OFW & SME Business Christmas Expo Held as Part of Ex-Link's 15th Year

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Before the holiday season has struck, Ex-Link Events celebrated its 15th year in the events industry through the OFW & SME Business Christmas Expo held at the Megatrade Hall 2 of SM Megamall last December 21 to 23, 2016.

Among the activities held at the hall for three straight days are the musical performances by the Center for Pop Music, the Psalm of David Harmonic Orchestra, Children's Joy Foundation, His Statements and the Kawayan7 Modern Bamboo Band; the Business Plan Competition Finals and the Student Entrepreneur Exhibit of Junior Achievement of the Philippines, and the inspiring talks done by successful OFWs-turned-Entrepreneurs during the "OFW Ako: Paano maging Happy and Rich for Good?" session.

Guest speakers Mr. Roderick "Spud" Eduarte of BRIDZ of Genius Brain Integration Singapore, Mr. Von Ryan Reyes of King's Care Laundry and Ms. Grace "Gracia Amor" Hizon of Diary ni Gracia share their heartfelt talks on business and success for OFWs, and were appreciated by the attendees.

Alongside the activities, various brands showcased their products and services throughout the Expo.

Ex-Link Events gives its thanks to its supporters Department of Trade and Industry (especially to Assistant Secretary for Regional Operation Ms. Ameenah Fajardo for gracing the event's opening), the Junior Achievement of the Philippines, the Center for Pop Music Philippines, the Rotary Community Corps, the Congressional Spouses Foundation, the Rotary Club of Mutya ng Pasig and the Overseas Workers' Welfare Administration.

Special thanks as well to our media partners Sun.Star Cebu, Malaya Business Insight, BusinessMirror, The Manila Times, Star Music, What's Happening, Diary ni Gracia, PSST.ph, Wazzup Pilipinas, YuneOh.com, Pisig Ad Network, and InfoTxt.

Happy to Converge: A Way of Giving Back

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Over a hundred leaders and personnel from across different sectors attended the year-end appreciation night of Converge ICT, a provider of world-class ICT products and services in the country, held recently at Cai Events Place, Pasig City. 

According to Jesus Romero, chief operating officer (COO) of Converge ICT, the said event is a way of giving back to their loyal customers and partners who have helped the company to achieve its goals, especially in extending better connectivity in the country.

Romero also said that the company has been upgrading its network and improving its operations as part of its commitment to provide a better experience for its customers. Some developments mentioned by Romero are efforts done to strengthen its international peering capacity and improvements on its content delivery network.

SAP Delivers Manufacturing Solution in the Cloud

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SAP SE announced the availability of the SAP Manufacturing Execution application deployed in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, a fully scalable and secure private cloud service.

The new option helps manufacturers embrace Industry 4.0 automation and process high volumes of data from sensors and devices from the Internet of Things (IoT) in a real-time cloud delivery environment that can simplify implementation and improve time to value at lower cost.

SAP Manufacturing Execution in the cloud helps manufacturers connect, monitor and tightly control operations. It facilitates Industry 4.0 strategies by integrating with business and manufacturing processes to enable efficient, high-quality production on the shop floor. Customers seeking a managed service environment for the solution can take advantage of the cloud IT infrastructure of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to minimize complexity in system installation and maintenance and to accelerate deployment through immediate access to the application. With SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, customers also can harness the combined analytical and transactional processing power of SAP HANA to connect manufacturing processes with IoT data for better visibility into shop floor operations and optimized asset utilization and productivity.

“Companies of all sizes need to be more responsive to the variability in market demand and customer-specific product requirements,” said Hans Thalbauer, senior vice president of Extended Supply Chain and IoT, SAP. “The solution delivered through SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud gives manufacturing companies the speed in production to meet these dynamic needs in a cost-effective manner.”