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FPT Software Acquires FUNiX, Taking Lifelong Learning to New Level
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Representatives of FPT Software and FUNiX at the ceremony held at F-Ville campus
On June 16, FPT Software officially acquired FUNiX, Vietnam’s first online university and a subsidiary of FPT Education, in a ceremony hosted at the company’s F-ville campus in Hanoi. The move is in line with FPT Software’s plans for nurturing skilled tech talents and building a lifelong learning culture.
According to FPT Software’s COO Tran Dang Hoa, the company joins forces with FUNiX to experiment with new educational models such as Hannah and Mentor, which emphasize on hands-on learning experiences and interactive activities. Having a online training program in-house, FPT Software employees will get to update their digital skills through degrees and certificates that range from Data Sciences, Software Engineering, Blockchain to Machine Learning.
In return, FUNiX students would gain access to the company’s advanced technology and extensive resources of real-life case studies, whitepapers, and so on.
As predicted by online recruitment site Vietnamworks, the country is in demand for 78,000 new tech employees each year. However, only 27 percent of IT graduates can meet workforce requirements.
Prior to the acquisition, FPT Software and FUNiX had actively worked together to build digital talents and address the shortage of high-skilled IT manpower in Vietnam. Last July, the company has helped FUNiX design curriculum and dedicated IT experts to FUNiX as mentors, as well as provided online learners with academic and professional support.
As one of Vietnam’s largest technology companies, FPT Software has taken human development seriously through a wide range of initiatives to encourage lifelong learning such as Campuslink, Fresher Program, on-demand training activities, compulsory MOOC learning, and so on.
AICamp trainees and mentors at the kick-off event on June 16, 2020
Last Tuesday, FPT Software welcomed the first batch of students to its fresher program specialized in Artificial Intelligence (AI) – AICamp.
Launched in Vietnam’s south-central city of Quy Nhon, AICamp is part of the company’s plan to expand the AI talent pipeline and make advanced technologies accessible for local students. In 2020, FPT Software looks to select 20 high-performing students who have achieved academic success in Maths, Science and Technology subjects into the program. Half of them get onboard this June.
Over the next four to five months, trainees will have the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of AI, data modeling, coding, project management, and essential skills to start an AI career in the future. They also get to learn from FPT Software’s Data and AI experts through in-class training, workshops, as well as hands-on projects with the company.
To make AICamp more appealing, the company even pledged to help trainees achieve at least one AI/Data certification from Google, Amazon, or IBM upon completion of the program.
Vu Van Dong, Director of FPT Software Quy Nhon, sets high expectations for AICamp. “It is one of the important projects that will help us to foster the next-generation AI engineers and build a world-class AI center in Quy Nhon. Soon we will be able to provide a comprehensive portfolio of Data/AI related services and products for customers worldwide”.
Earlier this month, FPT started a strategic partnership with Mila – the world’s largest research institute in deep learning in a bid to deliver many more real-world AI applications such as those in natural language processing, smart factory, healthcare, agriculture, and so on. The partnership also opens up opportunities for FPT and its company affiliates to enhance AI capabilities and build a skilled digital workforce.
“This agreement also helps fulfill our aspiration for universal access to technologies, particularly AI core technologies. Not only tech enthusiasts in developed countries but also young, talented Vietnamese have the opportunity to exchange knowledge and research about AI”, said FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh.
At a webinar earlier this week, FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh offered to help Japanese companies overcome COVID19 challenges through a new method that he called “business critical collaboration”.
Addressing more than 360 Japanese business leaders, Binh noted areas of potential collaboration including cost optimization, rebadging, joint venture and so on.
“Recently, we have upgraded the relationships with many of our Fortune 500 customers. A major US automotive manufacturer has agreed to engage FPT in their major projects, from enhancing software for existing car models to working on new ideas together”, he said. “This collaboration is not just about profit sharing. It also means sharing challenges so we could navigate the crisis and thrive together”.
FPT’s senior executives and guest speakers from Mitsubishi Vietnam, DENSO Manufacturing Vietnam, and JETRO at the webinar on June 24 2020
Binh noted four major challenges that Japanese companies are facing as a result of COVID-19, including supply chain disruption, revenue decline, business suspension, and lack of readiness for remote working.
“43 per cent of Japanese firms are struggling to adapt to remote working due to their inadequate IT infrastructure. The rest of the responders have reported that supply chain disruption, revenue decline, and business suspension are among their greatest difficulties during the COVID-19 time.”, he cited a recent survey of 300 business leaders conducted by FPT.
To overcome these challenges, companies in Japan should adopt digital transformation and diversify their supply chain, he suggested.
Holding the same viewpoint, DENSO Manufacturing Vietnam General Director Mr. Mitsuo Ota affirmed: “I believe that geo-diversification in the supply chain together with enhancing digital capabilities can help companies overcome this crisis”.
“Vietnam is a great destination for foreign investment, and Japanese firms could opt for remote offshore model”, said Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Hanoi Office Manager Takeo Nakajima. “I believe that FPT could help Japanese businesses reinvent their supply chain with their capabilities in digital transformation”
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 an investment of 45 million euros and equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and machinery. It is the first plant in South East Asia using the Industry 4.0 solutions. Since the start of operations, the company has added two production lines including one for the flagship product Needle Roller Bearings; it is expecting three more to be extended by the end of 2020.
According to Helmut Bode, Schaeffler Asia Pacific’s Former CEO, Vietnam is chosen for digital pilot plant project due to its visible trend towards high technology development with FPT as an outstanding example. “FPT is one of the top companies in the world, and we have already had a lot of experience with them”, he noted.
Given FPT’s consultation, digitization is set as the key enabler for Schaeffler’s product excellence. The digitization frontier will be conquered by relentless efforts from an integrated team comprising members from both companies in setting up the optimum infrastructure, equipment, and software solutions.
“FPT has continuously surpassed our expectations in their robust project governance and capabilities in key software development areas”, said Min Ling Chan, Head of Industry 4.0, Industrial Asia Pacific, Schaeffler Asia Pacific.
FPT and Schaeffler senior executives met to discuss solutions and roadmap for digital factory in Bien Hoa, October 2019
Since 2018, FPT has joined Schaeffler in its digital transformation journey with several successful projects, which have helped Schaeffler move faster towards digitization and reinforce the collaboration between the two partners.
“FPT is proud to help Schaeffler accelerate their digital transformation efforts. With strong capability and long-term collaboration with world-leading firms like Schaeffler, we pledge to always stand side by side with our business partners to help them achieve significant breakthroughs, especially in the challenging time of COVID-19 pandemic”, said FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh.
Beyond the partnership with Schaeffler, FPT has positioned itself as a digital transformation consultant providing extensive knowledge, innovative technology solutions, and prompt technical support. As Vietnam’s largest technology company, FPT aims for Top 50 world-class providers of comprehensive digital services and solutions in 2030.
About FPT Corporation
FPT Corporation is a global leading technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam, with nearly US$1.2 billion in revenue and 29,000 employees. As a pioneer in digital transformation, FPT delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Embedded Systems, Managed services, Testing, Platform modernization, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and more. The company has served over 700+ customers worldwide, a hundred of which are Fortune Global 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities and more. For more information, please visit www.fpt-software.com.
About Schaeffler
The Schaeffler Group is a world-renowned German supplier to the automotive industry. With three successful brands namely INA, FAG and LuK, Schaeffler’s products include high-precision components and systems for engine, transmission, chassis applications, rolling and plain bearing solutions for a variety of industrial applications. The group generated approximately 14.4 billion euros in revenue in 2019. Schaeffler is one of the world’s largest family companies with around 86,500 employees, a global network of approximately 170 locations, including manufacturing sites, research and development facilities, and sales companies in over 50 countries. For more information, please visit www.schaeffler.com.
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HANOI, Vietnam, June 11, 2020 – FPT, Vietnam’s largest IT service provider, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Quebec-based research centre Mila in an attempt to enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) expertise and capabilities.
Located in the heart of Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence ecosystem, Mila is the world’s largest academic lab specialised in deep learning with a community of 450 researchers dedicated to scientific excellence and innovation. FPT is the first company in Southeast Asia to enter the Mila partner network, joining industry giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, etc.
The three-year agreement, which was signed virtually, will see the two sides collaborate on a number of areas, including strengthening FPT’s AI expertise and capabilities, strategic consulting to help FPT develop its AI center in central Vietnam, training and exchange of AI talents, etc.
The partnership with Mila is expected to help FPT deliver many more real-world AI applications such as those in natural language processing, smart factory, healthcare, agriculture, and so on. It will also help realise FPT’s aspiration to build a world-class AI center and open up opportunities for the company to enhance AI capabilities and talents.
Mr. Stéphane Létourneau, Vice-President in charge of Partnerships and Corporate Affairs at Mila highly appreciated the fact that FPT was able to meet Mila’s stringent criteria such as AI proficiency and potential applications as well as the ability to contribute to Mila ecosystem.
“Why is this relationship between Mila and FPT a value-added proposition for Mila? I can think of several reasons”, he said. “The first one is FPT’s focus on AI research. With a dedicated AI research group, FPT is poised to be a great partner for collaborative research projects. Number two is FPT’s focus on education. FPT University deeply cares about talents. Fostering talents, FPT and the Government desire to develop an AI center in Vietnam”.
According to FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh, the partnership is aligned with FPT’s strategic goal of becoming the world’s leading digital transformation services provider. “With Mila’s extensive experiences and our determination, we are positive that our AI solutions will be upgraded constantly to help businesses enhance operations, transform themselves, and leap forward in the new normal”, he said.
“This agreement also helps fulfill our aspiration for universal access to technologies, particularly AI core technologies. Not only tech enthusiasts in developed countries but also young, talented Vietnamese have the opportunity to exchange knowledge and research about AI”, Binh noted.
Mila’s Scientific Director Yoshua Bengio, who was awarded the prestigious A.M. Turing Award — the “Nobel of Computing” in 2019, shared the same view. “We want AI to be used for improving the world. We’ve been working with students coming from developing countries to study at Mila, go back to their countries and bring back some of the knowledge that is developed here”, he said.
As the region’s leading ICT corporation, FPT has been active in research and development of core advanced technologies such as AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Robot Processing Automation (RPA). Particularly in AI, the company’s focus has been on Natural Language Processing (NLP), User Behaviour Prediction, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, etc. to help both the public and private sector accelerate digital transformation. FPT looks to become a global Top 50 IT and digital transformation services provider by 2030.
About FPT Corporation
FPT Corporation is a global leading technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam, with nearly US$1.2 billion in revenue and 29,000 employees. As a pioneer in digital transformation, FPT delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Embedded Systems, Managed services, Testing, Platform modernization, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and more. The company has served over 700+ customers worldwide, a hundred of which are Fortune Global 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities and more. For more information, please visit https://www.fpt-software.com/
About Mila
Founded in 1993 by Professor Yoshua Bengio of the Université de Montréal, Mila is a research institute in artificial intelligence which rallies 500 researchers specializing in the field of deep learning. Based in Montreal, Mila’s mission is to be a global pole for scientific advances that inspires innovation and the development of AI for the benefit of all. The institute is recognized globally for its significant contributions to the field of deep learning and has distinguished itself in the areas of language modelling, machine translation, object recognition, and generative models. For more information, please visit https://mila.quebec/
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“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 the labor force are at risk of losing jobs. COVID-19 is likely to cost our economy 1 trillion USD in 2020”, Binh said. This socio-economic crisis forces businesses around the world to transform their operations and search for the right partners to survive this volatile situation together.
According to FPT Chairman, geo-diversification can play a game-changing role in the new normal as the pandemic revealed the fragility of familiar IT outsourcing destinations. “If you look for outsourcing, only a few countries stand there: India, China and now Vietnam.” Given the success against COVID-19, Vietnam has surged as a safe and promising location for investors to expand their network and set up offshore teams.
FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh presented Vietnam as the agile outsourcing powerhouse
Suggesting Vietnam as the next destination to go for IT outsourcing, Binh reaffirmed the country’s advantages, from a dynamic ICT workforce of 900,000 people to a favourable business environment. “Vietnam Government offers a lot of incentives for IT area”, he said, noting that foreign investors in Vietnam could enjoy four years of tax exemption followed by nine years of 50% tax reduction.
“Vietnam has a clear policy for Industry 4.0. In the next few days, the Prime Minister of Vietnam will sign a digital transformation program for our country”, he added.
“If in the past, digital transformation is ‘nice-to-have’, now it stands for ‘must-have’, and ‘must-have’ in the context of safety”, said Binh about the significant role of digital transformation in the new normal.
Binh pledged FPT would be a trusted partner to companies in their digital transformation journey during this time of uncertainty. Having been active in the fight against Covid-19 early on, FPT has tailored several digital solutions to help businesses maintain business continuity, from enhancing IT infrastructure to automating back-office processes to support remote workers. The company looks to become a Top 50 global IT and digital transformation services provider by 2030.
“Digital transformation is the future. And Covid-19 is just a catalyst to the process”, he noted.
FPT Software on Monday signed a five-year licensing agreement with a Japanese company, enabling the use of its RPA platform akaBot to develop an innovative staffing solution for the client.
While the contract amount was not disclosed, FPT Software’s Chief Delivery Officer Do Van Khac confirmed that it was “the most valuable licensing agreement” FPT Software ever obtained. Being a comprehensive RPA solution, akaBot automates hundreds of back-office operations, thus helping businesses save labor costs, boost productivity and minimize human errors.
“The client selected akaBot for its high-quality features and relevance to its long-term development roadmap”, Khac said, adding that FPT Software had signed a memorandum of understanding with the staffing firm in September.
akaBot was launched in 2018 and has since obtained significant achievements. In August, ThinkPower became akaBot’s first overseas agent in Taiwan, helping distribute and implement the RPA solutions for local financial companies. Most recently, akaBot was listed in the 2019 RPA Chaos Map report as a Top 30 RPA platform, alongside with big players such as UiPath and BluePrism. In the report, RPA Hack wrote: “this year, it included emerging tools that have lower licensing costs such as akaBot, Macroman, and Nalgo-bot”.
To date, akaBot has been implemented for more than 20 companies in Japan, South Korea, the US, as well as piloted at some Vietnamese banks.
Aspiring to become a world-class comprehensive digital transformation services provider, FPT Software has developed digital platforms and solutions through leveraging technologies such as artificial intelligence, analytics of Big Data, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), blockchain, etc, helping businesses worldwide to accelerate their digital transformation journey. The company also targeted to obtain a billion dollars in revenue by 2024.
To learn more about akaBot, visit: https://akabot.io/
In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), FPT Software recently launched a Corporate Data Protection Policy on its official website, providing the necessary framework conditions for cross-border data transfer among FPT Software, Subsidiaries and legal entities.
Established in 1999, FPT Software has expanded its global presence to 24 countries and territories, serving more than 600 customers worldwide. In Europe, the company currently has subsidiaries in Germany, France, United Kingdom, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic with six offices and over 300 employees.
The Corporate Data Protection Policy lays out strict requirements for processing personal data of customers, business partners, employees or any other individual. It includes principles emphasizing on integrity and confidentiality. Ensuring data protection is the foundation of trustworthy business relationships and the reputation of FPT Software as a first-class business partner.
The policy ensures the adequate level of data protection prescribed by the EU GDPR,
Japan’s Act on Protection of Personal Information (APPI), Singapore Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA), or other national Personal Data Protection Regulations and the national laws for cross-border data transmission, including in countries that do not yet have adequate data protection laws.
Earlier on 3 June 2019, FPT Software appointed Michael Hering, a member of the Delivery Command Centre, as Global Data Protection Officer to oversee the company’s compliance with the EU GDPR. This is one of the company’s series of steps in ensuring security as well as protecting customer’s data and privacy.
In today’s digital world, data migrates from various locations, formats, and devices. It is crucial to develop a consistent method to protect data. This allows enterprises to design necessary applications and services that meet their business needs while safeguarding customer data.
GDPR was enforced on 25 May 2018 by the European Law, bringing the most substantial change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. It aims to standardize data protection laws and processing across the EU, affording individuals stronger, more consistent rights to access and control their personal information.
FPT Software is committed to ensuring the security and protection of its worldwide clients’ and partners’ information. Since its inception, the company has put in place a robust and effective data protection program to comply with existing laws and abides by the data protection principles.
For further details, visit https://www.fpt-software.com/data-protection-policy/
HANOI, Vietnam, June 11, 2020 – FPT, Vietnam’s largest IT service provider, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Quebec-based research centre Mila in an attempt to enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) expertise and capabilities.
Located in the heart of Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence ecosystem, Mila is the world’s largest academic lab specialised in deep learning with a community of 450 researchers dedicated to scientific excellence and innovation. FPT is the first company in Southeast Asia to enter the Mila partner network, joining industry giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, etc.
The three-year agreement, which was signed virtually, will see the two sides collaborate on a number of areas, including strengthening FPT’s AI expertise and capabilities, strategic consulting to help FPT develop its AI center in central Vietnam, training and exchange of AI talents, etc.
The partnership with Mila is expected to help FPT deliver many more real-world AI applications such as those in natural language processing, smart factory, healthcare, agriculture, and so on. It will also help realise FPT’s aspiration to build a world-class AI center and open up opportunities for the company to enhance AI capabilities and talents.
Mr. Stéphane Létourneau, Vice-President in charge of Partnerships and Corporate Affairs at Mila highly appreciated the fact that FPT was able to meet Mila’s stringent criteria such as AI proficiency and potential applications as well as the ability to contribute to Mila ecosystem.
“Why is this relationship between Mila and FPT a value-added proposition for Mila? I can think of several reasons”, he said. “The first one is FPT’s focus on AI research. With a dedicated AI research group, FPT is poised to be a great partner for collaborative research projects. Number two is FPT’s focus on education. FPT University deeply cares about talents. Fostering talents, FPT and the Government desire to develop an AI center in Vietnam”.
According to FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh, the partnership is aligned with FPT’s strategic goal of becoming the world’s leading digital transformation services provider. “With Mila’s extensive experiences and our determination, we are positive that our AI solutions will be upgraded constantly to help businesses enhance operations, transform themselves, and leap forward in the new normal”, he said.
“This agreement also helps fulfill our aspiration for universal access to technologies, particularly AI core technologies. Not only tech enthusiasts in developed countries but also young, talented Vietnamese have the opportunity to exchange knowledge and research about AI”, Binh noted.
Mila’s Scientific Director Yoshua Bengio, who was awarded the prestigious A.M. Turing Award — the “Nobel of Computing” in 2019, shared the same view. “We want AI to be used for improving the world. We’ve been working with students coming from developing countries to study at Mila, go back to their countries and bring back some of the knowledge that is developed here”, he said.
As the region’s leading ICT corporation, FPT has been active in research and development of core advanced technologies such as AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Robot Processing Automation (RPA). Particularly in AI, the company’s focus has been on Natural Language Processing (NLP), User Behaviour Prediction, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, etc. to help both the public and private sector accelerate digital transformation. FPT looks to become a global Top 50 IT and digital transformation services provider by 2030.
About FPT Corporation
FPT Corporation is a global leading technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam, with nearly US$1.2 billion in revenue and 29,000 employees. As a pioneer in digital transformation, FPT delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Embedded Systems, Managed services, Testing, Platform modernization, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and more. The company has served over 700+ customers worldwide, a hundred of which are Fortune Global 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities and more. For more information, please visit https://www.fpt-software.com/
About Mila
Founded in 1993 by Professor Yoshua Bengio of the Université de Montréal, Mila is a research institute in artificial intelligence which rallies 500 researchers specializing in the field of deep learning. Based in Montreal, Mila’s mission is to be a global pole for scientific advances that inspires innovation and the development of AI for the benefit of all. The institute is recognized globally for its significant contributions to the field of deep learning and has distinguished itself in the areas of language modelling, machine translation, object recognition, and generative models. For more information, please visit https://mila.quebec/
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FPT’s RPA solution akaBot helps companies reduce dependency on manpower and maintain business continuity during COVID-19
HANOI, Vietnam, April 8, 2020 – As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forces companies around the world to send workers home, Vietnam’s leading technology company FPT has helped them ease into the new reality with automation.
Over the next three months, existing customers of its featured product akaBot will be entitled to three extra months free of charge to the annual robotics process automation (RPA) licenses.
New customers who sign the RPA licensing agreement from now until the end of June will get the same offer, plus consulting services for the first business process automation at zero cost.
Work from Home with Ease
FPT’s RPA solution akaBot allows businesses to automate repetitive processes that would otherwise be done manually, freeing up remote-working manpower so they could maintain business continuity during COVID-19. It also helps businesses improve work productivity and reduce operating costs during this challenging time.
akaBot’s RPA solution has been provided to thirteen companies in six countries, operating in various domains, including finance, manufacturing, retail, and IT services. Examples of back-office processes that are in surging demand for automation range from responses to customer inquiries, loan processing, to granting remote access to internal networks and private resources via Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Virtual Private Network, Microsoft OneDrive, etc.
Earlier in March, FPT also pledged to provide free security monitoring and incident response solutions to small and medium-sized businesses in Vietnam, helping prevent cybersecurity attacks as teleworkers access to company servers from remote and unsecured locations.
The company also worked with Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications to deploy an AI-powered mobile application to provide real-time data on COVID-19 and at-home assessment of the infection risks based on user locations.
Vietnam’s COVID-19 Updates
On April 1, Vietnam’s Prime Minister officially declared COVID-19 a national epidemic and enforced social distancing throughout the country for 15 days, which could be extended to one month. The Government called on the public to “stay at home and work online” unless shopping for necessities or working in businesses that produce essential goods.
The country has won praises from foreign countries for its capability to keep COVID-19 in check despite limited resources. As of April 7, the country has confirmed 249 positive cases, half of which have recovered, and zero death.
However, Vietnam’s economy has been hit hard by the crisis. Nearly 35,000 businesses were forced to close in Q1-2020, according to a report released by Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment on Monday. More than half of them were suspended temporarily because of COVID-19, the report said.
About FPT Corporation
FPT Corporation is a global leading technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam, with nearly US$2 billion in revenue and 28,000 employees. As a pioneer in digital transformation, FPT delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Embedded Systems, Managed services, Testing, Platform modernization, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and more. The company has served over 700+ customers worldwide, a hundred of which are Fortune Global 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities and more. For more information, please visit www.fpt-software.com.
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FPT Corporation
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HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnam’s leading technology firm FPT Software on Wednesday announced the opening of F-Town 3, the largest of its six campuses in Vietnam, in celebration of the company’s 20th year in business.
F-Town 3, covering an area of 69,000 meters square on the outskirts of Vietnam’s southern HCM City, is expected to accommodate 7,500 employees in the early phase of operation. FPT Software aims to grow its workforce into 30,000 people by 2020.
Inspiring Work Environment
The new campus features a Research and Development center and seven office floors overlooking a lush garden bridge in the middle, offering abundant natural lights for energy-saving and improved productivity.
Conference rooms are named after the world’s principal rivers such as the Mekong, The Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi, embodying the company’s aspiration to go global. To employees’ delight, F-town 3 also has recreation facilities, childcare, medical clinic, open cafeteria, etc.
“We believe that technology advancements should go hands in hands with people development”, said FPT Software Chairman Hoang Nam Tien.
“People are the heart of our business. Our goal is to give FPT Software employees a working environment that not only encourages creativity and innovation but also inspires them so together we could take on new challenges and leave our mark on the global tech map”, he added.
