Editor’ s Note
Welcome to another edition of Intelligent CIO APAC magazine. We’ re midway through the year and AI is continuing to dominate – but the conversation is shifting. We’ re starting to see growing concern around governance, with identity gaps drawing increasing attention from leaders across the region. How organisations respond in the months ahead will be telling.
On the cover this issue is Leo Weng, CTO at LINE Bank Taiwan, who shares how the company worked with BMC to build a fast, reliable and scalable platform from scratch to provide its 2 million + customers with round-the-clock banking accessibility.
Complementing that story, BMC’ s VP of International Sales, Marcos Delgado, reflects on how platforms like Control-M are evolving to meet growing demand for cloud, data pipelines and AI-driven workloads in highly regulated industries. Turn to page 14 to read both perspectives.
Alix Pressley Head of Content APAC
Our Talking Point on page 18 examines Gartner’ s latest predictions for Australian cloud spending. With AI fuelling demand for high-performance infrastructure, organisations in the region are forecast to spend more than AU $ 33 billion on public cloud this year – a figure that signals just how significantly AI is reshaping investment priorities.
The AI governance gap takes centre stage on page 24. Randy Goh, Area Vice President for ASEAN at Dataiku, unpacks why governance has become one of Asia Pacific’ s most pressing challenges and offers a framework for bridging the divide between ambition and execution.
Rounding out the issue on page 35, Lee Chee Seng of FUJIFILM Business Innovation Singapore outlines how organisations can modernise workflows, strengthen their data foundations and operationalise AI at scale – along with practical guidance for CIOs navigating adoption over the next 12 months.
That’ s just a taste of what’ s inside. Turn the pages for the latest news and insights from across APAC and visit us at intelligentcio. com / apac for updates throughout the month.
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