Red Hat Honours StarHub and Synapxe for Pioneering Open Source Initiatives at the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2024 for Singapore

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced the winners of the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2024 for Singapore today. Red Hat recognised the noteworthy milestones achieved by StarHub and Synapxe for their innovative use of Red Hat solutions to address the evolving needs of their customers.

In an ever-evolving global business landscape, the Asia Pacific region (APAC) remains resilient and is, in fact, in the midst of rapid growth. With its dynamic economies, diverse cultures, and vast consumer bases, APAC’s promising territories present growth opportunities for businesses big and small alike. Technology remains a pivotal factor in shaping the business landscape, helping enterprises scale and innovate.

Embodying this year’s theme, “Unlock what’s next”, the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards celebrates customers who have harnessed the power of open source technologies to drive transformation and innovation. These customers are recognized for demonstrating how enterprises can overcome the dual challenge of managing escalating infrastructure costs alongside evolving business demands. These awards also celebrate the achievements of 31 winners across all 11 countries, showcasing how businesses across the region have successfully leveraged Red Hat solutions to overcome challenges and pioneer new customer-centric solutions.

According to the Red Hat 2024 Global Tech Trends, the top funding priorities for businesses across the APAC region are building cloud-native applications, improving digital user experience and accelerating application/service delivery. These findings highlight the importance of innovative solutions in the awards’ five key categories that reflect areas that can empower organizations to navigate business challenges faced today: Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-Native Development, Automation, and Resilience. 

The winners were chosen for their outstanding use of Red Hat solutions, demonstrating significant contributions to their business objectives. Each organization exemplifies the transformative potential of open source technology, pioneering advancements in business processes, enhancing productivity, fostering innovation and fortifying resilience in the face of challenges. Their success stories underscore the pivotal role of Red Hat in empowering enterprises across the APAC region to achieve unparalleled growth through strategic deployment of open source solutions.

Category: Digital Transformation and Cloud-Native Development

Winner: StarHub

StarHub Limited (StarHub) is a leading telecommunications company in Singapore. Through its multi-year DARE+ transformation, StarHub is reshaping the way Singaporeans experience and connect with the world by stepping beyond the confines of a traditional telco. To meet the evolving needs of its business users, the organisation is focused on shifting to superior 5G products, deepening digitalisation and transiting from legacy systems to more cost-effective cloud solutions.

To address the need for an enterprise platform that could help to avoid potential risks and limitations associated with proprietary solutions, as well as vendor lock-ins, StarHub deployed Red Hat OpenShift to streamline the management and deployment of applications. This allowed StarHub to enable  IoT customers to manage their assets remotely andgenerate valuable data insights and mitigate the risk of depending on a single cloud vendor.

Category: Automation

Winner: Synapxe

Synapxe is Singapore’s national healthtech agency inspiring tomorrow’s health. It partners and supports Singapore’s Ministry of Health in realising national healthcare policies and outcomes, including the public healthcare IT master plan and architecture, enabling technology innovation and developing HealthTech professionals.

Synapxe embarked on the journey of using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as an enterprise-wide platform to achieve their objective of automating time-consuming, repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and accuracy. This has enabled Synapxe to streamline processes, improve and manage their private cloud IT infrastructure in a prompt and consistent manner, while conforming to governance and compliance policies, enabling the team to focus on higher value services like enhancing customer experiences and providing better health and care for healthcare users in Singapore.

Supporting Quotes:

Marjet Andriesse, senior vice president and general manager, APJC, Red Hat

“Despite the uncertain economic conditions in 2024, we have seen the remarkable milestones achieved by our customers. This year, we want to highlight the innovative strides of these organisations at the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2024 as they leverage advanced technologies to drive business initiatives. Open source remains the key to help organisations uncover what is next and pave the way for success with the right tools and expertise.”

Kit Yong, Head of Enterprise, StarHub
“Aligned with  Singapore’s Smart Nation programme, the team at StarHub was looking to work with a trusted partner to assist in our DARE+ transformation journey.. With their robust ecosystem of support and services, we were confident that Red Hat’s solutions could integrate seamlessly with our existing systems, as we worked towards retiring our legacy platforms.  Now with the help of Red Hat, StarHub can benefit from a consistent platform experience across public, private and on-premises cloud environments.”

Alan Goh, Assistant Chief Executive, Platform Services, Synapxe
“Working with providers such as Red Hat, Synapxe’s capabilities to automate repetitive tasks are enhanced. This helps us to be better equipped to support multiple healthcare application systems across hospitals within Singapore’s public healthcare clusters, providing solutions that enhances their operational efficiency and allow them to focus more of their time on providing patient-centric care.”

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