“The world is now facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges in the 4th Industrial Revolution. With this inspiring and modern campus, we hope to attract the new generation of talents, joining our journey as a pioneer in the revolution of Digital Transformation”, said FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh.
Towards Digital transformation Era
Since established in 1999, FPT Software has grown to become a global company of 17,000 employees spanning across Asia Pacific, US and Europe. The company sets to become a billion-dollar IT and digital transformation services provider by 2024, providing world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Mobility, Cloud, etc.
Following the opening ceremony of F-Town 3, the company invited its 200 participants to join an exclusive technology seminar where experts from Bayer, Masan Group, Deloitte Consulting, OutSystems, and FPT exchanged insights on the opportunities and challenges of digital transformation.
“If you look at the market this year, more than 1 trillion US dollars have been spent on digital transformation. In the next three years, the market size will double. And if you talk about the digital economy, in the next five years, one-fourth of the global GDP will come from digital economies. You have to start transforming as soon as possible”, said FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh.
“36,000 thousands of FPT employees are heading towards becoming a global digital transformation solutions and services provider. That is our dream. Please join us to make this digital dream come true”, Binh noted.
About FPT Software
FPT Software is part of FPT Corporation, a technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam with nearly US$2 billion in revenue and 36,000 employees. FPT is a pioneer in digital transformation and delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Mobility, Cloud, Managed Services, Testing, more. The company has served over 700 customers worldwide, 100 of which are Fortune 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Communications, Media and Services, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities, Consumer Packaged Goods, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Public sector, Technology and more. For more information, please visit www.fpt-software.com.
FPT Software last week launched Japanese Language School in Tokyo, its first training institution overseas, as part of the company’s strong commitment to the Japanese Market.
According to FPT Software CEO Pham Minh Tuan, “the school will help to improve the quality of IT workforce in terms of Japanese language skills as well as business etiquettes”. “Students will also get to learn about project experiences and knowhow that FPT Software has accumulated over the past 20 years”, he said.
FPT Japanese Language School officially welcomed the first cohort on October 1st with 13 students. In 2019, it looks to improve the language efficiency for about 200 IT engineers.
Since entering Japan in the early 2000s, FPT Software has stepped up to provide the best training for its employees, from establishing a Japanese language training center in Vietnam to organizing Japanese business manner classes. In 2015, the company launched a 10K BrSE initiative in partnership with Meros language school in the hope of sending 10,000 bridge engineers to Japan for language courses.
“The FPT Japanese School will play an important role in developing our human resources and matching with our business growth target in Japan”, Tuan said. Japan has been FPT Software’s most significant market, contributing more than 50% to the company’s total revenue and on average growing at a rate of 30 per cent per year
Having over 1,600 employees working across 11 offices in Japan, FPT Japan is currently the largest subsidiary of FPT Software overseas. The company sets to become a top 20 leading tech firm in Japan within three years with revenue of 500 million USD and 3,000 on-site employees.
In celebration of FPT Software 20th birthday anniversary, thousands of employees around the world have engaged in the “Run for Green” initiative to improve health and wellness while making a positive impact on the environment.
Launched since July, ‘Run for Green’ sets to be an annual running event to promote a greener lifestyle among the company. Participants could run at their convenience and record their mileage in an app that the company developed itself. For every 20 km recorded, the company will be planning one tree, with the runners name tagged on to celebrate their contribution for the community.
FPT software targeted to plan 20,000 trees across 16 countries and territories that it has set foot in. Over the past three months, more than 500,000 km have been completed, meaning 25,000 trees are set to be planted.
The activity has involved FPT Software employees as well as their families across Vietnam, Japan, Germany, etc. It attracted FPT leaders and employees as well as their families to participate. The most active runner belonged to FPT Automotive Group, an FPT Software arm that focuses on digital technologies for the automotive sector. He alone recorded more than 1,000 km of running.
The first 2,000 trees have recently been planted in the Mekong Delta province Soc Trang to help reforest and conserve mangroves in Vietnam.
Most employees comment that this activity empowers them to lead a healthy lifestyle and boosts their productivity at work. Apart from the tangible results, the event also raises the community’s awareness of environmental issues. FPT ChairmanTruong Gia Binh said that running would be one of the company’s core internal initiatives this year as he believes it will not only boost individual’s physical health, but it is also an opportunity for them to contribute to protect the environment and tackle climate change.
Together we run – Run for Green! FPT Software is set to become a sustainable business that brings positive and impactful changes to the environment and society. The company wishes to establish more efforts and movements to conduct business while taking care of the living world for the future generation.
HANOI, August 30, 2019 – Southeast Asia’s leading IT firm FPT on Thursday entered into a digital transformation agreement with DPDgroup, the Europe’s second largest parcel delivery network. The deal is not only a testament to FPT’s capabilities in operating at the highest end of the IT value chain, but also aligned with its goal of becoming a world’s leading provider of digital transformation services.
According to the agreement, FPT will be examining the IT system of DPDgroup before mapping out and deploying the digital technology platform IT4EM2 to improve business performance of the European courier across 12 countries. FPT will also work together with DPDgroup in Big Data analysis and help the client build the data architecture needed to become a data-driven business. The entire process will be guided by FPT Digital Kaizen methodology – ‘Think Big, Start Smart and Small, Scale Fast’, helping DPDgroup transform in the most cost-efficient and agile manner.
According to FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh, “this contract testifies the trust that DPDgroup puts in FPT’s expertise in logistics, technology capabilities, implementation capabilities, and our digital transformation methodology. It would also pay the way for us to become a Top 50 digital transformation services provider in the next ten years”.
“The world will be reinvented and will be explored. It demands us to be more creative and innovative. We can not do it all alone”, said Paul-Marie Chavanne, Chairman of GeoPost, the holding company of DPDgroup.
“We need a partner, and I hope that FPT is the privileged partner will help us jump high in this new world”, he added.
Posting 7-billion euro in sales last year, DPDgroup is the international subsidiary of the French Groupe La Poste, a Fortune Global 500 company. The digital platform that FPT sets to build for DPDgroup is expected to enable the company to improve operational efficiency and enhance customer experience. Ultimately, this would help the courier reinforce its position as a parcel delivery leader in Europe and around the world.
The IT value chain includes consulting; system integration; software design, development, maintenance and programming. Consulting stands at the top end of the IT value chain and is also the area where the world’s leading tech firms such as IBM, Accenture, Tata, Infosys, etc. are most active.
FPT began partnership with DPDgroup in 2018 through a number of small and medium-sized projects. The company is currently involved in various stages of the customer life cycle from data collection, logistics consulting, UI/UX ideation, micro-services architecture, project development, implementation, and production support.
Following the agreement signing ceremony, a high-level delegation of La Poste, DPDgroup and its subsidiaries joined a FPT workshop in digital transformation for logistics and digital banking. The event provided them with insights into FPT’s technology capabilities through success stories in the aforementioned areas.
The European market is geared to catch up with the world’s latest digital transformation trends. According to a report by International Data Corporation (IDC), Europe spending for digital transformation is forecast to reach $378.2 billion in 2022, making it the third largest geography for DX spending. FPT’s sales in this market is also projected to grow 30 percent in the coming years, with digital transformation being a key driving force.
About FPT
FPT is a global leading technology and IT services group headquartered in Vietnam with nearly US$2 billion in revenue and 33,000 employees. FPT is a pioneer in digital transformation and delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Embedded Systems, Managed services, Testing, Platform modernization, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and more. The company has served over 600 customers worldwide, 100 of which are Fortune 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Communications, Media and Services, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities, Consumer Packaged Goods, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Public sector, Technology and more. For more information, please visit www.fpt-software.com.
About DPDgroup
DPDgroup is Europe’s second largest parcel delivery network.
DPDgroup combines innovative technology and local knowledge to provide a flexible and user-friendly service for both shippers and shoppers. With its industry-leading Predict service, DPDgroup is setting a new standard for convenience by keeping customers closely in touch with their delivery.
With more than 75,000 delivery experts and a network of more than 42,000 Pickup points, DPDgroup delivers 5.2 million parcels each day through the brands DPD, Chronopost, SEUR and BRT.
DPDgroup is the parcel delivery network of GeoPost, which posted sales of €7.3 billion in 2018. GeoPost is a holding company owned by Le Groupe La Poste.
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Digital transformation is hard. As reported by Forbes, more than 80 percent of digital transformations fail, with no exception to big names like GE, Procter & Gamble, and Nike. So last month, we gathered the strategic minds in digital transformation, thinkers and creators included, to the Global DX Summit 2019 and discussed how we should go about this process. These are things we learned from gurus at this exclusive event.
Digital Kaizen
Kaizen is a Japanese business philosophy that originates from two Japanese words: Kai (improvement) and Zen (good). Later it became known as “continuous improvement”, which means making incremental changes that yield major improvements over time. According to FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh, digital transformation should be viewed as ‘Digital Kaizen’, where businesses constantly optimize their operations and eliminate inefficiency through innovative solutions. In that light, digital transformation isn’t necessarily a big bang, but rather, a series of quick wins that build towards long-term success.
It’s all about people
While ‘digital’ involves the use of technologies to reinvent how businesses operate and deliver value to customers, ‘transformation’ is about people. As FPT’s DX Advisor Chief Phuong Tram noted, digital transformation has to begin with people engagement and creating an environment where they are willing to change. “If you want to change, you have to engage people in parallel, you have to motivate people and begin with their heart in mind”, he said. The former CIO of Dupont constantly stressed the importance of people engagement throughout the summit. “If people are not with you, no mission, no strategy, no technology in the world can change”.
Data at the heart of digital transformation
Nikhil Dwarakanath, Grab’s Head of Analytics insisted that the key to navigate digital transformation is through data-driven insights. In a thirty-minute keynote speech, Nikhil shared how the ride-hailing startup leveraged the power of data to develop the Southeast Asia’s super-app. For instance, by analyzing millions of rows of GPS location data, Grab could track multiple metrics in real-time, including the customers’ travel patterns, their preferences, their likes and dislikes, helping the company constantly refine its products and enhance customer experience. Data-driven digital transformation, he added, is an extremely complex and time-consuming process, but customers must always be put at the core.
Agility
By its very nature, digital transformation is constantly evolving and inevitably the game of trials and errors. “You can spend a year or sometimes more to put your house in order, put your data together and feel good about it. And then two months later everything’s changed and it doesn’t work anymore”, Barret Brown, Head of APAC at Palantir Technologies spoke the hard truth. To conclude his presentation about data democratization, the DX practitioner stressed the importance of agility, that is being able to build a dynamic system and particularly “the ontology layer has to be the ontology itself”. “It has to be flexible, you can model it one way and then learn something new about the world and say “Oh I actually need to change that”, “OK no problem, that’s good”.
While each guru had an unique view to digital transformation, one thing they all agreed on was that digital transformation should be an incremental innovation rather than a huge, cumbersome project that create radically changes to the organization overnight. It should be data-driven, flexible, and above all, centered around people, customers and employees included.
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Preparations are in full swing as the Global Digital Transformation Summit is scheduled to take place in Ha Long late April. Hosted by FPT, the event for the first time will gather CIOs and executives around the world to discuss how to reinvent themselves through digital technologies.
The Global DX Summit spans three days from 25 to 28 April this year, featuring guru talks, extensive networking sessions, and interactive workshops on a variety of topics from digital transformation challenges to organizational readiness. The event will be a great opportunity for innovation-led businesses to get insights from industry pioneers while engaging in meaningful conversations that may help them spark innovative ideas.
Featured speakers include Dr. Phuong Tram, Dupont’s former Chief Information Officer and currently FPT’s chief advisor on digital transformation, Google Deepmind’s research scientist Bui Hai Hung, and Palantir Technologies’s Executive Vice President — Mr. Josh Harris.
The Global DX Summit is an invite-only event, targeting digital transformation strategists in billion-dollar organizations from the US, EU, Japan and Asia-Pacific.
