IBM opened a computer center in Vietnam

IBM announced on March 12 that it plans to open a number of new computer service centers in Vietnam and China.

According to the plan, IBM's computer service center will be based at Ho Chi Minh City National University. Ho Chi Minh. This is the first service center model of IBM in Vietnam. It is expected that the center will provide a variety of services for customers living in French-speaking areas such as France, Belgium and Africa.

Meanwhile, IBM's new computer service center in China will be located in Chengdu High-Tech Park and will provide services to customers in the US, Europe, Australia and Japan. This is the 4th IBM center in this country.

IBM spokesman declined to reveal the number of employees who will work in the centers. " We still have not decided on the number of employees who will work in the centers that are about to open ".

IBM had to shift its target to a number of areas other than India because the wave of Western European technology companies poured into this South Asian country a lot. This wave has caused a shortage of qualified workers and an increasing wage. Currently, IBM has 50,000 employees in India.

Each year India trains about 400,000 technical staff. However, according to the latest McKinsey & Co. research, these employees are often not fluent in foreign languages ​​or lack the ability to work in groups. To improve this situation, many Western European companies have used wage strategies to attract talent. This makes the salary in India increase by 15% each year.

Facing those challenges, IBM, along with several other companies, decided to find a outsourcing area other than India at cheaper prices. On that list are China, Russia, Eastern Europe and Brazil.

IBM recently launched a globalization campaign to collaborate with industry partners. The first partner in this IBM campaign is the Cisco System. The two companies will cooperate to provide synchronous infrastructure solutions.

Hoang Dung