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Streamlining operations a 'strategic necessity' says Kofax

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Malaysia one of the key markets for Kofax Many businesses in South-East Asia nonetheless doing things manually KOFAX Ltd, a software agency specialises in 'smart technique packages' (SPAs), believes that streamlining commercial enterprise operations not offers any gain to corporations because it has now emerge as a “strategic necessity."   The California-based corporation, listed on Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange, changed into founded close to 30 years in the past. Today, its answers are especially utilized by banks and insurers.   “A lot of organizations available are already the use of our era. The assignment now is to get them to peer the significance, the need to apprehend that streamlining enterprise operations is not a strategic advantage, it's far a strategic necessity,” Stanley Chia, local vp for Asia Pacific (%) , instructed Digital News Asia (DNA) in Kuala Lumpur currently.   Many groups use Kofax answers in particular to automate documents proces...

Lenovo confident of Malaysian market despite economic outlook

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Banking on SMB market to be key boom region for its Malaysian operations Asia Pacific gadgets market spending to develop 12.3% in 2013 over 2012: Gartner LEADING PC maker Lenovo is banking at the small and mid-sized enterprise (SMB) marketplace to be a key growth location for its Malaysian operations, bringing up a report via marketplace studies and analyst company Gartner.   SMBs will maintain to spend carefully over 2013, searching at software, employees and hardware solutions with the quality go back on funding as pinnacle priority, Lenovo said in a statement.   Preliminary reviews through Gartner display that worldwide PC shipments totaled 87.five million gadgets in the third zone of 2012, an 8.3% decline as compared with the 1/3 area of 2011. However, notwithstanding this, Gartner is projecting that in the Asia Pacific location, the devices phase (which includes PCs, drugs, cell telephones and printers) might be really worth a complete of US$229.7 billion, a 12.3% growth fro...

Autodesk on the ‘comeback trail’

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Business is booming in South-East Asia, boosted by massive initiatives Cloud offerings, customer merchandise mark new regions for corporation THE first point v.r. Srivatsan (percent) , nine months in as the dealing with director for the Asean (Association of South-East Asian Nations) area for Autodesk Asia Pte Ltd, makes is that the company has by no means taken its foot off the pedal on the subject of the Malaysian marketplace. “But it’s real that we’ve been very quiet, too quiet for the previous few years; I’m certain that most of you've got in no way attended an Autodesk briefing before,” he tells a group of newshounds at a current briefing in Kuala Lumpur. The IT enterprise veteran, with 22 years of experience under his belt which include stints helming SAP and Oracle in Malaysia, desires to trade all that and force domestic Autodesk’s continued leadership function within the industries wherein its merchandise are pretty much preferred tools. “Autodesk permits people to I...

Indonesia’s Berry Kitchen gets seed funding from East Ventures

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Users get to combine and suit food to create their personal lunch or bento container Founded 18mths in the past, additionally were given angel investment raise from Angin community INDONESIA’S on line catering provider Berry Kitchen stated it has received seed funding from Singapore-based East Ventures. The quantity turned into now not disclosed.   The funding may be used to take the business to “the following stage” consistent with its imaginative and prescient of becoming the most important on-line meals portal in Indonesia, the agency stated in a statement.   Berry Kitchen’s ‘bento version’ permits customers to mix and fit food to create their very own lunch or dinner menus, masking Indonesian, Chine and Western cuisine.   The organization become based by way of former Groupon Indonesia group member Cynthia Tenggara, additionally Berry Kitchen’s chief govt officer.   “Cynthia and her team have built and advanced a unique meals ordering platform …, handling the complete end-t...

PwC senior exec Ong wins business continuity award

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Inaugural ‘Outstanding Certified Business Continuity Professional’ award for contribution to Business Continuity Management Award recognizes BCM achievements, expert excellence and contributions to the enterprise and the network. ONG Ai Lin (p.c, left) , PricewaterhouseCoopers ( PwC) Malaysia senior executive director, has been awarded the inaugural ‘Outstanding Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP)’ award for her contribution to the sphere of Business Continuity Management (BCM) in Malaysia. The award was supplied with the aid of Alan Berman (percent, right) , president of the Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) International at the recent DRI KL2012 convention in Putrajaya Marriott Hotel. Themed ‘Effective Risk Management & Business Continuity Management: Keys to Success,’ the convention changed into organised by way of DRI Malaysia and the Malaysian Association of Risk and Insurance Management (MARIM). “We are proud to have worked with a numerous institution of ...

