On April 23rd, the Vietnam Software and IT Service Association (VINASA) held a ceremony to announce excellent software and IT services of Vietnam in 2016 namely Sao Khue Award. FPT Software’s Global software outsourcing service was named among the top 10, following this year’s new rating criteria. The company has been a regular Sao Khue award winner since the starting date of the program.

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Representing FPT Software at the award ceremony, Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Do Van Khac shared: “I am extremely proud and happy as FPT Software is once again recognized as a country leader in IT for our capability and achievements in Global software outsourcing service. With such big momentum, FPT Software is getting closer to the goal of $1 billion revenue by 2020”.

FPT Software Vice President Do Van Khac (middle) representing the company to receive the Sao Khue award from VINASA
FPT Software Vice President Do Van Khac (middle) representing the company to receive the Sao Khue award from VINASA

Mr. Truong Gia Binh, chairman of VINASA was particularly impressed with this year’s award for the presence of various products and services applying latest technology trends such as SMAC or IoT along with the enthusiastic participation of several start-up companies. The outstanding products/services of Sao Khue 2016 are nominated to join the International ICT Awards of Asia – Pacific (APICTA). This is an annual award for IT and telecommunications products and solutions as well as startups for countries in the Asia – Pacific region.

Sao Khue Award is an annual award of VINASA since 2003 under the backing of the Ministry of Information and Communications, aiming to select, rate and honour exemplary Vietnamese IT products and services, thereby directing the market and users and contributing to boosting development of Vietnam’s IT software and service industry. 2016 is the first year that VINASA votes for 10 best IT products/services instead of using 1-5 star rating scale. This year award criteria are revenue, brand, market share and level of economic and social influence.