National Bank of Pakistan has entered into an agreement with Microsoft Pakistan. The Microsoft Enterprise Agreement will enable NBP to use Microsoft Virtualisation, Unified Communication, Business Process Automation, Private Cloud technologies as well as Premier Support to provide enterprise class technology support services.
The signing ceremony took place at the NBP Head Office in Karachi. The agreement was signed by Kamal Ahmed, Country General Manager of Microsoft Pakistan and Mahmood Siddique, CIO of NBP.
Talking about the agreement Kamal Ahmed said, "Microsoft believes in providing custom based solutions to its customers. This accord will not only help optimise the IT infrastructure of National Bank but the software solution provided by Microsoft will enable the bank to achieve maximum efficiency." Microsoft virtualisation is an end-to-end strategy that can profoundly affect nearly every aspect of the IT infrastructure management lifecycle. It can drive greater efficiencies, flexibility, and cost effectiveness throughout organisation. From accelerating application deployments to ensuring systems, applications, and data are always available; to taking the hassle out of rebuilding and shutting down servers and desktops for testing and development; to reducing risk, slashing costs, and improving the agility of entire environment-virtualisation has the power to transform your infrastructure, from the data centre to the desktop.
NBP CIO Mahmood Siddique said, "Keeping abreast with the changing financial world and meeting the banking needs of our customers, effectively and efficiently, is very important to us. Through an integrated IT infrastructure that Microsoft is developing for us, we will be able to deploy, manage and help secure timely solutions for our clients."
Also present at the ceremony were Sayed Hashish, GM Microsoft NEPA, Munir Bouzouba, Business Manager, Microsoft NEPA and Abid Zaidi, Commercial Segment Lead, Enterprise Group, Microsoft Pakistan.-PR