8,870 FPT employees in Vietnam’s southern business hub Ho Chi Minh City have been vaccinated against COVID-19, marking the start of Vietnam’s largest-ever mass immunization drive in mid-June 2021. This reflects the company’s effort in collaborating with the local government to minimize the impact of COVID-19 and safeguard the health of its employees. Currently a hot spot in the fourth wave of COVID-19 outbreak, Ho Chi Minh City was allocated 863,000 vaccine doses in Vietnam’s historic vaccination campaign. The […]
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Schaeffler COO Applauds FPT for Success in Smart Factory Project
Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Vietnam – Germany Joint Committee on Economic Cooperation on Tuesday, Schaeffler’s Chief Operating Officer Andreas Schick applauded FPT’s supporting role in technology development as well as building its world-class smart factory in Vietnam. “Our manufacturing plant in Vietnam is among the four Schaeffler pioneering production facilities in terms of digitalization. We thank FPT for having worked alongside us to adopt digital manufacturing technologies that make us world-class”, he said. Since 2018, the two […]
FPT Software and Smart Holdings Launch Joint Venture, Facilitating Digital Transformation in Smart Cities
HANOI, Vietnam, January 13th, 2021 – Vietnam’s leading IT services provider FPT Software on Wednesday announced the launch of a joint venture with Smart Holdings, a Japan-based IT solutions provider specialized in the manufacturing domain. The new entity – FPT Smart Technologies – aims to provide digital transformation solutions to smart cities with a focus on their key drivers: manufacturing, automotive, and construction industries. The joint venture is headquartered in Vietnam’s central coastal city of Da Nang, the country’s third-largest […]
Vietnamese Government Adds FPT Software’s akaBot to Ecosystem of National Digital Solutions
Last Friday, Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) officially introduced akaBot, FPT Software’s robotic process automation (RPA) platform, as the next “Make in Vietnam” digital solution in its National Digital Transformation Program. akaBot is the third FPT’s platform following FPT.AI and akaChain that the Vietnamese Government hand-picked into its ecosystem of digital solutions that are expected to help local businesses increase productivity, cut costs and optimize resources. Vietnam sets to become a global Top 50 country in terms of […]
FPT Software Hosts Massive Virtual Event to Mark 15 Years of Central Vietnam Branch
FPT Software recently celebrated the 15th birthday of its Da Nang branch in style with an online drinking party that gathered more than 3,000 participants, making it the most attended virtual event in Vietnam. FPT Software’s senior leaders raise a toast for Da Nang Themed “3,000…Cans Together”, the birthday celebration took place amid the new wave of COVID-19, in which Da Nang is the new epicenter. The company’s IT infrastructure was readily available to deliver the 90-minute event with […]
FPT Remains Vietnam’s Most Valuable Tech Brand in 2020
Forbes has recently announced the list of Vietnam’s Top 50 most valuable brands in 2020, in which FPT moved up by one notch to the 9th position overall and secured the top spot in the technology sector for two consecutive years. FPT is the only tech brand that made it to Forbes Vietnam’ Top Ten and one of 20 Vietnamese brands valued over USD 100 million. The brand is worth USD 217.7 million this year, surpassing the runner-up VNG […]
FPT Software’s AI App Listens Out for Respiratory Diseases amid Looming COVID-19
FPT Software has recently started to collect breathing sounds for Sound Dr. – a web application that helps facilitate respiratory disease diagnosis using artificial intelligence. Sound Dr. is a project of FPT Software’s AI Lab – an entity in charge of AI research and development – with the consultation from Head of Woolcock Institute of Medical Research Vietnam Dr. Nguyen Thu Anh. The application collects users’ demographic information, medical history, and records of voices and respiratory sounds. AI algorithm […]
FPT Helps Schaeffler Kick-Start Digital Pilot Plan for Asia Pacific
FPT, Vietnam’s leading technology firm, has provided German automotive supplier Schaeffler with consultation to develop a holistic digitization concept amid Vietnam’s thrust into digital transformation. This cooperation is a part of Schaeffler’s global pilot project for new digital manufacturing concept deployed at its modern manufacturing plant in Vietnam’s southern Dong Nai province. Schaeffler Vietnam plant in Bien Hoa, Dong Nai province (photograph: www.schaeffler.vn) Located at one of Vietnam’s largest manufacturing centers, the plant was inaugurated in May 2019 with […]
FPT Chairman: Vietnam Stands As Next IT Outsourcing Powerhouse
“Vietnam has capabilities and advantages to become the next big name in IT outsourcing in the time of COVID-19”, said FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh at the webinar co-hosted by FPT and the German Asia-Pacific Business Association (OAV) late May. Coronavirus has swept across the world and left severe impacts on both society and economy. “IMF warned that the GDP growth of Europe would drop to -7.5% and that of Germany would drop to -7%. And maybe nearly half of […]
FPT Software Partners with Online University FUNiX to Build Digital Workforce
Last July, FPT Software signed an agreement with Vietnam’s first online university FUNiX to help educate the next-generation workforce of Vietnam. Apart from co-designing the curriculum of Software Engineering courses, the company also dedicated a number of IT experts to FUNiX as mentors, providing online learners with academic, personal and professional support. FPT Software is among dozens of tech firms that are actively working with FUNiX to address Vietnam’s staffing shortage. As reported by online recruitment website Vietnamworks, the country is likely to short some 500,000 IT talents by 2020, making up nearly 80 per cent of the total tech […]
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