The winners were recognized for their achievements in leveraging Red Hat solutions to drive innovation and deliver exceptional customer experiences in an ever-changing landscape.
SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced the winners of the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2023 for Singapore today. Red Hat is honoring the remarkable achievements of PSA Corporation Limited and UOB for their outstanding use of Red Hat solutions to foster innovation, showcase their ingenuity, and elevate customer experiences in an ever-evolving business environment.
In an environment of economic fluctuations and technological upheavals, Red Hat continues with the theme “Explore what’s next” at this year’s Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards. This year’s accolades celebrate the exceptional accomplishments of organizations in adapting to today’s uncertain landscape, proudly recognizing the digital transformation achievements of 31 organizations from 13 countries in the region. By harnessing the power of open source creatively, these remarkable organizations propel themselves forward while prioritizing unforgettable customer experiences. Their unwavering resilience, strategic thinking, and ingenious utilization of Red Hat solutions have allowed them to conquer new business challenges and stay one step ahead of evolving customer demands.
Amid growing uncertainty, innovation still stands tall as a priority for businesses. According to the Red Hat 2023 Global Tech Outlook, businesses continue to rank innovation as a powerful differentiator, allowing organizations to rise above their competitors and forge their unique path to success. The awards’ five categories focus on key technologies that can help businesses stand out amid today’s uncertain landscape: Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-native Development, Automation, and Resilience.
The winners were selected based on the positive impact their Red Hat deployments had on their business goals. They showcase the possibilities of open source, pushing the boundaries of business processes, productivity, innovation, and resilience.
Category: Automation
Winner: PSA Corporation Limited
PSA Corporation Limited (PSA Singapore) operates the world’s largest transshipment hub, 24/7 all year round. Functioning as one integrated facility, the City Terminals, Pasir Panjang Terminals and Tuas Port offer connections to 600 ports globally – including daily sailings to every major port in the world.
With the growing need to enhance users’ business experiences, PSA saw a demand for accelerated delivery of its IT services. Automating PSA’s IT processes via the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform enabled PSA to achieve their objectives for higher productivity, increased performance, improved security and compliance, and ultimately, in delivering better user experiences. This success has also driven PSA to explore scaling Ansible Automation Platform across a broader scope in its organizational IT infrastructure in Singapore.
Category: Digital Transformation and Cloud-Native Development
Winner: UOB
UOB is a leading bank in Asia. Operating through its head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, UOB has a global network of around 500 offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.
UOB’s progressive innovations and digital transformation reflects the Bank’s ambitions to build the future of banking for ASEAN. The Bank is building a modular and scalable infrastructure with a move to microservices enabled by Kubernetes technology. UOB is leveraging Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) to enhance its customer experience, time-to-market, developer efficiencies and ongoing operations with a more resilient infrastructure.
Supporting Quotes
Marjet Andriesse, Senior Vice President and General Manager, APJC, Red Hat
“As the business landscape continues to change in 2023, the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2023 celebrate the creative successes and achievements of our customers. Organizations today are increasingly turning to capabilities like data analytics to embark on transformation initiatives and cloud security features to protect their businesses. Furthermore, they have to manage all these while addressing tightening resources and manpower. That is why open source continues to be a game-changer for businesses, giving them the flexibility and resilience to adopt technologies, both existing and emerging, to craft their own unique path to success.”
Ho Vee Leung, Regional Head of IT, Southeast Asia, PSA Corporation Ltd
”A digital first mindset is essential for every business to thrive and respond to changing customer expectations. We believe that automation can help PSA standardize and ensure sound operations, reinforcing our position as a digital-first organization. Adopting Red Hat open source solutions has enabled us to harness the power of automation to achieve greater business outcomes, providing us the support we need to ensure that operations run smoothly.”
Lawrence Goh, Managing Director, Group Technology and Operations, UOB
“Embracing digitalization is key to supporting transformation both for UOB and our larger partner ecosystem. Leveraging solutions such as Red Hat OpenShift strengthens UOB’s cloud-native development agility, and enables UOB to better serve its customers by improving operational efficiency and time-to-market for our products and solutions. Using open source, UOB hopes to drive greater innovation across the organization.”
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