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Bringing Innovation to Banking: A Journey Through Tech Fusion 2023

Bringing Innovation to Banking: A Journey Through Tech Fusion 2023

Bringing Innovation to Banking: A Journey Through Tech Fusion 2023 1300 972 Exist Software Labs

Makati City, Philippines – In a dynamic fusion of technology and banking, Tech Fusion 2023 ignited sparks of innovation and ushered in a new era of financial technology last September 21, 2023. Hosted at the Microsoft Philippines Office in Makati, this exclusive event brought together prominent figures from the banking industry, top executives, and decision-makers to explore the transformative power of DevOps, Cloud Migration, and API Management. In collaboration with Crayon and Microsoft, Exist Software Labs, Inc. unveiled a world of possibilities for the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) sector.

Charting a New Course

Tech Fusion 2023 was not just an event; it was a voyage into the heart of digitalization in banking. The journey explored three main areas:

  1. DevOps Dynamics: Time-to-Market Accelerations with Confidence

The first leg of the journey examined how DevOps practices can dramatically accelerate time-to-market for banking solutions while instilling confidence in the process. Attendees learned strategies to balance speed and quality, ensuring robust software delivery.

  1. New-Age Competition: Modern Infrastructure and Cloud-Native Architecture

In the second phase, the discussion revolved around modernizing infrastructure and embracing cloud-native architecture. Experts elaborated on the pivotal role of microservices, containerization, and serverless computing in building scalable and resilient banking applications.

  1. API Quest: Navigating the Infinite Possibilities of Banking Innovation

The final stretch explored the infinite possibilities of banking innovation through API Management. Attendees gained insights into how API technology simplifies banking transactions and integrates diverse applications into a unified platform, fostering financial inclusion and transparency.

Exist Awarded as Crayon’s Partner for Banking Solutions in the Tech Fusion 

The event commenced with a warm welcome from Willex Perez, Exist’s Co-founder & VP of Sales & Marketing. He expressed his enthusiasm for collaborating to enhance efficiency and satisfaction in banking through digitalization.

The highlight of the day was the official launch of Exist’s Digital Banking Solutions, known as the Exist Banking and Financial Services (EBFS) Business Unit. Jemelyn Ambrosio, BFS Business Unit Head, unveiled the digital banking roadmap, which depicted the evolution from traditional to digitally mature banks.

Following the presentation, Crayon Philippines recognized Exist Software Labs, Inc. as their primary partner in Banking Solutions in the Philippines. Carlos Sevilla, Crayon Philippines’ Channel Sales Director, presented this recognition to Exist.

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Panel Discussion

The heart of Tech Fusion 2023 beat within the panel discussions. Seasoned experts from diverse backgrounds shared their experiences and insights:

  • Randy Cabredo – Solutions Area Specialist for Azure, Microsoft
  • Chester Guerrero – Head of Production Security, Maya Philippines
  • Carlos Sevilla – Channel Sales Director, Crayon
  • Jonas Lim – Vice President of Technology, Exist Software Labs
  • Dennis De Vera – Director of Technical Services, Exist Software Labs

These panelists wove together their experiences and domain expertise to create a rich tapestry of knowledge. They delved into innovations and real-world implementations, answering participant questions and unraveling the intricate world of digitalization. The Tech Fusion event illuminated the path to a future-ready digital banking landscape through DevOps, Cloud Migration, and API Management.

While enjoying lunch, attendees seized the opportunity to network with technology experts and engage in enlightening conversations with fellow banking leaders. It was a moment to connect, share ideas, and envision a digitally transformed future for the BFSI sector.

Crayon’s Digital Transformation Insights

After the lunch break, Crayon’s Business Development Manager, Gab Villanueva, took the stage to share valuable insights on digital transformation. This added yet another layer of knowledge to the event, further enriching the participants’ understanding of how technology can drive financial institutions forward.

A Fusion of Knowledge, Innovation, and Fun

Tech Fusion 2023 was not just an event; it was an experience filled with knowledge, insights, fun, and new technologies. Banks across the Philippines can now leverage the wisdom shared during this event to embark on their own journeys of digital transformation, ultimately benefiting their customers and securing a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving BFSI landscape.

As the sun set on Tech Fusion 2023, the banking industry in the Philippines looked forward to a future illuminated by innovation, collaboration, and the limitless potential of technology.

