KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 (Bernama) -- The development of Kyrgyz-Malaysian relations can be seen in the field of economy, investment, education and tourism as there is untapped potential in the economic and investment fields.
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Kyrgyz Embassy to Malaysia in a statement said the development of both countries had increased every year.
It can be seen in the tourist traffic of both countries, which also shows an increase of interest among students from Kyrgyzstan to have their education in Malaysian universities. Currently, more than 170 students from Kyrgyzstan are studying here.
Last year, the ex-president of the Kyrgyz Republic, R. Otunbayeva made a working visit to Malaysia and a meeting was held with Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
The meeting had discussed prospects for the development of political and economic relations between the two countries.
Kyrgyzstan is considering Malaysia as one of the most important and priority partners in the Asian region. Both countries have considerable potential for further development of a comprehensive and mutually beneficial cooperation in priority areas.
The Embassy of Kyrgyzstan in Kuala Lumpur was opened in 1997.
-- BERNAMA
Monday, 22 July 2019
Friday, 19 July 2019
Lubrizol integrates three divisions into one new brand
KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 (Bernama) -- The Lubrizol Corporation has re-organised its Personal, Home and Health Care business lines, integrating them under a newly-dedicated brand, Lubrizol Life Science.
The change reflects its commitment to evolve with the beauty, health, home and wellness markets, which continue to cross over and converge.
The Lubrizol Life Science team seeks to enhance the value of its solutions and services to customers and end-users, via its collective expertise in chemistry, applications and market insights.
Lubrizol Advanced Materials president, Rick Tolin said: “Our internal capabilities are focused and aligned to help our customers quickly meet the expectations of today’s consumers for products that ensure them of a healthier, more beautiful and comfortable life.”
The new team is placing a priority on developing and testing products in partnership with customers, engineering breakthroughs and co-driving initiatives that fuel growth.
It will also emphasise the proactive innovation needed to bring market-ready solutions to customers, while capitalising on the reliability of Lubrizol’s 90 years of science and efficacy.
Lubrizol Life Science also plans to add strategic technology, capability and talent by investing to expand its portfolio, including new acquisitions.
-- BERNAMA
The change reflects its commitment to evolve with the beauty, health, home and wellness markets, which continue to cross over and converge.
The Lubrizol Life Science team seeks to enhance the value of its solutions and services to customers and end-users, via its collective expertise in chemistry, applications and market insights.
Lubrizol Advanced Materials president, Rick Tolin said: “Our internal capabilities are focused and aligned to help our customers quickly meet the expectations of today’s consumers for products that ensure them of a healthier, more beautiful and comfortable life.”
The new team is placing a priority on developing and testing products in partnership with customers, engineering breakthroughs and co-driving initiatives that fuel growth.
It will also emphasise the proactive innovation needed to bring market-ready solutions to customers, while capitalising on the reliability of Lubrizol’s 90 years of science and efficacy.
Lubrizol Life Science also plans to add strategic technology, capability and talent by investing to expand its portfolio, including new acquisitions.
-- BERNAMA
COMMEMORATING 10 YEARS -THE MICPA-CAANZ PROGRAMME
KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 (Bernama) -- 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the relationship between MICPA and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ). Back in 2009, CA ANZ was known as the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA). A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between ICAA and MICPA on February 24, 2009 to collaborate in providing a joint qualifying programme, i.e. the joint MICPA-ICAA Programme.
Through the joint Programme, MICPA conducted ICAA’s Chartered Accountant Program comprising 5 modules in Malaysia, but customised the Taxation module to cover the Malaysian taxation framework, thus making the Programme relevant to the local market. Hence 4 modules would be identical to that offered in Australia and the rest of the world, whilst the Taxation module would be set and marked by MICPA.
Graduates of the joint Programme are eligible for admission into memberships of both Institutes upon completion of the 5 modules and 3 years of supervised working experience, and will also be able to access the Global Accounting Alliance (GAA) – something very useful for global professionals. Memberships with both bodies provide the use of the titles “Certified Public Accountant”, or CPA (M), and “Chartered Accountant”, or CA (ANZ). The Programme was officially launched in June 2009 with the first batch of students attempting their first modules in December 2009.
