IT One out to expand beyond SCG empire
Plan targets even split in 4 years
IT One, an information-technology service company established by Siam Cement Group and Accenture, aims to expand this year by seeking contracts in the region and external clients in the healthcare and real-estate industries.
“The revenue proportion between SCG and non-SCG customers is not the driving focus for us because the thing we concentrate on is to provide IT services to SCG’s companies so that they can run and grow their business sustainably without worrying about IT operations,” IT One chief executive officer Matthew Zavadil said yesterday.
“The rest of this year, we will expand our services to serve non-SCG customers,” he said.
Currently IT One’s revenue is split 80:20 between companies under SCG and non-SCG companies. Its business plan targets an even 50:50 split in four years.
Currently, IT One has 18 accounts that are non-SCG clients and more than 50 accounts are companies under SCG.
Yesterday, IT One was certified ISO 27001, the international standard for an information security management system, which will help IT One go regional by giving prospective customers confidence in the quality of its services.
The two main vertical industries when expanding to non-SCG clients are healthcare and real estate.
“Recently, we implemented a IT solution for Siriraj Hospital’s Excellence Centre. We are now in the process of operating it for one year,” Zavadil said.
The company will also move into those countries in the region where SCG has a presence to serve both SCG and non-SCG customers.
Apichai Intakaew, director of corporate IT and BCM at SCG, said Indonesia was the biggest outpost in the region for SCG with 6,000 staff. It is already in Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore and has Myanmar in it sights.
This year, SCG plans to spend Bt100 million on upgrading its data centre and will also set up a disaster discovery centre outside Bangkok.
“Normally, SCG earmarks about Bt1 billion for its annual IT investment,” he said.
David Titivanich, infrastructure technology service director at IT One, said his company’s revenue kept growing at 10-15 per cent per year for a couple of years.
In Asia, IT One already has a footprint in Japan with three customers of reference. Its main IT services are infrastructure, solutions and applications outsourcing.
“For our infrastructure service, we provide both private and managed cloud services. For private clouds, we invest, design and build cloud infrastructure specifically for each customer. This service is to serve SCG’s companies.
“And we also provide infrastructure under a managed cloud environment as a service to non-SCG customers,” he said.
