An Awesome Virtual Christmas Party
The Amihan team organized a fun and awesome virtual Christmas party with Jollibee food delivery, interactive games, digital magic show, and online presentations. Read on to learn more!
December 18, 2020
“Ready or Not” Is Your Guide to the Digital Revolution
"Technology can unlock new horizons for even the oldest mammoths -- if they have the audacity to reimagine themselves.” For Damarillo, training Filipino leaders to excel in the digital future is a personal advocacy: one that includes the empowerment of young hackers, artists, makers, and changemakers as much as the industry giants.
February 15, 2017
Digital Onboarding in Philippine Financial Services
The current pandemic has led to sweeping changes. Today, enterprises in the Philippine finance industry like banks are using digital onboarding to accelerate the development of connections with their customers.
December 2, 2020
Amihan CEO Jerry Rapes Recognized as 2020 UP Outstanding Alumnus
Amihan CEO Jerry Rapes has been named one of four Outstanding Alumni Awardees by the University of the Philippines Industrial Engineering Alumni Association (UPIEAA).
December 2, 2020
Ilocos Norte to use ‘SafePass’ app for COVID-19 contact tracing
The provincial government of Ilocos Norte will be using the “SafePass” application for the health information management system on contact tracing amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
November 10, 2020
Seamless Philippines Virtual Day 1 Recap
Seamless Philippines kicked off with insightful talks from UnionBank's Henry Aguda, ING's Mohamed Keraine and Amihan's Kiko Reyes. Learn what these leaders have to say about the current trends, challenges & solutions around payments, banking, and financial inclusion.
September 30, 2020
Amihan Joins Seamless Philippines Virtual 2020
Amihan joins Seamless Philippines 2020 to showcase innovations in analytics, blockchain & more. Featured track session by Amihan CTO, Francisco Reyes, who will discuss how technology can drive and accelerate efforts to achieve inclusive growth.
September 7, 2020
SafePass, digital contact tracing app, now accessible to all
On Friday (August 14), digital transformation leader Amihan Global Strategies and inclusion tech venture builder Talino Venture Labs announced the relaunch of two versions of SafePass, a tech innovation which is now accessible to all Filipino establishments, big or small.
August 19, 2020
Alfresco – Beyond Enterprise Content Management
Alfresco is a vital tool for digital transformation and at Amihan, we have the solutions and expertise to help you implement Alfresco and accelerate transformation. Our digital transformation team at Amihan has been helping clients with Alfresco implementation services, including Alfresco Content Services, as well as Alfresco Process Services for years.
August 14, 2020
Thriving in Crisis: Opening Businesses Safely with SafePass Enterprise
With the need for speed in effective contact tracing, SafePass Enterprise combines the use of accurate health data collection and advanced technology to implement an incident mitigation and management platform for businesses to thrive in the current crisis.
August 10, 2020
COVID incident mitigation and management solution SafePass releases free version
Amihan and Talino Labs have released SafePass free version. The SafePass COVID incident mitigation and management solution aims to make physical locations safer amidst the pandemic.
August 5, 2020
DOT: ‘Domestic-focused tourism to allow rollout of digital tools for new normal’
The Department of Tourism continues its rollout of digital tools for its local businesses to safely open amidst on-going safety protocols. One of the tools currently available is SafePass Express, a digital contact-tracing solution that allows businesses to plan their guest counts and operations safely.
July 21, 2020
Road to recovery — digitally enabling your business through this new normal
Businesses need to actively scale up their digital capacities if they want to improve resilience and stay alive in the new normal. Read on to learn how you can devise a digital recovery and transformation plan for your enterprise.
July 17, 2020
Working as a Business Analyst in Amihan
Working as an SAP consultant and a business analyst for a big cargo firm has its advantages. But Renan Mendoza, our lead business analyst, realized that he must look for an opportunity that will give him a challenge and help him realize more of his potential. Read about his story to find out what it means to work as a Business Analyst in Amihan.
July 15, 2020
DOT launches SafePass app to help businesses under new normal
Amidst safety and health concerns, the Department of Tourism together with Talino Venture Labs, a partner of Amihan, has launched SafePass to help establishments reopen safely. Learn how SafePass can help your business re-open and operate safely in the new normal.
July 9, 2020
3 Factors for an Adaptive Culture During The COVID-19 Pandemic
About 3 months after the quarantine, the current situation is still full of uncertainty. The main difference we can see is how we’ve coped and have adjusted our working norms relatively quickly. It wasn’t exactly a smooth transition but we have noticed 3 Adaptive Culture Factors that have contributed to Amihan’s ability to adapt to the current paradigm.
