Pakistan posts robust growth: Oracle head
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KARACHI: Pakistan has posted a robust growth in cloud transformation drive over the past few years with companies adopting emerging technologies to boost up their businesses, Country Head Applications at Oracle–Pakistan Syed Azam Abidi said on Tuesday.
Talking to newsmen at a hotel along with United Bank Limited Corporate Affairs and Marketing head Imran Ghani, Tri Angels Electronics CEO and Goto.com.pk president and CEO Asadullah Khan, he said the Oracle transforms businesses through its cloud services. The sectors, which use Oracle’s services including financial institutions, telecommunications, apparel manufacturers to blue chip companies, local businesses have come on board for faster innovation and business transformations, he said.
“Pakistan has made major strides towards becoming a cloud-ready nation and we are witnessing more and more organisations gradually migrating their business processes and data to the cloud…”
He said to navigate this change and help Pakistani business leaders create breakthrough experiences Oracle Cloud offers customers trusted business applications, empowering them to overcome the barriers to growth and successfully scale by delivering our best practices. The shift to cloud is real and it is making most enterprises re-evaluate their architecture and application landscape.
By providing a complete set of automated tools and proven cloud transition methodologies, the new ‘Soar to the Cloud’ solution can enable customers with applications running on premises to upgrade to Oracle Cloud Applications in as little as 20 weeks and reduce the cost of cloud migration by up to 30 percent. Leading Pakistani organizations, including UBL, Tri Angles Electronics and Goto.com.pk, shared details of the business benefits they continue to realize, because of the transformational power of Oracle Cloud Applications.
The UBL leads the banking and financial services sector in Pakistan. With a customer base of over 4 million, the Bank boasts Pakistan’s widest network of over 44,000 customer touch points; this includes more than 1,400 branches, above 39,000 Omni Agents and over 1,400 ATMs. UBL has presence in four continents.
“Being connected to our customers in real time through social media is a key need for the bank. It is a crucial step in converting our interactions with our potential and current customers into transactions,” said Ali Habib that “Oracle Social Relationship Management (SRM) will help transform our social listening and online conversations into insight-ready qualitative and quantitative data points.”
Tri Angels Electronics (Pvt) Ltd is the producer of light emitting diode (LED) TV in Pakistan through a joint venture with International Hisense. The company through this collaboration with Hisense will leverage its world-leading production and technology-development capabilities.
“Tri Angels offers high-quality products and services based on highly advanced technologies. We wanted an IT offering with best practices implemented in least possible time and capture every business-related transaction in the system from the launch of our operations,” said M Imran Ghani, Chief Executive Officer, Tri Angels Electronics.
Goto is one-stop online shopping marketplace in Pakistan bringing a reliable, hassle-free and convenient shopping experience. Goto.com.pk successfully deployed Oracle Cloud to give a boost to its foothold in the online shopping industry, help improve business efficiencies, streamline inventory management and provide an enhanced shopping experience to its customers.
“We chose Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud because it is future proof and has already significantly improved our staff’s user experience. Oracle Cloud has reduced our risk of system failure, boosted our use of mobile technology, and saved money,” Asadullah Khan said.
