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Aero Asia
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Initially managed by a skeletal but dedicated team, Aero Asia took off from a two flights per day operation back in 1993, and soared high to become Pakistan's largest private airline with over 650 domestic and international flights per month. It has a rapidly expanding route network and flies the largest fleet of aircraft amid all the private airlines operating in the country. In June 2006, Aero Asia was acquired by the Regal Group. The Regal Group is an established business concern with a global presence.
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Aero Asia is using the Si3's payment processing solution to create a more convenient and dependable channel to accept payment made, using credit cards. The value addition is that the solution will enable Aero Asia customers, sitting anywhere to be able to purchase tickets and pay online.
Air Blue
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Air Blue is the newest private airline in Pakistan , which commenced its services in June 2004, operating a fleet of A320's. Air Blue is a trend-setter in the travel industry in Pakistan . Air Blue is the first company in Pakistan that has made use of IT as a strategic tool for disintermediation of the middle agent and reaching out directly to the customers.
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Air Blue wanted to gain greater efficiencies by increasing online reservations and encouraging more passengers to buy through its Web site. At the same time, it wanted to simplify the payment transaction process and minimize the risk and impact of online fraud. Air Blue selected Si3 ECXS Payment Gateway over an existing e-payment solution provided to them by an international company. Si3 ECXS is Si3's e-payment gateway with Citibank.
GEO Television Network
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Geo TV is the first South Asian Urdu language channel to provide content comparable with world-class television broadcasters. Geo is the fastest growing TV Channel in Pakistan with ratings exceeding all satellite based TV channels in the market. Geo has the widest distribution on cable systems in Pakistan with 100% coverage within 90 days of launch.
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Geo TV, the leading broadcasting television network, catering to local, as well as the Pakistani expatriates in USA and Canada had the essential requirement to upload and download broadcasts on a timely basis.
Geo had earlier experienced Si3’s quality of support services for their Bandwidth solution, provided by Si3 in 2004. A satisfied customer, Geo has procured NetApp technologies for its storage requirements. The NetApp FAS 270C meets the needs for the storage of Geo Web-portal database and e-mail storage via Exchange servers.
As the exclusive representatives of NetApp storage family in the country, Si3 has offered Geo TV the FAS 270C with 1Tb of usable storage. The FAS 270C includes dual RAID controllers so as to mitigate the risk of damage of the RAID controller on the storage. The solution also includes 300GB 10K RPM FC disk drives, rack mounting kit and software.
Geo TV, the leading broadcasting television network, catering to local, as well as the Pakistani expatriates in USA and Canada has that viewers would like recordings of their favorite broadcasts, news and plays to be available online.
Si3 ECXS is facilitating online payment of Geo videos recordings, through Virtual Acquiring. Si3 integrates Geo’s web-portal to the Citibank e-payment gateway which processes VISA and Mastercard payments, in the region.
Si3 has provided managed bandwidth solution to Geo for connectivity to Internet. This solution is offered by Si3 Network Services.
LMK Resources
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LMKR is a part of Halliburton's Landmark Graphics Division which acquired majority interest in the company in 2001. Halliburton is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the oil and gas industries employing more than 100,000 people in over 120 countries. |
Impressed with Si3 services, and the performance of their previous NetApp solution, LMK Resources, a leading-edge petroleum information technology company, has ordered an additional NetApp FAS 3020.
The solution includes 300GB 10K RPM Fiber Channel Disk drives, iSCSI bundle software, Snapshots Software for taking backups, SnapRestore software for restoration of Backups and HTTp Web Server software. The NetApp FAS3020 is capable of providing superb storage price/performance for smaller data centers, midsized business, and large department deployments.
Si3 successfully deployed NetApp® storage solutions at LMKR providing specialized hardware, software, and services, with seamless storage management for the organization's open network environments. Si3 represents Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp), a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise.
Mindshare
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Mindshare was created in 1997 as the first truly global full-service media company. It is now a team of 5,300 people in 65 countries around the world. Mindshare Pvt. Ltd is the largest media planning company in Pakistan. Mindshare manages advertisement campaigns on print and electronic media. Mindshare has been ‘Media Company of the year’ for last 3 years. |
Si3 has implemented a Media Planning Application using .Net technology for Mindshare. This application, named AXON, replaces a previous desktop based application. AXON is used to plan the campaign and generate release order for print and media suppliers like Dawn, Geo and ARY. It generates invoices for suppliers and provides integration with their financial application named ADEPT.
Pakistan State Oil
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Pakistan State Oil (PSO) is the oil market leader in Pakistan enjoying over 73% share of Black Oil market and 59% share of White Oil market. It is engaged in import, storage, distribution and marketing of various POL products, including Motor Gasoline, HSD, Fuel Oil, Jet Fuel, Kerosene, LPG, CNG and petro-chemicals. This blue chip company, the winner of "Karachi Stock Exchange Top Companies Award" and a member of World Economic Forum, has been a popular topic of case studies in Pakistan and abroad based on its radical corporate turnaround over the last few years. |
After successfully designing and developing a vertical marketplace for PSO dealerships, Si3 re engineered the business processes by bringing dealerships in 6 major cities of Pakistan online. This marketplace has reduced the cost of doing business by speeding up the exchange of information, reducing manual errors and processes, and lowering transaction costs by reducing the dependence on proprietary systems while promoting open standards.
The system provides information visibility through an infrastructure with integration technologies that enable enterprises to coordinate the delivery of products, services and information to the customer.
TSC Sentiments Express
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TCS is the first courier company in Pakistan managing over hundreds of thousands of deliveries each day. Within Pakistan TCS has become a generic term for express courier services. However we are much more than this. |
TCS uses Si3 ECXS Payment Gateway for online booking and payment of orders, for Sentiments Express. TCS is using the Si3's payment processing solution to create a more convenient and dependable channel to accept payment made, using credit cards. The value addition is that the solution will enable Sentiments Express customers, anytime and anywhere to be able to pay 24/7.
Trakker Ltd.
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Operational since April 2000, Trakker is Pakistan's first Multi-national company in Vehicle and Fleet Management Services operating across Pakistan and the Middle East. |
Trakker recently launched "Paytrack"; their online payment facility to pay their dues online. With the launch of this service Trakker has provided its customers the ease of paying their bills from anywhere in the world.
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