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Siemens and Microsoft are jointly bringing Siemens’ MindSphere on Azure Stack, a cloud-based, open Internet of Things (IoT) operating system, to customers in Singapore. This solution allows customers to deploy industrial IoT applications in a secure, managed private cloud infrastructure. MindSphere connects products, systems, machines, and whole factories, enabling customers to harness IoT data with advanced analytics. Microsoft Azure Stack brings the agility and innovation of cloud computing to on-premise, so organisations can build modern apps across their environment. Microsoft and Siemens have built a strong partnership over the years to bring leading innovations to customers that support digitalisation and Industrial Internet of Things. MindSphere on Azure offers the best of both worlds —Siemens’ leadership in Industry 4.0 combined with Microsoft’s cloud platform. Steffen D. Endler, Head of Siemens IoT Digital Consulting in ASEAN notes, “We’re seeing high interest and adop...

The Ingenico Group, a global player in seamless payment, is transforming how international ecommerce companies work in emerging economies. The company has focused on enabling global payments in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies, most recently with a new suite of payment methods for China that caters to the preferences of local consumers. "Everyone thinks of us as the hardware but the company has been on a huge journey to acquire companies that do payment services," said Nathan Salisbury, GM, Ingenico Epayments APAC. The e-payments arm accounts for 230 billion Euros in flow annually, and works with the biggest merchants in the world. Salisbury explained that Ingenico handles the "spaghetti of technology that consumers never see" at the back-end, where huge volumes of transactions occur per second at peak hours. "Everything is about the consumer experience, making things simple," he said. "We sit between merchants and bank...

Hitachi Vantara , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, has extended Lumada’s capabilities beyond the Internet of things (IoT) to general enterprise and industrial needs. Hijazi explains why the Lumada portfolio helps software projects succeed. New Lumada solutions help organisations leverage on analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and new digital business models to transform their operations. They enable intelligent data operations, or DataOps, a collaborative data management practice that employs policy-based, automated approaches to help enterprises improve efficiency and drive innovation by getting the right data to the right place at the right time. Issam Hijazi, Director Solution Engineering, APAC, Digital Insights, Hitachi Vantara elaborated, "DataOps is removing barriers between different teams, like data scientists and data engineers." Hijazi said that while data is often described as the 'new oil' Hitachi Vantara thinks of data as the 'n...

The world’s first NERF Action Xperience (NAX) theme park uses GlobalTix’s enterprise solution to transform and personalise customers’ journeys. NAX revolves around Nerf Blasters, which are toy guns that fire discs, foam darts, or foam balls as ammunition. NAX uses GlobalTix technology to uniquely identify customers at the beginning of their journey, then track them throughout their experience. The theme park has multiple-themed activity zones that can be experienced in different ways. From online booking, to self-help kiosks, points-of-sale and turnstiles, they are tracked right down to the rental of lockers, game-play and purchase of souvenir photos. Dr Steven Chua, Executive Director of Kingsmen Ventures, said, “We are pleased to partner GlobalTix, an innovative technology solutions provider, for Kingsmen’s NERF Action Xperience which opened to resounding success in Singapore recently.  "As Kingsmen’s first global flagship project, we want to ensure we del...