IBM Singapore - News en-sg © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006, 2009. All rights reserved. See http://www.ibm.com/legal/sg/ for copyright and trademark information. askibm@vnet.ibm.com David KL Tan/Singapore/IBM@IBMSG Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/ http://www.ibm.com/i/ibm_logo_120x60.gif http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/ SINGAPORE, 22 October 2009: A new global study of more than 2,500 Chief Information Officers (CIOs), including 86 from ASEAN, released by IBM (NYSE: IBM), reveals that leveraging analytics to gain a competitive advantage and improve business decision-making is now the top priority for CIOs. More than four out of five (83 percent) survey respondents at the global level identified business intelligence and analytics – the ability to see patterns in vast amounts of data and extract actionable insights – as the way they will enhance their organizations’ competitiveness compared with 87 percent at the ASEAN level. http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/10/22/c907782s67310x46.html http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/10/22/c907782s67310x46.html Singapore's main science and technology university, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), receives a significant boost in its research efforts with the installation of a green supercomputer at its new High Performance Computing (HPC) Centre on campus. This achievement is in partnership with Jardine OneSolution (2001) Pte Ltd, IBM (NYSE: IBM) - maker of nearly half of the world’s 500 fastest computers, Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, and Red Hat, the world’s leading open source solutions provider. http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/07/22/c923775y88262y34.html http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/07/22/c923775y88262y34.html The Systems Engineering discipline just got a boost with four Information Technology (IT) corporations coming together to sign a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) to promote Systems Engineering (SE) in Singapore. http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/07/02/t727330s32205j45.html http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/07/02/t727330s32205j45.html Singapore -- June 2, 2009: ILOG, an IBM company, Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) and NCS with the support of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), today announced the renewal of Asia’s first Enterprise Business Rule Solutions Centre (EBRSC) collaboration for another three years. http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/06/02/k356052c56792j14.html http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/06/02/k356052c56792j14.html Singapore – 14 May 2009: IBM Singapore today announced an IT makeover challenge offering up to US$30,000 of IT products and solutions as part of a comprehensive suite of activities from now till end of the year, to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) work smarter, tackle disasters and succeed in today’s challenging times. http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/05/14/k933636m08672u80.html http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/05/14/k933636m08672u80.html Singapore, 23 April 2009 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, a six-star luxury hotel in Singapore, has replaced its aging data center computing infrastructure, which was powered by HP, with IBM servers and storage in a bid to reduce operation costs and increase efficiency. http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/04/23/e681063p97668b41.html http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/04/23/e681063p97668b41.html IBM's Global Chief Supply Chain Officer study, based on face-to-face interviews with nearly 400 supply chain executives in 25 countries, reveals that 70 percent say their number one challenge is overwhelming and fragmented data, as well as a lack of ability to make sense out of the information. However fixing this “visibility” problem is low on action plans because it is costly, difficult, silos are worse than ever and respondents say they are just too busy. http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/03/20/l293586i50998e89.html http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/03/20/l293586i50998e89.html Republic Polytechnic (RP), the tertiary institution that approaches learning with a difference, announced today their business partnership with Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) to offer Linux training for RP students and industry professionals. http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/03/19/w862933c66860p31.html http://www.ibm.com/news/sg/en/2009/03/19/w862933c66860p31.html http://www.ibm.com/legal/sg/en/ http://www.ibm.com/legal/sg/en/