As a pioneer in digital transformation, FPT delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Embedded Systems, Managed services, Testing, Platform modernization, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and more. Since 2019, under Dr. Phuong Tram’s advisory, the company has actively advised its clients to build digital transformation roadmaps and get them ready for the journey.
Representatives of FPT and SBI signed the three-million dollar deal in Tokyo on 17 April, 2019
TOKYO/HANOI, April 18th, 2019 – Tokyo-based SBI Holdings Inc. (“SBI”) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with FPT Corporation (“FPT”) to invest $3 million dollars in Utop, a FPT blockchain startup that bridges loyalty point programs among merchants. Utop makes it easy and convenient for users to garner and redeem loyalty points at retailers within the same network, thereby enabling small businesses to grow faster.
Utop was developed based on FPT’s enterprise blockchain platform akaChainTM, which has been implemented in many countries and across various sectors from finance, insurance, retail, to supply chain. Through partnership with Utop, small businesses could link their reward programs with each other to reduce costs and keep data secure thanks to the multi-layered architecture of akaChainTM platform. Utop also ensures high liquidity for end users by allowing them to redeem points at any merchants within the network. It helps improve discount and reward programs and, at the same time, enhances customer experiences.
Mr. Yoshitaka Kitao, SBI’s President and Chief Executive Officer said “SBI and FPT have cooperated effectively in many past years by leveraging the strengths of both sides. A majority of SBI’s companies in Vietnam are either invested or jointly operated by FPT through its subsidiaries such as FPT Securities, Sendo, or TP Bank. Based on FPT’s enterprise blockchain platform akaChainTM, its technology capabilities, as well as strong network of customers, I am completely positive that this is the best time to launch Utop. I hope it has lots of potential to grow”.
FPT Chairman, Dr. Truong Gia Binh, noted: “The development of industry 4.0 technologies has created break-through opportunities for businesses, mushrooming so many innovative business models. We call it digital transformation. FPT has defined digital transformation as our key strategy, accompanying our customers worldwide in their digital transformation journey, helping improve their business processes and leverage their position. Utop will play its part in growing thousands of Vietnamese businesses, bringing convenience and interesting shopping experiences for millions of Vietnamese consumers, thereby contributing to the development of Vietnam’s digital economy”.
According to Mr. Pham Nguyen Vu, co-founder and director of Utop, “this platform has been running a pilot with FPT’s minimum viable ecosystem as well as various sectors such as retail, insurance, and finance since last December. The funding from FPT and SBI would be a great kick start to help Utop solidify its foundation and take bolder steps in the future”.
The deal helps transform customer loyalty programs through FPT’s blockchain platform
About FPT Corporation
FPT is the global leading technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam with nearly US$2 billion in revenue and 33,000 employees. As a pioneer in digital transformation, FPT delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Embedded Systems, Managed services, Testing, Platform modernization, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and more. FPT has served over 600 customers worldwide, a hundred of which are Fortune Global 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities and more. For more information, please visit www.fpt-software.com.
About SBI Holdings Inc.
The SBI Group is Japan’s leading financial services company which was established in 1999 as a pioneer of Internet-based financial services, and currently has formed the world’s first Internet-based financial conglomerate, providing financial services in a broad range of fields including securities, banking and insurance. The SBI Group also globally manages a number of private equity and venture capital funds. As a pioneer in the Fintech industry and after years of actively investing in start-up companies in the sectors such as IT, mobile, bio-life science and Fintech, the SBI Group has now become a global leader in making active investments in the area of Fintech, artificial intelligence and Blockchain. With an aim to expand the Group’s footprint in Southeast Asia, SBI Group has invested in and added value to a number of technology and financial services companies in the region as well.
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International speakers from global tech firms including Palantir Technologies, Google’s Deepmind have confirmed their speeches at the upcoming Global DX Summit Ha Long.
Mr. John Harris, Executive Vice President at Palantir Technologies, will be guiding the audience through the journey of digital transformation at leading corporations. Google Deepmind’s research scientist, Dr. Bui Hai Hung, will be joined by Prof. Ho Tu Bao, Professor Emeritus at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), to shed light on the role of artificial intelligence as a driver of digital transformation across industries. Dr. Hung’s technical expertise and interests include probabilistic graphical models, deep generative models, Bayesian inference and machine learning, while Prof. Bao has had more than four decades doing research and teaching in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Mining as well as Data Science.
The occasion is graced with the presence of Dr. Phuong Tram, former global Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Dupont and currently FPT’s Chief Advisor on Digital Transformation. He will be kicking off the guru talk series, sharing the best digital transformation practices and Dupont’s success story after decades on the front line. Dr. Tram led DuPont to be the avant-garde and the first company to adopt Window 365 in the world replacing Lotus Notes, hundreds of Lotus applications, collaborations environment and repository. His seamless digitization strategy helped Dupont save half of billion dollars worth of IT costs and transform the legacy systems from 6,000 applications to 1,100 within three years.
The Global DX Summit spans three days from 25 to 27 April, featuring guru talks, extensive networking sessions, and interactive workshops on a variety of topics from digital transformation challenges to organizational readiness. The event will be a great opportunity for innovation-led businesses to get insights from industry pioneers while engaging in meaningful conversations that may help them spark innovative ideas. Following the guru talks, attendants will be invited to join group discussions that emphasize on how digital technologies could transform businesses, e.g. through customer experiences, operational excellence, and reshaping business models. Discussions will be moderated by digital experts from CapitaLand, Siemens PPAL, as well as Dr. Phuong Tram from FPT.
The Global DX Summit is an invite-only event, targeting digital transformation strategists at billion-dollar organizations from the US, EU, Japan and Asia-Pacific. Hosted by FPT for the first time, the event will gather CIOs and executives around the world to discuss how to reinvent themselves through digital technologies.
After two decades of leading Southeast Asia in IT services, FPT has decided to shift its focus onto digital transformation, starting from 2019. The company sets to be named in the world’s Top 50 digital transformation service provider within 10 years.
Digital transformation has moved from strategy to execution for major businesses around the world. To stay in the game, according to FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh, it’s no longer a choice for businesses, “you either get on board or get left behind”.
According to a recent report by International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide spending on the technologies and services that enable the digital transformation (DX) of business practices, products, and organizations is estimated to reach nearly $2 trillion by 2022. In 2018 alone, DX spending was estimated at $1.3 trillion, growing four times faster than spending on IT services, the IDC’s report reads.
“In such a potential market, the opportunities are huge for first-movers”, Dr. Binh said at the FPT 2019 shareholders’ meeting last March.
After two decades of leading Southeast Asia in IT services, FPT has decided to shift its focus onto digital transformation, starting from 2019. The company sets to be named in the world’s Top 50 digital transformation service provider within 10 years.
It seems that the global IT firm have acquired all the materials needed to realize its ambition. “We have customer insights, top-notch experts in digital transformation and particularly the advisory of Dr. Phuong Tram who has led and implemented Dupont’s digital transformation activities – a classic success DX story of the world”, FPT chairman told the investors. “We are ready and confident to conquer the digital transformation challenges”, he affirmed proudly.
FPT’s capabilities to advise and implement digital transformation strategies have been proven through its collaboration with corporate clients around the world, many of which are Top Fortune Global 500 companies such as Airbus, RWE, etc.
In the period of 2019-2021, FPT aims to position itself as provider of a high-end services such as digital transformation consulting and strategizing. The company also pledges to transform itself to a real-world DX success story that could be showcased to potential clients.
Hanoi, 11 April 2019 – Vietnam’s leading information technology company FPT, Japanese motorcycle maker Yamaha Motor (Yamaha) and urban developer Ecopark have entered into a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to develop self-driving electric vehicles through FPT’s autonomous technologies.
According to the MoU, FPT will develop autonomous driving software on a Yamaha electric vehicle based on a golf car, powered by Artificial Intelligence and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technologies. Yamaha will provide technical support and vehicle consulting during the road tests while Ecopark provides logistics and efficient infrastructures. The collaboration seeks to accelerate the adoption of autonomous vehicles technologies and realize the vision of smart public transportation in Vietnam.
The trio has set to improve the autonomous vehicle’s capabilities over time. On its first demo April, the vehicle will hit the road with original features such as traveling on a predetermined route; identifying lanes, returning to the starting point to complete a journey; stopping, parking, dropping off passengers as requested; or detecting and avoiding obstacles on the way. By the end of 2019, having been integrated with FPT’s autonomous technologies, the vehicle should be able to detect objects and vehicles on the road, slow down at sight of obstacles ahead, or handle the auto-parking function without passengers on board. At this stage, the users could also book autonomous vehicles via mobile apps.
“This partnership reflects our commitment to make a positive impact on the community through innovation”, said FPT Software’s Chairman Hoang Nam Tien. “We announced the launch of autonomous technologies in 2017, based on our in-depth research and capabilities in Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Internet of Vehicles, Cloud computing, and Image Processing, etc. The past two years has seen made-by-FPT autonomous technologies integrated into vehicles and successfully tested at high-tech zones. We hope this collaboration would bring us to the day where autonomous cars using our technologies could travel across urban areas, luxury resorts, factories and warehouses”, he asserted.
FPT has to date acquired Level 3 in driving automation and sought to upgrade one more notch by the end of 2019. The Southeast-Asia leading IT services provider looks to obtain level 5, the highest level of driving automation, and ISO 26262, an international safety standard for the automotive industry, within a few years.
“We chose FPT as the first partner in Vietnam to integrate advanced autonomous technologies into our latest electric cars based on their proven capabilities in digital transformation. We’re also confident that the Ecopark green city is one of the most suitable places for our vehicles to hit the road. Following two decades of research and development, we aspire to build low-speed, clean and smart vehicles that could shape the future of mobility, and the success of this collaboration would surely help validate our vision”, said Mr. Shoji Shiraishi, Fellow and Senior General Manager of New Venture Business Development Section, Advanced Technology Centre at Yamaha Motor.
The alliance with global firms FPT and Yamaha is also a big gain for Ecopark. As Mr. Nguyen Dung Minh, Deputy General Director of Ecopark noted, “this partnership helps us establish ourselves as a smart city that leveraging information technology and artificial intelligence to provide better living standards of our residents while utilizing energy and natural resources effectively. Apart from the greenery and urban landscape, the smart city initiative is our key strategy. Having big names like FPT and Yamaha as partners, we trust the latest technologies would be adopted to benefit our local residents”.
About FPT
FPT is the global leading technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam with nearly US$2 billion in revenue and 33,000 employees. As a pioneer in digital transformation, FPT delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Embedded Systems, Managed services, Testing, Platform modernization, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and more. FPT has served over 600 customers worldwide, a hundred of which are Fortune Global 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities and more. For more information, please visit www.fpt-software.com.
About Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
Yamaha Motor (Tokyo: 7272) is a world-leading producer of land vehicles such as motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, and electrically power assisted bicycles, marine products such as boats and outboard motors, robotics products such as surface mounters and drones, as well as engagement in the finance business. The company’s diverse businesses and wide variety of products are built around its proprietary technologies focused on small engines, chassis & hulls, and electronic control. Yamaha Motor conducts global development, production and marketing operations through 140 subsidiaries and equity-method affiliates in 30 countries and regions, working to realize our Corporate Mission of being a “Kando* Creating Company”. About 90% of consolidated net sales are generated in more than 200 countries and regions outside of Japan.
Please visit https://global.yamaha-motor.com/
*Kando is a Japanese word for the simultaneous feelings of deep satisfaction and intense excitement that we experience when we encounter something of exceptional value.
About Ecopark
Ecopark is the biggest ecological urban area with millions of trees in Northern Vietnam. Located at the southeast gate of Hanoi, Ecopark is 500 hectares in area. After nearly 16 years of construction and development, Ecopark is known as the “Green City”, offering a wide range of residential products and facilities. Ecopark becomes a pioneer of sustainable green architecture, honored with many prestigious international awards. Ecopark expects to meet housing needs for more than 150,000 residents in the future.
