JOS s core big data offering bolstered by Tableau technology to provide powerful end-to-end solution for businesses and governments in Asia

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1 PRESS RELEASE For immediate release JOS s core big data offering bolstered by Tableau technology to provide powerful end-to-end solution for businesses and governments in Asia Hong Kong 23 March, 2016 JOS, one of Asia s leading systems integrators, solutions providers and technology consultancies, demonstrates its enhanced capabilities as a key player in big data and enterprise solutions, rolling out its partnership with Tableau, a global leader in rapid-fire business analytics software, to customers across the region. Through this partnership, JOS is leveraging innovative, emerging technology to offer tailor-made solutions that tap into the huge potential of big data in Asia. In 2011, McKinsey 1 predicted big data would boost productivity by making information far more transparent and usable, potentially saving governments billions of dollars and significantly improving business margins so long as the right talent, technology and workflow structures were put in place. Today, Asia Pacific economies are smarter, better connected and more innovative than ever, with organisations seeking to evolve their technology infrastructure and unlock the potential of big data. To become a trusted partner for the region s businesses and governments, JOS has strengthened its big data capabilities with the appointment of industry renowned experts, investments in new solutions and cutting edge technology partners, such as market leader Tableau, to bring customers complete end-to-end solutions that deliver tangible business results. At a joint technology showcase #Big Data Rocks Hong Kong held today, JOS and Tableau demonstrated how easy-to-use, rapid-fire visual analytics can benefit decision-makers in businesses and governments locally. Using Hong Kong housing market and consumer index data, the demonstration showcased the speed and ease with which Tableau s approach to visual analytics delivers crucial insights quickly, enabling business leaders to make better informed, evidence-based decisions

2 As partners, JOS and Tableau leverage one another s strengths to the benefit of customers in Asia. JOS is a leading provider of integrated IT solutions with more than 60 years service excellence and success in Asia, while Tableau is entering its fourth year as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader, recognised for its versatility, diverse range of data source connectivity, customer enablement, interactive visualisation and exploration capabilities. With this combined excellence, JOS s customers can not only access best in class analytics software but also a holistic, easy-to-use business intelligence solution. JOS Group Managing Director Mark Lunt praised the joint capabilities of Tableau and JOS, saying: JOS s partnership with Tableau reinforces our pledge to bring emerging technology to customers and our vision to be the most trusted partner to businesses and governments across Asia. Building on Tableau s position as global leader in data analytics, JOS is taking a strong role in delivering innovative big data solutions across sectors. The growing use of data to generate value by Asian companies implies a huge potential demand for better data analytics tools and solutions to create greater value from big data. As we continue to deepen our partnership with Tableau, we look forward to further exploring the implications of big data in the Asian market. Tableau Asia Pacific Senior Vice President JY Pook, said: Tableau is on a mission to help more people see and understand their data. We found that businesses which encouraged employees to use data at work outperformed their peers by a performance level of two-to-one. And nowhere else do we see this need for innovation and productivity more clearly than in highly competitive markets like Hong Kong. Through our partnership with JOS, we will reach, engage and empower even more enterprises to fully realise the tremendous business value from their data. With more than half a century at the forefront of Asia s dynamic technology sector, JOS offers a broad selection of enterprise technology from market-leading vendors, underpinned by service and consultancy, to deliver a tailored solution to every customer. Tableau s visual analytics applications are integral to JOS s big data solution portfolio, which includes large-scale data storage and processing on the Hadoop platform, API set-up for access to data outside the organisation, ETL to extract, transform and store data, and algorithm development for predictive analytics. --- ENDS --- 2

3 About JOS With over 60 years experience in Asia, JOS is a systems integrator, solutions provider and technology consultancy with deep local and industry knowledge and an exceptional ability to execute. With over 2,200 IT professionals working from nine offices across Asia s major business hubs in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Singapore, JOS aims to improve the performance of business and governments across the region by applying the best technology to address their challenges. JOS has extensive experience across a range of industries, more than 10,000 private and public sector customers in Asia, and core capabilities in cloud computing, big data, enterprise security, enterprise applications, mobility, next generation infrastructure and internet of things. JOS is a division of JTH Group, a member of the Fortune Global 500-listed Jardine Matheson Group. For more information, visit JOS.com. About Tableau Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) helps people see and understand data. Tableau helps anyone quickly analyse, visualise and share information. More than 39,000 customer accounts get rapid results with Tableau in the office and on-the-go. And tens of thousands of people use Tableau Public to share data in their blogs and websites. See how Tableau can help you by downloading the free trial at 3

4 PHOTOS: Photo 1: Mr. Mark Lunt, Group Managing Director of JOS introduces the company s big data capabilities with Tableau s visual analytics. Photo 2: Mr. Mark Lunt, Group Managing Director of JOS and Mr. JY Pook, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific of Tableau Software celebrate their partnership. 4

5 Photo 3: Mr. Bobby Wu, Sales Consultant of Tableau Software and Ms. Connie Chu, Associate Consultant of JOS demonstrate how Tableau s easy-to-use, rapid fire visual analytics can benefit businesses using an example of Hong Kong housing market and consumer index data. Media contacts Alessandra Tinio Janisa Hui Golin Golin Atinio@golin.com JHui@golin.com 5