Human Capital
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Singapore looks to export e-government
News The country's ICT regulator and promoter establishes a new body focused on applying its public sector infocomm expertise elsewhere in the world.
Tags: Government, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, Business, E-government, Asia, Information And Communication Technology, Singapore, Infowave
M'sian govt urged to provide ICT boosters
News Malaysia's industry body Pikom calls on government to make broadband top priority and dish out tax incentives to bolster country's declining ICT spending.
Tags: Local Government, Investments, Taxes, Personal broadband, Information And Communication Technology, Sales, Broadband, Business Process, BPO, Malaysia
Banyan Tree invests $1M in talent management
News Singapore hotels and resorts operator employs SAP in bid to better nurture and manage talent pool of over 10,000 staff, according to company executives.
Tags: Business development/management, Personnel management, Recruiting, Banyan Systems, Database, SAP AG, Talent Management, Human Resources Inc., Training, Bangkok
Storage and data at the coalface
News Three Australian organizations speak about storage and data management challenges, each with different points of view.
Tags: Data centers, Data backup, disaster recovery, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Virtualization, Storage, human capital management, Human Resources, human capital, data management, information technology
Obama's CTO: Watch out for the turf wars
News news analysis The Obama administration's chief technology officer could be one of those bureaucratic positions that ends up consumed by turf battles rather than making real progress against initiatives.
Tags: Executive recruiting, Government, Google Inc., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, chief technology officer, White House, Eric Schmidt, job, human capital, Internet
Adobe puts LiveCycle into the cloud
News New version of Adobe's web application development tool includes developer productivity improvements, accessibility from mobile devices and integration with Flash Builder.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web 2.0, Web sites, Adobe LiveCycle, Adobe Systems Inc., mobile, electronic filing, Web 2.0, Web sites, LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2
S'pore, Taiwan among world's most competitive
News update Five economies in Asia-Pacific make top 20 list of world's most IT competitive nations in new study conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit.
Tags: Local Government, India, Business Software Alliance, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Broadband, Broadband Penetration, South Korea, Environment, vision
Govt, telcos, financial firms to lift M'sia IT sector
News These three sectors are expected to spend most on technology in Malaysia, thus helping its infocomm technology industry to grow in 2009 despite a slowdown.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Acquisitions, Government, Telecommunications, International Data Corp., Information And Communication Technology, Broadband, BPO, Malaysia, financial
Oracle releases global business suite
News E-Business Suite 12 adjusts financial entries to reflect accounting requirements in any geographic location. Other apps also unveiled.
Tags: Business applications
Malaysian PM calls for knowledge workers
News Country's political head wants to develop Malaysia's human capital; acknowledges government must recognize changing ICT marketplace and developments.
Tags: Asset/resource/knowledge management, Global knowledge management
PeopleSoft founder taking on Oracle again
News Dave Duffield's new company will compete with Salesforce.com and recent on-demand moves by SAP and archrival Oracle.
Tags: Business applications, Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Study: IT morale hitting bottom
News Almost three-quarters of IT managers consider IT employee burnout a serious issue in their organizations, one that could have long-term effects on productivity and the overall health of the business.
Report: Hosted CRM is king
News Oracle leads in sales of human capital management applications, thanks to PeopleSoft buy, says AMR Research.
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM), Analyst reports
M'sia faces uphill task to bring ICT to the masses
News If the country wants to achieve its vision of a knowledge-based society, a truly daunting task lies ahead for the government to lead the masses into using information and communications technology (ICT) in their daily lives.
Greener pastures--and wallets--for tech workers?
Insight A study by US analyst firm Meta Group predicts better salaries and more competitive IT job market in the next three years.
Tags: Financial, Employee communications