Malaysia launches national angel network

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Malaysian Business Angel Network to function like a exchange company, using nearby and international linkages among angel traders Will educate, teach and accredit angels – the last is wanted to qualify for the angel funding tax incentives announced in Budget 2013 IN an attempt to plug the space in early-stage investment for begin-ups, Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd, an enterprise below the Ministry of Finance, has released the Malaysian Business Angel Network (MBAN), so one can train, train and accredit angel traders.   Accreditation might be a must for angel investors to qualify for the tax incentive the Malaysian Government brought in its national Budget for 2013.   The status quo of MBAN changed into introduced on the Asian Business Angel Forum 2012 (ABAF 2012) in Kuala Lumpur in May, through Dato’ Seri Ahmad Husni Mohamad Hanadzlah, Minister of Finance II, who additionally officially released the network yesterday (Dec 18).   ABAF 2012 additionally saw discussions round imparting tax in...

The Big 3 and gaps in the M2M m-commerce ecosystems

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Industry fragmentation and absence of standards act as headwinds Smart gadgets and cloud offerings key factors to power adoption MOBILE trade or m-commerce has been touted as a hot space in Malaysia for a number of years, but it has not genuinely taken off but.   The likes of Mudah.my, Maybank and AirAsia may be visible as most of the market leaders, yet no-one has a clear take care of of the market length or growth as no information is to be had.   ‘The Big Three’ cellular telcos – Celcom Axiata, DiGi and Maxis – were gearing for m-trade for a number of years.   When Digital News Asia (DNA) reached out to them via electronic mail, none may want to monitor any clue as to how the market is actually doing, even though all 3 said they expected it to grow.   Celcom has already been taking an aggressive role by way of launching three m-commerce sites. Its leader government officer (CEO) Shazalli Ramly stated his agency would retain to paintings closely with its traders and different...

Sustainable social start-ups and the ecosystem

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SI Camp Asia become a crash route for building a sustainable start-up, but best first step in a longer journey As the environment of profit-driven begin-u.s.Mature, the ecosystem of social businesses will follow intently at the back of I HAD the fortune of attending the Social Innovation Camp Asia (SI Camp Asia) in Kuala Lumpur a few weeks back. The fifty two-hour boot camp added together builders, designers, entrepreneurs, and ‘do-gooders’ interested in addressing causes to do accurate.   ‘Social Entrepreneurship’ is that blend of a enterprise driven entrepreneur with a non-profit NGO (non-governmental employer) type task.  The power is to create a organisation this is pushed by means of a purpose (now not simply income), however is likewise self-sustainable in order now not to have to rely on donations and sponsorships to perform.   SI Camp Asia served as a crash direction for constructing a sustainable begin-up.  For maximum individuals, this become their first dive into creat...

KDU deploys Oracle’s PeopleSoft campus solutions

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Malaysian college streamlines administrative and educational structures Legacy device was not able to provide a holistic view of pupil activities alt="KDU deploys Oracle’s PeopleSoft campus answers" src="/web sites/default/documents/pics/digitalpercent20economy/KDUpercent20Khong%20Yoonpercent20Loong.jpg" style="margin:2px 5px; width:250px; height:375px; go with the flow:right; " name="KDU deploys Oracle’s PeopleSoft campus answers">KDU University College said it has deployed Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions to streamline its operational approaches to improve ‘pupil lifecycle management.’ Financial terms have been now not disclosed.   Faced with an anticipated increase in its scholar populace, it turned into vital that KDU streamline its administrative and educational systems, stated its Vice Chancellor Professor Khong Yoon Loong (%) .   “With Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, KDU is now capable of make records extra with ease to b...

80% of smartphone users interested in healthcare alerts: Fico survey

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Interest in cell services which could assist them manipulate non-public fitness 56% of respondents believe healthcare organisations with private data A GLOBAL survey through predictive analytics and choice management software program agency Fico has revealed that eighty% of human beings would really like the choice to use their smartphones to have interaction with healthcare providers.   These carriers consist of government and personal insurers, hospitals, pharmacies, mail-order drug businesses, third-celebration directors, and clinics.   The survey additionally confirmed that seventy six% of people worldwide are eager to be reminded in their scientific appointments and sixty nine% would really like to acquire reminders to set up appointments or to spark off them to take their medication, Fico said in a declaration.   “The manner healthcare organisations talk with people is changing, as people turn out to be increasingly state-of-the-art approximately the usage of information er...

Internet traffic to grow 3x by 2018 mobile taking over: Cisco

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Annual IP traffic for 2018 may be extra than all site visitors generated from 1984-2013 Majority of traffic to originate from devices other than PCs for first time in history ACCORDING to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Forecast and Service Adoption for 2013 to 2018, international Internet Protocol (IP) site visitors will increase almost threefold over this 5-yr duration due to extra Internet users and devices, quicker broadband speeds and more video viewing.   Global IP site visitors for constant and cellular connections is predicted to attain an annual run rate of 1.6 zettabytes – a couple of and a 1/2 trillion gigabytes in line with yr via 2018, Cisco stated in a statement.   A zettabyte is equal to one,000 exabytes and precedes the yottabyte unit of dimension, the organisation cited.   The projected annual IP visitors for 2018 may be greater than all IP site visitors that has been generated globally from 1984 to 2013 (1.3 zettabytes), Cisco said.   The composition ...