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Regional healthcare services provider Health Management International (HMI Medical) has accelerated digital transformation initiatives across key corporate functions with Workday. This collaboration marks a significant expansion of Workday’s presence in the healthcare sector, with HMI Medical as its first customer in Singapore’s healthcare industry.  Headquartered in Singapore, HMI Medical manages over 2,800 staff across Southeast Asia. As the group expands its healthcare portfolio through growth and partnerships, it is investing in digitalisation to unify operations, strengthen agility, and support its long-term ambition to deliver trusted, high-quality care to patients across the region. To support this next phase of growth, HMI Medical has partnered with Workday to unify its systems and enhance operational agility across the organisation.  To strengthen the foundation for growth, HMI Medical will deploy Workday’s AI-enabled enterprise cloud suite, covering human capital, fi...

By Ali Pourshahid, Chief Engineering Officer, Solace Source: Solace. Pourshahid. Remember the early pitfalls of microservices? Point-to-point integrations, tight coupling disguised as modularity, cascading failures. Sound familiar? Technology has a tendency to repeat the same architectural implementation missteps across different developments. We saw this clearly during the initial phases of the microservices era, and we're witnessing it again today as organisations rush to integrate agentic AI into business use cases. For agentic AI to bring business benefits, agents need to hang loose in an event-driven architecture (EDA) that enables agents to evolve independently, allowing different teams to build and deploy specialised agents without the baggage of complex dependencies.  Early microservices architectures relied heavily on synchronous, point-to-point communication. Service A called Service B, which called Service C, creating intricate webs of dependencies. What appeared to be ...

Source: Report landing page . Gigamon's respondents in various countries have seen an increase in attacks targeting their AI and large language model (LLM) deployments. Australia registered the largest increase at 56%. Gigamon, a deep observability provider, has released research revealing how global CISOs are reshaping 2026 cybersecurity strategies as they seek to effectively secure and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure in the AI era. More than 200 global CISOs surveyed across Australia, France, Germany, Singapore, the UK, and the US are shifting how they manage data, secure AI applications, and evolve their SecOps teams. The CISO Insights: Recalibrating Risk in the Age of AI report reveals that as networks become more complex and AI accelerates digital transformation and intensifies cyberattacks, data visibility and quality have become mission critical to defending hybrid cloud infrastructure. Nearly six in 10 (58%) have seen more AI-powered attacks, and half said their large l...

How can the public sector support enterprise growth? Dean Chang (DC), Specialist, Taipei City Government Hi-Tech Promotion Center, Department of Economic Development (DOED), Taiwan explains.  Source: DOED. Chang. Q : How can innovation at the  Taipei City Government  also benefit the industry?  DC : The Taipei City Government is actively integrating artificial intelligence into various public services, including:  ● Smart customer service: The Taipei Pass app and the 1999 citizen hotline have implemented AI voice and text recognition systems, reducing response times and enhancing citizen satisfaction.  ● Traffic management: AI analyses real-time traffic footage and signal controls to optimise vehicle flow and pedestrian safety. ● AI intelligent recognition: Using AI technology to automatically detect illegal garbage dumping, automatically generating violation clips, significantly reduces the manpower needed to manually review surveillance footage.  ...