu Pacific airplane by Mike Gonzalez
To create a new public-facing website and to drive significant commercial activities and meet growing customer demands, the Philippine airline Cebu Pacific put its trust in a SharePoint platform hosted on Rackspace infrastructure.
Chee-Sing Chan 27-Mar-2013