Mohsin Annual Report-Final 1-91:Layout 1.qxd - Siemens Pakistan

54Industrial Solutions & Power GenerationInformation Technology ServicesWith our aggressive market development strategy yielding positiveresults, ITS can now boast of serving more than twelve prominentindustry sectors in Pakistan. We are providing information technologyanswers to industry so that the local industry can keep up with globalmega trends.ERP software and servicesmake up a largepart of our core businessfunctions, but wealso provide other comprehensiveservices.Business UnitInformation TechnologyServices (ITS) registereda steady growth in thefiscal year 2007.The Information Technology Services (ITS) registered a strong growth in the fiscal year 2007. The key highlight forthe year was the award of contract from PTCL, being Pakistan's largest fixed-line operator, for automation of allprocesses through SAP ERP implementation. Besides, ITS also signed contracts with Punjab Beverage and TripackFilms for SAP implementation. These projects signify major breakthrough for ITS in the telecommunication, beverageand process manufacturing industries with SAP ERP solution offerings. At the same time, the business unit strengthenedits ties with current customer base and signed up another project in the oil and gas industry to bolster its dominance.With our aggressive market development strategy yielding positive results, ITS can now boast of servingmore than twelve prominent industry sectors in Pakistan. We are providing information technology answers toindustry so that the local industry can keep up with global mega trends.The year 2007 also witnessed an intensive focus in our marketing and sales activities, whereby ITS organizedindustry-specific seminars on public sector, banking and utilities sectors in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore respectivelyin collaboration with SAP. These seminars served as comprehensive forums where customers and prospectsgained clear insights into how SAP's business solutions can enhance their organization's performance and also gotan opportunity to witness the latest developments in SAP Technology.The SAP Authorized Training Center run by ITS also demonstrated exceptional performance by conducting maximumnumber of SAP academy programs, i.e. five in just one year. SAP training are now being conducted at theSiemens Learning Center at Park Towers, Clifton, Karachi. A state-of-art training premises that offers convenientaccess to participants from all parts of the city. SAP ATC now has the honor of conducting twenty two SAP academiesso far in different cities of Pakistan and has trained approximately 700 attendees in various technologies andSAP solutions. Besides ERP software and services that make up a large part of ITS's core business functions, ITS alsoprovides complete turnkey IT solutions including comprehensive service, from specification through installation,configuration and commissioning, across the entire system landscape including networks and communication.Siemens Pakistan also offers a hardware sourcing service, operated via agreements with leading hardware suppliers.Siemens SAP Academyanswering the needfor SAP certifiedconsultants in thecountry. SAP is nowrunning in 12prominent industrysectors in the country.