Vital will be providing services to the government agencies that are using the Alliance for Corporate Excellence (ACE) system, a shared HR and Finance IT system which was also used by 11 government agencies in the country from 2010. These services will be delivered more efficiently by Vital using the shared platform.
NEA has, early this month, started using the ACE system and Vital said three more agencies will proceed to use the system this year.
Vital is Singapore’s largest back-of-house shared services centre for the government’s public sector provides centralised travel insurance programme for its public officers.
This Whole-of-Government programme is currently subscribed by about 80 public agencies and more than 20,000 government travellers from Ministries, Organs of State, Departments, Statutory Boards, Polytechnics and Schools.
Swede Johan Stael von Holstein, co-founder and non-executive director of MyCube, a Singapore-based digital life management startup, for one, said he decided to set up his business here because of the combination of "a high standard of living, strong business environment, ability to recruit [top] talent and an emerging technology startup environment".
Weiterlesen: Strong e-govt services, startup support define Singapore IT
In a first in the Asia-Pacific region, SMU has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tata Consultancy Services for “integrating cloud technology with the relevant business know-how to create urban management IT solutions,” said Steven Miller, Dean, School of Information Systems (SIS), SMU.
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While Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) has recently acknowledged that there was a record 310 doctors who left public healthcare institutions last year, the country's ICT regulator the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) did not address ZDNet Asia's queries on technology talent drain from the government. IDA was also not able to share the number of IT professionals in the public sector.
Weiterlesen: Singapore public IT stable, but more talent needed