What role does cost play in the decision to choose one strategy over the other?
Here’s the situation so far: there is a global economic crisis for which companies need to cut costs; the US elections are taking place later this month, which will help to determine a formal stance of US companies on outsourcing [...]
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It’s really quite simple: IT companies have Disaster Management and Disaster Recovery plans in place because they are IT savvy. They know what the critical importance of Business Continuity is. They realize how imperative a Data Center is and how essential it is to have a [...]
How well do you really know your customer? What effort do you need to execute into your marketing initiatives in order to achieve greater results? Nauman Sheikh talks about the Business Perspective involved in getting to know your market better than your competitor!
The credit card companies issue credit cards to the consumers through banks and other organizations, through which consumers shop on credit and pay bills later. The credit card companies make money two ways: one, by taking commission from merchants and two, by charging interest from the consumers who use their services. The process could be [...]
We’re fast approaching the end of the year – a period when everyone needs to take some time to reflect what we’ve accomplished, where we want to go and how we plan on getting there.
With the entire globe going through one economic crisis after another, there is a great deal of pressure on IT department [...]
Industry According to an assessment conducted by the PTA a few years ago, there isn’t enough VoIP traffic taking place online to make a financial dent in the business that the PTCL generates. So if the regulator doesn’t feel threatened by IT companies using Skype and Vonage over IP, why are companies using VoIP as [...]
Tier IV Data Centers encompass unique technology into a facility that acts as a structure that can replicates the critical operations of an organization. Data centers become part of a company’s strategic blueprint. Because these are fault-tolerant facilities that invest in its physical security as much as the virtual security they provide to an organization, [...]
when companies begin to buzz internally about topics that are being discussed on the various CIO Pakistan forums, we’d like to cover the threads that try and identify a solution.
There is no doubt that IT companies have a huge role to play in helping Pakistan to re-establish its economy and re-invent its image. After all, [...]
Technology changes everything. Not just the size or the process, but it makes a resultant impact on the speed with which a decision can take place. How does Technology evolve the everyday workings of a CXO? Umair Naeem takes a look
It was not long ago, when you’d enter your office as a manager, you’d [...]
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
United States Passport Cards issued by the U.S. Department of State and EDLs (enhanced driver’s licenses) from the state of Washington contain RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags that can be scanned at border crossings without being handed over to agents. Both were introduced earlier this year for border [...]
Travel. It’s a tough job but someone has to do it! Competition calls for globalization which, in turn, demands a robust infrastructure that makes the consolidation of data and planning possible.
Business Process Outsourcing enables companies to reduce operational costs but the amount of travel requires a CXO to travel more frequently. Keeping that in mind, [...]
Ahmed Tamjid Aijazi
Corporations and SMEs in Pakistan seem to be looking forward to collaboration and enterprise information sharing, largely due to the value addition that these collaboration systems can provide to the said organizations. Information sharing, alerts, notifications, central storage and access to important data in its traditional form are some of the benefits, but, [...]
Everyone writes endlessly about Content Management Systems and how they will revolutionize your web presence. They’re really not weaving a tall tale there! The websites of the years before 2.0 were primarily static, where, with a little love from web development applications such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage, you’d conjure up standard html pages, link them [...]
Jehan Ara, President of P@SHA gives a first hand account…
Photographs can never truly reflect the horror of what happened on September 20 in Islamabad. The explosive device that went off in front of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, with such immense force, impacted severely on the neighboring office block which was washed through by a [...]
Most people may not be aware of just how ‘well connected’ Pakistan is. There are presently three submarine fiber cables coming into Karachi which makes us quite secure internationally. From Karachi to Peshawar, there are four separate domestic nationwide fiber networks. This makes our fiber network redundant, secure and reliable according to any international standard [...]
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