Google appoints April Srivikorn to lead Google Cloud adoption in Southeast Asia as the new country manager for the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The Bangkok-based executive previously led as Google Thailand’s interim country manager and as the Head of Industry for Banking & Financial Services, Tech, Telco, and Conglomerates. Srivikorn brings with her notable experiences in providing strategic direction and solutions in developing sales plans and working to transform how clients view the role of cloud solutions in building their brand, driving sales and connecting both online and offline.

In Southeast Asia, Google Cloud has recently seen significant growth—with help from its expanded partnership with multinational software solutions provider SAP. The strategic partnership between the two was announced in 2017 during the annual Google Cloud Next Conference. The partnership helped extend Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP’s) robust set of existing capabilities through jointly developed solutions, opened the door for SAP flagship products to run on GCP, and integrated SAP applications with G Suite.

The SAP alliance has helped Google’s key GSI (global system integrators) partners, such as Accenture and Deloitte, win Google Cloud deployments in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Srivikorn is set to build upon this success by leading strategic partnerships across a number of key customer-oriented verticals and supporting the delivery of GCP services in the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Google Cloud Platform Services

Google Cloud Platform is Google’s public cloud computing service platform that aims to help businesses leverage cloud technology and increase their competitive advantage through the use of modern, containerized application models on the web. The service is delivered to customers on an as-you-go basis, by way of service components which include:

• Google Compute Engine (GCE) – Google’s scalable virtual machine hosting platform that can be easily integrated into other Google Cloud services
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE, formerly Google Container Engine) – a platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts
• Nearline, Coldline, and Archive – Google’s low-cost, highly-durable, highly available storage solutions for backup, archival and disaster recovery
• Anthos – a system for building, deploying and managing applications that may be centered around Google, and can utilize resources from other multi-cloud services
• App Engine – a fully managed, highly-scalable serverless application platform that provides web developers with popular languages (Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, C#, .Net, Ruby, and Go) and industry-leading tools (Cloud SDK, Cloud Source Repositories, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, and PowerShell)
• BigQuery – a serverless and cost-effective cloud-based big data analytics solution that can be integrated with a company’s on-premise data center through SAP Data Services
• Cloud BigTable – a fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large analytical and operational workloads
• Cloud Storage – GCP’s object storage for developers and enterprises that allows enterprises to configure data with Object Lifecycle Management (OLM) to automatically transition to lower-cost storage classes
• Google Apigee – a four-time Gartner Magic Quadrant awardee for producing and managing APIs

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The transition to SAP Commerce Cloud is part of Nihon Kohden’s “Transform 2020” mid-term business plan under its long-term vision “Change 2020-The Global Leader of Medical Solutions” to achieve the top share of applicable global markets. 

“Transform 2020” came about to resolve issues on profitability under its previous mid-term business plan, “Strong Growth 2017.” Financial Results for the fiscal year ending 31 March 2017—the last year of “Strong Growth 2017″—were below its targets for consolidated sales, operating income, and return on equity and; affected the company’s upfront investment burden. As part of its new mid-term plan, the company strategizes to improve profitability and achieve further growth in its core business by utilizing cloud technology solutions to expand its B2B market share.

With GyanSys as its systems integrator, the Japanese manufacturing company aims to build an expansive e-commerce platform that draws on high-levels of expertise to improve customer satisfaction, while reducing TCO and accelerating time-to-value. Rajkishore Una, President & CEO of GyanSys, says:

“GyanSys is excited to partner with Nihon Kohden and committed to deliver their e-commerce program successfully with our best practice-led agile implementation methodology. We will leverage our SAP and Salesforce implementation expertise to help Nihon Kohden derive the most value from this strategic digital initiative.”

In its first phase, the strategic cloud transformation will focus on strengthening Nihon Kohden’s business structure in the USA, which the company considers the world’s largest market and center of cutting-edge medical care. The program will begin with enabling account executives to sell products more efficiently with a guided configuration and quotation. According to Ashish Patil, Senior Director & Head of IT at Nihon Kohden America:

“Nihon Kohden is excited to start our e-commerce journey with GyanSys as our partner to build a scalable e-commerce platform. This platform will accelerate and increase the accuracy and compliance by enabling guided configuration and quote process.”