With a vision of upgrading Ecopark from a green urban area to a smart – modern – green city, the developer had took many efforts to find effective energy solutions as well as the most modern technology. The autonomous electric vehicle using clean and eco- friendly fuel is one of Ecopark’s goals in 2019.
Please visit http:/www.ecopark.com.vn/
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As the first Premier Partner of Amazon Managed Services (AWS) in Southeast Asia, FPT joins AWS Summit 2019 today in Singapore to showcase digital services and cloud technology solutions.
AWS Summit 2019 is part of Amazon’s global event series in managed services, bringing together the cloud computing community around the world to connect, collaborate and learn about AWS. FPT was recognized an AWS premier consulting partner in April last year, the first ASEAN headquartered representative to be accorded its highest tier of partnership.
During the AWS Summit 2019, FPT has showcased Migration Factory & Cloud Managed Services, cutting-edged IT innovations, and especially demos of its digital solutions including akaBot and akaWORK. Giap Bui, FPT Software’s Head of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and his team would be introducing the company’s digital transformation capabilities to the Singaporean audience. According to the organizer, more than 10,000 people are expected to attend AWS Summit 2019.
As part of FPT’s akaMinds ecosystem, akaBot is a comprehensive RPA solution, helping to automate business process for enterprises in various sectors from logistics, health care, customer services, finance and banking, to telecommunications. Meanwhile, akaWORK provides professional DevOps solutions to help businesses achieve the harmony of collaboration among Product Owners, Developers, Testers, QA and IT Operators. Both solutions enable businesses to streamline significantly their operations and drive growth rapidly.
Visitors can find out more about FPT’s service offering and digital transformation capabilities at Booth S10, level 1, hall 2, Singapore Expo Convention & Exhibition Centre.
FPT and AWS began cooperation since 2016 and have worked together in mass migration, managed services and innovations using Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data and Blockchain technologies.
The race for driver-less cars in Southeast Asia gets intense as its autonomous pioneer FPT has planned to kick off a new autonomous project next Thursday in Hanoi. It seems that the global IT firm has kept itself busy since its made-in-Vietnam autonomous solutions were introduced for the first time in 2017.
FPT Global Automotive (FGA) – a strategic unit specializing on automotive technology solutions, has doubled the number of technology experts over the past two years. Some 2,000 employees have worked round the clock to make autonomous vehicles a reality. In October 2017, its first driver-less car hit the road, traveling at a speed of 20 km per hour and using various techniques such as artificial intelligence, radar, GPS, and computer vision to self-navigate, monitor their surroundings, automatically break, re-direct at the intersections and avoid obstacles. Japan’s Vice Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, Mr. Masahiko Tominaga, was one of the distinguished guests who experienced the vehicle on its early days.
With self-driving technologies tested successfully at high-tech zones and campuses, FPT has been invited to work on several automotive projects by demanding Singaporean and Japanese clients. To date, the company has managed to acquire level 3 out of five levels of driving automation and hopefully by the end of 2019 it would gain one more notch. That means, the vehicle would be able to travel with little or no human input under selected road conditions.
For nearly a decade, FPT has been offering numerous services and solutions to world’s top automakers, OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and semiconductors in the industry. The global IT services provider leverages forefront innovations and provides engineering services to customers in multiple projects, ranging from In-Vehicle Infotainment, CAD/CAE, Connectivity to Middleware and Embedded Application. By utilizing extensive experience and accumulated know-how and employing a large pool of talents including 2,200 automotive experts and engineers, FPT implements solutions with processes and quality in accordance with AUTOSAR, Automotive SPICE Level 3, and other global standards. Discover more at https://www.fpt-software.com/industries/automotive/.
FPT inaugurated a new office last week in Toulouse, home of aviation giant Airbus and also the European capital of aeronautics and space industries.
The new office is conveniently situated inside Airbus’s Skywise campus, next to big IT names including Palantir Technologies, IBM, CGI, and Capgemini. These four companies, as well as FPT, were handpicked by Airbus to deploy its open data platform Skywise.
“Our colleagues are working alongside the world’s finest brains on artificial intelligence, big data analytics and cloud computing to change the global aviation industry”, FPT’s Chairman Dr. Truong Gia Binh affirmed proudly. “The opening of our new office in Toulouse is a testament to the fact that Vietnamese firms can compete globally”, he said.
According to Mr. Mathew Evans, Airbus Director of Global Skywise Project, the two companies have collaborated comprehensively and extensively. “Skywise is a global aviation industry project”, he said, “we are in this together not only at the early stage but also set for a long future ahead”.
FPT Software and Airbus signed a letter of intent in mid-December 2017 to develop advanced technologies in aviation based on Airbus’s Skywise platform. Three months later, the two reached a new deal to further strengthen the Skywise ecosystem in Asia. This agreement made FPT the first Southeast Asian firm to become Airbus’s strategic partner in digital transformation.
Launched at the Paris Airshow 2017, Skywise is the “beating heart of aviation”. In time, Airbus aims to extend Skywise to become the data platform of reference for all major aviation players, helping them to improve operational performance and support their digital transformation. FPT currently has nearly 100 engineers working with Airbus on this project and sets to triple the number of team members in a near future.
FPT’s Toulouse office is operated by FPT Software Europe SARL, headquartered in Paris. With a global presence spanning 33 countries and territories, FPT has attributed overseas markets to its rapid growth in the past decades. In 2018, the company recorded more than a billion dollars in revenue, 39 percent of which came from overseas markets.
Do you know that the automotive industry is undergoing the most significant changes since Henry Ford industrialized automotive manufacturing in 1908? All these changes open up new growth opportunities and bring up big challenges concurrently, requiring YOU – companies in the automotive sector to acknowledge and manage them. Let’s take a look at the key challenges that Japanese automotive industry has to face in 2019.
- Consumer behaviour continues to change drastically
According to Japan Times, the young generation in Japan, especially those living in the city, prefer to utilize public transport, giving up on car ownership altogether. Young Japanese are not as keen on automobiles as their elders were while the older generation – car enthusiasts – are rapidly aging. Young Japanese no longer view cars as status symbols but find car ownership an “economic liability“. Owning and operating a car involves numerous expenses, including compulsory inspections (shaken) every two to three years, yearly automobile taxes, mandatory and optional insurance, high parking fees, toll expressways and gasoline cost (Source: Japan Automobile Federation). This explains why more young Japanese are shifting their life styles from owning cars to sharing cars – which is more cost efficient. As a result, they have the tendency of falling out of love with cars due to changes in individuals’ values on cars and financial circumstances.
This constitutes a structural obstacle to the business, leading to a decrease in car consumption domestically. The peak of automobiles sales was 7.8 million units in 1990 during the “bubble” economy, which has dropped to almost 70% of its peak now. There is little hope for major growth. The sales of automobiles will continue to decrease as the consumption tax keeps increasing.
- Digital demands to increase
Just as phones got smart, so will cars. As digital is increasingly applied to the driving experience, cars now are equipped with safety applications, traffic information services, driver assistance and a vast of infotainment features. All these new technical features aim to deliver safety, comfort, connectivity and ultimately, autonomous driving in the future. Worldwide sales of connected vehicles are expected to grow to slightly more than 77 million units annually by 2022, rising at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19% from about 19 million in 2014, according to IHS Automotive. In Japan, the connected-car related market is likely to expand to as large as a trillion yen by 2020. The market is projected to grow further by 2025 to almost twice the size of 2020 to 2 trillion yen, due to increasing number of connected cars and to wider acceptance of those services that use probe information or cloud ADAS (Source: Yano Research Institute Ltd.)
At present, only 10 percent of cars on Japan’s roads having embedded connectivity, compared with 49 percent in the U.S., 31 percent in Europe, and 20 percent in China, according to consultancy SBD Automotive. The threat to the Japanese carmakers is that they have to compete with competitors on a global level that have experience and have built the ecosystem and service platform. So far, the local carmakers have failed to come up with services that would draw users, according to Matsubara of IHS Markit. Toyota started its connectivity company in 2016 and aims to have 70 percent of new cars on the system by 2020. Nissan said last month it plans to offer connectivity for all new Nissan, Infiniti and Datsun cars sold in key markets by 2022. Honda hasn’t announced a target, but has said it’s in the progress of developing new connected technologies. The turning point will be around 2020 to 2025,” said Takao Asami, Nissan’s senior vice president in charge of research. “If we miss that period, we will have a big problem.”
To respond to the growing demands on connected cars, Japanese automotive players are required to shift their concentration and pursue open innovations. They could turn these challenges into opportunities, but only if they could figure out how to make money from this desire. OEMs will have to manage shorter product and service development cycles, such as software and other technology updates while Tier 1 suppliers will need to add more values in alternative powertrain technologies and in innovative solutions for active safety and infotainment.
- Labour shortage to go up
Another prominent problem of Japanese automotive industry is going out of skilled and efficient workers. Japan’s population is expected to decline from about 127 million to about 88 million by 2065, according to the National Institute of Population and Social Security. This issue has had huge impacts to every industry, especially Japanese automotive industry. People associated with cars company are near retirement age and automakers couldn’t find their equivalent replacement from young generation. As time passes, this subject becomes a serious concern and major issue for the Japanese automotive industry: replace the ageing engineering sector with young talents and encourage the young generations to pursue their career in the automotive field. That Japanese youngsters stay apathetic and indifferent towards cars or automotive division is definitely not going to be solved straightforwardly.
Gradually, this has caused labour shortage for Japanese automotive players and auto part suppliers, requiring them to change the traditional business management, operation or product strategy. They are facing with the challenges in optimizing efficiency and product quality despite declining employment. Robots and other automation have recently been utilized as resolutions to meet labour shortages.
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To mitigate challenges and capture future growth, Japanese automotive players cannot simply turn to their traditional toolbox. They need to review and adjust their strategic priorities, deploy the appropriate investments and resources, and establish cooperation with partners from outside the automotive industry. Discover more with FPT in the next newsletter!
FPT has officially opened a new office in Melbourne on Monday, extending its foothold in Australia and capitalizing on the rapid growth of the country’ second largest city.
FPT’s Melbourne office is located at the heart of the city’s emerging mid-town — the Rialto Towers at 525 Collins Street. It is part of FPT Australasia, the company’s Sydney-based subsidiary that has been around since 2008.
“The Melbourne office fortifies our commitment to digital transformation in Australia — with the focus on the East Coast. Combining FPT’s offshore and nearshore development resources, we aspire to help more international businesses optimize and digitize their IT operations in a cost-effective manner”, said Son Minh Nguyen, managing director of FPT Australasia.
According to Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper, Melbourne contributed 28.9 per cent of the national GDP growth. Financial services is the largest focus industry in the city, followed by the information and communications technology sector.
“Australian clients are sensitive to the latest trends in digital transformation, giving us lots of room for partnership and growth. Following this office’s inauguration, we are looking to extend our presence to the West Coast in the near future”, Nguyen added.
Over the past ten years, FPT Australasia has catered to roughly 40 businesses, many of which are ASX200 companies operating in various sectors from Communication & Media, BFSI, Retail, Logistics to Healthcare. In addition to the offices in Sydney and Melbourne, the company also employs local staff in Brisbane and Perth.
The Rialto Towers where FPT’s Melbourne office is being hosted
Across industries, AI is helping to amplify human ingenuity with innovative solutions that elevate people’s lives, grow business value and address society’s challenges. As the result, when enterprises increasingly opt for digital transformation and especially with artificial intelligence AI, the focus has shifted from ‘what’ to ‘how’.
Joining Microsoft’s AI conference this Friday, FPT brings in our stories of breakthroughs that are transforming the world. Deputy Director of FPT Software Hanoi, Mr. Tran Van Dung, will showcase our AI solutions as well as cross-industry intelligent technologies, from content to shopping personalisation.
