Industry: IT and Software Distribution
JetBrains products used: IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, PyCharm, CLion, RubyMine, GoLand, Rider, TeamCity, and other
Organization Size: 50+
Country: Republic of Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines
Tangunsoft
Tangunsoft is a software distribution company based in South Korea. The company was founded in 2002, and since 2018 Tangunsoft has started to expand into the Southeast Asian market. Its main offerings include Microsoft, Adobe, and Autodesk products, but following recent digital transformation trends, Tangunsoft has increasingly focused on developer tools like those of JetBrains, GitHub Enterprise, Zeplin, and many more.
“JetBrains helps you write clean, professional, maintainable code of the highest quality.”
— Wooseong Kim, APAC Channel Lead and Partnership Manager, Tangunsoft
How big is your company and how many software developers do you employ?
50+ people, with 2019 revenue of about 57 million USD. We have more than 10 engineers, 2 of whom are DevOps engineers, and we’re hiring more!
Which regions does your company operate in?
Tangunsoft covers the South Korean market and Southeast Asian markets, such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, etc.
How did you find out about JetBrains?
First from developer friends, and then also from existing customers. I’m a member of the Innovative Strategic Business division as Tangunsoft APAC Channel Lead and Partnership Manager.
Please describe your experience of working in cooperation with the JetBrains team.
It’s always been fun and pleasant. They are such warm-hearted people! Friends for a lifetime!
What are your main reasons for choosing to partner with JetBrains?
We saw potential in the digital transformation movement generally, and we became familiar with JetBrains IDEs from some developers who were already using them to increase their productivity in their daily lives. From there, we decided to suggest to JetBrains that we become partners and do business together.
What have been your biggest gains, as well as your biggest pains, from your experience of working with JetBrains?
Thanks to JetBrains, Tangunsoft is now well known in South Korea for its portfolio of tools for developers. Customers are not just interested in the products, however. Developer-oriented companies also come to Tangunsoft for DevOps consultation.
Our biggest challenge is the traditional culture in which we operate, where many customers still have a top-down oriented hierarchy, which is never good for digital transformation. JetBrains Day Seoul 2017 and 2018 were small but GREAT steps toward changing the culture.
We’ve talked about past programming and development methods in South Korea, the current situation, and how we need to shift the development culture as we move toward the next generation to better compete in the global market.
Do you have any tips or advice you’d like to share with our readers?
I am sure that anyone reading this already knows that JetBrains helps you write clean, professional, maintainable code of the highest quality!
Contacts
Wooseong Kim, APAC Channel Lead and Partnership Manager, Tangunsoft
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