FPT Corporation has become the first Microsoft partner in the world to earn the Frontier Advanced Specialization.

The specialisation focuses on the capabilities needed to design, build, deploy, govern and secure AI agents across the Microsoft technology stack. This builds on the Frontier Partner status FPT secured in earlier in May, when it became the first in Southeast Asia to hold the designation.

Partners must hold four active specialisations covering Microsoft 365 Copilot, AI on Microsoft Azure, Data Security and Identity and Access Management. They also need specialised talent such as Frontier Transformation Engineers and Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineers, and must pass a third-party audit.

“Enterprise AI is entering its next phase, moving beyond AI-enabled tools toward agentic operating models where people and intelligent agents work together at scale,” said Frank Bignone, Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy & Growth at FPT Software, FPT Corporation.

Through FPT Digital Foundry, FPT is already embedding the approach into its delivery model, bringing together governed agentic AI and outcome-based delivery. FPT says the model lets it help organisations in Asia and worldwide adopt agentic AI securely.

“With more than 30,000 AI-augmented engineers globally and the new Frontier Partner Specialization, FPT is well positioned to help customers move beyond AI experimentation to deliver secure, scalable AI transformation and real business impact,” said Heather Deggans, Vice President of Global Partner Go-To-Market, Programs, Operations at Microsoft.

The two companies widened their collaboration on June 25 to speed enterprise AI adoption across Asia, with a focus on Asean, Japan and South Korea. FPT plans to equip up to 20,000 developers with agentic development capabilities over three years.

In late May FPT also signed six AI transformation agreements with groups in Thailand and Singapore, including UOB, Sembcorp, SATS and ComfortDelGro.

FPT and Microsoft have worked together on e-government, taxation, customs and hospital management systems, as well as large-scale enterprise modernisation since the 1990s.