HANOI, Vietnam--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 5, 2024--
Global IT services provider FPT Software and the emerging software company IdeatoLife recently entered a strategic partnership to promote Onex Studio, a hyperautomation and AI-enhanced software development platform. The collaboration will support FPT Software’s vision of accelerating digital transformation for its clients worldwide, with initial focuses on the fintech and e-commerce sectors.
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The partnership will initially integrate Onex Studio into FPT Software’s service offerings and potential projects, focusing on advanced technologies such as hyperautomation and intelligent automation to provide enterprises with optimal developer productivity and software development lifecycles. Leveraging FPT Software's extensive global presence and expertise, both sides also plan to expand the adoption of Onex Studio to a broader range of audiences across the Middle East and globally, especially those in the fintech, DeepTech, and e-commerce sectors.
Onex Studio is the latest addition to IdeatoLife's suite of solutions, bringing an intuitive and seamless product-building environment to deliver high-quality applications faster and more efficiently. The platform offers a range of powerful features and tools, including simplified project creation, AI-powered project standardization, streamlined data modelling, code reusability, and one-click deployment through serverless microservices, containers, and Kubernetes. This set of functions allows developers to focus on innovation while Onex handles infrastructure and deployment with high consistency, security, and scalability.
“Having delivered thousands of digital transformation projects, we see hyperautomation among the key enablers for streamlined end-to-end processes, operational excellence, and security. The integration of Onex Studio into our offerings is among our continued efforts to drive disruptive transformation for our clients worldwide with enhanced confidence, velocity, and agility,” said Frank Bignone, FPT Software VP and Director of Digital Transformation.
With over 20 years of experience and a track record of successful ongoing partnerships with global tech giants such as Microsoft, SAP, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), FPT Software has established itself as a trusted partner in digital transformation. Notably, its suite of Hyperautomation full-service support and end-to-end solutions paves an accessible and cost-effective path for organizations to achieve outstanding growth with secure and effective automation across their operations. The IT firm’s hyperautomation solution has been consistently recognized in industry research studies by leading research and advisory firms like Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, as well as in industrial awards such as Globee® Awards for Technology.
About FPT Software
FPT Software, a subsidiary of FPT Corporation, is a global technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam, with $1 billion in revenue (2023) and over 30,000 employees in 30 countries.
The company champions complex business opportunities and challenges with its world-class services in Advanced Analytics, AI, Digital Platforms, Cloud, Hyperautomation, IoT, Low-code, and so on. It has partnered with over 1,100 clients worldwide, nearly 100 of which are Fortune Global 500 companies in Aviation, Automotive, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, Healthcare, Logistics, Manufacturing, Utilities, and more. For more information, please visit https://fptsoftware.com/
About Onex by IdeatoLife
Onex is a hyper-automation platform developed by IdeatoLife, an AI-venture and service lab based in Dubai. IdeatoLife specializes in custom software development with a focus on generative AI, catering to the burgeoning technology demands of the MENAT region. With a track record of delivering cutting-edge technologies, IdeatoLife has established itself as a key player in the tech industry.
IdeatoLife’s clients range from startups seeking rapid innovation to large enterprises aiming to optimize and scale operations through automation and AI-driven solutions. IdeatoLife is committed to staying at the forefront of technological innovation. Continuously exploring emerging technologies and methodologies, emphasizing generative AI to create intelligent, adaptive solutions that drive efficiency and growth for clients. Positioned in Dubai, IdeatoLife is ideally situated to meet the growing technology needs of the MENAT region, cementing itself as a trusted partner for businesses seeking to leverage hyper-automation and AI.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have blocked for a second time this year legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization, arguing that the vote is an election-year stunt after Democrats forced a vote on the issue.
The Senate vote was Democrats’ latest attempt to force Republicans into a defensive stance on women’s health issues and highlight policy differences between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in the presidential race, especially as Trump has called himself a “ leader on IVF.”
The 51-44 vote was short of the 60 votes needed to move forward on the bill, with only two Republicans voting in favor. Democrats say Republicans who insist they support IVF are being hypocritical because they won't support legislation guaranteeing a right to it.
“They say they support IVF — here you go, vote on this,” said Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, the bill's lead sponsor and a military veteran who has used the fertility treatment to have her two children.
The Democratic push started earlier this year after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law. Several clinics in the state suspended IVF treatments until the GOP-led legislature rushed to enact a law to provide legal protections for the clinics.
Democrats quickly capitalized, holding a vote in June on Duckworth's bill and warning that the U.S. Supreme Court could go after the procedure next after it overturned the right to an abortion in 2022.
The bill would establish a nationwide right for patients to access IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies and a right for doctors and insurance companies to provide it, an effort to pre-empt state efforts to limit the services. It would also require more health insurers to cover it and expand coverage for military service members and veterans.
In a statement after the vote, Harris said Republicans in Congress “have once again made clear that they will not protect access to the fertility treatments many couples need to fulfill their dream of having a child.”
Republicans argued that the federal government shouldn’t tell states what to do and that the bill was an unserious effort. Only Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted with Democrats to move forward on the bill both times.
Meanwhile, Republicans have scrambled to counter Democrats on the issue, with many making clear that they support IVF treatments. Trump last month announced plans, without additional details, to require health insurance companies or the federal government to pay for the fertility treatment.
In his debate with Harris earlier this month, Trump said he was a “leader” on the issue and talked about the “very negative” decision by the Alabama court that was later reversed by the legislature.
South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican, said that Democrats are trying to create a political issue “where there isn't one.”
“Let me remind everybody that Republicans support IVF, full stop,” Thune said just before the vote.
The issue has threatened to become a vulnerability for Republicans as some state laws passed by their party grant legal personhood not only to fetuses but to any embryos that are destroyed in the IVF process. Ahead of its convention this summer, the Republican Party adopted a policy platform that supports states establishing fetal personhood through the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which grants equal protection under the law to all American citizens. The platform also encourages supporting IVF but does not explain how the party plans to do so.
Republicans have tried to push alternatives on the issue, including legislation that would discourage states from enacting explicit bans on the treatment, but those bills have been blocked by Democrats who say they are not enough.
Sen. Rick Scott, a Florida Republican, said in a floor speech then that his daughter was currently receiving IVF treatment and proposed to expand the flexibility of health savings accounts. Republican Sens. Katie Britt of Alabama and Ted Cruz of Texas have tried to pass a bill that would threaten to withhold Medicaid funding for states where IVF is banned.
Cruz, who is running for reelection in Texas, said Democrats were holding the vote to “stoke baseless fears about IVF and push their broader political agenda.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, center, accompanied by Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ., left, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., center-right, and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., right, speaks about the need to protect rights to in vitro fertilization (IVF), on the Senate steps at Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, left, accompanied by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., right, speaks about the need to protect rights to in vitro fertilization (IVF), on the Senate steps at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Front row, left to right, Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., pose for a photograph after speaking about the need to protect rights to in vitro fertilization (IVF), on the Senate steps at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., center, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, left, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., right, speaks about the need to protect rights to in vitro fertilization (IVF), on the Senate steps at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
FILE - The Capitol is seen from the Russell Senate Office Building as Congress returns from a district work week, in Washington, March 24, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
