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Top Executives in Technology to Offer Entrepreneurship Camp in Philippines

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:28:03 EDT

Developers Connect Philippines (DevCon), the youngest yet most comprehensive IT capabilities development organization in the Philippines, and Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev), the leading catalyst for technology-based entrepreneurship and innovation in the Philippines, have joined forces to bring a distinguished Entrepreneurship Camp in Cebu City, Philippines on May 14, 2012, 5pm to 9pm at the Casino Espanol. Winston Damarillo, Founder of DevCon and a highly successful technopreneur having founded software companies Morphlabs and Exist Global said that "it is important to provide a pathway for Filipino technologists and engineers to become entrepreneurs. Our talent pool is scarce and fleeting -- it is important to maximize our potential through entrepreneurship." As such, the set Entrepreneurship Camp aims to provide Cebu startups and technology entrepreneurs a platform to discuss ideas and best practices and access to a world-class connected incubation environment to help them understand real-world strategies implemented by their start-up counterparts.

Globe and Morphlabs Unveil Dynamic Infrastructure Services

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:10:33 EDT

Globe introduces Dynamic Infrastructure Services -- a turnkey solution that combines software and hardware components of a private cloud that allow businesses to "create and deploy enterprise applications quickly and painlessly". This solution is developed Morphlabs, an award-winning cloud computing platform provider. Jesus Romero, Head of Globe Business at Globe Telecom proclaimed that a "tidal wave is coming". Increasing demands for applications, enterprise consumerism, and big data are transforming the IT landscape. In a speech at the Own Your Cloud product launch, Romero disclosed that "Globe is a pioneer in cloud delivery not just in the Philippines, but in Asia Pacific for bringing to market a state-of-the-art Dynamic Infrastructure Services (DIS)" designed to provide rapidly scalable computing power and resources to businesses. The service runs technology developed by Morphlabs, an award-winning cloud solutions provider, that bagged $5 million in Series C funding September last year. "Dynamic Infrastructure Services allow businesses to start small," said Winston Damarillo, Founder and CEO of Morphlabs. "In fact, it allows you to grow your business with zero CapEx."

E-Claims: Enabling Better Healthcare Delivery

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:45:00 EST

Convened by Exist, a software firm that develops enterprise healthcare applications with key clients in the local market, and HP, renowned global technology company, the forum gathered PhilHealth representatives, CIOs from metro hospitals, and IT leaders of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to discuss and exchange ideas towards building an ecosystem to enable better healthcare services for the Philippine market.

Information Technology Forecast for 2012

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:13:00 EST

"The IT development potential in healthcare is huge," said Jerry, Exist CEO. Much of this can be attributed to increasing demands to provide better quality of care, streamline operations, gain more administrative visibility and clinical insight, and improve access to healthcare. In the Philippines itself, a couple of healthcare IT developments, such as PhilHealth's eClaims project, are already underway. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. "Exist will be very active with Philippine healthcare stakeholders as an authority in technology." “Our problems here are not unique,” noted Jerry, sharing feedback from a healthcare IT forum in the United States. “There are lessons which we can take from America’s healthcare system -- from improving workflows to data integration, as well as from health reform to putting the right tools in place."

IT in Healthcare

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:08:00 EDT

Behind the health care provided to millions of patients in a hospital lies an efficient system in place that aids in faster communications and information dissemination. Today, Information Technology serves as nourishment to the health care industry -- integrating voluminous pieces of information that circulates in the complex operations of health providers day by day. E-health initiatives are now found in 68% of the ICST policies in the Asia and Pacific region, as stated by the United Nations Economics and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Information Communication and Space Technology (UNESCAP-ICST). In the Philippines, local hospitals and clinics see IT systems as both a challenge and an opportunity. By improving the quality of healthcare and medical information accuracy, these systems allow the country’s healthcare providers to meet the increasing demands not only of the local market but also the international market.

Healthcare IT: Buy or Build?

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:16:55 EDT

What are the drivers affecting buy and build strategies? What elements must be considered if a hospital is to grow and maintain its own applications, purchase an off-the-shelf product, or work with a team (outsource engineering) to build a product? Making the right choice is a challenge.

Exist Celebrates 10 Years of Software Engineering Innovation

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:21:00 EDT

Exist Global, pioneers in Open Source software engineering in Asia Pacific, commemorated its 10th anniversary with co-founders Winston Damarillo, Willex Perez, and Junnie Arreza joining CEO Jerry Rapes in a toast to honor 10 extraordinary years of software innovation and the next 10 years of success. "Exist has had an amazing global trajectory since 2001," said Winston. "Our head count, roster of clients, industry network and service portfolio have expanded tremendously." Exist began with venture-funded start-up clients and 7 employees. Today, it runs the most modern development centers in Manila and Cebu with 180 technologists, serving world's leading companies in Healthcare, IT, Telecoms and Finance. In addition, Exist has established itself on the forefront of bleeding-edge technology development -- globally recognized innovators and producers of almost 3 dozen Open Source contributors.

Building Next-Generation Tech Leaders

Thu, 19 May 2011 15:55:00 EDT

In the software development services industry -- people are the software company's #1 asset. With pressure to deliver faster with fewer resources, increasingly distributed teams, and savvy customers -- software companies need to find ways to build capable leaders within their organizations. But how are next-generation tech leaders built? I spoke to Mike Lim, VP for Engineering at Exist, who by the way is currently enrolled at the prestigious Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA program, about this and here's my non-verbatim summary of our short exchange.

Open Source - Community-Inspired Software Development

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:15:00 EDT

Open source developers and communities operate in a similar fashion as venture capitalists and technologists in Silicon Valley. Open source communities share the same merits: participation, collaboration, communication, interaction, and innovation. The World Is Flat author Thomas Friedman said that "the most disruptive force of all" is that of the increased ability for people anywhere in the world to collaborate. In his book, he re-told the story of how Behlendorf had founded the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), a big self-organizing community of software developers. Apparently Behlendorf wasn't the only one working on the project he was working with so he started to collaborate with the other programmers to -- simply put it -- get things done faster. This collaboration eventually gave birth to ASF.

Open Innovation: Achieving Open Source Success

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:07:00 EDT

Open source has been an agent of innovation for the past years. More than 10 years ago, standards were dictated by the bigger technology companies. However, the past decade has reflected a transformation that distinguishes open source as the de facto choice for majority of global organizations. Open source today sets the trends. Open source, characterized by collaboration, communities of developers, and access to source code in relation to software development, and the business models built around it, continue to reshape the IT ecosystem.

10 Reasons Why You Want to Work at Exist

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Software firm Exist Software Labs is hiring Java, Ruby on Rails developers. Find out about Exist culture and values.