About FPT:
FPT (VNINDEX: FPT) is the largest IT Company in Vietnam with over US$1.36 billion revenue and 17,000 employees. Qualified with CMMI 5 & ISO 27001:2005, FPT delivers IT-enabled business solutions globally and has presence in US, Japan,Europe and Asia Pacific. FPT's domain expertise includes manufacturing, semiconductors, healthcare, oil & gas, financial services and satellite TV.
FPT continues to expand its business to the global market. FPT has clients or opened representative offices and companies in 17 countries including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, America, Japan, Singapore, Germany, Myanmar, France, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Philippines, Kuwait, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
FPT has intensive experience of establishing and implementing large scale business models. After nearly twenty six years, FPT is now the No. 1 company in Vietnam specializing in Software Development, System Integration, IT Services, Distribution and Manufacturing of IT products, and Retails. In telecommunications area, FPT is one of three biggest Internet services providers in Vietnam. In regard to content development, FPT is now the No. 1 online advertising company in Vietnam, owning an e-newspaper with more than 42 million page views per day, which is equal to the number of Internet users in Vietnam. In addition, FPT is one of the best IT training service providers in Vietnam with college and vocational training system, attracting nearly 16,000 students.
Vietnam's FPT to deploy cloud-related services in Japan
An FPT software development center in Hanoi.
TOKYO -- A Vietnamese software giant will launch a service here next month for companies seeking to adopt cloud computing at lower cost.
FPT Software's Japanese unit will link data from clients' proprietary systems to cloud services for such tasks as customer management, payroll calculations and file storage.
As a cost-saving measure, many Japanese businesses are drawn to public cloud services from providers like Amazon.com, Salesforce.com and Google. But if these services and a firm's proprietary system are not fully integrated, employees may end up having to enter user names and passwords for each separate task or input data multiple times.
Integrating in-house systems and public clouds calls for customization, raising costs. FPT says it is cost-competitive in this area.
FPT employs 2,500 engineers in Vietnam with proficiency in Japanese -- a roster it plans to double to 5,000 in 2017. Along with benefiting from labor costs 60-80% below Japan's, it has built dedicated tools to improve efficiency in such tasks as transferring software from a company's in-house system to the cloud and verifying operations. Such advantages will let FPT reduce development man-hours by up to 80%, according to the firm.
FPT initially forayed into Japan back in 2005. It has handled software development for Japanese information technology companies as a subcontractor and has also won orders from consumer electronics firms to develop software for in-house systems and smartphones as well as embedded software for electronics devices.
By offering the cloud support service to corporate clients, FPT hopes to cultivate a new pillar of earnings and increase direct transactions with Japanese companies. Its business in Japan totaled roughly $52.5 million in 2013. By cultivating new fields, it aims to lift this by 33% on the year to around $70 million in 2014.
Vietnam's FPT to deploy cloud-related services in Japan- Nikkei Asian Review