In 2014, developments in ICAA saw its amalgamation with the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA) and the formation of a new body – CA ANZ, thus the name change of the Programme to the MICPA-CAANZ Programme.
Candidates eligible for the Programme are accounting degree holders from universities accredited by MICPA or CA ANZ, with most of them coming from universities in Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. MICPA has opened up entry for accredited Diploma in Accounting holders who will be required to undergo MICPA’s Professional Stage Examination (PSE) (4 modules) before proceeding on to the MICPA-CAANZ Programme (5 modules). In 2015, MICPA introduced a 1-year Conversion Programme (8 modules) to allow non-accounting degree holders to pursue the MICPA-CAANZ Programme. The Conversion Programme is being conducted by Universiti Malaya with classes held on weekends.
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Through the joint Programme, MICPA conducted ICAA’s Chartered Accountant Program comprising 5 modules in Malaysia, but customised the Taxation module to cover the Malaysian taxation framework, thus making the Programme relevant to the local market. Hence 4 modules would be identical to that offered in Australia and the rest of the world, whilst the Taxation module would be set and marked by MICPA.
Graduates of the joint Programme are eligible for admission into memberships of both Institutes upon completion of the 5 modules and 3 years of supervised working experience, and will also be able to access the Global Accounting Alliance (GAA) – something very useful for global professionals. Memberships with both bodies provide the use of the titles “Certified Public Accountant”, or CPA (M), and “Chartered Accountant”, or CA (ANZ). The Programme was officially launched in June 2009 with the first batch of students attempting their first modules in December 2009.
In 2014, developments in ICAA saw its amalgamation with the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA) and the formation of a new body – CA ANZ, thus the name change of the Programme to the MICPA-CAANZ Programme.
Candidates eligible for the Programme are accounting degree holders from universities accredited by MICPA or CA ANZ, with most of them coming from universities in Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. MICPA has opened up entry for accredited Diploma in Accounting holders who will be required to undergo MICPA’s Professional Stage Examination (PSE) (4 modules) before proceeding on to the MICPA-CAANZ Programme (5 modules). In 2015, MICPA introduced a 1-year Conversion Programme (8 modules) to allow non-accounting degree holders to pursue the MICPA-CAANZ Programme. The Conversion Programme is being conducted by Universiti Malaya with classes held on weekends.
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Thursday, 18 July 2019
BIZAGI GOES FROM STEALTH TO HYPER GROWTH DELIVERING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR WORLD LEADING BRANDS
From Adidas and Audi to Ikea and the U.S. government, Bizagi’s unique Intelligent Process Automation helping organizations harness the power of RPA and AI to speed transformation
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 18 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bizagi, the world’s leading Intelligent Process Automation platform provider, today announced significant growth in the U.S. and abroad driven by its success enabling digital transformation for world leading brands such as DHL, Gap, Citizens Bank, AON and numerous U.S. government agencies including the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, HHS, Homeland Security and many others. Bizagi’s growth is based on enterprise adoption of its unique Intelligent Process Automation, enabling companies to better leverage digital and robotic processes, along with artificial intelligence, to improve customer interaction, speed operations and build revenue.
This news follows the company’s recognition last month as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Software for Digital Process Automation (DPA) for Deep Deployments, Q2 2019 and new office expansions in Singapore as well as Washington, D.C. and New York to complement the company’s San Francisco U.S. headquarters. Bizagi has also made several key executive hires, including the company’s first chief revenue officer, Richard Dufty, who is responsible for its global go-to-market business with a mandate to provide an amazing unified journey and experience for customers.
“Since our $48M funding in 2017 Bizagi has largely flown under the radar, yet our relentless focus on customer success is paying massive dividends, with the company experiencing 100 percent year-over-year growth in the U.S. last year and on track to grow 200 percent in 2019,” said Bizagi CEO Gustavo Gomez. “Our platform’s ability to deliver deep digital process automation while driving broad, fast, business-friendly adoption is remaking how these organizations think about digital transformation.”
BUSINESS AND IT COLLABORATION
A recent Bizagi survey found that nine in 10 businesses see digital transformation as a significant challenge. To address this pain point, the company’s agile, connected, engaging platform is enabling true collaboration between business and IT.
