True IDC has ambitious Asean expansion plan

The company has set up three branch offices in Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam. It will also announce a “Cloud Marketplace” service in April.

Thannasorn Jaidee, general manager of True IDC, said it was looking into setting up new branch offices in Indonesia, the Philippines and Laos this year. After moving into those countries, Singapore and Malaysia are in its sights for expansion.

He said the company invested US$3 million (Bt107 million) to develop infrastructure in Myanmar in order to provide data-centre  and cloud solutions. It is also providing cloud solutions and consulting services in Cambodia. 

For the Vietnamese market, it expects to provide cloud and consulting services next quarter.

“Indochina is adapting to usage of cloud services and data centres. Meanwhile, Indonesia and the Philippines are seeing continued growth in the cloud-computing market,” he said.

The company will begin offering a new cloud-solution service named Cloud Marketplace in April. The one-stop service will make it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises to do business online and use cloud technology and software to manage their operations.

True IDC expects to reach 3-5 per cent of the country’s 2.9 million SMEs with the new service this year. Fees will start at Bt100 per user per month. 

“The Cloud Marketplace will help SMEs save costs and increase productivity by transferring smoothly from traditional to online business so that they will able to expand their customer base via online transactions,” Thannasorn said.

The company this year expects revenue growth of 40 per cent from its data-centre business, and growth of around 30 per cent from its cloud services.

At present, True IDC only gets 3 per cent of its revenue from the international market, but expects that figure to increase in the near future.