Datapoints: Wheres Your IT News Feed Coming From

Wheres Your IT News Feed Coming From
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Defying All Odds: Oracle PeopleSpft ERP and Campus management Deployed Successfully at LUMHS

Defying All Odds: Oracle PeopleSpft ERP and Campus management Deployed Successfully at LUMHS
Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences in Jamshoro is known as the First Sector Medical University in Pakistan. Set up in 1881, LUMHS has Probably never been your typical university set up in Pakistan, which is probably what makes the fact that [...]

The World in 360

Hello and welcome to another issue of CMO, from CIO Pakistan!
With the continuing environment of economic slowdown, it will be very interesting to see whether big brands and companies will cut resources behind marketing and specifically media. It’s too early to tell so far in this year, but it will make for some addictive viewing. [...]

Sameerah Siddiqui Head of Marketing and PR, Northern Europe, Teradata

All designations have challenges attached to them, but when you come to an organization like Teradata Corporation, which is the global leader in data warehousing and analytic technologies that make smart companies smarter, the size of the obstacle course seems to grow considerably greater. When we found out that Sameerah Siddiqui looking after the Marketing [...]

Digital Marketing When Media Tweets

Community and collaboration are two entwined concepts. As things cocoon in the face of economic crisis, limited marketing budgets and recession, marketing minds are looking even deeply at quality and not quantity. Web 2.0-now quite clichéd can be seen to pick pace in the race of focused marketing in a short span of time.
With Web [...]

Marketing Programs Manager at Intel Pakistan Corporation

Continuing our feature story, we have Asma Aziz, who has been the Marketing Programs Manager at Intel Pakistan Corporation. Asma joined Intel in Pakistan 3 years ago and looks after the marketing and PR for the company locally. Here’s what she has to say about Marketing challenges in her organization.

How do you contribute to the [...]

Beware the “Ideas” of March

March seems to have become synonymous with women. Primarily because of the celebration of International Women’s Day, and we were fortunate to be able to highlight some powerful women in the technology marketing space, this issue of CMO. Everyone is cutting back on budgets and usually, marketing is one of the first areas to go. [...]

Blueprints Don’t Bring Change – People Do Fueling Empowerment

There has been a lot of talk about how policies will bring us the change we so desperately need. Agreed. There has been even more talk about how are missing opportunities left, right and center. Granted. And while I nod in agreement with all of these statements, I have to perhaps disagree with one fundamental [...]

The Future of a Nation… In Our Hands?

During our college days, a favorite topic of discussion amongst friends was what we would do if we had the power of making national level decisions. We were convinced we would fix many of the problems we faced and would live up to the responsibility much better than those in power, after all the future [...]

Towards Structuring a Modern ICT Policy for the Benefit of the People of Pakistan

The emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) during the past ten years as a critical driving force in every kind of economy across the world, has been striking. The original impetus was business, and commercial opportunities still do continue to drive business and new technology development. However, increasing affordability and capabilities within the genre [...]

Creation of a National Policy Making Can Help Pakistan Develop as a Global IT Destination

Pakistan has all the fundamentals in place to emerge as one of the leading global IT destinations. These include our cost advantage over other leading countries, including India and China, as well as the presence of a large pool of local IT resources. As the sixth most populous country in the world, with some of [...]

Save a Tree,Switch off a Light,& Rent a Desk

More and more companies are cutting down on printing of documents unless they really need to. In trying to be environment-friendly and simultaneously pinch costs wherever possible, the reams of paper that used to feed our documentation frenzy, is finally slowing down. With KESC pulling out all the stops in loadshedding, the majority of small [...]

OPEN It Up By Hameedullah Khan

Open Source and Linux are the buzz words in IT all around the world but why no one is talking about it in Pakistan is a whole different story. It’s a question that has to be bluntly asked: Why isn’t Linux being used in Pakistan’s IT industry? The answer is very simple.
The lack of awareness [...]

Milking It To the Max!

Engro Foods is a 3-year old company and started in 2006 with one brand of Olper’s. In a market space where Nestle was ruling the world and Haleeb was very close behind, the company started off as a local group with all the energies possible. In a short span of 3 years, Olper’s captured over [...]

IT Policy is the Way Forward… or is it?

There is such a critical need for policy. You’ll hear it repeatedly. Since the beginning of time when formal governance and ‘democratic’ processes have kicked into gear, terms of reference for groups who have adequate representation from all stakeholders, has been the norm in creating a positive change in the local environment.

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