“We selected Bizagi because it provides us a low-code DPA platform that enables even our process analysts to implement business process workflows to a reasonable extent,” said Stefan Wenzel, VP, Center for Digitization, with Deutsche Post DHL. “That’s critical to us as it will allow us to accelerate our digital transformation. In addition, new components like Bizagi Sites help us in creating user-centric digital services.”
BUILDING ON RPA
Bizagi is unique in its native integrations with leading robotic process automation (RPA) platforms, allowing organizations to better leverage these robotic processes throughout the enterprise.
“Bizagi will help unlock opportunities for RPA by digitizing the ingestion of data so that robotics can be implemented more broadly in our commercial operations,” said Matt Lavoie, VP, Head of Automation and iBPMS Development for Commercial Banking with Citizens Financial Group. “Automated execution and workflow will speed processing, create efficiencies, and give our colleagues more time to focus on value added activity that enhances our clients’ experience. Bizagi’s ease of use will continue to help our workforce embrace and expand this digital strategy.”
In naming Bizagi as a leader, the recent Forrester Wave report states: “Bizagi balances deep DPA functionality with a platform designed to go wide.” Similarly, in its Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites report earlier this year, Gartner characterized Bizagi as the most intuitive tool on the market.
“Having a key technology partner identified as a market leader is amazing confirmation of the UiPath ecosystem,” said Dave Marcus, VP Product and Alliance Management at UiPath. “The Bizagi partnership is important to delivering on our Automation First mission.”
DRIVING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Bizagi has a unique product approach that allows organizations to model and pilot DPA scenarios for free, and only pay for deployment in a production environment. To date, users have downloaded Bizagi’s software more than 3 million times, which is driving tens of thousands of digital automations at more than 500 organizations worldwide.
U.S. growth in particular is notable in financial services and government agencies, where organizations are succeeding in digital automation with Bizagi despite statistics that show the overwhelming majority of digital transformations fail. Most of these organizations are challenged by processes sitting in systems that are costly, disconnected and slow to change. Bizagi works with existing systems to make them more agile and connected for a more engaging customer experience.
“Bizagi works like an intelligent information conveyor belt, allowing legacy systems to build on the efficiency of robotic processes and the context and intent of artificial intelligence to automate and digitize organizational processes,” explains Bizagi’s Gomez. “Welcome to the age of intelligent automation.”
To fuel this growth, the company recently hired Dufty as its chief revenue officer. Previously with Symantec, Dufty oversaw sales for the Norton brand representing more than $1 billion in annual revenue. As the first leadership hire at AppDirect, he grew sales from $1 million to $100 million in less than five years.
“Richard is a proven leader joining Bizagi after incredibly successful track records growing revenue exponentially for a Fortune 500 company and a Silicon Valley unicorn,” Gomez said. “We’re thrilled to have Richard on the team as we look to scale operations in the U.S. and globally.”
About Bizagi
Bizagi helps organizations to transform into digital businesses. Its process automation platform connects people, applications, devices and information to deliver the engaging experience that today’s customers demand. Fueled by a community of 1 million users, Bizagi powers enterprises worldwide including adidas, BAE Systems and Old Mutual. For more information visit www.bizagi.com.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 18 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bizagi, the world’s leading Intelligent Process Automation platform provider, today announced significant growth in the U.S. and abroad driven by its success enabling digital transformation for world leading brands such as DHL, Gap, Citizens Bank, AON and numerous U.S. government agencies including the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, HHS, Homeland Security and many others. Bizagi’s growth is based on enterprise adoption of its unique Intelligent Process Automation, enabling companies to better leverage digital and robotic processes, along with artificial intelligence, to improve customer interaction, speed operations and build revenue.
This news follows the company’s recognition last month as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Software for Digital Process Automation (DPA) for Deep Deployments, Q2 2019 and new office expansions in Singapore as well as Washington, D.C. and New York to complement the company’s San Francisco U.S. headquarters. Bizagi has also made several key executive hires, including the company’s first chief revenue officer, Richard Dufty, who is responsible for its global go-to-market business with a mandate to provide an amazing unified journey and experience for customers.
