akaBot solution is honored as “Innovation Star” 2023
Recently, the Robotic process automation (RPA) solution – akaBot by FPT Information Systems Corporation (FPT IS) has been honored with the Innovation Star Award – Top 4 Outstanding Exemplary Innovative Solutions 2023. The solution, representing the entire FPT Corporation’s solutions, is the only automation solution honored in Top 4 of the Program.
akaBot stands out with innovations compliant with international standards
Recently, Vietnam National Innovation Center (NIC) and Meta Group have jointly organized the announcement ceremony of Vietnam Innovation Challenge Program 2023 to honor technology solutions that strongly promote the digital transformation process of businesses.
Overcoming more than 700 solutions from many countries, akaBot – the Robotic process automation (RPA) solution – is the only solution of FPT Corporation honoured in Top 4 Outstanding Exemplary Innovative Solutions and given the Innovation Star Award. akaBot and the other solutions are evaluated based on 7 criteria, including: Capacity of problem solving, Uniqueness and approach, Readiness for the Vietnamese market, Reasonable cost for replication, Large-scale scalability, Thoroughness in solving practical problems, and Sustainability in terms of social impact.
Mr. Tran Dang Hoa (fourth from the left) – Chairman of FPT IS – receives the award of Top 4 Outstanding Exemplary Innovative Solutions for akaBot.
akaBot is a comprehensive robotic process automation (RPA) solution for businesses with “robot assistants” capable of simulating human operations to perform repetitive tasks in large numbers. Up to now, akaBot has significantly expanded the number of global customers, with more than 3,500 businesses in 21 countries and more than 10,000 virtual robots deployed.
akaBot is not only highly appreciated in terms of professional competence of the management team, the solution also receives positive feedback for the criterion of “Readiness for the Vietnamese market”. In the domestic market, akaBot has deployed more than 5,000 virtual robots for 20 banks across the country and is the leading solution in terms of super-automation for the Finance – Banking sector.
The automation solution of FPT IS has also reached almost absolute score for the criterion of “Sustainability in terms of social impact”. It is known that, in an effort to create an ideal digital working environment, akaBot’s virtual assistants have freed more than 11 million employees from tedious tasks, shortened 70% of the process handling time, and saved up to 21.9 million working hours per year. Besides, akaBot also contributes to the realization of “green office” by reducing 60% of the papers used at work.
Besides akaBot, the electronic contract solution – FPT.eContract – has also been honored in the Top 24 Exemplary Innovative Solutions. FPT.eContract is one of the leading solutions in the electronic signing market with more than 2,000,000 transactions completed, more than 4,000,000 users, and more than 1,500 corporate customers performing remote signing on the platform, typically: VNPay, Vietjet, Be Group, Tiki, 30Shine…
“Creativity – entrepreneurship from the inside” helps FPT IS create breakthroughs in product development strategy
“akaBot emerges and completely resolves the pain point of process automation for businesses, which is a clear demonstration of the product development and innovation – creativity strategy at FPT IS. At FPT IS, we have always been nurturing the dream of entrepreneurship and innovation – creativity since the very beginning, that is how we create challenges and motivations for the employees to be more creative in the technology playground”, said Mr. Tran Dang Hoa – Chairman of FPT IS.
With a proper R&D policy and annual innovation – creativity program, there have been more than 60 high-quality Made-by-FPT-IS products launched to the market, such as: Smart healthcare ecosystem – FPT.eHospital 2.0+; Digital government suite – FPT.dGov; Electronic contract solution – FPT.eContract; Remote signing solution – FPT.eSign; Anti-fraud solution for digital identity verification – FPT.IDCheck, Digital citizen application; Intelligent Operations Centers for provinces/cities…, properly addressing pain points of both domestic and international customers.
Mr. Tran Dang Hoa – Chairman of FPT IS – commits to accompanying and promoting innovation – creativity in Vietnam.
“Innovation – creativity in Vietnam is blooming, and digital transformation today is no longer about costs, it is about profits. In the future, FPT IS commits to comprehensively accompany the Government and businesses in the roadmap to promote innovations, synergizing the power of the Vietnamese technology community to replicate growth based on creativity. With FPT Corporation’s ecosystem of more than 50 million users, FPT IS is always ready to accompany startups in growing customer base and developing ideas. Through that, we expect to promote the overall development of Vietnam, creating happiness for each person and business”, emphasized Mr. Hoa.
FPT IS has been participating in FPT Venture and FPT Accelerator funds of FPT Corporation to contribute to building a technology ecosystem for Vietnam. Currently, more than 100 startups have registered for FPT’s technology infrastructure support program with each project worth of billions of VND.
In the coming time, FPT IS in particular and FPT Corporation in general will continuously promote investment in developing product ecosystems that respond to the trends of digital transformation for both domestic and international organizations and businesses, encouraging and replicating the spirit of innovations, as well as closely accompanying the technology community to develop solutions that bring prosperity to Vietnam.
