In 2003, HBL commenced on a journey to significantly upgrade its IT infrastructure by investing in a new core banking solution and adopt a centralized data processing strategy. Couple that with the obvious strengths which include the fact that it serves more than 5 million customers, has a presence in the form of 1500 branches [...]
To a Pakistani, the phrase “going green” holds a great deal of significance. In line with efficiency, productivity and burning clean energy, there is a tremendous patriotic significance that comes into play with the color green. Technology, no doubt, has a critical role to play, which is why we associate the color green with that [...]
The biggest hindrance in doing business for a large population is the lack of an ‘unbiased’ payment gateway. So when Raseen publicized the fact that they were partnering with a local bank to resolve this issue, we immediately got in touch.
Raseen claims to offer the local market a powerful, feature rich payment engine which acts [...]
Omer Ahsan takes a look!
CIO Pakistan hosted a unique event at the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi titled “The Balancing Act: Challenges for Technologies for Challenging Times”. I was asked by the CIO magazine to co-moderate the event with the objective that I could highlight the crevices in the vendor-customer relationship in the wake of an [...]
Over the past several months, we’ve been trying to track the quantifiable trends which help to stimulate business activities amongst people. Of course there is no way you can learn ‘social networking for business’, nor can you really tackle which campaign or interview may have actually helped to build your brand the most, but if [...]
Mark Twain said, and we’ll plaster him out of context here, “It was the worst of times…” Most business owners don’t need to be reminded of that fact! But while we’re busy discussing the tough time, it’s equally important to discuss the way back up. What indicators will show you that the times, as Bob [...]
“It is a common belief that off-shoring is a huge business,” says Faraz. “That is actually not true. If you look at the statistic, only 12% of the total is off-shoring, the remaining is based on domestic outsourcing. If you take BPO, almost 300 out of 330 billion comes from domestic outsourcing,” says Faraz Khan, [...]
By Naureen Aqueel
Technology continues to permeate every aspect of our lives, transforming them in previously unimaginable ways. Gone are the days when things like sports and technology were considered two different worlds poles apart. Today, technology has been used to aid in sports training, including equipments like heart rate monitors, wattmeters etc. It has also [...]
By Omar Ahsan
My sister who lives near the Silicon Valley is doing her Masters in Software Engineering and is currently working another Iranian software engineer to come up with a dot com idea taking inspiration from the recent success of facebook and twitter. Since this inspiration she has been pushing me to think about it [...]
Kubair Shirazee takes a look!
WHENEVER THINGS GET BAD THE FIRST REACTION OF MOST COMPANIES IS TO CUT BACK, lay people of, cross their fingers and weather the storm. As leaders we have all been there before and it is the first port of call to initiate the age old short term fixes like across the [...]
TCS is contributing to the New Horizon Punjab Government Project by doing what it does best: Warehousing, Surveys and installing PCs at 824 schools for the project! Visit TCS for more details!
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One reason we need to focus on products is because the services market is ‘low skilled’ and ‘low value add’. The Indians [...]
Parvez Iftikhar CEO, Universal Service Fund in Pakistan, speaks to CIO Pakistan about their most recent achievements
Tell us about your most recent agreement you recently announced?
The recent ones that we have signed on the 21st July are one with CMPak and WorldCall. CMPak has signed onto provide basic telecommunication to the rural areas of [...]
There are many things a CEO has to look out for. Whilst the CIO and the other members of the CXO profile have their relatively loose job descriptions mapped out, the CEO seems to be quite a bit more complex. The ‘executive’ or what some would also refer to as the role of the “executioner”, [...]
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