Systems Limited Wins Big at PSEB IT and ITeS Export Awards 2024

Pakistan-based global tech leader Systems Limited has clinched three major platinum awards at the Pakistan Software Export Board’s (PSEB) annual IT and ITeS Export Awards. The pioneering company was recognized as the Top IT Consultancy Services Provider, Top IT and ITeS Exporter as well as Top BPO Services Provider for 2024 – marking its dominance across Pakistan’s IT landscape.

The PSEB awards, presented at a ceremony in Feb, gathered key policymakers, government stakeholders and IT industry visionaries to acknowledge firms driving substantial growth of Pakistan’s IT/ITeS sector. This includes major contributors elevating the country as an emerging global IT services export hub.

Presiding as chief guest was Mr. Umar Saif – Caretaker Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication – who personally honored Systems Limited with the prestigious accolades. On behalf of the IT consulting powerhouse, Group CFO Roohi Khan and Head of Marketing Javeria Fahad received the awards from the minister.

Earning the Top IT Consultancy Services Provider 2024 nod cements Systems Limited’s position as the foremost player providing cutting-edge digital transformation guidance in Pakistan. With expertise spanning digital platforms, data analytics, AI and cloud – the company enables organizations of all sizes to unlock true potential of emerging technologies.

“I am immensely proud of our team’s dedication and expertise that have earned us the prestigious Top IT Consultancy Services Provider 2024 Platinum award…” remarked Asif Peer, Group CEO and MD, Systems Limited.

He added, “…We have a legacy of steering clients towards technology breakthroughs through strategic consultation. This recognition highlights our ability to deliver leading-edge IT advising that helps futureproof businesses.”

A Legacy of Digital Transformation Consulting Excellence
With over 40 years providing pioneering technology services, Systems Limited inherits vast institutional knowledge around optimizing IT to fuel organizational goals. The company actively modernizes IT landscapes for 233+ Fortune 500 brands across 16+ countries – exemplifying its global reach and appeal.

Moreover, as winners of the Top IT and ITeS Exporter of the year, Systems Limited has showcased robust overseas expansion of IT services – a feat contributing significantly to Pakistan’s IT export targets. Similarly, the Top BPO Services Provider nod reinforces the ability to enable seamless outsourcing ecosystems amplifying enterprise efficiency.

As Pakistan eyes joining leading global IT services exporters, homegrown success stories like Systems Limited signals its readiness to compete worldwide. The latest PSEB awards endorse the rapid progress local players have achieved under conducive governmental policies.

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Bank ABC Partners with Temenos and NdcTech to Implement Next-Generation Core Banking System

Bank ABC, one of MENA’s leading international banks, has signed agreements with Temenos and NdcTech to replace its core banking systems for its retail, corporate and wholesale businesses and power its subsidiary, ila Bank, the MENA region’s fast growing digital mobile-only bank, with Temenos’ core banking platform on the Cloud.

With this transformation project, to be implemented by NdcTech (a Systems Limited Company), Bank ABC will replace its legacy core banking systems for its network of operations serving customers in twenty-five markets from fifteen countries worldwide with a single instance of the Temenos platform. NdcTech will also be providing end-to-end managed services to enable Bank ABC to run its operations seamlessly on the cloud.

Consolidating multiple back-end systems on the Temenos platform in the Cloud will enable Bank ABC to drive scalable efficiency, with a single dashboard and complete 360- degree customer view across business lines and geographies. The first phase of the project is the implementation of Temenos retail core banking solution and origination on Infinity for ila Bank. This will replace current systems for the digital mobile-only offering in Bahrain and provide the agile core for planned greenfield expansion. Subsequently, Bank ABC will leverage Temenos’ cloud-native solutions and its open and API-first architecture for easy extensibility and open banking integration to enhance the experience and the services delivered to its customers.

The project will see the gradual transformation of the Group-wide core banking infrastructure, enabling Bank ABC to benefit from Temenos’ broad set of banking functionality and lower operational cost across its retail and wholesale banking operations. NdcTech will provide its country model bank accelerators combined with a wealth of knowledge and experience to drive value as part of Bank ABC’s transformation journey. Banks are increasingly realizing the benefits of the cloud to remain agile and meet the demands of a constantly evolving industry, and NdcTech’s end-to-end Managed Service on the cloud will fulfill that promise.

