KDDI Agile Development Center Makes Vietnam's Vietlink a Subsidiary to Accelerate DX and AIA · FULL TRANSLATION
- KDDI Agile (KAG) makes Vietnam's Vietlink a subsidiary
- Strengthens its DX-promotion and AI development setup
- Expands Vietnam offshore development capacity
- Plugs the structural gap of Japan's IT talent shortage
The KDDI group bringing a Vietnamese software firm in-house is, on its face, capacity expansion—but in substance, a structural fix for Japan's chronic IT talent shortage. With domestic engineer supply peaking, shifting development weight toward talent-rich, relatively cost-controlled markets like Vietnam is now a shared choice in Japan's tech sector.
The leap from "outsourcing" to "subsidiary" is key: outsourcing buys hours; a subsidiary buys a stable, controllable team that accumulates know-how long-term. With DX and AI demand exploding and delivery speed deciding outcomes, holding a deployable in-house dev force is more strategic than ad-hoc contracting.
For Taiwan's tech sector, the move invites parallel thinking: as AI pushes software-delivery demand to new highs, cross-border deployment of development resources—rather than mere wage arbitrage—is becoming the next battlefield of talent strategy.
KDDI Agile Development Center Inc. (HQ: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President/CEO: Keiichi Kogure; "KAG") announced it has made Vietlink Solutions Joint Stock Company, a Vietnam-based software developer, a subsidiary.
Through this, KAG will strengthen its setup for promoting DX and using AI, bringing Vietnam's development capacity in-house and upgrading from past outsourcing into a long-term, stably deployable team of its own.
With Japan's IT talent in chronic short supply while DX and AI demand expands rapidly, securing ample and controllable development resources has become a key challenge. By integrating Vietlink's engineering capacity, KAG aims to speed up delivery, accumulate development know-how and build a more powerful development structure to meet growing digital-transformation and AI project demand.