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catalyzing digital Transformation: Exist Software Labs Participates in Sun Life Global Solutions' Spark Innovation Series on Cloud & Data Federation

Catalyzing Digital Transformation: Exist Software Labs participates in Sun Life Global Solutions’ Spark Innovation Series 2023 on Cloud & Data Federation

Catalyzing Digital Transformation: Exist Software Labs participates in Sun Life Global Solutions’ Spark Innovation Series 2023 on Cloud & Data Federation 1300 972 Exist Software Labs

In photo (L-R): Event host Associate Director – Business Development  Yvette Seno, Engineering Manager Joseph Dindo Siasoco, Head of Portfolio Management Ada Mae David (Sun Life Global Solutions), Exist Director of Technical Services Dennis de Vera, Exist Vice President of Technology Jonas Lim, Exist President Michael Lim and Event host and Senior Project Manager Kiko Angeles

At Bonifacio Global Center on August 29, 2023, Sun Life Global Solutions held another edition of Spark Innovation Series, with the session focusing on Cloud and Data Federation. With an objective of updating their employees on the latest innovations in Cloud technology in the Financial Industry, Sun Life invited technology innovator Exist Software Labs (Exist) to discuss cloud data federation and data modernization.

Kiko Angeles and Yvette Seno opened the program as masters of ceremonies from Sun Life Global Solutions. Exist representatives Michael Lim, Jonas Lim, and Dennis De Vera, Jr. graced the event.

Exist’s journey towards Cloud Adoption and Data Federation

Exist President Michael Lim started the discussion at Sun Life event by providing valuable insights into Exist’s journey as a technology company. He presented the significant milestones of Exist Software Labs over the past 22 years, which inevitably touched on the brief history of cloud adoption. Dennis de Vera, Exist Director of Technical Services, supplemented this conversation highlighting the transition from traditional infrastructure to cloud services, and the subsequent innovations in infrastructure and data.

 

Dennis, in his presentation, provided an overview of Exist’s history of cloud adoption. Figures 1 to 3 above served as visual milestones, illustrating the transformation as regards cloud adoption. In Figure 1, Dennis described the initial stages of cloud adoption, where Exist began its journey by moving applications and databases to the cloud. This marked Exist’s crucial shift from traditional on-premise infrastructure to the cloud, a decision that would prove to be helpful not only to Exist, but to other organizations as well.

The move to cloud services was not merely a change in infrastructure but a strategic pivot that enabled Exist Software Labs to tap into the vast potential of cloud computing. Cloud services provided scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, allowing the company to expand its offerings and deliver value to clients in innovative ways.

As Dennis explained under Figure 2, applications were broken down into specific cloud services, which not only optimized performance but also enhanced security and resource allocation. This granular approach to cloud utilization empowered Exist to offer clients more tailored solutions, aligning with their specific needs and requirements.

Exploring the Pros and Cons of Cloud Adoption

Dennis’ insightful discussion on cloud adoption stages and their associated pros and cons highlighted the evolving nature of cloud technology. While each stage offered distinct advantages and challenges, cloud adoption Figure 3, marked by innovation in infrastructure and data management, serves as the solution to address the shortcomings of earlier stages.

As organizations continue to embrace the cloud, they must recognize the need for ongoing innovation to optimize their operations fully. By investing in cutting-edge technologies and data management strategies, they can harness the true potential of cloud adoption while minimizing its drawbacks. In this dynamic technological landscape, innovation is not just a choice but a necessity for organizations seeking to thrive in the cloud-centric future.

Benefits of Embracing Cloud and Data Federation

Exist’s Vice President for Technology Jonas Lim presented the benefits of Cloud Data Federation – including enhanced collaboration, efficiency, and decision-making. Implementing this approach provides a centralized data view, leading to informed decisions and increased competitiveness for businesses.

Data/Database Modernization: The Key to Business Excellence

Dennis and Jonas also highlighted the potential for data management to speed up innovation and growth, as they explained the significance of adapting to evolving data landscapes and leveraging modern technologies.

The Citadel of Security: Safeguarding Data Heritage

With the fast modernization of data, security became a crucial point of discussion, with a focus on protecting sensitive data. Dennis enlightened Sun Life Spark Innovation Series’ attendees about comprehensive security measures and compliance frameworks by simplifying security and making it more effective.

Dennis also explained the importance of “zero trust policy” by protecting assets anywhere with central policy. Implementing this approach provides a centralized data view, leading to informed decisions and increased competitiveness for businesses.

Moving Forward – Sun Life Spark Innovation Series Takeaways

The discussion at Sun Life Spark Innovation Series came to a close with the floor being opened to the audience for questions. Attendees left with a key takeaway: that as the world continues to evolve and as the need for new technologies increase, Exist marches on, providing solutions to help its customers thrive – demonstrating its continued commitment to drive growth and innovation for the years to come.

