Globe-owned Yondu reintroduces Vessell
Globe’s IT solutions company, Yondu, reintroduces Vessell’s new direction as a one-stop e-commerce platform. The change is driven to better meet the needs of retailers today.
In a recent study by the Statista Research Department, Shopee, Lazada, and Zalora topped the list of the most popular e-commerce platforms in the country. It is then common for retailers to create an account in all three, but handling transactions on these different platforms created a constant challenge for many sellers.
Retailers have to manage the inventory, orders, and fulfillment independently. They also spend a lot of time doing manual tasks, such as digging through data, generating and consolidating reports, and reviewing stock allocation. According to Vessell’s research, 90% of sellers’ time is spent consolidating the data rather than working with it.
These issues prompted Vessell to take action and address the challenges faced by retailers. With a centralized dashboard, Vessell connects popular marketplaces like Shopee, Lazada, and Zalora. It allows sellers to manage inventory and orders in one place, prevents stock-out, and helps in forecasting.
Despite the pandemic restrictions becoming more relaxed, the e-commerce sector continues its steady rise as more sellers and consumers prefer shopping online, as shown by the recent data from Statista Research Department. Vessell aims to enable this continued growth by enhancing its capabilities to make things easier for retailers and allow them to focus on growing their business.
Vessell offers an array of pricing packages ranging from P2,499.00/mo to P39,999/mo. Retailers would have the flexibility to choose which plan best suits their requirements, from Vessell’s Basic package with order management capabilities to the Enterprise package with marketplace integrations. Merchants who are interested can start their journey with Vessell by visiting their website and booking a demo.
“This is just the beginning for Vessell as we remain committed to continue improving the platform to empower retailers and drive them to success,” said Alex Pelayo, Associate Product Director of Vessell. “Currently, Vessell is exploring integration to more relevant marketplaces so more sellers can look forward to improved and expanded order and inventory management solutions for bigger operations.”
LinkedIn unlocks 100 Learning courses on Generative AI
The world of work is constantly changing — from the technologies used to do jobs to the skills needed to progress in one’s career. We are now in an era driven by rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence (AI), with new promises and accompanying challenges.
The skills we need to grow professionally will have to evolve too. Based on LinkedIn’s latest data, the fastest-growing AI-related skills among professionals in 2022 all hint at the emergence of generative AI, which is a form of AI that has a wide range of applications, including creating text, images, and audio as well as writing code.
With a national artificial intelligence (AI) roadmap in the Philippines in place, and more recently, a new Bill seeking the creation of an AI development authority, the country is reportedly planning to accelerate the adoption of this disruptive technology to reap economic benefits.
To help professionals and companies acquire the skills they need in the new world of work, LinkedIn will release 100 LinkedIn Learning courses on generative AI in various languages for free over the next three months beginning 16 March 2023.
“Building AI into our products isn’t new for us at LinkedIn. We’ve done this for the past 16 years and are uniquely positioned to use AI to help hirers find the right candidates. We will be testing AI-powered job descriptions to help job posters find qualified candidates more quickly, so they can focus on the more strategic parts of their role like talking to and building relationships with candidates,” LinkedIn says.
ShopeePay is now available on App Store
ShopeePay, Shopee’s integrated mobile wallet, is now available as a payment method for Apple services in the Philippines. Customers can use their ShopeePay account to pay for App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV app, and iTunes Store purchases, iCloud storage and more.
The addition of ShopeePay as an Apple ID payment method offers a new way to pay for Apple services without needing a credit card and still allows for easy, secure one-tap purchasing from Apple products including iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Customers can manage their Apple ID payment information in Settings on iPhone and iPad, or on their Mac or PC.
Agatha Soh, Director at ShopeePay commented, “ShopeePay is committed to meeting the needs of users who are increasingly expecting seamless payments across all platforms. We are excited to offer ShopeePay as a convenient payment option for our customers, and expand access to digital payments, benefitting more users.”
Zoho Creator partners with Devcon Philippines
Zoho Creator, the leading low code no code solution provider, has announced a strategic partnership with DEVCON, the largest community of technology experts, developers, and tech enthusiasts in the country. This partnership aims to promote excellence and collaborative growth of Filipino developers to deliver digital solutions for the Philippines.
DEVCON has a total of six chapters, including Manila, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Iloilo, Davao, and Global Chapter (Bacolod). The partnership will see Zoho Creator showcased in 8 events with DEVCON nationwide in 2023. Through this partnership, developers will be introduced to Zoho Creator’s low code no code platform to quickly and securely deploy business solutions to drive digital transformation efforts.
By utilizing a platform like Zoho Creator, the developer community in the Philippines can help businesses efficiently build, deploy, and manage web and mobile-based digital solutions faster. With the abstraction of the complexities behind traditional application development at its core, low-code platforms enable developers to focus fully on solving business problems without the distractions of low-level coding tasks. In addition, the ability to cater to different developer personas also fosters better collaboration between business and IT teams.
“Outside of Zoho’s Creator Platform, few if any low-code solutions on the market that allow business users or IT to engineer tools, while simultaneously enabling IT teams to manage ongoing challenges of security, compliance, integration, and governance,” said Gibu Mathew, VP and GM of Zoho APAC. “The marriage of these two disciplines and user profiles is where we see the unique value of the Creator Platform.”
“DEVCON’s nationwide programs wouldn’t be possible without the support of our partners like Zoho Creator. This helps DEVCON bring the best developer events to our chapters and empower the next generation of developers and builders. We’re excited about this partnership!” says Dom De Leon, Managing Director OIC, DEVCONPH.
Pricing starts at $25 USD per employee.
