LAHORE: Former Chairman Federal Task Force on Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Salim Ghauri has said that the US was eyeing for good economic development opportunities in Pakistan ahead. He was talking to a select group of reporters on his return from the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship held on April 26 and 27 [...]
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The blocking of millions unregistered connections by PTA has resulted in a decline in the phone sector growth. The overall customer’s base reached 95.918 million, only 0.01 percent growth from preceding month. Because of the downfall in revenues, most of the telecom companies have adopted “cost-cutting [...]
China’s MSFL has signed a contract for NetSol Technologies’ Financial Suite of leasing and finance products. The implementation will include the NetSol Financial Suite’s (NFS) Credit Application Processing (CAP) and Contract Management System (CMS) for retail business operations. The NetSol implementation with MSFL incorporates product licenses as well as customization, implementation, and data migration services. [...]
Pakistan is at the crossroads of Information Technology (IT) revolution. With the right emphasis at the budgetary level and proper implementation of IT friendly policies, we should very soon be among the leading IT destinations of the World. However, if faced with continued apathy at the hands of policy makers, the IT industry is bound [...]
CIO Pakistan recently had the pleasure of talking to Salim Ghauri, President of NetSol Technologies in Pakistan. The conversation shed some light on the day to day challenges that a CEO of a high profile company faces, and how challenging it really is to be at the top.
NetSol was founded 13 years ago and is [...]
Hello and welcome to another issue of the quarterly CEO, put together so that the chief decision makers have easy access to relevant reading and thought provoking articles.
This issue features an in depth interview with Salim Ghauri, the founder and CEO of NetSol Technologies. Salim talks about the consistency needed to stay at the top, [...]
A Brave New World!
This has been a strange month and there is definitely a hint of movement in the air. With two more events under our belt, the CIO Pakistan team is getting a lot of hopeful feedback from people talking about change and progress. That’s always a good change of scenery.
Business is still slow [...]
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 [...]
In the wake of the recent fall from grace of Indian based Satyam Computer Services, there is without a doubt a gap that has been created for all of Satyam’s clients. This gap creates an unstable future for all the companies who had looked to the giant for continued business support through various services that [...]
Chairman & CEO NetSol appointed Chairman ICT Task Force
Anyone who has ever had a conversation with Salim Ghauri will tell you that the first and last points in the discussion have to do with strengthening Pakistan, and the discussion that takes place in between explains how to achieve that. The Chairman and CEO of NetSol [...]
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Now that’s a question everyone has on their minds. Are we? And if we are then exactly how eReady? The Chairman and CEO of NetSol Technologies, Salim Ghauri, is no stranger to the IT industry and the challenges faced from the perspective of security. After all, his company is one of few ISO 27001 (Information [...]
Welcome to the first quarterly CSO Pakistan. Prior to the launch of CIO Magazine in Pakistan, we asked members of the industry about what trends or information impacted them the most. An overwhelming number of professionals returned with one word: security. That made the decision to launch CSO as a quarterly add-on with CIO, much [...]
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