FPT Software and IdeatoLife Join Forces to Transform Software Development Lifecycle

HANOI, Vietnam--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 5, 2024--

Global IT services provider FPT Software and the emerging software company IdeatoLife recently entered a strategic partnership to promote Onex Studio, a hyperautomation and AI-enhanced software development platform. The collaboration will support FPT Software’s vision of accelerating digital transformation for its clients worldwide, with initial focuses on the fintech and e-commerce sectors.

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The partnership will initially integrate Onex Studio into FPT Software’s service offerings and potential projects, focusing on advanced technologies such as hyperautomation and intelligent automation to provide enterprises with optimal developer productivity and software development lifecycles. Leveraging FPT Software's extensive global presence and expertise, both sides also plan to expand the adoption of Onex Studio to a broader range of audiences across the Middle East and globally, especially those in the fintech, DeepTech, and e-commerce sectors.

Onex Studio is the latest addition to IdeatoLife's suite of solutions, bringing an intuitive and seamless product-building environment to deliver high-quality applications faster and more efficiently. The platform offers a range of powerful features and tools, including simplified project creation, AI-powered project standardization, streamlined data modelling, code reusability, and one-click deployment through serverless microservices, containers, and Kubernetes. This set of functions allows developers to focus on innovation while Onex handles infrastructure and deployment with high consistency, security, and scalability.

“Having delivered thousands of digital transformation projects, we see hyperautomation among the key enablers for streamlined end-to-end processes, operational excellence, and security. The integration of Onex Studio into our offerings is among our continued efforts to drive disruptive transformation for our clients worldwide with enhanced confidence, velocity, and agility,” said Frank Bignone, FPT Software VP and Director of Digital Transformation.

With over 20 years of experience and a track record of successful ongoing partnerships with global tech giants such as Microsoft, SAP, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), FPT Software has established itself as a trusted partner in digital transformation. Notably, its suite of Hyperautomation full-service support and end-to-end solutions paves an accessible and cost-effective path for organizations to achieve outstanding growth with secure and effective automation across their operations. The IT firm’s hyperautomation solution has been consistently recognized in industry research studies by leading research and advisory firms like Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, as well as in industrial awards such as Globee® Awards for Technology.

About FPT Software

FPT Software, a subsidiary of FPT Corporation, is a global technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam, with $1 billion in revenue (2023) and over 30,000 employees in 30 countries.

The company champions complex business opportunities and challenges with its world-class services in Advanced Analytics, AI, Digital Platforms, Cloud, Hyperautomation, IoT, Low-code, and so on. It has partnered with over 1,100 clients worldwide, nearly 100 of which are Fortune Global 500 companies in Aviation, Automotive, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, Healthcare, Logistics, Manufacturing, Utilities, and more. For more information, please visit https://fptsoftware.com/

About Onex by IdeatoLife

Onex is a hyper-automation platform developed by IdeatoLife, an AI-venture and service lab based in Dubai. IdeatoLife specializes in custom software development with a focus on generative AI, catering to the burgeoning technology demands of the MENAT region. With a track record of delivering cutting-edge technologies, IdeatoLife has established itself as a key player in the tech industry.

IdeatoLife’s clients range from startups seeking rapid innovation to large enterprises aiming to optimize and scale operations through automation and AI-driven solutions. IdeatoLife is committed to staying at the forefront of technological innovation. Continuously exploring emerging technologies and methodologies, emphasizing generative AI to create intelligent, adaptive solutions that drive efficiency and growth for clients. Positioned in Dubai, IdeatoLife is ideally situated to meet the growing technology needs of the MENAT region, cementing itself as a trusted partner for businesses seeking to leverage hyper-automation and AI.

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A judge barred the Trump administration on Thursday from immediately moving to shut down a small federal agency that supports investment in African countries on Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon in Washington issued the order hours after the filing of a lawsuit by the president and CEO of the U.S. African Development Foundation.

Ward Brehm said in a complaint that he directed his staff on Wednesday to deny building entry to staffers from billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and Pete Marocco, the deputy administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

DOGE and Trump do not have the authority to shut down the agency, which was created by Congress, Brehm said in the complaint.

The order from Leon, who was appointed by Republican President George W. Bush, bars Brehm from being removed or DOGE from adding members to the board over the next few days.

Brehm also said that days after President Donald Trump targeted the agency in a Feb. 19 executive order that aims to shrink the size of the federal government, staffers from DOGE tried to access the organization's computer systems.

“When USADF learned that DOGE was there to kill the agency, USADF staff refused DOGE access to cancel all grants and contracts,” said the complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington.

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement, “Entitled, rogue bureaucrats have no authority to defy executive orders by the President of the United States or physically bar his representatives from entering the agencies they run.”

The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Trump administration mandated DOGE and Musk, the world’s richest man whose businesses have federal contracts, to root out waste, fraud and abuse and to help reduce the nation’s debt load.

Brehm said in his complaint that DOGE and Marocco, a Trump political appointee helping shutter USAID, also recently targeted the Inter-American Foundation, a federal agency that invests in Latin American and the Caribbean.

On Tuesday, DOGE said on X that all but one employee at IAF had been let go and its grants cancelled, including funding for alpaca farming in Peru, for vegetable gardens in El Salvador and for beekeeping in Brazil.

Trump is also targeting the U.S. Institute of Peace, a Washington-based think tank, and the Presidio Trust, which oversees a national park site next to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Both entities, which were created by Congress, continue to operate and say they are compiling information requests from the White House.

The National Endowment for Democracy, a private nonprofit that helps combat authoritarianism around the world, sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, saying in a complaint that it had been denied access to its funding, “something that has never occurred before in the Endowment’s forty-two-year existence.”

In 2023, it reported issuing $238 million in grants, including through the International Republican Institute, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio formerly served as a board member.

Associated Press writer Lindsay Whitehurst contributed to this story.

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