After a long wait the news is finally out : Askari Bank has awarded the entire Oracle project to techlogix for implementation and delivery. IBM has a role to play as well from what I have read, probably managing some aspects of the deployment.
The project is possibly the first of its kind, with a rollout of major Oracle apps and first example of a Bank going all out on oracle products. Rollout plans include Flexcube, Siebel CRM and Oracle financials,etc.
This also marks a switch for techlogix : one is working on a major local project (as opposed to outsourced work) and two that instead of software development, there seems to be a move towards implementation and system integration. Local demand is ofcourse higher for system integration given that most large and medium firms are over the “we’ll make our own ERP” phase and rightly so, and are moving to standard technologies and products.
Basically, the budget 2008 killed any hope the local IT hardware industry of getting some accelerated help to grow from the powers that be. Here are the few major items that will hit the hardware industry and increase the software industry’s costs as well. Read the rest of this entry »
I just saw a real live working 3D Hologram! Cisco and Musion Technologies seem to have done it… watch the video below and scroll to minute 2 or minute 8 and see what I’m talking about. Hmmm would this be a good time to buy Musion or Cisco stock?
P@SHA has released a summary of the much anticipated industry on its website, the summary is a quick snapshot of our industry’s metrics. The numbers look good, too. Links are below to the study and the posting on the site :
So i heard this on the radio the other day. Windows Vista starter edition is retailing in Pakistan for Rs 2,600. Not bad, bravo Microsoft, now instead of a one time promotion, why dont you just make this the standard price for your OS? You will kill 70% of Windows OS piracy with one blow, which probably is the aim anyway. And if you make it cheaper for students, (at UT we used to get legal Windows, office and visual studio for USD $5 per CD, no jokes.) then no one will want to go to Rainbow center to buy software CD’s
In the wake of such rampant piracy of software which really has not gone down at all in the last several years at the consumer level, reducing prices to corner the market is really is the only option, and then offering a subscription based upgrade service to hold onto that market share would work…. Most consumers will not buy pirates software if prices of the legal versions are reasonable for them.
Now, oddly,sadly,insanely enough a copy of Windows Vista will cost about as much as a full tank of petrol!!
Siebel must be making sense for local large corporation (I dont know how). While most of the world turns to salesforce.com and away from Siebel, we seem to be installing more and more of the application. Which may not be such a bad thing. Given our connectivity issues and the fact that there are certain laws that encourage corporation to keep their data in house, large hunky CRMs might be the only way to go for now.
After NIB, Emirates Global has also signed on for Siebel CRM deployment. So on my list I now have Mobilink, NIB and EIBL as companies where Siebel is being implemented.
I like Siebel though its old as a technology, but then that might be what we need, the Cultus after all is 20 years old and we still manufacture and use that thing here.
When I visited the Siebel campus a few years ago it really seemed like an innovative driven company, and yet I was never able to understand how and why they let salesforce.com take the lead from them. Anyhow, the bottom line is, that in Pakistan right now, CRMs like Siebel seem to be gaining traction. Avanza’s CRM solution also has alot of momentum and holds its own against the foreign vendors.
As reported earlier on Jan 1 on ITT, Mobilink is now no longer the only service offering Blackberrys for your obsessive email habits. Ufone has annouced in a huge ad campaign that they too now sport the device on their network.
on side note : Their new redesigned website (built with .net) is quite well done.
Summary : I think this is proof that having alot of money to burn is NOT the answer to everything, and whether one has funding is not much of a factor for early success nowadays. The service I am reviewing is an example of how NOT to launch a tech startup.
Nilaam.pk was a “much anticipated” website if the all the press coverage was to be believed and according to nilaam.pk itself was the answer to all the world’s problems…This was supposed to be launched on April 18th but it seems they launched it earlier? either that , or they are testing their “php pro-bid” software out on their production server (a big no no no isn’t it?). Anyhow, here starts my user experience: When i go to their site i find this: (click to maximize)
Then I go , well since I’m a power user, I might want to try the full URL, so I do , and the site pops up (finally). By now 97% of all users have moved onto beliscity, myshop, lootmaar, whatever. I hang on, only to be greeted by a “meet men and women ad” that links to some iffy website on top of the auction pages. HMMMmmmm. Ok enough of this. I switch to another site as well. Game over.
You didnt think the Yahoo/MS saga was over, did you? Microsoft isnt going to back down so easily from taking over Yahoo!
It -needs- to take over Yahoo! its the only fix to their problems in the short term that will enable them to compete head on with Google. News has circulated that MS and Newscorp. are in discussions to put up a joint bid for Yahoo! This essentially leaves Google, long time rival, as Yahoo!’s only friend, and Google has alot of gain by helping keep Yahoo an independent company. More news here : http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/Y/YAHOO?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
If this deal happens, this will change the face of the internet…. hmmm maybe Microsoft could buy Yahoo, and put some of those engineers on the next version of Windows. Maybe, then,somehow, I’ll be free of all this Vista-Pain!
techlogix for implementation and delivery. IBM has a role to play as well from what I have read, probably managing some aspects of the deployment.
Cisco and Musion Technologies seem to have done it… watch the video below and scroll to minute 2 or minute 8 and see what I’m talking about. Hmmm would this be a good time to buy Musion or Cisco stock? 
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