As part of Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, Inbox recently hosted Class 8 students from some of The Citizen Foundation (TCF) schools. These students visited Inbox factory as part of a mentoring program initiated by TCF to help students develop a vision of their future careers. . TCF is a professional managed non-profit organization providing education to children from under-privileged background. .

Students aspiring to become computer engineers got first hand exposure to computer assembly process. They were briefed on various processes in computer assembly such as warehousing, production, quality control etc. Senior staff from Inbox was also available to answer questions from students about how and from where to get necessary education to become a computer engineer. Faraz Siddiqui, Group Head of Infrastructure business reaffirmed Inbox’s commitment towards this cause and said “if channelized properly, these students can become an integral part of human capital base in Pakistan.”

Inbox Business Technologies conducted a one day training for Pakistan Telecommunication Mobile Limited (Ufone) over the Basic Enterprise IT Infrastructure in association with Acer Computer. Purpose of training was to educate our customers over Acer’s current offerings and their portfolio. It was conducted by Zahid Mahmood, Country Sales Manger, Acer Computer Middle East.

Acer computer is among the top three computing giants in the world.  As Acer Executive Partner, Inbox is authorized to sell and service Acer products to enterprise customers in Pakistan.  Inbox is strongest of the two Acer Executive Partners in Pakistan.

Ufone is one of the largest cellular service provider of Pakistan with extensive network spread all across the nation. Ufone has recently signed the largest ever Microsoft Enterprise Agreement in the history of  Pakistan with Inbox. The is a multi-million dollar agreement which spans over three years and includes MS Enterprise Licenses as well as other value-added services.

Further to this Mr. Saleem Ghouri, President of Netsol Technologies has been elected as the Chairman. Ms. Jehan Ara, President of Pakistan Software House Association; Mr. Atif Rais Khan, Chairman & CEO of LMKR; Mr. Wahaj-us-Siraj, CEO of Micronet Broadband; Mr. Waleed Sophie, Head of Pakistan Office Products; Dr, Junaid Mughal, Dean Faculty of Electronics Engineering of G.I.K. Institute of Engineering Sciences & Technology; Dr, Sarmad Hussain, CRULP of NU-FAST; Dr. Atash Durrani, Center of Excellence in Urdu Informatics of National Language Authority Islamabad have been selected as Members; Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan, Member of Planning Commission Division of Islamabad has been elected as Convenor; and Mr. Qaiser Sohail, Director General of Planning & Development Division Islamabad as Member/Secretary of the committee.

Along with other major activities, the sole purpose of Task Force constituted on ICT is to review, plan, estimate, identify and recommend key decisions over current IT policy of the country; changing trends of software, hardware, and BPO markets;  expansion of IT exports; IT quality and security gaps; and their respective action plans. ICT’s focus is not only identification and classification of the gaps currently present in the local IT industry but also to focus on its enhancement and evolvement within the country.

Pak Suzuki Motor Company is a 25 year old automobile company set up with joint collaboration by Suzuki Motor Corporation of Japan and Pakistan Automobile Corporation. With its state-of-the-art manufacturing and assembling facility, Suzuki has been at the forefront of technology innovation; constantly upgrading it’s IT infrastructure to provide better and more efficient IT services for its ever increasing in-house users.

In the past, Inbox had delivered exceptional services to Pak Suzuki for IBM Servers and Storage.  Along with licensing expertise and resilient after-sales service; historic relationship between Inbox and Suzuki went a long way in winning Pak Suzuki’s confidence.

Inbox is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with expertise in Software Licensing. Inbox guided Pak Suzuki over best licensing option that fit its needs and thus, Inbox was able to provide the best price and product combination to Pak Suzuki and win this deal over eight other competitors.

As per the agreement, UBL has acquired licenses for IBM DB2 Common Store; IBM DB2 Content Manager Enterprise Edition; and IBM DB2 Common Store for Exchange Server.  Inbox would provide complete implementation services to UBL for deploying these applications and storage system.

IBMDB2 CommonStore for Exchange Server is the IBM e-mail archive management product for Microsoft Exchange customers, providing e-mail archive content and storage management capabilities. DB2 Content Manager or Content Manager OnDemand serves as the enterprise repository for virtually all content, from documents to images, digital media, and web content and IBM Storage solution covers extensive requirements to expedite the backend systems of UBL. Inbox will also provide IBM Smooth Start Services (installation) for Storage solution along with training options for guiding over proper usage of implemented system.
¦lt;br /> Inbox won this project based on its past relationship with UBL, IBM preferred partnership and Inbox brand equity. Inbox has always cherished strong working relations with UBL and further plans to enhance and improve it by providing best-in-class technology solutions to the bank. Whereas UBL being one of the largest banks in Pakistan with over 1400 domestic and 19 overseas branches is continuously upgrading their systems for better and cost effective results.

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Inbox Business Technologies has won Brands of the Year Award 2008 for the category Technology Infrastructure. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani inaugurated the ceremony and handed over the awards to the winning brands. Ghias Khan, CEO, Inbox Business Technologies said, “As Inbox Business Technologies has expanded from a single-product company to a multiple products and services company; the Inbox brand has stayed true to its promise of performance and simplicity.”

Brands of the Year, is an award given out by an independent body that evaluates brand performance and publishes a research book every year entitled, 100 Most Acclaimed Brands of Pakistan.

The Health Management & Information System (HMIS), developed and deployed by Inbox at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, was showcased at City District Government Karachi’s technology showcase event. The City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, lauded the efforts of Inbox Business Technologies and noted how HMIS has enabled improved patient care and better administrative controls at the hospital in a short period of time since deployment.

HMIS has automated all the processes at Abbasi Shaheed right from patient registration, ward management down to human resource and financials. It is fully-integrated with the equipment in the new laboratory wing in the hospital so that the reports go directly into the system. State-of-the-art biometric attendance system has enabled better management and measurement of staff performance.

Before the project was undertaken, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital – Karachi’s largest public sector hospital, was a greenfield organization and an administrative nightmare. The management had a hard time coordinating between various disparate wards and units. Inbox truly provided end-to-end solution for the hospital, starting with infrastructure layout, deployment of HMIS down to training of users. Project Manager, Zeeshan Arif, still recalls the challenges he and his team faced in training the reluctant hospital staff. “Implementing a project for a government sector hospital is not an easy task. But at the end of the day we can say that we really made a difference to the patients. The apathetic hospital staff has actually started to work!”