Enterprise Technology Solutions Leader, Exist Reveals Top 5 IT Trends for 2019. Java, Java Philippines

Exist Software Labs, Inc Reveals Top 5 IT Trends for 2019

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IT Trends in 2019

The demand for business companies to go digital continues as they face the new year with new expectations, competitors, channels, threats, and opportunities.

Digitalization has created a new breed of market that companies of all sizes- small, medium-sized, or even large corporations cannot ignore. Traditional businesses have now accepted using digital transformation as a business strategy— to deliver products and services through the web, reap data from every market interaction then gain insights to rapidly optimize their value chain and help them increase competitive advantage.

By transforming digitally, businesses are able to build a connection with their customers, speed up the pace of innovation, and, as a result, claim a greater share of profit.

Today, companies that invest in digital transformation are building an edge over those that don’t, which will enable them to succeed in reaching the expanding digital lives of consumers that encompass the rules of engagement that strongly influence customer loyalty.

With this profound effect on business organizations, allow us to share what are the IT Trends our top executives think would make an impact by the year 2019:

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Top 5 IT Trends

Blockchain

By allowing digital information to be distributed but with a highly secured transaction, blockchain technology created the backbone of the new type of Internet. What do we really mean when we say blockchain? According to Don and Alex Tapscott, authors of the book Blockchain Revolution (2016), “the blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value”. The growing list of records found in blockchain is called blocks which are linked using cryptography.

In an interview with Mr. Mike Lim, President & CEO of Exist, he stated, “Blockchain has been really gaining quick traction not only because of bitcoin or cryptocurrency but because of the promise of more transparent but secured communication between B2B companies or even B2C depending on what vertical you are.” This IT trend gives internet users the ability to create value and authenticates digital information. By storing data across its peer-to-peer network, blockchain eliminates a number of risks that come with data being held centrally. Every network participant validates the transaction so that the data stored is immutable and cannot be forged.

Real-world applications of blockchain technology are becoming more mainstream resulting in the amount of transactional data becoming huge.

Combining blockchain and big data sparks a new level of analytics. Executives believe that the blockchain promise of secure, traceable transactions and improved transparency of information can streamline supply chain management. Thus, continuing to make a disruptive change in technology by the year 2019.

 

Big Data

With today’s digital technologies, it’s possible to analyze your data and turn it into insights rapidly. This IT Trend enables enterprises to make better decisions.

According to Gartner, big data is high-volume, high-velocity, and/or high-variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing that enable enhanced insight, decision-making, and process automation. As the head of the healthcare services at Exist and the VP for Sales and Marketing, Mr. Willex Perez shared with us his thoughts: “Imagine the possibilities of what big data can do for predicting illnesses. If you collect enough clinical information you’ll be able to compare your status or your clinical values with others. After which, you can search available research or studies to check your risk rating as an individual.”

Emphasizing on healthcare, Mr. Willex added that among the growth  IT trends the use of big data in healthcare will be essential. “With analytics, enterprises will be able to drive innovation and come up with intelligent business decisions. While organizations collect data for analytics purposes combined with IoT as another major source for data,” Mr. Willex concludes, “it is inevitable to use big data analytics to complete the picture.”

 

Internet of Things (IoT)

Countless business opportunities are in the firehose of IoT data as products and services have become more connected. The Internet of Things refers to the network of devices such as home appliances, and mechanical and digital devices that contain electronics, software, and connectivity which allows them to interact and exchange data.

Considered as one of his top IT trends, Mr. Christopher Silerio, the VP for Operations at Exist, believes IoT sensors provide us a valuable real-time update of the exchange of data with the sources. He shares, “there will be a time when there will be more data exchanges happening between sensors even without human interaction.  From smart appliances or smart meters, devices will continuously send data signals to a certain component or machine, providing information in real-time. It’s reasonable to say that IoT has begun to transform the business landscape and is expected to continue in 2019.”

 

Cloud

While IoT generates huge amounts of data, the cloud ensures that these are captured and stored properly. The simplicity and accessibility of cloud computing to manage vast amounts of data remain a catalyst enabling the rapid expansion of IoT. Cloud computing provides small to medium enterprises the ability to enjoy low implementation costs for their total IT infrastructure and software systems.

Utilizing the abilities of cloud computing, enterprises of all sizes can deploy applications a lot quicker and cheaper compared to the cost of setting up whole IT Infrastructure and service by themselves. According to Forrester’s predictions for 2018, the total global public cloud market will be $178B in 2018, up from $146B in 2017, and will continue to grow at a 22% compound annual growth rate. From this perspective, the cloud seems to be a key driver of digital transformation and economic growth.

