Every year, the Japan Foundation Manila hosts the Nihongo Speech Contest where Filipino students and professionals can showcase their linguistic skills and compete with first-class contestants from different language institutions, universities, and organizations across the country.

22 March 2016 - Advanced World Solutions was named “Best Software Company of the Year” at the 10th annual International ICT Awards Philippines held at the Marriott Grand Ballroom, Newport City in Pasay.

New Orleans - AWS joined the 87th AHIMA Convention held September 26 to 30, 2015 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Centre in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, as part of a four-company Philippine delegation. Vice President Tadashi Ishikawa, VP for Finance Lizabeth Ong-Coro, AVP Vincent Remo, and Takaaki Koizumi (AIS) represented AWS.

AWS Holdings, Inc. is honored to receive the Excellence Award in the 10th Annual "New Business Creation Award" under the "Global Category" held in Tokyo last October 21, 2015, hosted by Tokyo's New Business Conference (NBC) council.

Last February 2, 2015, ISTQB has recognized AWS as one of its gold partners. An organization is considered as a gold partner when it has earned at least 14 certification points and at least 1 advanced level certificate, held by its employees who have been certified by passing any of the ISTQB certification exams (Foundation Level, Advanced Level or Expert Level).

Advanced World Systems, Inc. and Advanced World Solutions, Inc. recently achieved certification to ISO/IEC 27001:2013 - the new version of the international standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) and re-certification to ISO 9001:2008 - the international standard for Quality Management System (QMS) - for its core business scopes.

Advanced World Systems, Inc.:

• Business Applications & Systems Development
• Embedded Software, Firmware & Device Driver Development
• Product Assurance & Verification

Advanced World Solutions, Inc.:

• Business Applications & Systems Development
• Embedded Software, Firmware & Device Driver Development

Bureau Veritas Certification Phils. recommended the certification of Advanced World Systems, Inc. and Advanced World Solutions, Inc. to ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and ISO 9001:2008 standards in December 2014, with the company subsequently passing the audit and found to be in accordance to the requirements of both management systems standards. Advanced World Systems, Inc. and Advanced World Solutions, Inc. take pride in being one of the early adopters of the new ISO 27001 version. We were able to comply with the requirements of the new version of the standard in just five months due to strong management commitment and high involvement of all employees.

ISO 27001 (ISO/IEC 27001:2013) enables Advanced World Systems, Inc. and Advanced World Solutions, Inc to systematically operate its management system for information security. By establishing the ISMS, the organization can determine the necessary security level, make up plans, and distribute its assets based on a defined risk assessment procedure that includes defining the technical countermeasures through system adoption and/or process improvement.

ISO 9001 (ISO 9001:2008) allows Advanced World Systems, Inc. and Advanced World Solutions, Inc. to have a good foundation in ensuring strong customer focus through an effective business management, highly motivated staff utilizing best practice methodologies, and strong adherence to processes that are subject to continual improvement.

With the organization's continuous commitment to compete globally, we have integrated both our ISMS and QMS to effectively and efficiently manage the totality of its processes, thus the adoption of an Integrated Management System (IMS) for Advanced World Systems, Inc. and Advanced World Solutions, Inc. Our IMS helps us guarantee total customer satisfaction for every product and service we provide. It also helps us assure all stakeholders that confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all physical and information assets throughout the organization is kept. And most of all, our IMS helps us to fully comply with Industry standards, applicable laws, regulations and contractual obligations.

Last November 14 2014, ISTQB has recognized AWS as one of its silver partners. An organization is considered as a silver partner when it has earned at least 5 certification points, held by its employees who have been certified by passing any of the ISTQB certification exams (Foundation Level, Advanced Level or Expert Level)

Advanced World Systems Inc., inline with their vision of creating a community of well-rounded engineers in different fields of interests apart from work, encourages the employees to join clubs. These are company sponsored special interest groups ranging from talent-showcasing to sports-related activities.

According to Forbes, seven out of 10 new employer firms survive at least 2 years. Only half reaches five years, a third at least 10 years and about a quarter get to stay in business for longer than 15 years.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) held its Awards Ceremony for their Stakeholders last July 16, 2013. This is to recognize institutional partners all over the country that have provided exemplary support to the BSP's various statistical initiatives, information requirements and advocacy programs.