Viet Thai enters agreement for Microsoft’s licenced software

July 31, 2013 | 09:30
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Today, Microsoft and Viet Thai International Joint Stock Company officially marks a key milestone in strengthening their business partnership by signing an enterprise agreement.

Under this agreement, all Microsoft products including comprehensive IT solutions to improve work productivity and information safety being used at Viet Thai will be legalised. 

The partnership agreement signifies an important milestone for Microsoft and Viet Thai as both companies agree to standardise 300 licenscs for Microsoft Office 2013, 300 licences for Microsoft Windows 8, 300 licences for Core CAL, four licences for Windows Server, one licence for Lyn Server and one licence for Exchange Server as well as updates of any new relevant Microsoft products within the next three years.  

This agreement demonstrates Viet Thai’s leadership and shows its serious commitment to support intellectual property and desire to partner with Microsoft to continue strengthening its IT infrastructure. 

“As a service oriented company, our priority is to meet all customers’ requirements and ensure their satisfaction with our products and services. We realise that the deployment of advanced technology and a solid IT platform are important in enabling Viet Thai to improve staff productivity,” Dr. Thiet Nguyen, chief administration officer of Viet Thai said. “By legalising Microsoft’s genuine software under the agreement today, we strongly believe that Viet Thai International will leverage its full potential and increase competitive capability to provide the best products and services to our customers.”

For its part, Microsoft will support the implementation and deployment this solution in IT infrastructure of Viet Thai International.

 “IT trend has been continuously developing and we could not ignore benefits that IT can bring to any enterprise. Consumerisation of IT and flexible lifestyle are the growing tendency for new information technology towards to flexibility, diversity and mobility for business. With a famous brand that it has, Viet Thai’s decision on building a solid IT infrastructure through solutions such as Microsoft Office 2013, Windows 8, Core CAL, Lyn Server, Windows Server and Exchange Server will help them to better improve competitive capability and differentiate themselves at seriously competitive environment like today,” said Vu Minh Tri, general manager of Microsoft Vietnam.

Viet Thai is a 100 per cent Vietnamese joint stock company with head office in Hanoi, a commercial office in Ho Chi Minh City and in Hong Kong. It has over 3,000 employees and operates three business units with over 140 retail locations throughout Asia. Viet Thai’s food&beverage includes well-known company brands of Highlands Coffee and Pho 24 and master franchise brand of Hard Rock Café.   Its mass retail business includes consumer lifestyle master franchise brands of Emporio Armani, Swarovski, and Aldo.  In the distribution business, Viet Thai has joint venture partnerships with Russia Standard and BrightStar throughout a number of Asian countries. 

 

By By Hoang Anh

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