“Since our $48M funding in 2017 Bizagi has largely flown under the radar, yet our relentless focus on customer success is paying massive dividends, with the company experiencing 100 percent year-over-year growth in the U.S. last year and on track to grow 200 percent in 2019,” said Bizagi CEO Gustavo Gomez. “Our platform’s ability to deliver deep digital process automation while driving broad, fast, business-friendly adoption is remaking how these organizations think about digital transformation.”
BUSINESS AND IT COLLABORATION
A recent Bizagi survey found that nine in 10 businesses see digital transformation as a significant challenge. To address this pain point, the company’s agile, connected, engaging platform is enabling true collaboration between business and IT.
“We selected Bizagi because it provides us a low-code DPA platform that enables even our process analysts to implement business process workflows to a reasonable extent,” said Stefan Wenzel, VP, Center for Digitization, with Deutsche Post DHL. “That’s critical to us as it will allow us to accelerate our digital transformation. In addition, new components like Bizagi Sites help us in creating user-centric digital services.”
BUILDING ON RPA
Bizagi is unique in its native integrations with leading robotic process automation (RPA) platforms, allowing organizations to better leverage these robotic processes throughout the enterprise.
“Bizagi will help unlock opportunities for RPA by digitizing the ingestion of data so that robotics can be implemented more broadly in our commercial operations,” said Matt Lavoie, VP, Head of Automation and iBPMS Development for Commercial Banking with Citizens Financial Group. “Automated execution and workflow will speed processing, create efficiencies, and give our colleagues more time to focus on value added activity that enhances our clients’ experience. Bizagi’s ease of use will continue to help our workforce embrace and expand this digital strategy.”
In naming Bizagi as a leader, the recent Forrester Wave report states: “Bizagi balances deep DPA functionality with a platform designed to go wide.” Similarly, in its Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites report earlier this year, Gartner characterized Bizagi as the most intuitive tool on the market.
“Having a key technology partner identified as a market leader is amazing confirmation of the UiPath ecosystem,” said Dave Marcus, VP Product and Alliance Management at UiPath. “The Bizagi partnership is important to delivering on our Automation First mission.”
DRIVING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Bizagi has a unique product approach that allows organizations to model and pilot DPA scenarios for free, and only pay for deployment in a production environment. To date, users have downloaded Bizagi’s software more than 3 million times, which is driving tens of thousands of digital automations at more than 500 organizations worldwide.
U.S. growth in particular is notable in financial services and government agencies, where organizations are succeeding in digital automation with Bizagi despite statistics that show the overwhelming majority of digital transformations fail. Most of these organizations are challenged by processes sitting in systems that are costly, disconnected and slow to change. Bizagi works with existing systems to make them more agile and connected for a more engaging customer experience.
“Bizagi works like an intelligent information conveyor belt, allowing legacy systems to build on the efficiency of robotic processes and the context and intent of artificial intelligence to automate and digitize organizational processes,” explains Bizagi’s Gomez. “Welcome to the age of intelligent automation.”
To fuel this growth, the company recently hired Dufty as its chief revenue officer. Previously with Symantec, Dufty oversaw sales for the Norton brand representing more than $1 billion in annual revenue. As the first leadership hire at AppDirect, he grew sales from $1 million to $100 million in less than five years.
“Richard is a proven leader joining Bizagi after incredibly successful track records growing revenue exponentially for a Fortune 500 company and a Silicon Valley unicorn,” Gomez said. “We’re thrilled to have Richard on the team as we look to scale operations in the U.S. and globally.”
About Bizagi
Bizagi helps organizations to transform into digital businesses. Its process automation platform connects people, applications, devices and information to deliver the engaging experience that today’s customers demand. Fueled by a community of 1 million users, Bizagi powers enterprises worldwide including adidas, BAE Systems and Old Mutual. For more information visit www.bizagi.com.
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Internal factors, not external, cast bigger cybersecurity threat - Research
KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 (Bernama) -- SolarWinds, a powerful and affordable IT management software provider in its cybersecurity research, has discovered that internal factors (people and technology) cast bigger cybersecurity threat than external, and thus, are ranked as the top concern.
