JG Summit Upgrades Employee Experience with Microsoft Office 365 and Cloud Platform

JG Summit Holdings Inc. aims to achieve this goal through a digital transformation journey that will embed digitalization in its core business strategies to meet the evolving needs and lifestyle not just of its customers, but also of its employees.

“Our vision is to be the leading digital conglomerate in the Philippines. To achieve that goal, multiple groups within the JG Summit Business Units, Subsidiaries, and Affiliates have been working behind the scenes to bring about this transformation,” said JG Summit President and CEO Lance Y. Gokongwei.

(L to R): Jackie Buenviaje, Account Executive, Microsoft Philippines, Carlos Santos, Group Chief Information Officer, JGSHI, Lance Y. Gokongwei, President and Chief Executive Officer of JGSHI, Andrea Della Mattea, President, Microsoft Asia Pacific, Alberto Granados, Vice President, Microsoft Asia Pacific, Ricky Kapur, General Manager, Enterprise Operations Unit, Microsoft Asia Pacific, Tanya Aguila – Loo, Specialist Technology Unit Lead, Microsoft Philippines

Among the initiatives will be to upgrade the employee experience across the entire conglomerate through the use of Microsoft Office 365 and the cloud platform. JG Summit is transitioning from on-premise systems to Microsoft’s cloud services.

Office 365 is a set of Microsoft applications that allows users belonging to the same network to store files and share information.  Compared to earlier versions of Microsoft applications, Office 365 uses the cloud platform, which offers agility, greater efficiency and security benefits.

JG Summit’s move to the cloud platform will further enable its employees to transform their environment into a digital workplace. With this project, the conglomerate envisions a New Culture of Work where employees will be introduced to the Modern Digital Workplace which will empower people across the organization to achieve more by enabling better communication, collaboration, and sharing of information from computers to mobile phones in a single cohesive platform.

The first step is to migrate everyone away from current e-mail platform and put everyone up unto the cloud platform accessible from anywhere in the world and enable collaboration on any device.

Ricky Kapur, General Manager, Enterprise Operating Unit, Microsoft Asia Pacific, reiterated how JG Summit’s initiatives closely aligns with Microsoft’s mission. “At Microsoft, we empower every person and every organization to do more. The fourth industrial revolution is here, and organizations must digitally transform not just to optimize operations, but to enable their people. We’re very excited to work with JG Summit and be part of their digital transformation journey.”

JG Summit is one of the largest and most diversified Filipino conglomerates, engaged primarily in businesses that serve a growing middle class with rising disposable incomes in the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and Australasia.  These businesses include branded snack foods and beverages, commodities, agro-industrial businesses, air transportation, banking, real estate, and petrochemicals.

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Counterpoint Research: Huawei Surpasses Apple to be the Second Largest Smartphone Brand

According to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Pulse for July 2017, Huawei Surpasses Apple to be the Second Largest Smartphone Brand in terms of in global smartphone sales for June and July. Strong august sale looks to be in favor for the Chinese vendor.

Discussing this key competitive development, Counterpoint’s Research Director Peter Richardson, notes, “This is a significant milestone for Huawei, the largest Chinese smartphone brand with a growing global presence. It speaks volumes for this primarily network infrastructure vendor on how far it has grown in the consumer mobile handset space in the last three to four years. The global scale Huawei has been able to achieve can be attributed to its consistent investment in R&D and manufacturing, coupled with aggressive marketing and sales channel expansion.”

Mr. Richardson adds, “While this streak could be temporary considering the annual iPhone refresh is just around the corner, it nevertheless underscores the rate at which Huawei has been growing. However, a weak presence in the South Asian, Indian and North American markets limits Huawei’s potential in the near-to mid-term to take a sustainable second place position behind Samsung. Huawei is over-dependent on its home market China where it enjoys the leadership position and operator-centric markets in Europe, Latin America and Middle East.”

On future prospects and other findings, Counterpoint’s Associate Director, Tarun Pathak, notes, “The growth of Chinese brands is an important trend which no player in the mobile ecosystem can ignore. Chinese brands with their dominant position in key markets such as China, Europe, Asia and Latin America have restricted the growth prospects for leading global brands such as Samsung and Apple. Chinese brands are growing swiftly thanks not only to smartphone design, manufacturing capability and rich feature sets, but also by out-smarting and out-spending rivals in sales channels, go-to-market and marketing promotion strategies.”

Mr Pathak, adds, “Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi have successfully gained access to key supply chain partners, which has allowed them to launch designs with bezel-free, full displays, Augmented Reality, in-house chipsets and advanced camera features, that have kept them toe-to-toe with rivals. These players have become as equally important as Samsung or Apple to the global supply chain, application developers and distribution channels, as they continue to grow in scale more rapidly than the incumbent market share leaders.”

Commenting on the best-selling models in the month of July, Senior Analyst, Pavel Naiya highlighted, “Apple continued to drive its flagship momentum with iPhone 7 & 7 Plus; still the world’s best-selling models. OPPO has been one of the fastest growing brands globally thanks to the popularity of models including the flagship OPPO R11 and the mid-tier OPPO A57 that captured third and fourth spots respectively. These were followed by Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S8, Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X and Samsung Galaxy S8+. Apple’s 32GB refresh of the venerable iPhone 6 enabled it to regain momentum during the month, with popularity across prepaid markets to edge out Samsung’s Galaxy J7.