“Cloud makes it easier for organizations to worry more about their business process rather than infrastructures. It makes it easier for startups to build their business quickly,” reveals Mr. Jonas Lim, the VP of Technical Services at Exist. “As early as almost a decade ago, we believed that cloud computing is a real game-changer and it has proven to be true as the future continues to bring us into a world of unlimited connectivity empowered by the cloud,” he further adds.

 

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence or AI doesn’t only apply to robotics. As a branch of computer science, AI involves the development of computer programs to complete tasks which would otherwise require human intelligence. As evidence of its spread, AI is even available for use along with other cloud solutions to which businesses can just subscribe to.

Internet technology companies also make use of  AI to optimize their IT infrastructures. In fact, according to Wikibon: “AI-optimized application infrastructure is one of today’s hottest IT trends in the IT business. More vendors are introducing IT platforms that accelerate and automate AI workloads through pre-built combinations of storage, compute, and interconnect resources.”

Mr. Jonas Lim pointed out the increasing use of chatbots in business services. Chatbots are programs built to automatically engage with received messages simulating actual human interaction. In addition, artificial intelligence might just be ready to explode with its use, particularly inside the healthcare industry.

What started with manufacturing has now spread to knock and open the doors to a greater digital business scale but now with analytics and computing intelligence as an IT Trend at the forefront of cutting-edge changes in the upcoming years. “[Like] growing population of robotics is bound to happen,” Mr. Willex added, “and although we don’t know the future, it is quite evident that interacting with AI will soon be part of our everyday lives.”

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CGHMC and Exist Software Labs Team Up to Successfully Run New MERX™ Hospital Information System in the Cloud

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Manila, November 13, 2018 — Top Philippine tertiary healthcare institution Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC), owned and operated by the Philippine Chinese Charitable Association Inc. (PCCAI) achieves another milestone as it successfully completes implementation of their new hospital information system that helps bring them closer towards a more technologically-equipped and operationally-efficient facility.

Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC) achieves new milestone in Medicine

Using Exist Software Labs’ next-generation hospital information system MERX™, Chinese General Hospital has set its sights on navigating the highly-dynamic healthcare landscape equipped with innovative technology to help its clinicians deliver superior patient care.

“Advancements in the healthcare industry are intertwined with improvements in technology”, reveals Mr. Jamie Dy, Director for Information Communications & Technology and Data Privacy Officer of CGHMC.  “We patiently searched for the type of hospital system that will best address our current requirements to better fulfill our vow of providing quality care while keeping track of the kind of hospital modernization including data privacy and security compliance that we wanted to achieve.”

One of Manila’s oldest running hospital can now also lay claim to be among the most innovative as it becomes the first to comprehensively adopt web-based technology and cloud infrastructure to run a large hospital.

“Implementing robust and advanced IT systems is a major investment, not only about license costs but investing in tech people as well. We knew our strength lies in our healthcare core but working with Exist Software Labs, we are proud converts to the power of tech innovation to help carry our hospital services further”, adds Mr. Dy.

According to Michael Lim, CEO of Exist, “We’ve always believed that the web and the internet have the ability to transform not just personal and social lives but even enterprises which include hospitals as well. The best technology, done right, can really empower the users to do better work.”

Mike further adds, “With MERX™, we help steer hospitals away from the complexities of maintaining traditional legacy systems so they can instead focus on their core delivery which for CGHMC is about healthcare.”

Designed to address both operational and clinical requirements of hospitals, MERX™ supports hospitals preparing for a near-paperless setup using integrated electronic medical records (EMR) while utilizing an entirely web-framework that has become the defacto standard for enterprise systems worldwide.

“Being a web-based system, MERX™ gave us the option of using the cloud which helps us save and reduce our capital expenses and at the same time mitigate the risk of running our own IT infrastructure that has often plagued non-IT core organizations ”, declares Mr. Dy.  “Even more fascinating is the fact that cloud platforms now rival traditional on-premise hardware performance and at the same time comply with global privacy and security protocols”.

While a number of healthcare apps especially electronic medical records (EMR) run on the cloud, there are very few precedents for operating a large tertiary hospital almost entirely on it. By proving that a cloud setup works, smaller to mid-size hospitals on a budget have better chances to benefit from modern hospital systems at manageable costs by cutting the expenses associated with forming an IT team and purchasing hardware.

“Part of the job of running a hospital is doing continuous research beyond the field of medicine – by observing other industries as well,” says Mr. Dy.  “From manufacturing to banks, you can see how widespread the use of technology has become integral to business success.”

Further, the youthful CIO concludes, “With our current technology partner Exist, we are confident that our doctors, nurses and, other employees are now among best-equipped to achieve the best possible outcomes to the Filipinos who entrust CGHMC for their health and care.”

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