Vietnam firm FPT Software and Anaplan Asia Pacific Partner to accelerate Enterprise Performance across Southeast Asia

FPT Software, the top provider of IT and technology services in Vietnam, recently partnered with Anaplan Asia Pacific, a platform for corporate planning and decision-making. As a regional integration partner for Anaplan Asia Pacific, FPT Software intends to offer cloud-based Enterprise Performance Management to companies throughout Southeast Asia.

Through the agreement, Anaplan will now be able to serve additional customer segments in Southeast Asia as part of FPT Software's industry-leading digital transformation portfolio. Enterprise-wide planning, data collecting, and analysis will enable business clients to improve performance. The partnership also focuses on fostering ongoing communication between the finance and operations departments by utilising the strengths of both parties.

Businesses in Southeast Asia are investing in creating new digital capabilities and technologies to preserve competitiveness as the fourth largest trading and consuming area in the world with one of the greatest technologically savvy sectors. According to research by Altimeter, 72% of leaders in Southeast Asia not only support digital transformation in principle but also rank it among their top three business goals for the coming year.

The cooperation, which is run by FPT Software's Digital Transformation Group, brings together Anaplan's connected planning platform and FPT Software's expertise in exploiting digital technologies. The planning, forecasting, and decision-making capabilities of Anaplan will be made available to FPT Software's clients in the automotive, manufacturing, logistics & transportation, and utilities sectors. Consequently, to improve their personnel, sales, marketing, supply chain, and financial performance. Enterprises can create a single source of truth, do away with the need for estimates, and get the insight required to confidently prepare for an unpredictable future with planning solutions that integrate data and highlight blind spots across departments.

“The partnership with Anaplan will enable FPT Software to extend its outreach in the Digital Transformation services portfolio. We’re glad that Anaplan shares the same vision in cloud infrastructure while bringing in valuable offerings in business planning. Through this partnership with Anaplan, we’re rolling up our sleeves to strengthen our capabilities in Cloud Financial Planning to better assist our clients, especially those from the Fortune 500, as these enterprises have an established view regarding business strategy,” Frank Bignone, Vice President of Global Digital Transformation of FPT Software pledged.

Mark Micallef, Asia-Pacific Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Anaplan said: “Enterprises across Southeast Asia from many industries have embraced Anaplan to accelerate decision-making, drive efficiencies and stay resilient. Our collaboration with FPT Software will enable customers to create a digital backbone for their organisations, and confidently build agile, forward-looking plans that fuel innovation and growth across finance, supply chain, workforce, and sales.”