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Anaplan CEO: What makes us smarter than Microsoft's Excel?

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?
by: Carol Ko 06-May-2013

Study: Revealing the forgotten part of cloud security

Following the release of Microsoft Security Intelligence Report v.14, Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Director Tim Rains explains whether enterprises can guard themselves against the most prevalent cyber threats with cloud adoption.
by: Carol Ko 18-Apr-2013

Mandarin Oriental: Cloud keeps mobile workers in the loop

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.
by: Carol Ko 17-Apr-2013
Microsoft declares war on AWS commodity cloud services pricing
Microsoft updated Windows Azure to help users move existing apps to the cloud while preserving their existing on-premise investments. It also announced its commitment to match Amazon Web Services' prices for commodity services like compute, storage and bandwidth.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 17-Apr-2013

Mandarin Oriental's Single Cloud migrates 5K users to Office 365

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.
by: Carol Ko 10-Apr-2013

Ryobi Kiso investing to boost productivity, efficiencies

Singapore’s recent US$4.8 billion Quality Growth Programme is poised to gradually transform industry sectors such as construction to fuel growth by sustaining productivity improvement and rely less on manpower.
by: Khoo Boo Leong 26-Mar-2013
SaaSplaza’s Singapore facility boosts Dynamics service
SaaSplaza has opened its data center in Singapore, its fifth worldwide after two in the US and two more in The Netherlands, to deliver Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM solutions as a cloud service.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 12-Mar-2013

Pokka Singapore saves 1,000 man-hours with cloud productivity tools

Following the use of bigger email boxes, shared calendering and instant chat, staff members at Pokka Singapore can now communication faster and better, and process orders in less time.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 28-Feb-2013

Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies embarks cloud-based communications

For the first time in IFRC's history, all of its National Societies will have the ability to free up IT spending and time to focus more of their resources on the activities that are ultimately saving lives, said IFRC's Global CIO Edward Happ.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 26-Feb-2013
CA CloudMinder streamlines IAM for hybrid enterprises
CA Technologies’ next rollout of its CloudMinder identity and access management (IAM) solution will support social identities and additional on-premise and cloud applications such as Microsoft Office 365.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 23-Feb-2013