Microsoft’s “FUTURE NOW” conference series is all about Artificial Intelligence, cross-industry intelligent technologies and the most innovative solutions that simplify everyday life, increase business productivity, address societal challenges and simply change the world as we know it. The event aims to explore how AI can be leveraged to address the rapidly evolving needs of customers, employees, vendors and communities.
The one-day event will attract more than 1,400 business leaders from across industries, and feature dynamic keynotes, breakouts, panel discussions, and success stories from partners as well as customers. Join us to know how FPT Software can help you achieve real business value with AI, and accelerate your digital transformation journey. Details about the event can be found here.
DANANG, Vietnam – Being a pioneer in the Digital Transformation journey, FPT was proud to be at Microsoft’s the Leadership Series 2019 as a Trusted Partner. FPT was delighted to share its DX expertise and innovation solutions with future-oriented platforms and next-gen solutions.
The leadership series is an annual event organized by Microsoft for their Partners & Enterprise customers to update on Microsoft technologies & to enhance its partnership with partner companies. At the two-day session event held in Da Nang, the attendees were given the opportunity to engage with Microsoft’s regional leadership team on the company’s business priorities, innovative product and service offerings. At the same time, as one of Microsoft’s most senior partners in the region, a speech about Smart Manufacturing was delivered by Phu Dang – FPT Software Solution Director, to showcase FPT Smart Manufacturing solutions, which received much attention from hundreds of audiences. Through the event, FPT reinforced the company’s vision for the region information technology sectors and the role a senior partner must play.
“FPT hopes to start the transformation journey keeping our customers at the centre to ensure our customers succeed and achieve above and beyond. FPT & Microsoft will embrace our partnerships that inspire innovation and transformation to enable greater engagement, transparency and reach.” – Nguyen Duc Quynh – Chairman of FPT Software Ho Chi Minh.
FPT is currently one of the most senior partners of Microsoft. With the history of 20-year cooperation, the two have collaborated to bring Microsoft’s powerful solutions to customers in Vietnam and other countries, such as ERP, CRM, Cloud etc.
With experience and capabilities recognized by 600++ global customers and partners, especially by a global technology leader like Microsoft, FPT will provide optimum DX solutions and services to the customers in the digital age not only inside but also outside Vietnam.
FPT joined Digital Innovation 2019, a 2-day Business AI event organized by Nikkei BP Company, as a prestigious gold sponsor. In the event, our expertise in Advanced Analytics (AA), our RPA tool (akaBot™) and AI platform (akaminds®) are showcased to all visitors.
On February 19-20, FPT’s experts have introduced visitors to the latest technological capabilities to the Japanese market, such as akaminds® platform, RPA akaBot™ tool, Advanced Analytics services through success stories of various industries: Smart Production, Banking & Finance, Products Circulation and Distribution. A seminar entitled ” Advanced Analytics, a practical approach of Digital transformation”, delivered by a professional consultant of FPT Japan Mr. Nguyen Dong Dung, attracted more than 120 representatives of Japanese enterprises to participate.
“Digital Transformation is becoming a big wave that changes the business operation of all types of businesses. Some companies boldly adopt information technology (IT) and convert their business models, but there are also many companies that are forced to change if they don’t want to be pushed to the brink of survival. Even now whether success in business is clear or not, the use of IT is the key for businesses to continue to exist.” Mr. Dung said.
In the talk, Mr. Dung emphasised that implementing Digital Transformation services for businesses would enhance customer experience as well as create new value, with the Advanced Analytic service played the key role. At the end of the presentation, Mr. Nguyen Dong Dung introduced the akaminds® platform which is developed by FPT based on practical knowledge and experience and is known as the foundation for smart solutions to help customers’ Digital Transformation process to be implemented with low cost.
The event was organized by Nikkei BP – Japan’s largest economic newspaper. Nikkei BP is the world’s leading prestigious media company, with the highest number of subscriptions in Japan. The contents of all seminars will be published by well-known professional journalists on journals such as Nikkei Computer and Nikkei System.
Digital Innovation is an annual event organized by Nikkei Business Publication. Digital Innovation – Tokyo 2019 took place on February 19-20, with the aim of showcasing the latest technologies such as Business AI, Blockchain, Cloud, IoT, Security etc. Aside from FPT, the event attracted large sponsors including Microsoft, Lenovo, Dropbox Business, Google Cloud, Automation Anywhere, Sales Force, Line Works. Nikkei Business Publication will continue to host events in 4 locations: Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sapporo.
From 2019, FPT Digital Processing Service Company Limited (FPT DPS) is officially established as a subsidiary of FPT Software. DPS aims to deliver comprehensive services to support customers focus resources on core business development and saving effort in the process of Digital Transformation.
The founding members of DPS include Mr. Do Van Khac, Chief Executive Officer of DPS, who is also the Chief Delivery Officer of FPT Japan; Mr. Nguyen Tuan Phuong, Vice President; Mr. Ngo Pham Cong Thuan – The Top 13 Under 35 of FPT 2018 – & Ms. Nguyen Thi My Chi, Sales Vice President and Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Ha, Vice President of HR.
DPS’s service includes: data processing service, digital design solution, AI/ Data Science Service, Shared service and Call Center and Managed Service. DPS, as an independent company, provides specialized data services to support clients and also FPT Software. The ability to provide data processing for Digital Transformation and to provide stable, high-quality managed service is one of the factors helping FPT transform into an end-to-end Digital Transformation service providing company.
The experts of DPS have experience of working in business processing outsourcing (BPO) all over Vietnam and Asia since 2007. They liberated more than 50 clients in the regions from manual errors and physical management of business processes.
DPS is original known as Business Processing Solution (BPS), founded in 2016 to implement Business Process Outsourcing for FPT Software. Started with only 20-30 members in 2016, BPS grew up to over 1,000 people in 2018 with over 100 per cent in revenue with high profit. In 2019, BPS changed its name to DPS, offered additional services towards the Digital Transformation strategy. The firm now has set further challenges to keep expanding the BPO market with thousands employees objective in 2025. With the determination of reaching the high growth rate of 100 per cent, founding additionally new branches in Can Tho, Quang Nam, Ha Tinh, etc., DPS is expected to become the Vietnam’s leading BPO company in partnership with various valuable customers.
With more than 8 years of experience and the experience serving more than 50 clients in Vietnam and ASEAN region, DPS is believed to become a reliable partner providing auxiliary services for customers, helping the clients to focus on his professional operations and speeding up the Digital Transformation process.
Automotive World 2019 took place in Tokyo Big Sight Japan, with 1120 companies to participate and share in the 3-day event. FPT joined the fourth times in Connected Car Japan area along with 30 leading firms, to showcase the best practices of Automotive in the Japanese market.
Software development services for cars, such as Model-Based Design (MBD) service, Controller Area Network (CAN) solution, Internet of Vehicle (IoV) Platform and autonomous vehicle were introduced at FPT’s booth. Within the framework of the event, a seminar was organized to introduce Agile development in Automotive field. During 60 minutes, KDDI customers & FPT shared about Agile methods, the advantages of collaboration with offshore in Vietnam, and the benefits it could bring; the speech was well received and enjoyed by the majority of attendants. Over 600 customers visited FPT Japan’s booth and many questions were raised about Model-Based Design training program from FPT partners.
Mr. Nguyen Cong Hoang – FPT Japan Automotive & Manufacturing Industry Vice Director shared: “It’s conscious that FPT pursues the strategy of product & solution development under vertical industry. Our competitor such as Neusoft has started to follow this trend. FPT Software needs to maintain the quality as well as provide the comprehensive end-to-end service to customers. The training of Model-Based Design services would be a new direction which FPT Software is especially interested in.”
Automotive World is the world’s leading exhibition for advanced automotive technologies. The event is a combination of exhibitions & conferences covering important topics in the automotive industry such as automotive electronics, connected car, autonomous driving, EV/HEV/FCV, lightweight and processing technology. Every year, the event welcomes a large number of exhibitors and visitors from all over the world! Automotive World consists of 6 smaller events: CAR-ELE JAPAN, EV JAPAN, 10th Automotive Lightweight Technology Expo, 8th Connected Car JAPAN, CAR-MECHA JAPAN and 3rd Autonomous Driving Technology Expo.
For the last 10 years, FPT has been offering numerous solutions and services to world’ s top automakers, Equipment Manufacturer, Tier-1 suppliers, and semiconductor manufacturers in the Automotive industry. By utilizing extensive experience and accumulated know-how and employing a large pool of talents including 2,200 experts, FPT focuses on three main areas: Infotainment and, Smart applications and Facilitate support for Internet of Vehicles in accordance with the global standards.
The smart phone application “Japanese Language Training AI”, co-implemented by NTT Docomo and FPT Japan, was honoured with Good Design award 2018 the Japanese Institute of Design Promotion.
“Japanese Language Training AI” is an application training Japanese conversation skill for all foreigners interested in Japanese and foreigners working in Japan. Unlike normal language teaching applications which make learners memorize sentence patterns, this application with the support of AI technology encourages learners practice games. The application is equipped with a suitable function to evaluate and advise even if it’s not the perfect Japanese pronunciation, to reduce the learners’ anxiety when talking to Japanese people. The Artificial intelligence (AI) equipped in the application will judge user’s pronunciation and conversational skill, and give advice on how to express it naturally. The trial version is completely free and supports English and Vietnamese.
FPT received the award with NTT
The application is produced by NTT Docomo and FPT participated as the contributor by testing and giving feedback, which is a typical and important model in product development: to co-operate with customers to shape the final product.
“We believe in the future of application development! Hopefully the application can contribute to Japanese learning journey of foreigners!” FPT Japan CEO Mr. Nguyen Viet Vuong is optimistic about the development of Japanese Language Training AI application.
Mr. Vuong expects in the future the application will be easy to access for both Japanese learners living inside and outside Vietnam. FPT was invited to participate in the application development process based on the value positioning and technological capabilities of FPT, as well as a large number of workforce who learn Japanese, speak Japanese, and love Japanese.
“NTT Docomo’s technology is an AI technology that provides sound and natural language. The application for learning Japanese is only an initial test application, and many other applications can be developed on this technology.” Director of Digital Logistics Industry Group Mr. Bui Vinh Thang shared.
The “Japanese Language Training AI” application
Good Design Award is an annual award awarded by the Japanese Institute of Design Promotion for products enriching our lives and society through design. Since its establishment in 1957, the Good Design Award recognizes different designs around us, including industrial goods, architecture, software, systems, services, etc.
FPT Software successfully delivered the Manufacturing Execution System – the control system to manage and monitor work in the manufacturing process – for Carlsberg in Serbia with great results in just four weeks.
The Manufacturing Execution System related tasks were performed in two weeks and the project team project helps manage production lines and data flow at the factory, thus optimizing line performance and manufacturing process, detecting errors in the production process and maximizing production output. FPT has enhanced the company’s experience in delivering projects related to digital monitoring and controlling Smart Factory system.
Following the success of Carlsberg’s first Smart Factory project in Serbia, the scope of cooperation between FPT and Carlsberg in the field of Manufacturing Execution System will be rolled out China, Malaysia, Greece, and also Carlsberg’s digitalization program in Vietnam.
FPT & Carlsberg signed MoU in September 2018
Currently, Carlsberg is present in 25 markets globally with many of Carlsberg’s factories haven’t yet implemented with the Manufacturing Execution System system. Therefore, FPT Software proven technology capability through the implementation of Manufacturing Execution System is crucial for our journey accompanying Carlsberg in the brewery digitalization program. On January 15, FPT Software will continue to have a high-level meeting with Carlsberg in Copenhagen to plan a cooperation between the two sides in 2019.