SolarWinds has reported that out of all cybersecurity incidents experienced by respondents, the largest portion reported was caused by internal users making mistakes, at 65 per cent, followed by 43 per cent attributed to external threat actors.
Meanwhile, 66 per cent of respondents reported that regular employees posed the biggest risk, with 46 per cent attributing the cause to poor password management and/or weak passwords, and 45 per cent to accidents.
Despite cybersecurity threats (internal and external) becoming the norm in today’s landscape, 97 per cent of respondents felt ill-equipped to successfully implement and/or manage one or more cybersecurity tasks, given their current IT skillset.
In addition, 36 per cent of respondents stated that budget constraints were the most significant barrier to maintaining or improving their current IT security, according to a statement.
The research provides a pulse check on recent cybersecurity trends in both Singapore and Hong Kong, and explores the top threat concerns, along with technologies and skillsets needed to successfully manage both internal and external cybersecurity threats.
SolarWinds has released the research at RSA Singapore, whereby attendees of the event are able to receive indepth demos of the company’s security solutions. For more information, contact https://www.solarwinds.com.
-- BERNAMA
New features in WSO2 API Microgateway 3.0 introduced
KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 (Bernama) -- WSO2, the world’s open source integration vendor has introduced several new features in version 3.0 of its fully open source WSO2 API Microgateway to simplify the process of creating, deploying and securing APIs within distributed microservice architectures.
WSO2 API Microgateway is a cloud-native, lightweight, developer-centric, decentralised API gateway for microservices. It boots up in less than a second and features built-in capabilities for service-enrichment.
Developers can compose microservices and expose them as APIs that operate in a range of deployments, including Kubernetes clusters, containerised deployments, container management systems, service meshes and legacy deployments.
The WSO2 API Microgateway 3.0 has added several new features to facilitate API development and management while enabling greater scalability which allow developers to collaborate in creating APIs and test them independently.
In addition, the run-time service discovery support allows the microgateway to automatically discover microservices, while also supporting transforming legacy API formats, according to a statement.
The availability of WSO2 API Microgateway 3.0 is being announced in conjunction with OSCON 2019, the O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference which currently happening until July 18 in Portland, OR.
PREFCHEM ORGANISES PIC'S THIRD ENGLISH CARNIVAL FOR MORE THAN 4,000 STUDENTS
BANDAR PENAWAR, July 17 (Bernama) -- PRefChem, together with the Kota Tinggi District Education Office, jointly organised Pengerang Integrated Complex’s (PIC) third English Carnival, which is a signature Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme that promotes the English language literacy and appreciation amongst students.
The one-day carnival saw the participation of more than 4,000 students from 75 primary schools and 22 secondary schools in the Kota Tinggi district.
Held at Dewan Kejora here on 16 July 2019, the event was officiated by Johor State Education, Human Resource, Science and Technology Committee Chairman, YB Encik Aminolhuda Hassan, who expressed his gratitude to PRefChem for its contributions towards the programme.
“By participating in the carnival, students can improve their proficiency in the English language while enhancing their knowledge. It also promotes the importance of critical thinking and analytical skills,” said Aminolhuda.
Also present were Head of Manufacturing and Engineering of Pengerang Refining Company Sdn Bhd Encik Ahmad Farid Yaacob as well as Kota Tinggi Regional Education Officer, Encik Mohamad Fadil Ishak.
Since its inception, the PIC English Carnival has been designed to make young learners overcome their fears of the English language through fun activities.
The first of the two main components of the carnival is the “PIC English Literacy Programme”, a school-based effort helmed by the respective English Clubs of all participating schools. Some of the activities carried out in this programme include 5-Minute Public Speaking sessions, Wednesdays being designated as English Day, Pen Pal Programme and Spelling Bee, which nurture speaking and writing skills.
The other complementing component is the “Kota Tinggi District English Language Carnival” a competition-based programme that encourages students to reach their best potential in learning English.
PRefChem, comprising Pengerang Refining Company Sdn Bhd (PRefChem Refining) and Pengerang Petrochemical Company Sdn Bhd (PRefChem Petrochemical), is a strategic alliance between PETRONAS and Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Saudi Aramco, through equal partnership in the two joint venture (JV) companies.
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