The firm is committed to assisting Asean countries with SOA technology with a set of SOA services including strategies, diagnostics, implementation planning, business process management, design and development and integration services.

Asean is one of the fastest growing regions in the adoption of IT, especially Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, while Vietnam and Thailand have the fastest growth in the region.

Dan Power, worldwide SOA vice president at IBM, said Asean is one of the highlight SOA markets for the firm.

The company has invested over US$1 billion (Bt34 billion) a year in SOA to build not only skilled SOA consultants and create over 300 SOA-related patents, but also to increase the number of SOA business partners with more than 3,600 partners and more than 4,500 clients around the world in the past three years.