The launching ceremony of the akaBot platform – corporate process automation - was held by the Ministry of Information and Communications in Hanoi on Friday.
The launching ceremony of the akaBot platform – corporate process automation - was held by the Ministry of Information and Communications in Hanoi on Friday.
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The launching ceremony. |
akaBot is FPT's third "Make in Vietnam" platform among 33 platforms selected by the Ministry of Information and Communications to introduce and sponsor media in the "Friday of Technology" program, in serving the National Digital Transformation Program to 2025, with the vision to 2030, which was approved by the Prime Minister in June 2020.
The two previous platforms of FPT that were chosen by the Ministry of Information and Communications are FPT.AI and akaChain. All three platforms are in FPT's ecosystem of digital transformation solutions to support businesses and organizations to increase productivity, save costs, and maximize resources to overcome crises and to keep growing.
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Deputy Director of the IT Department To Thi Thu Huong says the development and commercialization of technology platforms including akaBot represents a big move for FPT. |
The development and commercialization of technology platforms including AkaBot, according to Ms. To Thi Thu Huong, Deputy Director of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Information and Communications, is a big move for FPT Corporation, from providing outsourcing services to creating and mastering core technologies and developing platform products for national digital transformation.
She said that the launch of technology platforms for digital transformation every Friday by the Ministry of Information and Communications demonstrated the encouragement and support of the local technology business community to development policies of the Government and Ministry of Information and Communications, including the strategy "Make in Vietnam".
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Deputy Director of the Department of Information Technology Do Cong Anh believes that the "software robot" akaBot will play an important role in digital transformation for businesses in the finance, banking, logistics and healthcare sectors. |
At the launching ceremony of akaBot, Deputy Director of the Department of Information Technology Do Cong Anh emphasized that digital economy has been identified as one of the three pillars of the National Digital Transformation Program and digital transformation among businesses is also an important direction.
"I believe that akaBot solution will play a very strong role in digital transformation for businesses operating in the fields of finance, banking, logistics, and health," he said.
According to the development team, akaBot is a robotic process automation (RPA) solution for businesses with "virtual assistants" capable of simulating human manipulation, helping to perform repetitive tasks in large numbers.
With the core technology of RPA, akaBot is capable of integrating AI (artificial intelligence) and OCR (optical character recognition) technology to build a comprehensive, non-invasive intelligent automation solution which can interact with all business softwares such as Word, Excel, SAP, Web ...
FPT began providing AkaBot in 2018. In the last two years, akaBot has been providing RPA solutions to more than 20 customers and strategic partners in Vietnam, the US, Japan, UK, South Korea, Taiwan (China), typically Thinkpower, HSBC, Panasonic, TPBank, and Mizuho.
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