The Centre for Information Technology Solutions, affiliated with the military-run Viettel Group, has recently attended the E-government Conference and Exhibition 2013 held in Hanoi by the National Steering Committee on Information Technology under the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) in collaboration with International Data Group (IDG). Viettel introduced six software solutions for various fields to this conference, including SMAS – school management system, VGOMS – staff management software, V-Portal – electronic information portal, Emanifest – electronic port clearance software, and Office.ONE – legal record management system and electronic office.
In 2013, Viettel officially renounced the concept of telecommunications network and shifted to the concept of services supplier. Currently, nearly 3,000 Viettel employees are working with application development. By 2015, 30 percent of Viettel workforce will be engaged in application development. Currently, the military-run group has invested to build the largest transmission network in Vietnam with 200,000 km of optical cables and 3G service coverage reaching 80 percent of the Vietnamese population, on par with that in developed countries. As a leading telecom and IT business, Viettel has established the Centre for Information Technology Solutions in order to realise its strategy of bringing IT to all areas and bringing Vietnam to the par with IT powerhouses.
The way Viettel does this is to base on customers’ orders so as not to change users’ habits. Meanwhile, Viettel is also willing to invest in building and improving products and services in advance. Viettel has partnered with governmental agencies and business groups in Vietnam to successfully deploy large IT application projects like the document and worksheet management system for the Office of Government, the electronic customs clearance system for ships (e-Manifest), the electronic government system in Ha Giang province, the school management system (SMAS), and the 3G-based online sales management system for Vinamilk Corporation. As all IT products and solutions are developed by Viettel with its technological mastery, its solutions, products and services are highly customisable and flexible to meet different specific needs. Moreover, Viettel supplies integrated IT and telecom products in the form of service, which bring huge benefits to users as they do not need to invest in infrastructure or pay copyright fees.
Currently, these projects have started to bring very positive results. Mr Nguyen Tran Hieu, Deputy Director of IT Department under the General Department of Customs (GDC), the Ministry of Finance, said: “The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Customs has applied e-Manifest all electronic declaration systems, cooperated with Viettel, to all customs procedures. Nearly 40 shipping firms to and from ports of Ho Chi Minh City all performed e-customs procedures and they saved a lot of time and expenses for this work. These initial results are extremely important because they lay the groundwork for the successful implementation of the single-window mechanism, not only in customs declaration, but also in port operation. This will also help synchronise data and processes of transportation at three management authorities, namely the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Ministry of Transport.”
Ms Mai Kieu Lien, CEO of Vinamilk Corporation, added “With the goal of becoming one of 50 largest dairy companies in the world by 2017 with annual revenue of US$3 billion, Vinamilk will need powerful tools to respond to market development in the fastest manner to raise customer service quality and enhance international business governance. Therefore, Vinamilk’s IT application to governance is soon accepted and strategically invested. We have searched many software products from foreign suppliers but their solutions did not fit our requirements. The Viettel system is expandable to unlimited users. Especially, its operation with Viettel’s 3G network has helped us solve problems coming from our country-wide sale network.”
In education, “The SMAS software system brings an overall solution to the education sector and supports the management system synchronisation based on database continuation and sharing from different management levels and different localities. This is the difference that other software has ever done yet,” said Mr Nguyen Hoai Chuong, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, which tests the first SMAS system on a nationwide scale.
So far, Viettel has provided free IT and telecom connections to 30,000 schools across the country, which benefit 15 million students and 800,000 teachers, and supplied school management system tools comprising electronic student record, electronic contact record, parent – student messaging package, electronic lecture, e-books and many others. Viettel has successfully invested to build and deploy high -speed connectivity infrastructure from the Office of Government to 178 points of ministries, branches, localities, and key State-run corporations. For customers like the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Communications and Information, the General Department of Customs, the Ministry of Justice, the State Audit of Vietnam, Viettel has been successful in building infrastructure connecting information systems and industry-specific databases at national scales like social and economic information generalisation system, litigation database system, and State personnel management system. Internationally, Viettel has successfully deployed videoconferencing systems and software application systems (document management, personnel management, electronic information portal) for the Office of the National Assembly of Cambodia, the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, and the Government of Haiti.
Anh Son
Đăng ký: VietNam News
