82 IT software and services passed the Sao Khue Preliminary Round

Among these, 14 products and services were nominated by the Organizing Committee for the Top 10 Sao Khue 2016 title.

After more than 2 months of launching, the Sao Khue Award Program 2016, organized by the Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA), has attracted nearly 90 nominations from 67 businesses, an increase of 10% compared to 2015.

Reflecting the trend of international integration, the software outsourcing service sector has the highest number of nominations over the years (9 nominations) and is also the group with good revenue compared to 2014. The rapid growth rate is present in both small and medium enterprises as well as large enterprises, such as KMS growing 131%, Global CyberSoft growing 137%, Digitex growing 150%, Harvey Nash growing 150%, FPT Software growing 134% compared to 2014. Notably, there are small-scale enterprises with revenue growth of up to 516%.

The Sao Khue 2016 Preliminary Council selected 82 applications for the practical evaluation round.

As a result, the Preliminary Council selected 82 profiles to verify the information on the declarations, interview business leaders about products, services, strategies, business development plans, etc. In particular, the Preliminary Council selected 14 prestigious products and services to nominate for "Top 10 Sao Khue 2016".

The Final Selection Council will review and vote for the Sao Khue Awards on March 26.The Sao Khue 2016 Award Ceremony will be held on the morning of April 23 in Hanoi.

Sao Khue Award has been an annual activity of VINASA since 2003, organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Information and Communications. After 13 years of development, Sao Khue has been highly appreciated by the Vietnamese IT community, contributing to promoting the development and application of IT in Vietnam. Sao Khue has been awarded to 735 typical IT products and services.

According to VNE