DIGITAL TRANSFORMERS
Razer redesigns its HR processes by leveraging Workday
Razer, a lifestyle brand for gamers, is using Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) as its core human resource (HR) platform to support its efforts to redesign HR processes.
The company needed HR solutions that could help break down silos, foster collaboration, enable swifter decision-making and create an engaging environment for its 1,500 employees across 19 offices worldwide.
By implementing Workday HCM to support performance management, recruiting, and time-tracking functions, Razer managed to further catalyse its people and culture practices that support its growth and profitability ambitions. This includes instilling a unified company culture where there are established group-wide practices and alignment in performance management processes that have helped increase productivity.
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Workday’s platform is also being leveraged to streamline and automate Razer’s multiple HR processes including onboarding, learning and development across the organisation. This has helped unlock synergies, generate cost savings across its business, and enhance productivity. For instance, it shortened the time taken to implement organisational changes from four weeks to one week, allowing for more time to be spent on strategic business initiatives.
“Digital transformation of our people and culture processes is key to ensuring that we continue to stay ahead of the curve and enable Razer to be an organisation that is not only a great place to work but also a place to do great work. Workday shares our passion for driving world-class employee experiences through relentless innovation and in leveraging insights for efficient decision-making. This alignment of values has further solidified our confidence in Workday as the ideal partner for our digital transformation journey,” says April Wan, Razer’s vice-president, global head of HR.
“Razer shares the same commitment to advancing digital transformation and innovation as we do and that makes us a great fit as partners. Working together, we have helped Razer optimise its HR processes for a thriving work environment that supports strategic decision-making for growth while adapting to evolving business needs,” says Pannie Sia, Workday’s general manager for ASEAN.
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SVW enhances its vehicle data collection and monitoring with Cloudera
SAIC Volkswagen (SVW) has built a vehicle data monitoring platform to address regulatory requirements on the collection and monitoring of smart vehicle data for its Internet of Vehicles (IoV) business.
With the rapid growth of new energy vehicles in recent years, the volume and complexity of vehicle monitoring information have exponentially increased. Additionally, China has put forward a further call for new energy vehicle monitoring and information sharing, creating a need for better computing power, storage, transmission and application of data monitoring related to vehicle enterprises.
To address those requirements, SVW upgraded its existing data platform (based on Cloudera Distributed Hadoop) to Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) in just six months to further optimise data storage and operational performance. This led to HBase storage space being reduced by about 73TB, saving 67% of space usage, which greatly improved the operational efficiency of its vehicle data monitoring. The total cluster file count was also reduced by about 80 million, optimising the original file count by about 75%.
Besides that, SVW realised significant performance improvements in cardio reporting and batch operations, with batch job performance increasing by 2.5 times on average and up to 6.6 times. These performance upgrades ensure that SVW’s vehicle monitoring data chain can be completely stored and analysed in detail, and fully meet the requirements of national vehicle data management laws and regulations.
SVW has also built the SAIC Motor application based on the upgraded data platform. The company can now deliver smarter automobile services such as remote checking of real-time vehicle status and intelligent navigation services. Six million users have used the application in less than two years since its launch.
“The vehicle data monitoring platform we built can easily realise massive data storage and perfect vehicle data monitoring and analysis. This data will further help us better serve vehicle owners and promote the continuous development of our IoV business. As a mature big data platform, CDP has effectively helped us address the challenge of storing, managing and computing the ever-growing real-time data. We will work with Cloudera to further address storage-computing separation and the inconsistent growth rate of computing and storage for the best performance-resource balance based on the changes in workloads,” says Xie Cong, head of Big Data Platform of SVW Database.
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IN PICTURE
Perhaps no other sport can come close to Formula One (F1) in terms of its heavy reliance on technology. Here’s how technology is helping drivers improve their performance and the sport reach global fans.
Photo: Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team
The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team is leveraging TeamViewer to provide its drivers with intelligence during the practice sessions of each Grand Prix.
Drivers can access live data relating to their runs via the drop-down screens in the garage, without leaving their car. The data includes weather, run plans, strategy, competitor analysis, live feed TV of the session, playbacks of their run and footage of the competitors on the track.
With only 30 minutes allocated for each practice session, giving drivers the right information at the right time is crucial in shaping their strategy for the next or future runs.
Photo: Formula One and Tata Communications
Tata Communications is one of the reasons you were able to watch the live broadcast of the recent Singapore Grand Prix and other races. As the Official Broadcast Connectivity Provider of F1, Tata Communications provides F1 with global end-to-end managed network services for video contribution.
It facilitates the transfer of more than 100 video feeds and over 250 audio channels to be transmitted between the Grand Prix venue and F1’s Media & Technology Centre in the UK every race weekend in under 200 milliseconds, enabling F1 to broadcast to over 500 million fans in more than 180 territories globally.