During the signing ceremony, Sael Al Waary, Acting Group CEO, Bank ABC, commented: ““Today, marks a momentous milestone in our journey to build our bank of the future. Consolidating our banking systems on a single platform will give us a robust foundation to accelerate growth and create significant value for our stakeholders. Temenos offers an ideal Cloud-native solution with the breadth of banking functionality needed to support all spectrums of our wholesale and retail businesses. I am confident that this next-generation core banking system will drive further operational efficiencies for the Group, enabling us to become even more responsive and adaptive to our clients’ ever-evolving needs.”

Ismail Mokhtar, Group Chief Operating Officer, Bank ABC added: “Achieving operational agility is crucial for the future success of Bank ABC. We are continuously exploring leading-edge technologies to enable our ambitious expansion and digital transformation aspirations. Temenos’ platform will enable us to efficiently scale our services. In addition, hosting our core banking system on the Cloud will significantly increase our levels of security and resilience. We look forward to working with Temenos and NdcTech teams during the implementation phase and reaping the benefits of this investment.”

William Moroney, Managing Director – Middle East & Africa, Temenos, said: “We are delighted to have been selected by Bank ABC to transform its core banking systems and power the MENA region’s fast growing digital mobile-only ila Bank on a single platform in the Cloud. Temenos gives customers freedom to implement on the public Cloud of their choice and is the trusted platform for thousands of banks worldwide. Our proven expertise taking banks live on the Cloud, including many in the Middle East region, gave Bank ABC full confidence in Temenos to successfully deliver this complex project with NdcTech.”

Ammara Masood, CEO and President, NdcTech, said: “We are pleased to be putting our combined strengths to work, allowing Bank ABC to innovate faster using Cloud capabilities to grow their business while meeting sustainability commitments. What sets NdcTech apart is our accelerators, hands-on experience within global markets and how we keep the end-user experience in mind while driving digital transformations. NdcTech services and country model on the Cloud platform paves the way for banks to deliver mission-driven products and services that delight their customers.”

SAP’s Objective is to Bring Positive Change in the Lives of People through Digital Transformation

Islamabad: SAP’s Senior Vice President Middle East and North Africa, Ahmed Al-Faifi, on his visit to Pakistan, met with Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC), Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed and Secretary Railways, Mr. Mazhar Ali Shah. He also attended The Future Summit’s 6th Edition, organized by the Nutshell Group in Karachi.

During his meeting with Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Special Initiatives, Mr. Ahsan Iqbal, the discussion revolved around how to improve the technological dynamics of Pakistan to expedite the growth. Mr. Al Faifi said; “The commercial enterprises and the government sector are benefitting from SAP’s business solutions for efficient service delivery in the public sector. Financial, HR, audit and numerous other SAP core business applications are contributing to Pakistan’s global standing in terms of transparency.”

SAP is cognizant of Pakistan’s needs for a viable IT future and is continuously redefining its scope to reach out to more and more of public and private companies. It ensures that the product is best suited for optimization of productivity in each sphere. It takes pride in being dedicated to synergizing its services for a more technology-driven Pakistan.

Expressing his views about digitization and transforming Pakistan’s public sector enterprises during The Future Summit, Ahmed Al-Faifi highlighted that Pakistan is blessed with a large group of dynamic youth. That given, digital literacy can be a huge asset. Pakistan can leverage SAP platforms to provide an enabling environment and contribute to the country’s economy. “Technology is there to help you grow economically and professionally; it focuses on transforming processes by keeping a track of technology trends. The objective of SAP is to make the life of their customers easy.”

During his meeting with Secretary Railways, Mr. Mazhar Ali Shah Mr. Ahmed Al-Al Faifi expressed gratitude to Pakistan Railways Management for bestowing their trust into SAP and shared his commitment to support Pakistan Railways in their digital transformation journey.

