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Five Reasons to Use Liferay for Enterprise Portal Application Development

admin — Wed, 08 May 2013 05:44:54 +0000

The enterprise portal landscape has evolved a lot in the past few years. It has matured as an essential component of enterprise systems and as per David Sacks, it has moved from a focus on browsing, to searching (e.g., Google), and now to sharing (e.g., Facebook).

Innovation Delivered from the Philippines

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:40:45 +0000

“Innovation is taking place in all parts of the world,” said Jerry Rapes, Exist Global CEO. “We hear about new inventions in Japan to amazing apps in Silicon Valley. We see Tel Aviv rising as a startup hub in the Middle East, and watch tech communities in Germany, Australia, and Singapore build up.”

Posting $1.5 billion in revenues last year (2012), the Philippines’ IT services sector is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the more dynamic go-to IT delivery destinations globally.

Platform as a Service is growing but needs visibility

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:12:10 +0000

Platform as a Service, better known by the acronym PaaS, represents an opportunity for IT organizations to become more agile and responsive to business dynamics. However, issues about the visibility of PaaS offerings continue to persist -- according to a panel session at the recent Deploycon Cloud Connect conference held in Santa Clara, California. With PaaS spending set to reach $1.5 billion in 2013, vendors clearly must work harder to remove any doubts users might have regarding the efficiency of the technology.

Telehealth and Mobile Health, Improving Healthcare by Addressing Access, Cost and Outcomes

admin — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:57:02 +0000

The spectrum of opportunities for telehealth and mobile heath, or mHealth is growing. Both are going to have big impact on improving healthcare quality, cost, and access. The state of telehealth and mHealth was discussed at great length at today’s Healthcare Technology Innovation Forum at UCSF.

Creator of CoffeeScript at Manila.js Meetup

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 03:30:00 +0000

Almost a week ago was the second Manila.js (the JavaScript community in the Philippines) meetup, one of the most interesting meetups I've been to for a while. Quoting Rico Sta. Cruz:

"You'll have the guy who made the coffee-to-js compiler and the other guy who did the js-to-coffee compiler in one room."

Cloud Connect | Getting Started with the Cloud

admin — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:45:06 +0000

I was at Cloud Connect Santa Clara last week and had an opportunity to listen to HP’s keynote, which I really enjoyed. I missed the chance to speak personally with Margaret, but one of these days, I hope to catch up with her. Her keynote was straight to the point, and made a lot of sense.

Exist at Startup Asia Singapore 2013

admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:50:09 +0000

Big Data and the Future of Healthcare [INFOGRAPHIC]

admin — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:42:16 +0000

"Big Data" is being touted as the steam engine of our time. Big Data refers to a large collection of data sets too complex to be handled by traditional database management tool. Gartner has revealed in its recent study that organizations have increased their understanding of what big data is and how it could transform the business in novel ways. The new key questions have shifted to 'What are the strategies and skills required?' and 'How can we measure and ensure our return on investment?'

How Sustainable is the Outsourcing Industry in the Philippines?

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:57:29 +0000

Philippines | Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is one of the biggest of the Big Winners, because of its large size, high growth rate, and long-term potential to providemillions of quality jobs and earn high service export revenue.

Mobile Success Stories of 2012 from Mobile Monday Manila

cdecastro — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:00:00 +0000

Mobile Monday (MoMo) Manila kicked off 2013 with a successful meetup featuring the best of mobile success stories of 2012. It was jampacked with almost 80 attendees intently listened to four presenters and engaged in a Q&A. The meetup started with a brief welcome remarks from the organizers and an introduction of speakers. Among the featured homegrown mobile applications were: looloo, Philstar, BPI and MMDA.