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Digital Operations as the Real Enabler of Successful Digital Transformation

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OpenGov Asia is pleased to invite you to an exclusive OpenGovLive! Virtual Breakfast Insight aimed at imparting knowledge and strategies on how to transform digital operations and modernise your IT operations to improve the organisation’s agility, visibility, and response time. 

Modernising your IT operations for better agility, visibility, and response time

Around the world, enterprises are working hard to meet their customer or citizens’ needs and weather the impact of the ongoing pandemic. The “new normal” is driving enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives to ensure that citizens and customers continue to avail themselves of mission-critical services uninterrupted and seamlessly. This is especially true during these critical times when every IT environment and every channel is facing strain. 

While this transformation encompasses people, processes, and technology, it is the underlying. technology that forms the foundation for a successful initiative. A big part of this shift is modernising the IT environments and applications that span data centres, edge locations, and public clouds. There is no better time than now to modernise your IT operations. The need of the hour is to modernise the systems to keep pace with the new digital demands and deliver more effective and efficient public and customer services.

Enterprises are transforming and rapidly adopting cloud services; however, it is important that this transition serves as an enabler and does not create additional complexity for IT operations teams. Given that the top goal of digital transformation efforts is to become more operationally efficient, any new solutions deployed must simplify the IT environment and enable the agencies or enterprises to be more agile.

Modernising IT operations is critical to innovate in this digital era 

As enterprises seek to drive innovation and deliver differentiated citizen and customer experiences, they should not be worried about where the application or workload is located —but rather, spend. Time focusing on developing better applications and services for their citizens and customers.

For many IT managers and staff, there’s so much to do, but so few hours and resources to do it. Currently, they must balance their time between the core infrastructure and the business application estate. Along with the more routine activities such as monitoring, fine-tuning resource management, and general maintenance, there are event-driven activities that are time consuming such as troubleshooting, remedial work, and dealing with change requests.

All these require coordination with the respective teams and passing jobs around via various hand-off mechanisms and resulted in even more work in the form of projects and programs which are often associated with new system implementations or significant infrastructure or platform upgrades. Finally, there’s still planning and researching of new tools and technologies to help modernise and improve the environment.

That last task may be the solution to it all, but also the most overwhelming. While the need for modernisation of IT is a no-brainer, how one navigates through the upgrades will require a fair amount of system integration, services expertise, and support.

Always-on, always-ready, future-proof enterprise 

To be sure, an enterprise’s digital maturity will dictate the way forward in its digital transformation journey. But certain widely-recognised platforms are essential for a system to effectively and efficiently manage critical functions.

So, what are the tools available for the enterprises to leverage on and get that coveted competitive edge? 

IT service management(ITSM) would ensure that there is an appropriate mix of people, processes, and technology in place to provide value to customer interactions. When employees have faster and easier access to customer information they can better strategise and respond. This enhanced operational efficiency and agility improve customer’s experience and foster increased public goodwill. This in turn drives employee engagement and productivity further.

Hybrid Cloud Automation enables enterprises to automate and orchestrate the management and operations of their hybrid cloud infrastructure which comprises of different clouds (both public and private). In order for IT to be more agile and responsive to the business needs, IT needs to explore codifying and automating the hybrid infrastructure so that the infrastructure elements can now be activated, configured and deleted like a piece of software code (infrastructure as code). This will not only speed up software development lifecycle but also eliminate unnecessary human errors and inconsistencies, thus accelerating digital adoption within the enterprise.

DevOps and Automation facilitate an agile way of working for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD). End to end automation provides better visibility to customer and provider with consistent delivery and operation.

Service Intelligence involves the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to monitor increasingly complex computing environments. There is a need to collect and analyse data to predict and proactively alert issues before the customer notice.

AIOps, together with service automation, helps to self-heal, and remediate issues proactively. Armed with this aggregated knowledge, IT managers and administrators can take swift action to prevent service outages before they occur. The primary goal is to help improve customer serendipity.

So, what’s an overworked, overwhelmed IT leader to do in the face of all these decisions to transform their digital operations?

Who Should Attend

Meet Our Distinguished Speakers

Andrew Bearsley
Senior Manager, ITOps Specialization
Splunk

Willie Hui
Director, Solution Consulting, Asia
ServiceNow

Howie Sim
Vice President - Healthcare & Transport Client Service Unit
NCS

Sean Sim
Cloud Solutions Business Development, Singapore
Red Hat

Mohit Sagar
Group Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief
OpenGov Asia

Subramaniam Radhakrishnan
Principal Enterprise Architect
NCS

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Ravi Bedi
Head & Practice Lead, AI-Led NEXT Solutions
NCS Group

Throughout his career, RAVI BEDI has sought to bridge the knowledge gap between man and machine. Known for his reliability, inquisitive mind, high EQ, and penchant for innovation, he brings a sense of urgency and a big-picture perspective to the digital automation imperative and the design of AI-based solutions. He embraces a forward-thinking approach in expanding the frontiers of innovation and driving thought leadership in identifying applications and solutions around AI techniques.