June 16, 2020
Reopening the Economy Safely in the Next Normal
As the Philippines reopens its economy after nearly 3 months of lockdown, businesses face safety challenges. Businesses must put in place adequate measures to help rebuild trust and confidence. Businesses need to improve their contact tracing process too -- which is fundamental in the fight against COVID-19. Read more.
May 28, 2020
4 Cases Where Retail Data Analytics Can Give Quick Wins
In retail companies, having limited data should not be a roadblock to achieving a data-driven culture. Decision-makers and managers can make better-informed decisions and quick wins with the right application of Retail Data Analytics and techniques.
May 26, 2020
Data Science Solutions for Social Good
Data science for social good is not new, but it has yet to gain popularity in development sectors. Yet, there is a lot of opportunities that development organizations can start with. The COVID 19 crisis has also produced a lot of great collaborations as well as lessons that we can learn from.
May 13, 2020
Amihan Welcomes Digital Transformation Leaders to a CxO Session on Data Analytics and AI
Data analysts and business strategy officers from the banking, insurance, fintech, and real estate development sectors got together last February 20 at the Amihan office in the Zuellig Building, Makati for the first of this year’s Amihan CxO Series.
March 6, 2020
Top 5 Tech Trends That Will Shape 2020
Technologies such as AI, data analytics, and blockchain are poised to make breakthroughs this year.
Here are the five trends that are sure to drive the conversation among decision-makers and tech leaders.
February 4, 2020
Protecting Identities: Hyperledger Indy for Self-Sovereign Identitity Management
Hyperledger Indy, a distributed ledger system built using blockchain technology, was purpose-built for decentralized identities. This is also called self-sovereign identity management, a protocol with one distinct directive: protecting our identities.
July 25, 2019
Mapping Digital Space: Neo4j and How Graph Database are Changing the Way We Use Data
Today, the world’s leading digital enterprises (such as Google, Amazon, and Netflix) have combined to contribute to the largest repository of information in history.
Facebook, for example, has nearly three billion unique accounts in its system, making it the largest ‘country’ in the world. But with such high volumes comes the need for better ways to collect, store, and analyze all this data. It makes sense then that this new challenge requires new solutions.
June 28, 2019
Amihan Launches Tech Briefings with Partner GitLab
IT developers and security experts met up at the Amihan office in the Zuellig Building, Makati last March 7 for the first Amihan Tech Briefing, organized in partnership with GitLab. The Tech Briefings is a series of free learning sessions created to share the latest technologies and strategies for digital transformation. Titled Driving Innovation with DevSecOps, the day’s event centered on the current role of DevSecOps in modern software development.
April 8, 2019
3 Ways Companies Use Data for Better Business
From improving operational efficiency to innovations in targeted promotions and in inventory forecasting, these three cases have proven how data analytics can achieve real business impact.
February 4, 2019
Digital Transformation Accelerator Amihan Becomes Premier Member of The Ceph Foundation
Digital transformation accelerator Amihan has announced that it will serve as a premier member of the Ceph Foundation and its global community.
November 15, 2018
Blockchain pioneer Amihan Global Strategies joins Sovrin Network as a Founding Steward
The Sovrin Foundation announced the addition of Manila-based digital transformation company Amihan Global Strategies as a founding Steward and the first Steward representing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
June 20, 2018
Blockchain Hackathon: Making the Philippines a “Blockchain Bayan”
Developers, entrepreneurs, and students filled the Amihan Innovation Center at the Orient Square Building this past weekend for a Blockchain Hackathon hosted by Amihan Global Strategies and Hyperledger, a project of the Linux Foundation. In celebration of Blockchain Week Philippines 2017, the hackathon was centered around solving a Philippine problem using the decentralized technology.
November 28, 2017
The Disruptors: A Scan of Fintech Startups in the Philippines
Technology doesn’t just allow companies to offer more of their own services for less. The internet allows companies to offer things beyond their services, and financial institutions can prosper by acting not only as providers of financial services -- but as platforms and online marketplaces for everyday people to provide financial services to each other.
October 16, 2017
The New Frontier: ASEAN Powered by Blockchain
ASEAN countries must learn to harness the power of blockchain, or else get left behind. In a fast-region region of over 800 million people, blockchain can unlock the next frontier of business by transforming how people exchange, create, and store value.
