​​Attending directly at Binh Duong bridge point were Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha - Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee; leaders of the Provincial Union of Science and Technology Associations, provincial departments, committees and branches. Representatives of Associations and enterprises attended online.

Digital transformation - the inevitable trend of enterprises

Binh Duong is one of the provinces located in the Southern key economic region, with vibrant economic activities with more than 53,000 domestic enterprises registered to operate, most of which are SMEs. During the past time, the province has synchronously and effectively implemented policies to support SMEs according to the provisions of the Law on Support for SMEs and related documents, creating a favorable investment and business environment, creating conditions to improve the competitiveness of SMEs in the province. A part of SMEs has gradually implemented digital transformation as a natural need in order to meet the changing needs of customers, increase operational efficiency as well as save costs, especially in response to difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.​

Overview of the conference

However, the digital transformation in SMEs only stops at basic levels such as marketing, selling online, using accounting software, e-invoicing, tax declaration, online insurance, internal communication via social networking applications, etc. Very few SMEs implement comprehensive digital transformation in corporate governance. Some difficulties and barriers in the digital transformation process of enterprises are due to the high cost of digital transformation, the need to change business habits and practices, as well as the lack of internal human resources and digital infrastructure. Besides, many enterprises do not know where to start, how to do digital transformation and which partners to choose to deploy digital transformation.

Therefore, the Conference was organized to promote the application of information technology and digital transformation in enterprises; support enterprises to find opportunities to expand markets, build a partner ecosystem through activities and production methods based on digital technologies. From there, helping SMEs in the province to access technology solutions, change business models according to the trend of digital transformation.

At the conference, delegates shared that the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences are one of the biggest challenges for enterprises in the current period. Since the beginning of the year until now, the pandemic has negatively affected production and business activities of enterprises, with orders dropping sharply and costs increasing, causing many enterprises to stop operating, insolvent and on the verge of bankruptcy, especially SMEs.

​Enterprises learn about digital transformation solutions

Despite identifying the importance of digital transformation, currently many enterprises are still facing difficulties in terms of investment costs, technology application, business habits and practices, lack of human resources to apply digital technology, etc.

Speaking at the conference, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Loc Ha emphasized, along with identifying the private economy as an important driving force of the economy, supporting SMEs to carry out digital transformation in order to optimize production and business activities, improve customer access and competitive advantages, and create new products and services will contribute to creating a new driving force to promote socio-economic development in the country in general and Binh Duong province in particular.

Opportunities for enterprises

Dr. Nguyen Trong Duong - Deputy Director in charge of Enterprise Management Department, Ministry of Information and Communications, said that recently, the Ministry of Information and Communications has approved the Digital Transformation Support Program for SMEs to accelerate digital transformation in SMEs through the use of excellent digital platforms selected by the Program. The Program's activities help SMEs optimize operations, improve production and business efficiency, improve capacity and competitive advantage, create new values for enterprises, and contribute to the development of the national digital economy and in each industry, field, and region. The Ministry of Information and Communications has set a target of at least 50,000 people/year to have access to the Program, update information and raise awareness about digital transformation for enterprises; at least 30,000 enterprises/year to experience digital platforms for enterprise digital transformation; establishing a network of experts including at least 100 consulting organizations and individuals to promote digital transformation.

The Ministry also aims to build, maintain and operate the Program's portals at http://smedx.vn and http://smedx.mic.gov.vn to provide information about the Program; provide knowledge and documents on enterprise digital transformation.

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The Program's portal is accessible at: http://smedx

At the conference, the representative of VNPT Binh Duong introduced the VNPT Enterprise Digital Transformation Ecosystem and the incentives accompanying SMEs, providing a variety of digital transformation products, services and solutions for enterprises according to 04 main pillars (customer connection, staff management, operation optimization, product management) of an enterprise's operation;  helping enterprises shape into areas, goals of interest, and operations that need to be done for digital transformation clearly with specific priorities. Young enterprises are allowed to use digital transformation applications on a digital infrastructure that is telecommunications - cloud computing infrastructure - 4.0 technology to ensure network security and safety provided by VNPT. Some specific platforms such as: Digital content development platform - IDG of VNPT; VNPT OneSME digital transformation platform, etc.​

VNPT Binh Duong introduces the VNPT Enterprise Digital Transformation Ecosystem and the incentives accompanying SMEs

Along with that, Mr. Huynh Van Thanh, a representative of MISA AMIS Joint Stock Company, introduced to enterprises the MISA ASP accounting service platform to help easily find the most reputable, quality and suitable accounting services according to your needs based on many search criteria; send and receive documents between service accountants and enterprises quickly, flexibly, anytime, anywhere; at the same time, can track and manage accounting work quickly and accurately.

MISA AMIS Joint Stock Company introduces the MISA ASP accounting service platform

Also at the conference, the delegates were introduced to building a number of digitized business models for effective operation in the new normal, such as: Connecting employees towards digitization, accelerating digitization, managing data and digitizing business processes, accessing necessary information from all data sources of the enterprise, etc.​

VNPT OneSME digital conversion platform

Speaking at the conference, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Loc Ha highly appreciated the conference and hoped that with the enthusiastic sharing of speakers, delegates, enterprises attending the conference would have more choices and suitable solutions to successfully carry out digital transformation of their enterprises. In addition, he suggested the Department of Information and Communications, the Department of Planning and Investment, the Provincial Union of Science and Technology Associations continue to coordinate with relevant agencies and units to deploy digital transformation support contents for SMEs in the province, contributing to the development of the province's digital economy.

Reported by Doan Trang - Translated by Nguyen Trang