India may be known as the world’s leading software developer – but Vietnam is fast receiving kudos from the global software development community. Ho Chi Minh City-based TMA Solutions is one of a number of local firms leading the charge. The company recently beat two large Indian rivals to land a high-end outsourcing contract from Critical Path, a San Francisco-based technology company, to develop communication platform software for Internet Service Providers, telcos, wireless carriers and postal authorities in the US and Europe.
Critical Path is now ranked among the world’s top 15 companies, by the prestigious US-based market analysis firm Aberdeen Group, in the use of offshore software outsourcing practices. TMA Solutions chairman Dr Nguyen Huu Le said: “I think our firm’s success in a very competitive market is based on its determination to embrace good practices to ensure quality and increase productivity.”
Critical Path has since signed two more software outsourcing contracts with TMA. “The deals are proof of the quality of work we are doing in Vietnam. We believe the partnership will be further developed with new deals,” said Le. He said his company was looking to establish an offshore development centre (ODC) in Vietnam with Critical Path. “If established, the centre will help the US company outsource to TMA steadily,” he said, adding Critical Path had already established ODCs in San Francisco, Canada and Ireland.
A number of other local firms are tasting success. Hanoi-based VietSoftware, a small software development company which boasts a strong domestic presence, has inked large contracts with giants such as IBM after fighting to overcome the recent global sag in IT firm fortunes.
Paragon Solutions Vietnam subsidiary to the US company Paragon Solutions, announced that its e-learning software package, SoftSim received a gold medal for technology innovation in the 2002 Excellence in e-Learning Awards held in the US. SoftSim, which is produced for the US-backed e-learning company OutStart, was selected as one of three gold medal winners from 130 countries, while the Dolsoft Company has been successfully selling shrink-wrapped software products into the European market for many years and has recently broken into the US market.
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we need some more time ... We will soon close in the Gap ... India can not keep up with the demands ....( Need Mil 1+ India= 700,000) meanwhile Vn labor cost is considered much cheaper ..We will not dominate the software development industry any time soon .. But sooner or later we will become " India alternative" or even "rival"
VN 2003 money earned in this field $600 mil +
India ----------------------------------$ 6+ bil
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India may be known as the world’s leading software developer – but Vietnam is fast receiving kudos from the global software development community. Ho Chi Minh City-based TMA Solutions is one of a number of local firms leading the charge. The company recently beat two large Indian rivals to land a high-end outsourcing contract from Critical Path, a San Francisco-based technology company, to develop communication platform software for Internet Service Providers, telcos, wireless carriers and postal authorities in the US and Europe.
Critical Path is now ranked among the world’s top 15 companies, by the prestigious US-based market analysis firm Aberdeen Group, in the use of offshore software outsourcing practices. TMA Solutions chairman Dr Nguyen Huu Le said: “I think our firm’s success in a very competitive market is based on its determination to embrace good practices to ensure quality and increase productivity.”
Critical Path has since signed two more software outsourcing contracts with TMA. “The deals are proof of the quality of work we are doing in Vietnam. We believe the partnership will be further developed with new deals,” said Le. He said his company was looking to establish an offshore development centre (ODC) in Vietnam with Critical Path. “If established, the centre will help the US company outsource to TMA steadily,” he said, adding Critical Path had already established ODCs in San Francisco, Canada and Ireland.
A number of other local firms are tasting success. Hanoi-based VietSoftware, a small software development company which boasts a strong domestic presence, has inked large contracts with giants such as IBM after fighting to overcome the recent global sag in IT firm fortunes.
Paragon Solutions Vietnam subsidiary to the US company Paragon Solutions, announced that its e-learning software package, SoftSim received a gold medal for technology innovation in the 2002 Excellence in e-Learning Awards held in the US. SoftSim, which is produced for the US-backed e-learning company OutStart, was selected as one of three gold medal winners from 130 countries, while the Dolsoft Company has been successfully selling shrink-wrapped software products into the European market for many years and has recently broken into the US market.
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we need some more time ... We will soon close in the Gap ... India can not keep up with the demands ....( Need Mil 1+ India= 700,000) meanwhile Vn labor cost is considered much cheaper ..We will not dominate the software development industry any time soon .. But sooner or later we will become " India alternative" or even "rival"
VN 2003 money earned in this field $600 mil +
India ----------------------------------$ 6+ bil
Critical Path is now ranked among the world’s top 15 companies, by the prestigious US-based market analysis firm Aberdeen Group, in the use of offshore software outsourcing practices. TMA Solutions chairman Dr Nguyen Huu Le said: “I think our firm’s success in a very competitive market is based on its determination to embrace good practices to ensure quality and increase productivity.”
Critical Path has since signed two more software outsourcing contracts with TMA. “The deals are proof of the quality of work we are doing in Vietnam. We believe the partnership will be further developed with new deals,” said Le. He said his company was looking to establish an offshore development centre (ODC) in Vietnam with Critical Path. “If established, the centre will help the US company outsource to TMA steadily,” he said, adding Critical Path had already established ODCs in San Francisco, Canada and Ireland.
A number of other local firms are tasting success. Hanoi-based VietSoftware, a small software development company which boasts a strong domestic presence, has inked large contracts with giants such as IBM after fighting to overcome the recent global sag in IT firm fortunes.
Paragon Solutions Vietnam subsidiary to the US company Paragon Solutions, announced that its e-learning software package, SoftSim received a gold medal for technology innovation in the 2002 Excellence in e-Learning Awards held in the US. SoftSim, which is produced for the US-backed e-learning company OutStart, was selected as one of three gold medal winners from 130 countries, while the Dolsoft Company has been successfully selling shrink-wrapped software products into the European market for many years and has recently broken into the US market.
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we need some more time ... We will soon close in the Gap ... India can not keep up with the demands ....( Need Mil 1+ India= 700,000) meanwhile Vn labor cost is considered much cheaper ..We will not dominate the software development industry any time soon .. But sooner or later we will become " India alternative" or even "rival"
VN 2003 money earned in this field $600 mil +
India ----------------------------------$ 6+ bil
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