Utilizing SAP Commerce Cloud B2B Accelerators, the company can adapt the system to suit its specific requirements, significantly streamline sales and internal processes, and allow for quick market release. The e-commerce solution automates order-processing, allows for self-service account management for multiple users and go-to customizations for catalogs and pricing.

The cloud transformation initiative also comes at an opportune time for the company as it launches a new line of patient triage solutions—the NK-HealthProtect—designed to help healthcare providers during a public health threat such as the COVID-19 crisis. With SAP Commerce Cloud, the company can integrate an omnichannel commerce cloud solution that will enable it to reach potential markets quickly and efficiently on a global scale, and transform its operations to achieve a highly profitable structure. 

About Nihon Kohden

Founded in 1951, Nihon Kohden is one of the world’s top medical electronic equipment manufacturers and has the largest share of electroencephalographs in the market. The company exports to more than 120 countries and regions. Its key innovative technologies include: pulse oximetry to non-invasively measure SpO2, CO2 sensor specifically designed for non-intubated patients, estimated Continuous Cardiac Output (esCCO), and biphasic type defibrillators.

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Public Cloud Solution

Site24x7, the cloud-based performance monitoring solution for DevOps and IT operations from Zoho Corporation, has announced the general availability of Site24x7 CloudSpend, its cost analytics solution for public cloud platforms. The new solution is aimed at bridging the gap between capacity planning and cost optimisation for resources running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. CloudSpend’s business intelligence (BI) insights enable businesses to visualise runaway expenditures and implement effective budget controls, while reducing operational expenditure (OpEx) across multiple accounts.

Public cloud adoption has witnessed exponential growth in recent years, and according to IDC, spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is forecast to reach US $210-billion in 2019, an increase of 23.8{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} over 2018. The market is forecast to achieve a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.5{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} with public cloud services spending reaching US $370-billion in 2022. With public cloud being cost effective and easy to set up, businesses tend to leverage them to digitise their services and achieve their business goals faster. This often leads to complexities that arise due to unmonitored, underused or idle cloud resources on various platforms in multiple accounts, resulting in overspend. To eliminate these undesired expenses, organisations need a solution that can help monitor and optimise their cloud costs without impacting their services.

Holistic Solution

Site24x7’s CloudSpend addresses these cost optimisation issues with a holistic view of cloud expenditures across multiple accounts from a single console. CloudSpend also provides IT teams (IT financial planners & cloud service providers) BI insights for addressing cloud cost adjustments that achieve priority-based resource allocation, and thus helps in reducing overall OpEx.

“With pay-as-you-go pricing models, public cloud platforms are strategic drivers for digital transformation. Since digital transformation is largely a process and not the end goal, businesses not only want to embark on their digital transformation journey but also wants to optimise it to reap greater results,” said Srinivasa Raghavan, product manager, Site24x7. “CloudSpend’s addition to our AI-driven monitoring capabilities not only streamline and enhance performance of their applications on AWS but maintain an equilibrium when it comes to cloud spending, thus creating a win-win situation for DevOps, and IT teams.”

The new addition along with the existing full stack monitoring insights reiterate the company’s commitment to help customers run more efficiently in the cloud. The company also plans to extend the Site24x7 CloudSpend capabilities to other cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, in the near future.

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Excellence in Performance Management

Anaplan, Inc. announced that it was named to the Constellation ShortList for Cloud-Based Performance Management in Q1 2019. The technology vendors included in the Constellation ShortList offer the key requirements for early adopters pursuing digital transformation initiatives.

Constellation ShortList criteria for naming companies to its prestigious cloud-based performance management list includes the following attributes:

• Rapid deployment and configuration of multi-tenant services
• Agile budgeting, planning, and forecasting capabilities
• Flexible modeling capabilities
• Rich data analysis and reporting tools
• Compliant consolidation and statutory reporting capabilities
• Modern, intuitive interfaces

Constellation Research advises leaders on leveraging disruptive technologies to achieve business model transformation. Products and services named to the Constellation ShortList meet the criteria for this category as determined through client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share, and internal research. The portfolio is frequently updated as market conditions change.

