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New Rules and Public-Private Collaboration
Needed to Implement Data Portability

New Cullen International global trend portability in any given sector. To comply new service providers more easily.
research on data flows shows that the right with a data portability obligation, an However, there are numerous practical
to data portability, enshrined as a general organization must, at the request of an complications. As a result, data portability
right across several privacy frameworks individual, transmit the relevant personal has been implemented in only a few
around the world, has often been delayed data that is in the organization’s possession countries around the world and, even
in practice by technical and/or regulatory or under its control to another organization then, only in specific sectors, for example
barriers. This is because specific rules in a commonly used, machine-readable in Australia and the UK. Data portability
are usually required to implement data format. This allows individuals to switch to obligations have recently been proposed
in Singapore through amendments to the
country’s Personal Data Protection Act.
If approved, data portability in Singapore
will apply only to white-listed data sets,
to be identified jointly with industry
stakeholders and any relevant sector
regulator. To implement the proposed
data portability obligations, the country’s
personal data protection commission said
they would work with industry to pilot,
test and fine-tune the mechanisms and
processes before finalizing each regulatory
instrument. The commission will also work
with consumer groups to develop user
experience guidelines.

Devoteam Accelerates on Low-Code Technologies

and Signs a European Partnership with OutSystem

Devoteam is accelerating its development increasingly essential to standing out in industries and in more geographies
in the Low-Code market and is extending the long term. In this context, Low-Code than ever before.” Sebastien Chevrel,
its partnership with OutSystems, one of technology, which is still very recent, is set Devoteam’s COO, highlights that”with this
the leaders in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant to revolutionize the world of applications partnership, we bring the power of Low-
in this field, in EMEA*. Devoteam has by transforming working methods and Code and multi-experienced platforms to
chosen OutSystems as its partner for the drastically minimizing delays. In particular, all our customers, in all our countries, in
rapid development of multi-experienced it offers a personalized user experience to order to increase business value with a
business applications. The advantage of business managers who will be able, for multiplied speed of application delivery.
OutSystems technology is to reduce the example, to test an idea without having To achieve this, we will scale on top of
delivery time of these applications to just to engage in a complex and expensive the strong foundations built over the last
a few weeks for initial delivery and just a process. “Devoteam combines in-depth 10 years between OutSystems and our
few days for updates. This collaboration knowledge of the OutSystems platform Portuguese team Outfit by Devoteam as a
has made it possible to create a dedicated with world-class standards for customer Center of Excellence. Being able to develop
offer targeting companies wishing to gain success,” says Peter Dunlap, VP of enterprise and mobile applications twice
agility and foster their innovation process. Channel and Alliances for OutSystems. as fast and with half of the resources is
Accelerating the pace of innovation “Their investment in Low-Code enables an unbeatable asset in the current Covid
and new applications availability is them to satisfy more clients across more context.”

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