Laser-focused on capturing a competitive position for the organization, Ravi understands the endgame of AI-driven business value. His core competencies include providing the structural framework for Intelligent Automation As A Service and creating a “Digital Twin Workforce” (RPA) at SCALE. Ravi is a PRACTITIONER, since he implements the solutions and services, he designs by advancing unique process execution models, and architecting intelligent solutions and applications that can Sense, Comprehend, Act, and Learn.

Mohit Sagar
Group Managing Director & Editor-In-Chief
OpenGov Asia

Mohit is the Group Managing Director at CIO Network, a content sharing platform that connects governments with an added focus on Education and Healthcare. He spearheads and drives all strategies and operations in Singapore, UK and Australia offices. He created the round table format within the event industry that received the Award for the Best C-level conference in Asia which is now becoming the industry norm. In a career spanning 20 years, he has held a number of senior roles in the conference & media industry in the US, UK, Middle East and Asia.

Pascale Fung
Director, Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAiRE)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

She is the Director of HKUST Centre for AI Research (CAiRE), an interdisciplinary research center on top of all four schools at HKUST. She co-founded the Human Language Technology Center (HLTC). She is an affiliated faculty with the Robotics Institute and the Big Data Institute at HKUST. She is the founding chair of the Women Faculty Association at HKUST. She is an expert on the Global Future Council, a think tank for the World Economic Forum. She represents HKUST on Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society. She is on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She is a member of the IEEE Working Group to develop an IEEE standard – Recommended Practice for Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Her research team has won several best and outstanding paper awards at ACL, ACL and NeurIPS workshops.

PARTNER

NCS, a subsidiary of Singtel Group, is a leading technology services firm with presence in Asia Pacific and partners with governments and enterprises to advance communities through technology. Combining the experience and expertise of its 12,000-strong team across 69 specialisations, NCS provides differentiated and end-to-end technology services to clients with its NEXT capabilities in digital, data, cloud and platforms, as well as core offerings in application, infrastructure, engineering and cybersecurity. NCS also believes in building a strong partner ecosystem with leading technology players, research institutions and start-ups to support open innovation and co-creation. For more information, visit ncs.co. 

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Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winningsupport, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.

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ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud‑based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise.  For more information, visit: www.servicenow.com.

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Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) turns machine data into answers. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to monitor, investigate and act on all forms of business, IT, security, and Internet of Things (IoT) data, including monitoring and diagnostics, predictive maintenance and asset performance management. Use Splunk software in the cloud and on-premises to improve service levels, reduce operations costs, mitigate security risks, enable compliance and create new product and service offerings. Join millions of passionate users by trying Splunk software for free: www.splunk.com/free-trials.

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Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private company, Qlik offers real-time data integration and analytics solutions, powered by Qlik Cloud, to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik serves more than 38,000 active customers in over 100 countries.

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CTC Global Singapore, a premier end-to-end IT solutions provider, is a fully owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and ITOCHU Corporation.

Since 1972, CTC has established itself as one of the country’s top IT solutions providers. With 50 years of experience, headed by an experienced management team and staffed by over 200 qualified IT professionals, we support organizations with integrated IT solutions expertise in Autonomous IT, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure, Workplace Modernization and Professional Services.

Well-known for our strengths in system integration and consultation, CTC Global proves to be the preferred IT outsourcing destination for organizations all over Singapore today.

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Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our solutions enable organizations to connect the business from ideas to impact, empowering companies to accelerate the achievement of what matters most. Planview’s full spectrum of Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions creates an organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empowers teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. The comprehensive Planview platform and enterprise success model enables customers to deliver innovative, competitive products, services, and customer experiences. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with locations around the world, Planview has more than 1,300 employees supporting 4,500 customers and 2.6 million users worldwide. For more information, visit www.planview.com.

SUPPORTING ORGANISATION

SIRIM is a premier industrial research and technology organisation in Malaysia, wholly-owned by the Minister​ of Finance Incorporated. With over forty years of experience and expertise, SIRIM is mandated as the machinery for research and technology development, and the national champion of quality. SIRIM has always played a major role in the development of the country’s private sector. By tapping into our expertise and knowledge base, we focus on developing new technologies and improvements in the manufacturing, technology and services sectors. We nurture Small Medium Enterprises (SME) growth with solutions for technology penetration and upgrading, making it an ideal technology partner for SMEs.

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HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments, enabling enterprises to unlock a common cloud operating model to provision, secure, connect, and run any application on any infrastructure. HashiCorp tools allow organizations to deliver applications faster by helping enterprises transition from manual processes and ITIL practices to self-service automation and DevOps practices. 

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IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.