The Big Blue is confident that a large pool of young people will help it achieve the target of growing business in the country even with economic and security-related challenges, said Humayun Bashir, IBM’s Country General Manager for Pakistan and Afghanistan.
“We are offering total business solutions now. We can help a manufacturer in managing his warehouse, data centres and train the employees,” he said.
“So rather than having 5 or 10 contracts with different service providers, IBM is giving it all under one agreement.”
Bashir was speaking to newsmen as part of the IBM’s centennial celebrations. The technology giant completes 100 years in 2011 since its inception in 1911.
Banks, utility service providers and telecommunication firms can be a large market for IT companies, he said. “The out-tasking has a lot of scope. It is happening everywhere in the world.”
Pakistan’s IT industry with $2.4 billion in sales stands below a lot of other developing countries. “This is mainly because of the country’s negative perception abroad. If only we get one or two years of stability, things will turn around.”
Business process outsourcing will grow in the coming years on the back of young talent, he said.
“According to an estimate, Pakistan’s IT industry will expand to $10 billion and provide jobs to a million people by 2020.”
IBM has been operating in Pakistan since 1952 and has 400 software engineers. It was the first company to introduce computers in the country. It introduced the online ticket reservation system for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and computing machines for banks in 1970s.
Bashir said that IBM will innovate technologies to make life easier and healthier for the people.
“For example in the field of medicine, there would be electronic doctor who could diagnose millions of illnesses in response to a few questions.”
He also mentioned about the Aman Ki Asha, a joint project of The Times of India and Jang Group to help improve ties between the neighboring countries.
“The two countries can gain a lot through mutual cooperation. We are already working on it and hope that governments support our initiative.”
Via: TheNews
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