Previously, FPT and Carlsberg signed a global framework contract whereupon FPT has officially become Carlsberg’s technology partner, providing Information Technology as well as Digital Transformation services for the global brewer. The two sides also planned to explore additional areas in Digital Transformation including Smart Brewery, Cloud Migration to Azure, Open API platform, Data strategy and analytics with many projects related to Manufacturing Execution System (MES); AI for Planning and Connected Bar. Carlsberg has been planning to roll out MES for 14 factories across this continent in the near future.
- Background & Scope
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a revolution in business process automation with predicted global market growth from $0.9 billion in 2018 to $8.75 billion in 2014.
As a part of the FPT’s akaMinds ecosystem, akaBot is a comprehensive RPA Solution, helping to automate business process for enterprises in various sectors such as: Banking & Finance, Logistic, Health care, Customer care, Telecommunication, Manufacturing and Retail…This platform does not impact on existing IT landscape and adapt to any business changes.
This automation process can save up to 80% operation cost and increase productivity because of 24/7 operation which improve Turnaround Time from hours to minutes and minutes to second. In addition, RPA helps to reduce the rate of human errors and prevents information leakage thereby providing a lower level of operational risk. With reduced errors, improved efficiency and more accurate information, the quality of the customer experience is significantly increased, which increases customer satisfaction and loyalty. Besides, deploying RPA releases your high-value resources from tedious tasks and spend on more creative ones.
2. akaBot advantage
akaBot comes up with One-Stop RPA service of FPT including: Assessment & PoC (Proof of concept), Center of excellence (CoE) development, Implementation, and Maintenance.
On the other hand, akaBot is integrated with FPT’s AI platform, build-in domain packages of IT, Banking, Admin – BO, Procument, Retail…,24/7 worldwide support by domain experts so that it can adapt the high demand from enterprise not only the product features, but also additional service and business value.
Additionally, competitive price is a considerable factor. FPT Software provides most attractive offer in the industry with many added incentives.
3. Akabot features
Akabot has three features: Bot Studio, Bot Center and Bot Agent.
AkaBot Studio provides a wide spectrum of activities to model almost any business processes within an organization. Scale unlimitedly, from simple to complex, by connecting multiple platforms, automating within websites, desktop applications, working with databases, or even interacting with human activities.
Akabot Studio is designed friendly for user. Graphic-based workflow is highly intuitive, no coding required. Moreover, it can be reusable by ability to add workflows to central library. Especially, workflows can have multiple authors and components can be shared between teams and projects for easy collaboration.
AkaBot Center is a web application that enables you to monitor and manage AkaAgents during the implementation of repetitive automation processes such as scheduling, logging and queing. With AkaBot Center, the initialization, monitoring, and deployment of resources in your environment is always under your control.
Besides, with detailed logging and statistics functions, AkaBot Center provides valuable information so that your decision making can be easier, faster and more accurate.
AkaBot Agent is a live robot that implements the automation processes built from AkaBot Studio including web automation, app automation, data automation and centralized configuration. It can handle many different applications and data structures efficiently, quickly and stably. On the other hand, it is controlled by akaBot Center remotely. Therefore, managing and deploying the automation processes is easy and straightforward.
Here is Architecture for Enterprise-level.
4. How akaBot is implemented?
Assessment & Proof of Concept (POC)
Firstly, business processes in enterprises will be examined in order to assess the feasibility of applying akaBot. Then, a specific procedure is chosen and a trial akaBot is applied to test the effectiveness. According to it, customers understand that akaBot can be deployed in any process within the enterprise then assess the benefits based on the pilot application, especially to make the final decision for applying akaBot.
Implementation
When a business does not have CoE (Center of Excellence), FPT provides a package of akaBot deployment services which comprehends: analyzing requirement; developing RPA programs based on the chosen platform, testing robots (akaBot Agents) and establishing them into the working environment.
As a result, the business has a set of akaBot Agents ready to be at your service. By applying akaBot, enterprises would boost their productivity and quality as well as minimize operating and labor costs.
Maintenance & Support
Upon completion, we will continue monitoring the operations for a specified period of time as well as involving RPA experts to assist in troubleshooting when necessary.
MUNICH / HANOI / SINGAPORE, January 24, 2019 – Allianz today announces its intention to enter the general insurance sector in Vietnam through a digital joint venture (JV) to be set up with the FPT Group – driving long-term success in the market and expanding Allianz’s footprint in Asia. FPT Group, as the strategic technology partner, will support Allianz in the fast-growing insurance market in Vietnam to develop innovative digital insurance products and services to meet the protection needs of local customers.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) proposes bringing the two complementary businesses together, with Allianz providing expertise and advice on best practices in insurance product customisation, financial technology, and asset management. FPT will provide access to its distribution channels and affiliates, advise and assist Allianz with local market knowledge, and connect the firm with FPT’s subsidiaries and partners.
The signing ceremony took place on the side-lines of the World Economic Forum in Davos and was attended by Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Allianz SE Board Member Sergio Balbinot, and FPT’s Founder & Executive Chairman Dr. Truong Gia Binh.
Sergio Balbinot, Member of Board Management, Allianz SE, said, “We are delighted to embark on the next stage of our partnership with FPT Group at an exciting time for the development of the Vietnamese economy. Allianz is well-placed to support the protection needs of local consumers by delivering innovative digital insurance solutions for a demographic ready to adopt them.”
Dr. Truong Gia Binh, Founder & Executive Chairman of FPT Group, said, “FPT and Allianz are the perfect match to address the needs of the growing Vietnam market. Allianz has the protection expertise to provide accessible and innovative insurance services, while FPT provides the local knowledge and a digital network reaching an expanding, educated and youthful population. Our partnership is exciting for the future growth potential of Vietnam, and we look forward to many successes.”
George Sartorel, Regional Chief Executive, Allianz Asia Pacific, said, “Today’s announcement outlines our intention to expand Allianz’s world-leading digital insurance products and services into Vietnam – a key emerging market and one of the fastest growing economies in Asia. FPT is the right partner for Allianz to enhance its ability to build a strong market position in the country, and further underscores our ambitious growth strategy in the wider region. We look forward to contributing to the continued development of Vietnam’s fast-growing insurance sector, boosting financial inclusion for the under-protected, and reaching an expanding pool of digitally-minded consumers.”
As the leading IT corporation in Vietnam with more than 10 years of experience in the insurance industry, FPT is well-placed to assist clients with end-to-end services, which are trusted by customers worldwide. Moreover, FPT guarantees an extensive ecosystem with technology expertise in multiple industries.
Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economies in Asia, with a general insurance market which is expected to experience robust growth. Combined with Vietnam’s high internet and mobile penetration, the country is well placed for increased access to digital insurance solutions.
The MOU details both Allianz and FPT Group’s intention to enter into a JV agreement for the establishment of a newly incorporated general insurance company in Vietnam. In line with local regulations, regulatory approval will be sought at the appropriate time.
For further information please contact:
FPT Group:
Vietnam – Linh Pham +84-904-886-885, [email protected]
Allianz:
Munich – Holger Klotz +49 89 3800 90921, [email protected]
Singapore – Sean Ottley +65-8614-0997, [email protected]
About FPT
FPT Corporation is the global leading technology and IT services group headquartered in Vietnam with nearly US$2 billion in revenue and 33,000 employees. FPT is a pioneer in digital transformation and delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Embedded Systems, Managed services, Testing, Platform modernization, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and more. Through its management consulting and technology services subsidiary, Intellinet, FPT provides Business and IT Strategy, Organizational Change and Human Capital Leadership, Program Execution, Customer Experience & Human-Centric Design, as well as other leading digital and technology solutions. FPT has served over 500 customers worldwide, 100 of which are Fortune 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Communications, Media and Services, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities, Consumer Packaged Goods, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Public sector, Technology and more. For more information, please visit www.fpt-software.com or www.intellinet.com.
About Allianz in Asia
Asia is one of the core growth regions for Allianz, characterized by a rich diversity of cultures, languages and customs. Allianz has been present in the region since 1910, when it first provided fire and marine insurance in the coastal cities of China. Today, Allianz is active in 14 markets in the region, offering its core businesses of property and casualty insurance, life, protection and health solutions, as well as asset management. With its more than 32,000 staff, Allianz serves the needs of over 18 million customers in the region across multiple distribution channels and digital platforms.
About Allianz
The Allianz Group is one of the world’s leading insurers and asset managers with more than 88 million retail and corporate customers. Allianz customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing over 650 billion euros on behalf of its insurance customers while our asset managers Allianz Global Investors and PIMCO manage an additional 1.4 trillion euros of third-party assets. Thanks to our systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in our business processes and investment decisions, we hold the leading position for insurers in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2017, over 140,000 employees in more than 70 countries achieved total revenue of 126 billion euros and an operating profit of 11 billion euros for the group.
On Jan 32 (Jan 24 Vietnam time), the world’s powerful business and political leaders descend on Davos, Switzerland, as the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum began. FPT Group and leaders from top 24 global companies such as Airbus, Allianz, Facebook, Siemens, Paypal and more assembled in the Business Breakfast with Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in the framework of Davos World Economic Forum 2019.
The Business Breakfast were co-hosted by FPT Group and the Ministry of Information & Communication. Joining the Prime Minister were Vietnamese ministerial officials including the Ministers; Chairman of the office of the Government and Vietnamese ambassador of Switzerland. The Business Breakfast was joined by leading Vietnamese firms FPT Group, VinaCapital, Vingroup and Viettel to discuss about the global economic situations and opportunities of Vietnamese market.
In the discussion, the Prime Minister emphasised the importance of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution, as it was not only about technology but also a policy revolution. Vietnam has launched the “Make in Vietnam 4.0” program, which aims to promote industries on the base of new policies, management framework and novel technologies. Vietnam is ready to develop a policy framework to accept and allow new technologies, and apply a strong partnership model to create extraordinary, environmentally friendly services and products, in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution. According to Voice of Vietnam, the government aims to build a digital ecosystem with made-in-Vietnam products and services. Since 2017, Vietnam has made progress in various campaigns to build an effective e-government, aiming for Vietnam to become one of the top Digital Nations.
“Vietnam is ready to accompany you to facilitate and implement new strategies, programs, plans for promoting development in the Digital Transformation journey, thus building a successful 4.0 industry.” The Prime Minister stressed.
FPT, as one of 6 representatives from Vietnam, attend the Davos World Economic Forum to meet and discuss with global giants from different industries. As the co-host of the Business Breakfast, FPT showed its pioneer position in accompanying major corporations in the Digital Transformation journey. With 20 years of experiences, the company is pleased to assist both global and domestic firms in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution. On the side-lines of the event, under the witness of the Prime Minister, FPT & Allianz, the global Insurance and Financial group, had signed the MoU of establishing a joint venture in General Insurance.
World Economic Forum 2019 is taking place in Davos, Switzerland with the theme of Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. More than 3,000 participants from business, government, civil society, arts, culture and media reunite in the Swiss mountain town of Davos for five days on some of the most pressing global challenges.
Today, the world’s powerful business and political leaders descend on Davos, Switzerland, as the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum begins. Around 3,000 participants from business, government, civil society, arts, culture and media will reunite in the Swiss mountain town of Davos for five days on some of the most pressing global challenges.
The theme of this year’s meeting is Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Globalization 4.0 and the impact of novel technology, the future of work, education, and social mobility are some of the best topics discussed in World Economic Forum 2019.
A whole new wave of change is crashing on most people in the form of the high-tech digital revolution. New enormous challenges and opportunities are given to enterprises, especially to the leading technology corporations.
As one of six representatives from Vietnam, FPT Group will attend to in World Economic Forum in promising the collaboration with giant corporations of different fields: Banking & Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, etc. Accordingly, the signing ceremony MoU between FPT & Allianz will be organized in the framework of the in World Economic Forum in Davos under the witness of Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
The two companies have been cooperating since 2018. FPT Group, as the strategic technology partner, will support Allianz in the fast-growing insurance market in Vietnam to develop innovative digital insurance products and services to meet the protection needs of local customers.
