{"id":31331,"date":"2018-03-14T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T05:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=31331"},"modified":"2018-03-15T18:15:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T10:15:02","slug":"cloud-maturity-in-phl-affected-by-infra-issues-infors-helen-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/03\/14\/cloud-maturity-in-phl-affected-by-infra-issues-infors-helen-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud maturity in Phl affected by infra issues; but positive dev&#8217;t happening \u2013 Infor\u2019s Helen Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SINGAPORE \u2013 Issues with infrastructures in the Philippines are affecting the country\u2019s cloud maturity, said Helen Masters, general manager and senior vice president for Asia Pacific of Infor, even as she expressed optimism that movements are expected considering positive developments happening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31332\" style=\"width: 632px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Infor-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Infor-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Infor-2.jpg 622w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Infor-2-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Helen Masters, Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Asia-Pacific, delivering the opening remarks at the Infor ASEAN-ANZ Executive Summit 2018<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>More specific to interconnectivity, in May 2017, Akamai Technologies&#8217; <em>Global State of the Internet Report<\/em> showed that the Philippines has the slowest average Internet speed in Asia Pacific, with an average connection speed of just 5.5 Mbps, way below the global average Internet connection speed of 7.2 Mbps. Surprisingly, low as it is, this was supposedly already an improvement from previous records.<\/p>\n<p>But Masters remains optimistic for APAC as a whole, including the Philippines, particularly since the \u201cPhilippines is starting to move again,\u201d and that \u201cmaybe in 18 months, with a strong push, it will get there (progress).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All the same, Masters said that investment in technology is always a must \u201ceven while times are slow,\u201d she said, since \u201cit let\u2019s you leapfrog the competition.\u201d Early adoption means that businesses are \u201cready for the next (tech) launch ahead of the tech advances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Infor considers the Philippines as a major emerging market, with key verticals in the country already including such industries as logistics (which is strong in Southeast Asia as a whole), fashion\/retail, core solutions, distribution and healthcare, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Infor, which builds business software for specific industries in the cloud, currently has 16,500 employees and over 90,000 customers in more than 170 countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/03\/08\/infor-promotes-helen-masters-to-svp-gm-for-asia-pacific\/\">Infor only recently promoted Masters to the position of senior vice president and general manager for APAC.<\/a> Based in the company&#8217;s regional hub in Singapore, Masters is responsible for Infor&#8217;s business across ASEAN, Australia, Greater China, Korea, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Masters of Infor remains optimistic for APAC as a whole, including the Philippines, particularly since the \u201cPhilippines is starting to move again,\u201d and that \u201cmaybe in 18 months, with a strong push, it will get there (progress).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[107,1130,5862,1348,96],"class_list":["post-31331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-spotlight","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-technology","tag-helen-masters","tag-infor","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}