THE YEAR THAT WAS: 2011
Sunday, January 1st 2012
Our review of the year 2011 starts with a look back at the key events that shaped 
GHP Far East business activity in 2011.
Overall overview
• The number of employees grew by 739 people & reached 1300 totally
• The revenue raise is 100% compared to the previous year
• IDEAS launch – a new software product was firstly used by customer
• The clients network was expanded into US market
February
7 years Birthday was organized in Quang Trung Software City with sport competitions, cooking contest & couple contest.
March
As a respond on a growing demand on data entry services, GHP Far East opened a new branch in Can Tho City. The opening was accompanied by festive ceremony, which visited honored guests from German Consulate, Swiss Post International, local authorities & business partners. Additionally the new office at Quang Trung Software Park was opened, supporting data entry & image processing projects. Totally new branch & new office provided 450 working places.
10th Anniversary of Quang Trung: GHP Far East got the prize ‘The Top Enterprise of the Year 2010’ from QTSC and merit from HCMC People’s Committee for its contribution in the last years in QTSC.
July
GHP Far East was awarded the fifth consecutive ICT Gold Medal and third ICT TOP 5 CUP for GHP Far East’s revenue in software outsourcing.
August
HCA presented its annual report ‘Performance Appraisal and ICT Ranking’, where GHP Far East has reached the 61st place of 102 ICT enterprises by its ‘Revenue of 2010′ and 8 of 42 in ‘Business performance ranking by sector’.
September
Meeting with our Singaporean colleagues, Swiss Post International for introducing GHP Far East’s production facilities & technologies
An annual company trip took place in Ham Thuan Nam, Phan Thiet province, Vietnam. About 800 employees from Saigon & Can Tho enjoyed sea, sand beach, competitions & games.
October
GHP Far East in Japan: participation in Investment developing meetings in Japan as a part of delegation of senior officials & business representatives of Vietnam
6 October – welcoming the 1000th employee, Ms. Tran Thi Be Quyen, a typist from Can Tho City branch.
December
Participation in the 3rd Chief Security Officers ASEAN Conference ‘Information Security – Facing the threats’. In the ceremony Mr. Schellenberg was honoured as ‘One of the most outstanding Chief Security Officers in 2011’
Annual XMAs party 2011 with feasting, concert, organized by employees & awarding the 1000th employee
Personal Data Protection Certificate issued by TÜV Rheinland Japan in 2010 – Personal data protection document, stating the compliance of technical and organizational protection measures when personal data is transferred from an EU country to a third country outside of the EU territory in order to be processed.
ISO 9001:2000 specifies requirements for a quality management system, where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable regulatory requirements; aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable regulatory requirements.
ISO 9001:2008 introduces clarifications to the existing requirements of ISO 9001:2000.
ISO 27001:2005 is a standard which determines the information security system requirements applicable to any organization willing to prove its capacity to handle internal information and/or their customers’ information with confidentiality and integrity.
CMMi Level 3 (Capability Maturity Model Integration) is a process improvement approach whose goal is to help organizations to improve their performance. There are five maturity levels for development. Level 3 Defined means the process is defined/confirmed as a standard business process and is decomposed to levels 0, 1 and 2.
Data Protection Certificate issued by Lufthansa – Data protection document, stating the compliance of data processing activities with the German Data Protection Law (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) and Directive 95/46 IEC of the European Parliament and of the Council (European Data Protection Guideline).
EU Directive 95/46 EC (also known as EU Data Protection Directive) is a directive adopted by the European Union designed to protect the privacy and protection of all personal data collected for or about citizens of the EU, especially as it relates to processing, using, or exchanging such data.
German Federal Data Protection Act - Rules and recommendations of manual & machine processing of a personal data. This act was issued by the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Germany.
Ho Chi Minh City: Saigon ICT Tower, Quang Trung Software City, District 12
Ho Chi Minh City: 6 Floor, TMA Building, Quang Trung Software City, District 12
Can Tho City: No. 7 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, District Ninh Kieu
Optical Mark Recognition. OMR is the automatic identification of marks which are made on forms and subsequently also scanned. OMR is frequently used when processing questionnaires and answer sheets, i.e. any type of form where boxes have been ticked.
Optical Character Recognition. OCR is the automatic identification, digital encoding and extracting of printed or handwritten characters from an image by means of an optical scanner and specialized software. This involves photo scanning of the text character-by-character, analysis of the scanned-in image, and then translation of the character image into character codes, such as ASCII for further data processing.
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO): The delegation of one or more IT-intensive business processes to an external provider that owns, administers, and manages a selected process or set of related processes.