Accompanied by Saquib Ahmad, Country Managing Director, SAP Pakistan, Ahmed Al-Faifi also met with Chairman HEC, Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed, about the new initiative for enrolling young university students for IT trainings across Pakistan. Ahmed Al-Faifi reiterated SAP and HEC’s over 15 year long relationship and committed to the agenda of providing free technology training to students, with an aim to impart skills that are key to the technology sector’s growth.

Pakistan Business users to benefit from Availability of SAP Build

Islamabad – SAP announced the launch of SAP Build, a powerful new low code offering to unleash the power of business users, launched at SAP TechEd conference in Las Vegas, USA, recently.

SAP Build empowers users of all skill levels to create and augment enterprise applications, automate processes, and design business sites with drag-and-drop simplicity. It brings the best of SAP’s low-code offerings together in a unified development experience. It gives business users full visibility into the dynamic range of their processes as well as real-time insights and easy-to-use tools. Users can easily integrate systems; intelligently monitor, analyze, and automate processes; and build applications for the last mile of innovation – all without moving their data into an external system. The solution also includes 500+ pre-built industry and business-process templates to accelerate development.

Commenting at the launch of SAP Build at TechEd, Arnal Dayaratna, Research Vice President Software Development at global market intelligence firm IDC, said: “Given that the demand for contemporary digital solutions is greater than the ability of professional developers to supply them, IDC envisions that business professionals will become increasingly involved in initiatives to create digital solutions to solve pressing business problems.”

Saquib Ahmad, Managing Director SAP Pakistan, said, “SAP Build will be a transformation partner for Pakistani corporate giants as well. This will enable our customers to extract maximum knowledge from their technology investments, shorten time-to-value for new applications and future-proof their businesses. As Pakistan continues to pursue its rapid digital transformation goals, there is a need for business experts at all levels to become more involved in developing technology solutions. This will ensure that companies’ digital goals are fully aligned with their business goals, and that their technology solutions are tailored to suit the needs of their specific company and industry.”

In addition to the launch of SAP Build, the SAP’s TechEd conference saw SAP announcing its commitment to upskill 2 million developers worldwide by 2025 by tripling its free learning offerings on the SAP Learning site, partnering with world-class learning platform Coursera to expand paths to success with SAP, and empowering new audiences.

Elaborating on SAP’s new entry-level Professional Certificate on Coursera, Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO Coursera, said, “This certificate is designed for learners of all backgrounds, no college degree or industry experience required. It will prepare learners for entry-level job roles and in some of the most in-demand fields. We’re honored to partner with SAP to increase access to job-related skills and to expand economic opportunity for everyone.”

With Middle East engaged already, SAP looks forward to making this world-class enterprise technology available and accessible to the Pakistani corporates, giving them direct access to the end-to-end processes, data and context required to make smarter decisions and drive innovation.

SAP Pakistan Awarded Prestigious Great Place to Work Certificate Coinciding with 50 Years Anniversary

Islamabad – Coinciding with its 50th anniversary since it’s been established, the leading technology enabler SAP has been awarded the ‘Great Place to Work’ certification for SAP Pakistan. The prestigious certificate was awarded after completing the Trust Index employee survey and Culture Audit workplace analysis.

Great Place to Work (GPTW) Institute is an organization with authority in constructing high-performance and high-trust culture companies in more than 60 countries for the last three decades. Emprising, from Great Place to Work, is the only employee experience platform built upon 30 years of research and data to take the guesswork out of culture work. They are research-backed and use unparalleled benchmarking and great practices from all across as guiding factors. They are known to drive the movement of making companies work with well-being and happiness factors as part of their core practices.

Saquib Ahmad, Managing Director, SAP Pakistan, upon receiving the certification said, “SAP Pakistan ensures an equitable, inclusive, and remarkable workplace for its employees. The survey has helped us in building an employee engagement mindset by empowering leaders and managers to create individual development plans. We hope to achieve the best talent pools and enhance our productivity through happier and satisfied employees, in light of this survey.”