Best-Selling Models

Mr Naiya, added. “While Huawei climbed to be the world’s second largest brand overall, it is surprising to see none of its models breaking into the top ten rankings. This is due to a multiple SKU portfolio that currently lacks a true hero device. While having a diverse portfolio allows Huawei to fight on multiple fronts, it does little to build overall brand recognition; something Huawei badly needs if it is continue to gain share. While Huawei has trimmed its portfolio, it likely needs to further streamline its product range like Oppo and Xiaomi have done – putting more muscle behind fewer products.”

Source: Model Sales Tracker – July 2017

Methodology: Counterpoint’s Market Pulse is based on tracking monthly model-level sales for more than 300 brands across more than 40 countries globally.

Counterpoint Technology Market Research is a global research firm specializing in Technology products in the TMT industry. It services major technology firms and financial firms with a mix of monthly reports, customized projects and detailed analysis of the mobile and technology markets. Its key analysts are experts in the industry with an average tenure of 13 years in the high tech sector.

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Free Enterprise Digital Workshop for Business and Entrepreneurs by IP Converge Data Services, Inc. IPC

IPC (IP Converge Data Services, Inc.), local cloud services pioneer, will be holding a free digital enterprise innovation seminars for business owners and entrepreneurs.

“Digital is the new Normal. If a company doesn't take advantage of today’s plethora of readily available enterprise applications, it runs the risk of being left behind by competition who do,” said Niño Valmonte, Director for Product Management & Marketing at IPC. “Doing business in this day and age compels us to adopt a digital mindset, and the fastest and most cost-efficient way to do it is through the cloud.”


Entitled “Gear up to Innovate: An essential blueprint for digital transformation”, the session aims to emphasize to businesses the importance of a digital mindset in today’s highly connected world. Insights about digital best practices will be shared and the most relevant cloud-based business tools will be explored.

Attendees will be engaged in an immersive demo of collaborative business applications and witness how workplace productivity can be elevated through these tools. More importantly, IPC will elaborate on the effective ways to migrate business processes to the cloud.

The “Gear up to Innovate” seminar series starts on August 19, 2016 and will run until the end of the year. It will be held at 1:30 PM - 5:50 PM on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from there on at 34F RCBC Plaza Tower 2, Ayala Avenue, Makati City.

Participants will be accommodated on a first come, first served basis. To register, visit http://gearup.ipc.ph.

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Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center partners with Samsung Electronics for their Modernization.

Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center (CGHMC), one of the oldest and prestigious healthcare institutions in the Philippines and under the leadership of philanthropist Dr. James G. Dy signed a partnership agreement with Samsung Electronics and Bullseye Solutions, Inc. (BSI) last April 28, 2016 for the modernization of the hospital.

Standing (left to right): Engr. Gabriel Delim, Dir. Hilda Ong, Ms. Gracita Javier, Ms. Luciana Bernabe, Dir. Robert Yang, Mr. Marvin Chua, Dir. Simon Lee, Dr. Cesar Co, Dr. Robert Sy, Dir. Jameson Dy, Dr. Modesto Llamas, Mr. James Kwon, Mr. Daniel Choi, Ms. Ireen Catane, Ms. Addie Alberto, Ms. Malou Estacio, Mr. JC Ahn

It was a momentous occasion attended by top executives from both parties as it was also timely for the 125th year anniversary of Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center and for Samsung Electronics' entry into the healthcare space in the Philippines, through its local partner Bullseye Solutions, Inc.

As a worldwide leader in technology, Samsung Electronics seeks to maximize its presence in the hospital environment by not only providing the most advanced medical equipment but also its numerous B2B products such as large format displays (LFDs), air conditioning units, mobile devices and other range of products completing the modern CGHMC.  Bullseye Solutions, Inc. shall oversee the overall implementation of the modernization initiative in radiology.

The Modernization program includes acquisition of the latest radiology equipment such as a 512 slice CT scan machine, full room digital radiography solutions, mobile DR systems and high end ultrasound systems.  The extensive renovation of the entire radiology department would place CGHMC's radiology department as one of the most advance in Asia.

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Microsoft Makes Windows 10 Upgrade Possible for Pirated Copies

Microsoft decides to give users of pirated copies a chance to upgrade to their new Windows 10 for Free for the first year at least.

In an telephone interview with Reuters, Microsoft's Terry Myerson: "We are upgrading all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine, to Windows 10," The plan is to "re-engage" with the hundreds of millions of users of Windows in China, he said, without elaboration."

Seems China is target of this move but eventually it would be good for majority of users to get Windows 10 upgrade at no cost. It's more of marketing strategy like luring them with free taste then Microsoft will be offering subscription to their Office 365 for gain. Still it is Win Win situation for both consumer and Microsoft.  

Windows 10 will be launching this Summer in 190 countries.

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