{"id":18185,"date":"2015-10-15T19:49:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=18185"},"modified":"2015-10-15T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T14:49:16","slug":"infotech-lands-a-contract-with-samba-bank-and-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/infotech-lands-a-contract-with-samba-bank-and-ibm\/","title":{"rendered":"InfoTech Lands a Contract with SAMBA BANK and IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s leading Systems Integrator and Technology solutions provider \u2013 InfoTech \u2013 now facilitates SAMBA Bank Limited (a subsidiary of Samba Financial Group of Saudi Arabia) in hosting their core banking solutions on middleware which is entirely IBM\u2019s. The IBM DB2 Database will enable Samba Bank to integrate their front end and back end systems seamlessly. What\u2019s more to this is that the Bank also selected POWER8-based servers \u2013 based on the first open server platform and the first processor designed for Big Data \u2013 storage and industry\u2019s most advanced IBM Flash Systems which will allow them to build highly efficient and flexible performance optimized systems.<\/p>\n<p>Naseer A. Akhtar, CEO InfoTech Pvt. Ltd. to mark the occasion, remarked,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cInfoTech has a rich history and experience with the banking industry and we work tirelessly with them to define and implement a technology roadmap that best delivers their strategic goals. SAMBA Bank has taken a vital step to ensure a strengthened core banking infrastructure, allowing improvement for customers, support and profitability initiatives.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President &amp; CEO of Samba Bank, Mr. Shahid Sattar, on the occasion also stated that,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cThis strategic alliance with Infotech and IBM will enable Samba Bank to provide maximum up time to its branch network with the best of breed technology to run the core banking application along with faster time to market.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IBM\u2019s Country General Manager Humayun Bashir also shared his thoughts about the occasion, stating,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cWe are proud to be partnering with InfoTech and SAMBA Bank, for this initiative where the Bank will notice a fair reduction in data processing time and shall be able to draw key insights faster,\u201d He further added that \u201cWe are the suppliers of infrastructure, resiliency and managed services to 80% of Pakistani Banks and we are proud to be partnering with Samba Bank for this key initiative.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s leading Systems Integrator and Technology solutions provider \u2013 InfoTech \u2013 now facilitates SAMBA Bank Limited (a subsidiary of Samba Financial Group of Saudi Arabia) in hosting their core banking solutions on middleware which is entirely IBM\u2019s. The IBM DB2 Database will enable Samba Bank to integrate their front end and back end systems seamlessly. What\u2019s more to this is that the Bank also selected POWER8-based servers \u2013 based on the first open server platform and the first processor designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":18186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[967,1535,1534],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>InfoTech Lands a Contract with SAMBA BANK and IBM | TNM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pakistan\u2019s leading Systems Integrator and Technology solutions provider \u2013 InfoTech \u2013 now facilitates SAMBA Bank Limited\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/infotech-lands-a-contract-with-samba-bank-and-ibm\/\" 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