October 5, 2017
AMIHAN joins the Hyperledger blockchain collaborative
"Amihan is proud to be the first Filipino company to join Hyperledger," said Winston Damarillo, Chairman of Amihan Global Strategies. "We believe that blockchain and smart contracts are the key to preparing Southeast Asia for the digital age, and we are committed to working with the Hyperledger community to push the limits of blockchain technology. We look forward to working with our clients - some of the largest enterprises in ASEAN - to transform finance, healthcare, retail, and customer loyalty in one of the fastest-growing regions of the world."
September 27, 2017
A Beginner’s Guide to DevOps
Established institutions find themselves in a dilemma: how does one adapt and innovate when they are held back by systems, processes, cultural inertia, and not to mention all the security risks that come with the Internet?
August 4, 2017
The Beginner’s Guide to RA 10173 (Data Privacy Act of 2012)
Companies must take responsibility for their customer information. Here’s how.
July 10, 2017
PRESS RELEASE: AMIHAN to release a comprehensive Cyber Resilient Infrastructure
Locking your front door is no longer enough. Enterprises must use big data and analytics as new weapons to detect, deflect and deter cyber attacks before significant damage is done.
June 27, 2017
Big Data and High-Impact Business Analytics
The benefit of creating a big data platform is it allows companies to unleash the power of the data they have been collecting over the years and may not be fully harnessing. When data is fed into a common platform and data points are explored, patterns could be uncovered to look at relationships over a period of time.
April 11, 2017
Infrastructure for Innovation: Why Legacy to Cloud Native (L2CN) is the New Architecture for Digital Transformation
The idea behind L2CN is to minimize risk and maximize the opportunity for innovation. In an L2CN enterprise, the company invests in extending and strengthening their legacy system -- while at the same time building new services and products for the cloud, where they can be deployed, modified, and scaled with ease.
April 4, 2017
Amihan and Summit Media Launch “Ready or Not”
Their calls to action: read up on the coming technological trends; think critically and take nothing for granted in the next decade of rapid change; and finally, hone in on the creativity and spirit that makes us uniquely human in the new age of machines.
March 15, 2017
Decoding Digital: A Primer to the Future of Industries
This primer, an accompaniment to Ready or Not, aims to shed light on 3 key technologies that will disrupt business in the Philippines: blockchain, artificial intelligence, and big data.
March 6, 2017
Alistair Israel: The Tech Revolution Is Only Beginning
For Israel, who taught himself to code at age 10 and built one of the country’s pioneering web a few years out of college, technology will always represent this: a revolution in how people in countries like the Philippines are able to create solutions and connect the world. The best part is that it’s only beginning.
February 15, 2017
“Fire It Up!” Challenges Young Hackers to Build Mobile Apps
This is where Amihan envisions its role in the startup ecosystem: to become a marketplace that connects small developer teams with large enterprises. Product teams and individuals can focus on innovating, while Amihan can find markets and partners for them.
February 14, 2017
Amihan Launches Book & Digital Innovation Center
Damarillo envisions the office as a place where innovation teams from large companies can work side-by-side with entrepreneurial upstarts, and forge new ideas that cross boundaries.
February 7, 2017
Amihan at Hadoop Summit 2016
All throughout the event, I kept thinking how overwhelming it was to see how big the community has gotten, and how many of the biggest enterprises in the world now leverage on the technology. It is a confirmation that digital transformation is not just a fad, but is a MUST, and that data will be the most precious asset of any company.
August 30, 2016
Making the Best of Mobile Engagement
Imagine if you could send targeted messages through all those devices—these little portals that lead directly to consumers who can’t wait to check their notifications. That’s a lot of people your enterprise could be talking to, not to mention a lot of people who could be genuinely listening.
June 15, 2016
How Digital Customers Can Help You Build a Better Business
Every business transaction starts with the consumer seeking satisfaction, and with so much access to information via digital devices, needs are becoming more personal and specific.
June 15, 2016
The Big Deal with Big Data and Personalization
What Big Data and personalization have to offer enterprises is the ability to make the customer a partner in business. Using technologies such as Hive and Hadoop to mine and process data from daily digital transactions, enterprises can effectively “listen” to their consumers and empower them by giving them more of what they need.
June 15, 2016
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Imagine a world where: online access is a basic right; you control devices with your brain; you produce any product just by printing; your car fills itself up with gas; and the mobile phone makes banks obsolete. As political and business leaders work with each other and the academe to find sustainable ways to adapt to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, human beings will soon live in such an interconnected world.
June 15, 2016