The Allianz Group is one of the leading integrated financial services providers worldwide. Allianz group offer 88 million customers in more than 70 countries a wide range of products, services, and solutions in insurance and asset management.
Photo sources: Bloomberg & Weforum
On January 11, 2019, FPT America (FAM) will open a new office in Detroit, which is known as The Automotive Capital of the World. FPT Software is delighted to welcome Detroit as our 37th offices in the world, on our 20th year of operation.
The grand opening will be held in the bustling downtown of Detroit and is welcomed by FPT America’s long-time automotive customers and executives. With the opening of the Detroit office, FPT America expects to be able to serve a novel huge promising market and stretch closer to the goal of FPT Software’s ideal target: to become a world-class IT firm. This is an event marking the beginning of FPT America’s 2019 fiscal year.
“It is very delighted to see FAM to start operation in Detroit, where we will work even harder to conquer new challenges partnering with a lot of world-class global companies in the industry. Let’s stretch for a more inspiring dream, to become a World-class IT Services Company. And with the new office opening, we have made our first step of the journey, together.” FPT Software CEO Pham Minh Tuan delighted.
Detroit is The Automotive Capital of the World and the U.S.’s big 3 Automobile. In Detroit, we are serving the Top 1 automotive semiconductor company, Top 1 tier-1 vendor and we are soon to close the deal with Top 2 US Car maker. The clients are excited at our experience in the Automotive industry and huge opportunities await in the promising land. The goals for the first year of Detroit are to target 3 new customers and to gain $1.5 million in the first year.
2019 marks the strong commitment from FPT Software to bring more values and world-class services to our customers. Detroit will contribute as a deciding factor in this mission and offer more values to our Automotive customers in the region.
For the last 10 years, FPT has been offering numerous solutions and services to world’ s top automakers, Equipment Manufacturer, Tier-1 suppliers, and semiconductor manufacturers in the Automotive industry. By utilizing extensive experience and accumulated know-how and employing a large pool of talents including 2,200 experts, FPT focuses on three main areas: Infotainment and, Smart applications and Facilitate support for Internet of Vehicles in accordance with the global standards.
FPT Corporation established its first representative office in the US in 2000, followed by the US subsidiary (FPT America) on October 13, 2008 and currently 2018, has offices in major US cities including Texas, Denver, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Renton and now Detroit, providing IT services in various sectors such as aerospace & aviation, healthcare, banking & finance, telecommunication, automotive, etc. In 2018, by joining force with Intellinet, an US-based management consulting and technology services firm, the company is expected to deliver comprehensive Digital Transformation services for global top companies.
Dear our valued customers, partners and friends,
Happy New Year 2019!
Thank you for your trust, partnership and continuous support to FPT Software throughout the year of 2018.
2018 has been a year of FPT Software’s strong determination to help rebrand our customers’ business in the Digital Transformation journey with Scale, Speed and Quality.
We made a strategic investment to become the major shareholder of Intellinet, an US-based consulting firm, to provide our customers worldwide with “one-stop” solutions that fully cover consultancy, requirement analysis, system design, development, implementation and maintenance.
We became the first ASEAN headquartered AWS Premier Consulting Partner for the recognized consultancy and mass migration competencies to customers worldwide.
We were chosen to implement significant Digital Transformation programs with Airbus – on its aviation big data platform; with Calrsberg – on Smart Brewery; with Toshiba – on IoT solutions for manufacturing; with Shinhan – on Digital Banking and FinTech; with Hanwa – on Multi Robot Data Acquisition and Monitoring System; with Siemens Postal, Parcel & Airport Logistics (SPPAL) innovative software technology for Logistics, and many more. We kept on the growth rate of 30% and continued the geographical expansion with 36 offices across 16 countries to better enable our customers with the global delivery model.
2019 marks the 20th year of FPT Software journey and will also be a solid foundation for us to bring more values and world-class services to customers.
We are fully aware that the deep understanding of customers’ needs is the key to any solution. Thus, we do not only continue expanding our global footprint worldwide “to be where our customers are”, but we also accumulate the best practices and skills from our experience in Digital Transformation as well as develop our consultancy forces to help our customers faster identify feasible solutions to their pain points, to help monetize big data in large organizations and to power executives with data-driven business.
We understand that we can help customers succeed only by technology competencies and intensive domain expertise.
For years, we have been partnering with the global technology disruptors such as AWS, Microsoft, Siemens, and GE etc. Thousands of FPT Software engineers have been trained and have early adopted these technologies to help our clients. We invested in Digital Solutions to provide plug and play IT components using a combination of Proprietary, Open source capability and Digital commercial offerings from the chosen partners.
From the domain perspective, FPT Software has made remarkable organizational changes since 1/1/2019 to form focused groups for each vertical industry including Manufacturing, Logistics, Banking and Finance. The groups’ missions are to leverage FPT Software’s domain expertise and capabilities over the last 20 years to develop in-depth competencies, to be closer to customers worldwide in the industry, so as to cater their high-quality service offerings at a fast pace.
We have embraced the ambition to become the trusted digital enabler for our global clients. With the significant change in our organizational structure as well as the strong focus on developing new added services and IT solutions, we desire to help you, our valued customers, to transform your business in a fast and notable manner. Together we will be successful and make 2019 a great year!
Once again, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation for your ongoing support.
Wish you and your family a happy and successful new year!
Yours sincerely,
Pham Minh Tuan
CEO, FPT Software.
FPT Software’s Digital Transformation service, which is one of the two awarded information technology (IT) products, was honored in the Top 10 Key Industrial Products of Hanoi in 2018.
Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee recognized the Key Industrial Products of Hanoi in 2018 for 61 products of 36 enterprises, with the recognition period of 3 years until 2022. Moreover, 10 products of 9 enterprises have been recognized by the Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee as the Top 10 Key Industrial Products of Hanoi in 2018.
In the list of 61 Key Industrial Products of Hanoi in 2018, there are 13 products and services of 4 IT companies, including FPT Software with Digital Transformation services, VNPT Technology with GPON optical network equipment; and BKAV Joint Stock Company with Bkav Pro software and digital signature services. Notably, FPT Software’s Digital Transformation service and VNPT Technology’s GPON optical network equipment are listed on the Top 10 list of Key Industrial Products of Hanoi in 2018.
Enterprises recognized by Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee as the Key Industrial Products will be granted certificates of Key Industrial Products in Hanoi and certificate of the Top 10 Key Industrial Products. Enterprises are required to promote and honor the products widely on mass media of Hanoi as well as are given priority to participate in Hanoi’s promoting programs an events according to regulations. Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee asked enterprises of which products are recognized as Key Industrial Products of Hanoi to develop their production and business strategies to improve the technology production, optimize inputs and improve efficiency, labor productivity, product quality, expand the domestic market, and meet the requirements of export and international integration.
Since 2017, Digital Transformation has become a business direction of FPT Software, to bring benefit to both the customers and the company. Over the recent years, FPT’s capabilities and pioneering position of Digital Transformation have been proven by global success stories such as: applying the most up-to-date technologies on developing Airbus’s digital services platform Skywise, implementing Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Vietnam’s Oil & Gas Industry, etc. Gaining such global accomplishments has entrusted FPT as a Vietnam focal point in Digital Transformation journey. Earlier this year, by joining force with Intellinet, an US-based management consulting and technology services firm, the company is expected to deliver comprehensive Digital Transformation services for global top companies.
FPT’s RPA solution akaBot helps companies reduce dependency on manpower and maintain business continuity during COVID-19
HANOI, Vietnam, April 8, 2020 – As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forces companies around the world to send workers home, Vietnam’s leading technology company FPT has helped them ease into the new reality with automation.
Over the next three months, existing customers of its featured product akaBot will be entitled to three extra months free of charge to the annual robotics process automation (RPA) licenses.
New customers who sign the RPA licensing agreement from now until the end of June will get the same offer, plus consulting services for the first business process automation at zero cost.
Work from Home with Ease
FPT’s RPA solution akaBot allows businesses to automate repetitive processes that would otherwise be done manually, freeing up remote-working manpower so they could maintain business continuity during COVID-19. It also helps businesses improve work productivity and reduce operating costs during this challenging time.
akaBot’s RPA solution has been provided to thirteen companies in six countries, operating in various domains, including finance, manufacturing, retail, and IT services. Examples of back-office processes that are in surging demand for automation range from responses to customer inquiries, loan processing, to granting remote access to internal networks and private resources via Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Virtual Private Network, Microsoft OneDrive, etc.
Earlier in March, FPT also pledged to provide free security monitoring and incident response solutions to small and medium-sized businesses in Vietnam, helping prevent cybersecurity attacks as teleworkers access to company servers from remote and unsecured locations.
The company also worked with Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications to deploy an AI-powered mobile application to provide real-time data on COVID-19 and at-home assessment of the infection risks based on user locations.
Vietnam’s COVID-19 Updates
On April 1, Vietnam’s Prime Minister officially declared COVID-19 a national epidemic and enforced social distancing throughout the country for 15 days, which could be extended to one month. The Government called on the public to “stay at home and work online” unless shopping for necessities or working in businesses that produce essential goods.
The country has won praises from foreign countries for its capability to keep COVID-19 in check despite limited resources. As of April 7, the country has confirmed 249 positive cases, half of which have recovered, and zero death.
However, Vietnam’s economy has been hit hard by the crisis. Nearly 35,000 businesses were forced to close in Q1-2020, according to a report released by Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment on Monday. More than half of them were suspended temporarily because of COVID-19, the report said.
About FPT Corporation
FPT Corporation is a global leading technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam, with nearly US$2 billion in revenue and 28,000 employees. As a pioneer in digital transformation, FPT delivers world-class services in Smart factory, Digital platforms, RPA, AI, IoT, Enterprise Mobility, Cloud, AR/VR, Embedded Systems, Managed services, Testing, Platform modernization, Business Applications, Application Services, BPO, and more. The company has served over 700+ customers worldwide, a hundred of which are Fortune Global 500 companies in the industries of Aerospace & Aviation, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Logistics & Transportation, Utilities and more. For more information, please visit www.fpt-software.com.
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At a webinar earlier this week, FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh offered to help Japanese companies overcome COVID19 challenges through a new method that he called “business critical collaboration”.
Addressing more than 360 Japanese business leaders, Binh noted areas of potential collaboration including cost optimization, rebadging, joint venture and so on.
“Recently, we have upgraded the relationships with many of our Fortune 500 customers. A major US automotive manufacturer has agreed to engage FPT in their major projects, from enhancing software for existing car models to working on new ideas together”, he said. “This collaboration is not just about profit sharing. It also means sharing challenges so we could navigate the crisis and thrive together”.
FPT’s senior executives and guest speakers from Mitsubishi Vietnam, DENSO Manufacturing Vietnam, and JETRO at the webinar on June 24 2020
Binh noted four major challenges that Japanese companies are facing as a result of COVID-19, including supply chain disruption, revenue decline, business suspension, and lack of readiness for remote working.
“43 per cent of Japanese firms are struggling to adapt to remote working due to their inadequate IT infrastructure. The rest of the responders have reported that supply chain disruption, revenue decline, and business suspension are among their greatest difficulties during the COVID-19 time.”, he cited a recent survey of 300 business leaders conducted by FPT.
To overcome these challenges, companies in Japan should adopt digital transformation and diversify their supply chain, he suggested.
Holding the same viewpoint, DENSO Manufacturing Vietnam General Director Mr. Mitsuo Ota affirmed: “I believe that geo-diversification in the supply chain together with enhancing digital capabilities can help companies overcome this crisis”.
“Vietnam is a great destination for foreign investment, and Japanese firms could opt for remote offshore model”, said Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Hanoi Office Manager Takeo Nakajima. “I believe that FPT could help Japanese businesses reinvent their supply chain with their capabilities in digital transformation”