SAP Pakistan is well-known for creating a culture that at its core puts people first. The company completed the survey, which assists in the understanding of employees’ perception of the core values of the company that support the environment and working culture. It measures the level of fairness, collaboration, respect, community, integrity, pride, support, credibility, communication, competence, and camaraderie and other features. Winning the certification is a testament to the fact that SAP Pakistan matches the set criteria in full compliance.

Human Resource is now an evolving field to best address the needs of the digital age; the best businesses are stepping up to support their employees as they navigate uncharted waters, and SAP Pakistan is steadily gaining recognition in this realm, as care for employees remains its core and dominant philosophy.

SAP is celebrating 50 years of phenomenal success; it was founded in 1972 and has steadily grown into a global powerhouse of more than 100,000 employees supporting more than 460,000 customers across 140 countries.

IT Companies Donate 15 Million for Flood Relief to Alkhidmat Foundation

Islamabad: Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) and Alkhidmat Foundation have joined hands to help alleviate the miseries of the flood-affectees in these times of crises of unprecedented proportions. P@SHA member companies have collectively donated 15 million to Alkhidmat Foundation and more contributions are on their way. As a responsible association determined to contribute to prosperity of Pakistan, P@SHA initiated the relief drill to help fellow Pakistanis in need.

Alkhidmat Foundation will ensure delivery of aid & sustenance goods on the ground in a transparent, meticulous and diligent manner. These goods include water-proof tents; linen sheets; clean drinking water; dry eatables, e.g. ready-to-eat black channa, dates & biscuits; packaged milk & juices; formula milk powder for children of various ages; stitched or ready-to-wear clothes; plastic shoes; hygiene products; raw food items such as rice, flour and lentils for people stuck in homes due to flooding outside; medical supplies for elderly, sick, mothers & children and dry fodder for the cattle as well.

Chairman Badar Khushnood said that “P@SHA issued an appeal two weeks back to its member companies to donate generously and contribute actively in this need of the hour; which has rendered millions of families displaced as one-third of Pakistan is drowned due to the floods and have lost shelter. Additionally, there are over half a million pregnant women in addition to 2 million children in the need of the baby food. The elderly, sick, expecting mothers and children need immediate medical attention and humanitarian support.”

Secretary General Hira Zainab added that “the floods during this year have been devastating. At P@SHA, we felt our responsibility to bring together the IT industry to play our small part. We brought credible NGOs as partners and also encouraged IT companies to engage in flood relief activities on their own. We are thankful to all industry leaders, who came forward and have donated over 15 million so far. We consider this as the beginning of the CSR activities that P@SHA will be undertaking with the help of the IT industry for flood-affectees.”

P@SHA’s initial estimate was to generate 10 million, but on the back of generous support, empathetic and humanitarian response from IT companies, it is now hopeful that the donations may cross as much as 50 million.

Pakistani freelancers attract export remittances of nearly $400 million in FY22

Pakistani freelancers attracted export remittances of nearly $400 million in the closing financial year 2021-2022 by providing various services online to foreign clients in different countries.

According to the official data released by the Ministry of IT and Telecommunication (MoITT), the remittances inflows in the closing financial year stood at $397.328 million as compared to $396.243 million recorded in the previous financial year 2020-21, showing a modest growth of 2.74% year-on-year.

The contribution of the freelancers accounted for 14.77% of the total ICT export remittances of $2.616 billion recorded by the country during FY22.

Tufail Ahmed Khan, ,CEO Pakistan Freelancers Association said the contribution of the freelancers to attract export remittances has been impressive in Pakistan considering the issues and challenges faced by the fraternity.

Freelancers in Pakistan have maintained their good reputation on the renowned freelancing platforms however they do have immense scope to enhance their contribution to export remittances, he added.

In Pakistan, freelancers should utilize the available bank account services through major local banks to avoid significant deductions of their earnings on multiple channels. Besides, new people should subscribe to freelancing platforms for making money and supporting their country alike, Khan further added.

The export remittances of IT services declined to $265 million in FY22 as compared to $363 million reported in FY21. IT services included web development, logo design, graphic designing, mobile app developers, java developers, etc.

