TechLahore

Ah, it’s that time of year again! And how quickly it comes. It seems like yesterday that I wrote the predictions reproduced below, but look, three hundred and sixty five days have passed already. We must continue the tradition we started in 2007 and built upon in 2008… so here we go!
I was right on [...]

I just got back from GITEX Dubai a few days ago and still have to share my views on that show with you. I saw plenty of interesting stuff, so I do intend to do a couple of posts on that topic…
But, to tide us over in the meanwhile, here’s some good news about Lahore [...]

Last year, I listed out a set of predictions and just recently I evaluated how they turned out. But on to more important business: what’s 2009 going to be like for Pakistan, for the IT industry and for the world at large? There are lots of very important trends unfolding before our eyes and they can [...]

The PSEB, when it was headed by Yusuf Hussain, had announced plans to build a software park in Chak Shehzad, on the outskirts of Islamabad. Purpose-built IT space was becoming a problem in the city because the previous two IT towers under PSEB management had been completely consumed by burgeoning tech companies. The Chak Shehzad [...]

Pakistan’s software and IT exports are now in excess of $1BN, and the size of the IT industry, which was reported to be about $2BN last year, has grown to $2.8BN. This was reported by The Daily Times in an article based on a PSEB study and an interview with Pakistan Association of Software Houses [...]

AutoPlus ERP Software, developed by Pakistan-based Acrologix, is being implemented by Chinese auto-manufacturer, Qingqi. This ERP software was developed under a PSEB (Pakistan Software Export Board) program that seeks to promote the use of locally developed software in a variety of different industries. As the first step, five verticals were chosen for which low-cost ERP [...]

BASIS, for those of you who don’t know (a group that included me until 5 minutes ago), is the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services. It’s an industry group and the Bangladeshi equivalent of our very own PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) or India’s NASSCOM.
Anyway, a Bangladeshi newspaper, the New Nation, came out with [...]

In another bit of good news and a continuation of the US business tours in 2007, several Pakistani IT companies will be attending CeBIT in Hannover this year. CeBIT is definitely the premier IT show in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Asia) and until it gets displaced by GITEX (Yeah, we’re rooting for you GITEX!) it [...]

In this news report from ARY, Yusuf Hussain, Managing Director of the PSEB explains that Pakistan’s IT fundamentals are considered to be the best in the world by firms such as Lehman Bros and the internationally respected analyst group, IDC. Yusuf also goes on to explain that while the current size of the IT industry [...]

As a consequence of the recent PSEB led business tour of the US, several Pakistani software companies are expecting to cement their ties with customers in America by signing a number of development contracts with them. The list of potential customers reads like a who’s-who of the Fortune 500. Potential contracts are expected from the [...]