The NCR management has announced that it had become first Pakistani firm to attain Level-5 of the capability maturity model for its professional services organisation. Announcing it at a crowded news conference here on Thursday, NCR Managing Director Syed Veqar-ul-Islam said the award was the highest maturity level for any software process and is like getting ISO-900 in the industry. Besides Pakistan, he looks for the NCR offices in Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
The NCR managing director said the his firm had reached an important milestone in the 'history of information technology in Pakistan.' He said the capability maturity model developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Melon University in United States, adding the announcement in Pakistan coincided with a similar statement by Ron Weideman, the Lead Assessor for the CMM in USA.
Veqar-ul-Islam asserted the achievement was unique and truly established his company as an organisation 'par excellence in Pakistan', adding it demonstrated NCR's strong commitment to maintaining the highest quality standards and delivering measurable business benefits to its clients.
He described the award as yet another benchmark in the industry encouraging others to seek the same certification.
The NCR managing director told a questioner that there were fewer than 100 companies world-wide, including only 12 in the United States known at the start of current year. India had a much larger number than that.
Professional Services Manager Faisal Khaliq said the certification proved that the NCR was able to provide a disciplined and measurable approach to delivering technology solutions in Pakistan.
The Ohio-based NCR provides world-wide ATMs, retails system, Teradata (r) data warehouses and IT services. In the last two and a half years, the trans-national has solidified its role as a regional IT services leader by managing technology implementations for customers across Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Its CMM's top rating is a matter of prestige for the IT sector in Pakistan and its image on the international front.