On the other hand, the export remittances from non-IT services surged to $131 million in FY from $33 million reported in FY21. Content writing, translation, virtual assistantship, sales, marketing, account, finance, customers’ services are the major areas of non-IT freelance services.

In the outgoing year, freelancers were also imposed charges through banks on each transaction of income remittances which not only reduce their earnings but also discourage their passion to make money online from foreign clients.

According to estimates, there are nearly 3 million freelancers in Pakistan which put the country among to 5 countries for providing freelance services.
Recently, an association was formed to support freelancers in Pakistan including its resolution of their issues and creating awareness about the opportunities they could avail of. Also, various events were organized to promote freelancing in Pakistan in major cities in recent months.

The concerned ministry is also working on the draft of the National Freelancing Policy aimed at creating facilities for freelancers in Pakistan including capacity building programs of various fields.

PITB & PSEB to work on capacity building in ICT sector: MoU Signed

Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) have signed an MoU for the facilitation and promotion of local IT industry, startups and freelancers.

The ceremony, presided over by Minister for IT and Higher Education Punjab Raja Yassir Humayun Sarfraz as the chief guest, was held at Arfa Software Technology Park and the MoU was signed by Chairman PITB Azfar Manzoor and MD PSEB Osman Nasir. PITB DG e-Governance Sajid Latif, Director PSEB Sulman Hasan and other senior officials were also present at the occasion.

According to the MoU, PSEB and PITB will collaborate on promotion of local IT industry, entrepreneurship and incubation center development programs. The two organizations will also collaborate on soft skills, language, and technology training programs for ICT companies across the province.

Speaking at the occasion Minister for IT and Higher Education Punjab Raja Yassir Humayun Sarfraz stated that such collaborations lead to lucrative opportunities and greater ICT interventions. “Strengthening the freelance industry through ICT initiatives would help pave the path to economic stability and national prosperity,” he commented.

“PITB will work closely with PSEB to market and extend all possible support to the freelancing talent and start-ups in Punjab through PITB’s initiatives while initiating new projects as well. We will also work on capacity building of local entrepreneurs through business and sales training activities,” Chairman PITB Azfar Manzoor stated.

Appreciating PITB’s role in developing the IT and freelance industry in Pakistan, MD PSEB Osman Nasir said that PSEB shall market and extend all possible support to the freelancing talent and start-ups in Punjab.

The two organizations aim to work on transfer of knowledge in the felid of IT. They would also work on increasing the academia and industry linkages so that both academia and industry can better understand each other’s needs.

$3.2m IT Order from Japanese Corporation Deals With Saffran Group

According to data of the Pakistan Software Export Board and JETRO, the order was one of the biggest straight demands of a Japanese corporation to Pakistan in the sector of information technology.

Supports Income a Japanese corporation, was declared to award orders to Saffran Group for the formation of an Information Technology manifesto for real estate and initiating a high-tech platform to develop its global services.

The estimated cost of productivity growth would be JPY $350 million out of which a JPY $130 million value of work and finance road map has already been succeeded.

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Pakistan diplomat in Japan Imtiaz Ahmad take a session with President, Supports Real Estate Company Limited. Michiyoshi Takuma, and Mirza Asif Bag CEO, Saffran Group talked with the media and put their point of view in this regard.

The diplomat praised Bears Inc. Japan and Saffran Group for this plan and convinced full collaboration of the consulate and the government of Pakistan for successful achievement of the attempt.

A press release on Monday repeated the diplomat as saying, we are delighted that Bears Inc. Japan has preferred Saffran Group from Pakistan for this product which will be accomplished by high-tech Information Technology specialistsJapanese Corporation Deals With Saffran Group in Pakistan.

According to the figures of the Pakistan Software Export Board and JETRO, the order was one of the biggest straight demands of a Japanese corporation to Pakistan in the sector of information technology.

This would endorse other Japanese firms to approach Pakistan to source Information Technology solutions in different parts of Pakistan.

It would also appreciate another Pakistani technology group to try opportunities to give Information Technology solutions to Japanese companies.

