By Jirapan Boonnoon
The Nation
Leading Thai IT firms CDG Group and G-Able (C&G) are planning to set up two new businesses to expand their
customer bases and expect that by the end of this year, the new companies will be generating combined revenues of about
Bt1.2 billion.
C&G chief executive Nart Liucharoen said one of the new companies would be named Globe Tech. The other will
specialise in providing software-as-a-service via cloud computing to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Globe Tech will be a provider of digital content, such as online maps, aerial photographs and satellite images as well as
providing a tracking service and a traffic-message service. It will aim for private sector, government and state enterprise
customers, and expects to record revenue of about Bt150 million in its first year.
Nart said the second new company would begin to provide software-as-a-service (SaaS) via cloud computing in the
second half of this year. At first, it will provide services to the local market, giving small companies the ability to
purchase software licences for around Bt2,000 to Bt3,000 per seat per month. Later, it plans to expand into international
markets, although Nart gave no details about the application services to be involved in offshore business.
"I think SaaS will be our new market, with customers being able to access our services via cloud computing. I also think
it has big potential for new business because it is a 'white space' market. The new services will allow our staff to support
customers via a call centre or online," he said.
The new company providing software-as-a-service will represent a new business model for the C&G group, and SMEs
will be a new market.
Nart said that C&G recorded revenue of Bt9.5 billion last year and by the end of 2011, with the addition of the new
companies, the group expects combined revenue to reach about Bt11 billion, or year-on-year growth of about 12 per cent.
He said the C&G companies were focusing on factors driving market growth in 2011. Local businesses, and in particular
the government, banking, finance, telecom, energy and manufacturing sectors, were still investing in IT in order to
increase their productivity and the quality of their services.
Businesses were also spending on IT to create new and competitive services for their customers.
The group's subsidiaries have also been urged to develop mobile applications from existing computer applications so
this will provide new mobile-phone business applications to support business customers. These will include augmented-
reality applications for iPhones and healthcare and education applications that will be ready for the coming of 3G
infrastructure.
Globe Tech's general manager Wichai Saenghirunwattana said augmented-reality (AR) applications would have an
important business role to play in the near future. Businesses like banks, for example, will be able to use AR applications
to search the geo-location of their brands or branches, helping them to promote and provide services to customers over
smart phones and allowing them to connect with social media.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ไม่มีความคิดเห็น:
แสดงความคิดเห็น