FPT Drives the Accelerated Smart Showroom

RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 9, 2025--

FPT today announced its Smart Showroom Accelerator solution, which enables auto dealers to turn data into decisions that inform and accelerate sales-to-conversion in real-time while building customer loyalty.

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“The U.S. auto retail industry is facing unprecedented pressure. Technology shifts, rising tariffs, and an uneven economy are forcing dealerships to evolve—or risk irrelevance. In 2025, global events conspired to create a storm of disruption for dealers,” says Phuong Dang, FPT Software Senior Executive Vice President and FPT Americas Chief Executive Officer, FPT Corporation. “In October, inventory levels rose from a 73-day supply to a 77-day supply. Margins, especially on parts, are slim; the impact of tariffs and expiring EV credits has intensified the storm. We are addressing this with a single elegant solution.”

The solution lies in uniting existing tools and systems rather than shifting completely online or installing new platforms or tools.

“Dealers keep asking what’s possible right now, without replacing their core systems,” said Chuck Bratton, Vice President of Solutions at FPT Americas, FPT Corporation. “We stitched together today’s computer‑vision engines, VIN data services, and open CRM connectors to show a practical path forward—and we’re opening the conversation to anyone who wants to try it.”

The Accelerated Smart Showroom

The innovative showroom solution leverages an AI-driven Intelligence in Motion framework, powered by FPT’s AI-first FleziPT platform, that integrates computer vision and real-time data processing into a single seamless solution. When a prospect or customer drives onto the dealer's lot, cameras instantly capture the license plate to identify the make, model, and mileage. AI then cross-references that information with existing CRM data to reveal prior interactions, trade-in potential, and even the customer’s preferred salesperson. Before the visitor enters the showroom, sales executives receive a display that shows buying patterns and likelihood, purchase history, and more to make accurate recommendations. This real-time action frames the first 90 seconds of the sales interaction with confidence.

“The ultimate goal is to make technology invisible and move from an adversarial to an intelligence-driven collaborative buying experience,” said Kevin Tynan, Director of Research, The Presidio Group. “When customers feel as if they are known, understood, and respected, the dealership wins twice, once in the sale, and again in loyalty.”

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About FPT
FPT Corporation (FPT) is a globally leading technology and IT services provider headquartered in Vietnam and operates in three core sectors: Technology, Telecommunications, and Education. Over more than three decades, FPT has consistently delivered impactful solutions to millions of individuals and tens of thousands of organizations worldwide. As an AI-first company, FPT is committed to elevating Vietnam’s position on the global tech map and delivering world-class AI-enabled solutions for global enterprises. FPT focuses on three critical transformations: Digital Transformation, Intelligence Transformation, and Green Transformation. In 2024, FPT reported a total revenue of USD 2.47 billion and a workforce of over 54,000 employees across its core businesses. For more information about FPT's operations in the Americas, please visit https://fptsoftware.com/fpt-americas

FPT Drives the Accelerated Smart Showroom

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian officials are making contradictory claims of battlefield successes in their 4-year-old war, with Ukraine saying it has pushed Moscow’s forces back in some places on the front line but the Kremlin insisting that Russia’s invasion of its neighbor is making progress.

At the same time, Russia’s almost daily aerial attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine continue. Three powerful glide bombs struck the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing four people, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Vadym Filashkin, said Tuesday. At least 16 other people, including a 14-year-old girl, were wounded.

Overnight drone strikes on three other Ukrainian cities wounded at least 17 people, including two children, emergency services said Tuesday.

Ukraine’s air force said that it shot down 122 out of 137 drones that Russia launched during the night.

U.S.-brokered talks between Russia and Ukraine are on hold as Washington’s attention is gripped by the Iran war, which has drawn the international spotlight from Ukraine’s plight as it strives to hold back Russia’s bigger army.

Despite being short of soldiers, Ukrainian forces have recently retaken nearly all the territory of the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk industrial region during a counteroffensive, driving Russian troops out of more than 400 square kilometers (150 square miles), Maj. Gen. Oleksandr Komarenko said in an interview published Tuesday by local media outlet RBC-Ukraine.

He described the overall situation on the front line as difficult but under control, with the heaviest fighting continuing near Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine and Oleksandrivka in the south, where he said Russian forces have concentrated their main effort.

There was no independent verification of his description of the military situation.

However, the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said late Monday that recent Ukrainian counterattacks “are generating tactical, operational and strategic effects that may disrupt Russia’s spring-summer 2026 offensive campaign plan.”

Meanwhile, a Kremlin aide said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump late Monday that Russian forces are “advancing rather successfully” in Ukraine.

That progress should “encourage” Kyiv to “move toward a negotiated settlement of the conflict,” Yuri Ushakov told reporters — even though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly demanded a lasting peace deal and European governments accuse Putin of feigning interest in talks while the Russian military keeps hammering Ukraine.

The Kremlin is hoping that the Iran war will bring it a financial windfall from rising oil prices, distract global attention from the Ukraine war, run down Western arsenals and force the U.S. and its NATO allies to reduce military support for Kyiv.

Zelenskyy, meanwhile, is hoping that by supplying its cutting-edge and battle-tested drone technology to the United States and its Gulf partners for the war in the Middle East, Ukraine will win more international diplomatic leverage against Moscow.

He is also seeking a reciprocal supply of advanced American-made air defense missiles Ukraine needs to counter Russia’s attacks.

Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

Rescuers put out the fire at a residential neighbourhood following Russia's drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, late Monday, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Rescuers put out the fire at a residential neighborhood following Russia's drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, late Monday, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

People look at fragments of a Russian drone that hit residential neighbourhood during air attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, late Monday, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)