Approximated to one-point zero five three billion dollars during the regular time of FY 2019-20, The Information Technology and Information Technology -authorized Services export payments which contain computer services and call center services have increased to one-point-five billion dollars at a forty-four percent development rate in the first nine months.

The export money from the Information Technology sector noted a fifty-eight percent development and placed at two hundred thirteen million dollars in March 2021 matched one hundred and thirty-five million dollars in March 2020.

As per Syed Aminul Haque Federal Minister, Information Technology and Telecommunication, the government was initiating every achievable estimate to establish a long-term Information Technology industry development path and to raise Information Technology industry exports to five billion dollars by 2023.

The government has put a target of five billion dollars for export payments through information technology and Information Technology established services during the next three years.

As per a dependable source, Pakistan is giving Information Technology products and solutions to organizations in over one hundred countries.

Top 10 Software Houses in Lahore You Should Know About

Living and growing in Lahore is something different from other cities even the cities of other countries. Lahore is well known for its food abundance. The people from all over the world use to come here to full-filling their foodie desire: the traditional food. Not only traditional food, Chinese and fast food as well. Similarly, the news tech-savvy generations are also growing here with the advent of the modern age. Like Pakistan Tech News is also covering all IT information. Furthermore, people from different cities come to Lahore for working in famed software houses of Lahore. If you don’t have clear idea then after going through this article you will get to know about Top 10 software houses in Lahore that you should know about them. So let’s start discussion briefly, regarding the tech/software houses in Lahore:

NetSol Technologies
Systems
Arbisoft
Afiniti
NorthBay Solutions
Techlogix
Nextbridge
Conrad Labs
Mindstorm Studios
CureMD

NetSol Technologies

NetSol Technologies started in the year of 1995 by Salim Ghauri. It has 1500 plus employees in Lahore, London, Log Angeles, Riyadh, Bangkok, Adelaide, and Beijing. This firm has also awarded the first CMMI Level 5 certified company in Pakistan. This is one of those certificates that a company can endure with.

Systems

Next, come systems, it is also prominent and one of the famous software in Lahore. This software house: Systems is one of the most progressing and gaining positive result in a short period. In simple words, Systems is not only one of the best software houses in Lahore but working is also proving fruitful day by day.

Arbisoft

Yasser Bashir is the founder of Arbisoft, he founded in 2007 after the success of Deep Pixels. However, Deep Pixel is only focusing on the processing of 3D medical images. Deep Pixel is still working at small scale. On the other hand, Arbisoft is mainly focusing on software development services, which prove fruitful as well. In short, this is how Arbisoft became a well-known figure as it is now.

Afiniti

With over 150 patents, Afiniti’s technology examines data and commercially available information tied to customer identity to determine patterns of successful behavioral interactions and applies these patterns in real time to drive improvements in health, enterprise profitability, and customer satisfaction.

NorthBay Solutions

100% AWS focused onshore/offshore AWS Premier Consulting Partner, supporting our customers to accelerate the reinvention of their applications and data for a cloud native world. NorthBay’s more than 350 AWS certified employees excel in:

Developing and deploying database & application migrations,
Data lakes and analytics
ML/AI
DevOps
Data modernization/development

Techlogix

Techlogix was started in 1996. Three MIT graduates, whose names are Khurram Afridi, Salman Akhtar, and KewanQadre Khawaja. They started this firm for providing services regarding IT, eBusiness, and global consulting. Techlogix having 3 hundred plus employees. Their main office is located in Lahore: Techlogix. In Karachi and Islamabad, also possess branches. The core project of this firm’s working are mobile wallets like Omni, UBL service, and soft services regarding LUMS as well.

Nextbridge

NXB has grown to 400+ Professionals working in various Software Wings in 3 major cities of Pakistan: Lahore, Islamabad and Multan. Their Developers are picked after a fine recruitment process in which their excellence and ability to excel is measured.

To keep up-to-minute with the latest I.T. trends, NXB has a dedicated Training Department to help Developers familiarize themselves with new technologies and frameworks. Right now, They have Pakistan’s finest software breed working in PHP, .NET (Web and Desktop), Ruby on Rails, Python and Mobile projects.

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