Despite the challenges facing Singapore businesses in an uncertain economic climate, nine in 10 businesses now recognize the importance of business transformation to maintain competitiveness and competency. Nearly two in three companies (66%) also view technology adoption as fundamental in transforming their businesses. Internationalization has picked up...
For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are manpower-lean, upskilling is one of the ways to optimise productivity especially amidst the pandemic.
However, according to NTUC LearningHub (NTUC LHUB)'s recent Employer Skills Survey 2021, when asked about their intention to send their staff for training,...
Malaysian small businesses made greater use of digital technologies in response to COVID-19, with 40 per cent increasing their focus on online sales in the past 12 months. This finding comes from a new regional small business survey by global professional accounting organisation CPA Australia.
Microsoft’s 2021 Global Tech Support Scam Research report, looking at tech support scams and their impact on consumers, saw an overall fall in scam encounters – three out of five consumers (59%) were found to have been targeted by a tech support scammer in the last 12 months,...
PIVOT Fintech Pte Ltd, a digital wealth management technology services venture has been granted a Capital Markets Services (CMS) license by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
PIVOT’s CMS license, which comes after the recently published MAS Guidelines on the Provision of Digital Advisory...
OCBC Bank now leverages Visa Commercial Pay mobile solution as part of its inaugural virtual purchasing card offering. The OCBC Virtual Purchasing Card enables businesses to digitalise and streamline all their payment requirements.
This solution provides real-time visibility of their employees’ spending on OCBC...
Even as Singapore pushes to become cheque-free by 2025, cash cheques continue to be used by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), typically to pay staff salaries, get cash for daily business operations or pay vendors for services rendered.
While cheque usage by OCBC...
Singapore’s SMEs are still lagging in digital adoption and are not adequately prepared for the national transition to a digital economy, according to the fourth edition of QBE Insurance’s annual survey of Singapore SMEs. The results found that SMEs have been slow to take up cyber protection...
IR has revealed research that shows the enormous time wasted by IT professionals managing multiple tools in a UC&C environment.
The IT Time Crunch research indicates that when multiple monitoring and troubleshooting tools are in the UC&C mix, IT practitioners spend the most time troubleshooting issues...
SAS Institute and Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) have collaborated to help Singapore's small and medium-sized manufacturers manoeuvre headwinds via advanced analytics.
Leveraging SAS Institute’s data analytics and visualisation capabilities, the team at NYP’s School of Engineering developed an enterprise-to-shopfloor platform that helps precision-engineering manufacturers boost...