About Anaplan

Anaplan connects people, plans, and data in every area of a business, including finance, sales, supply chain, marketing, workforce, and IT. A Connected Planning approach combined with Anaplan’s unique platform enables companies to operate in a more dynamic, collaborative, and intelligent manner to drive their businesses forward.

“We’re honoured to be included on the Constellation ShortList again this year,” said Sampath Gomatam, senior vice president, Product. “We regard this recognition as a validation of a business model that puts customers first with a platform that offers a single source of truth for planning in meeting changing business requirements.”

The Anaplan platform gives customers the power to address all financial and operational requirements. Anaplan’s flexible modeling provides a way to adapt the tool to the process instead of forcing users to adapt processes to the tool. Anaplan supports all ERP systems instead of restricting the user ecosystem.

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Compliance and Reliability in the Cloud

Talend announced that PointsBet is using Talend Cloud and Microsoft Azure to deliver a unique mobile betting experience to just under 100,000 customers worldwide and support its international expansion. With Talend, PointsBet can connect and govern diverse data sources with speed, trust, and reliability across its IT infrastructure and ensure compliance with regulations as it expands globally.

“PointsBet is fully digital, and it’s critical we can access data in every system to ensure a streamlined platform. Talend helps us quickly and efficiently integrate all of our data and ensure we’re compliant across the board,” said Maayan Dermer, BI and Data Engineering Lead, PointsBet. “Talend is the glue between our systems, and has enabled us to reduce troubleshooting times from four to eight hours weekly down to an hour, while simultaneously improving our data reliability and stability.”

Global Expansion

PointsBet standardised on Microsoft Azure due to its scalability to handle peak online gaming requests and agility to quickly spin up new projects. Talend was a natural fit with out-of-the-box native support for Azure Blob Storage, CosmosDB, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server, Azure SQL Server, and Native SQL Server, as well as the flexibility to run workloads in the Cloud or on-premises . As PointsBet, who just recently was licensed to operate in New Jersey, starts expanding throughout the US, Talend will play a vital role in supporting the roll-out of its Data Analytics infrastructure and ensuring the company maintains compliance with varying state regulations. With Talend Cloud, PointsBet is able to provide a unified view of all of its data and comply with the periodic reports and requests of the online betting industry.

“It’s critical for data systems to maintain reliability and trust, especially in the cloud- and digital-first systems , not to mention when you are managing significant sums of money,” said Ciaran Dynes, SVP of Products, Talend. “PointsBet is using data to quickly respond to dynamic requests internally and externally. We’re proud to support the company as it grows and expands into new markets.”

For more information on how PointsBet is using Talend click here.

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Nintex Announces Partnership

Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, announces a strategic partnership with Adobe to bring new native electronic signature capabilities, called Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign, to Nintex partners and customers.

Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign, the leading e-signature solution used by over half the Fortune 100, meets the growing worldwide demand of Nintex customers and partners for affordably priced, trusted and fully integrated e-signatures within the Nintex Process Platform to securely complete transactions. Thousands of partners, public, private, and government organisations leverage the powerful, easy-to-use Nintex platform daily to quickly build process apps, automate their most sophisticated workflows, and generate all kinds of documents from disclosures, to orders, to closing contracts leveraging responsive Nintex digital forms and templates.

Reactions from Senior Leadership

“The new offering produced by this partnership powerfully extends the native capabilities of our Nintex Platform, trusted as the global standard for process and document automation, to now include industry-leading Adobe-backed eSignatures,” said Nintex CEO Eric Johnson. “Nintex Sign, powered by our strategic partnership with Adobe, will bring tremendous value to our thriving Nintex process management and automation community.”

Ashley Still, Vice President and General Manager, Adobe Document Cloud, added, “We believe great experiences for customers and employees start where the document does. With Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign, we’re excited to bring these two best-in-class solutions together, making it easier for Nintex’s global partner network and customers to transform digital document workflows.”

Aragon Research CEO Jim Lundy commented, “This strategic partnership brings together two of the leading providers in Documents, eSignatures, Process Management, Workflow and Content Automation.”

To learn more about Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign, click here.

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