Si3 is youngest organization in Pakistan to have achieved any level of CMMI certification
         August 23rd, 2007, Karachi, Pakistan

                          
Organix IT Canada and Si3 Pakistan sign PKR 1.8 Billion MoU to secure Pakistan with intelligent surveillance
         January 23 rd, 2007, Lahore, Pakistan

At a Gala Night ceremony attended by all member companies, of Pakistan Software Houses Association, corporate sector, financial sector, telecom sector, academic sector, and public sector, Si3 was awarded winner of 2 prestigious PASHA National ICT Awards, and took home a merit award as well.

Winner: Best Revenue Growth
This Award was presented to the IT/ITES Company that registered the best revenue growth during the past financial year 2005-06– both in terms of domestic and export revenue. Si3 grew an unprecedented 562%, year-on-year, with all revenues from domestic business.

Winner: Best Brand Development
Si3 won this award, by managing to brand itself most effectively. Amongst the things that were assessed were corporate identity, advertisements, collateral, and media exposure.

Merit Award: Best IT/ITES Employer
This Award was presented to the best IT/ITES Employer from amongst the IT and ITeS companies based in Pakistan. This includes areas such as best environment to work in, best learning and growth opportunities, challenging work, motivating managers and supervisors, good systems. Si3, with its strong work ethic and culture, was awarded a Merit Award.

The objective of the P@SHA ICT Awards is to provide recognition to software and service applications that have been developed in Pakistan. It is meant to acknowledge creativity, innovation and excellence in the Pakistan Information and Communication Technologies sector.

Si3 has been selected as integration partner to deploy Network and Server technology at a Defense Sector customer. The installation of the technology is a critical building block towards a robust technology infrastructure for the customer’s intranet. Si3 services also include deployment and training for a Collaborative Management System

Si3 has been selected by MCB Bank Limited for provisioning of Information Technology Infrastructure comprising of IBM’s pSeries model p570 servers and xSeries model x346 servers along with associated licensed system software deployment. This shall be a one-window solution assisting MCB Bank fulfill end-to-end technical requirements seamlessly for the launching of its Card System Solution. Si3’s people, partnerships and proficiency in tools and methodologies utilization, its core strengths, are the factors that differentiated Si3 from its competitors.

As an IBM Business Partner, Si3 shall be supported by IBM Pakistan during the course of the project and shall be providing the warranty and maintenance services directly to the Bank.  This grouping is extremely well positioned to meet the functional and technical requirements of the project.

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Through competitive bidding, funded by the UK Government, Si3 won the ERRA contract for Supply and Installation of Hardware and Software and Data Centre facility for Hosting.

Connectivity is provided from Si3 Data Center to Head Office, to 8 earthquake-affected areas. Multiple xSeries servers, Microsoft’s e-mail collaboration suite, and Donor Financial Management and Disbursement applications are being provided to facilitate the affected. As a special gesture of goodwill, Si3 will be hosting all ERRA technology infrastructures at its Islamabad Data Centre, free of charge for three years.

British Petroleum (BP) is currently running Oracle Applications in its offices in Pakistan. BP has selected Si3 to maintain and support their Oracle applications and to monitor its performance. In this regard, Si3’s Enterprise Application Systems Team will be supporting and maintaining all Oracle Applications currently operating at BP.

KASB Bank Limited has embarked on a major refresh of its information technology infrastructure, primarily its Core Banking Application to achieve strategic business objectives. For this purpose the Bank has selected Misys Core Banking System and Si3 has been awarded the contract for deployment services.

Si3 as the lead integrator shall provide the functional and technical application implementation resources in collaboration with Misys and IBM Pakistan for the total project.  Such an approach achieves two purposes; lowering the implementation costs and ensuring the availability of key functional and technical resources who understand the details of the solution during the course of the project.  To ensure project success our technical services team shall work with the Bank’s business leaders so that the technical solution meets the business needs identified by the Bank.

The Core Banking System modules to be implemented include:

• Equation Core / Retail;
• Trade Innovation;
• Treasury;
• Branch Automation; and
• MIS Reporting.

This project shall be managed by a dedicated project manager through Si3’s Project Management Office (PMO). The PMO will provide expert solutions by certified Project Management Professionals (PMP) to KASB Bank with critical juncture support, a foundation of knowledge in structured project management, tools, methodologies, processes and quality assurance expertise. The project management services for this project will cover the complete lifecycle of the project from initiation to closing.

In addition to deployment services, Si3 has been contracted by KASB Bank to provide the core sever for running Misys application - IBM’s iSeries Server model 520.

Capitalizing on Si3’s experience in Business Continuity services, DIB has selected Si3’s Data Center as its Disaster Recovery Site to host the Core Banking Application and other critical support systems including proxy servers. The Disaster Recovery Site IT infrastructure comprising of IBM pSeries and xSeries servers including IBM Blade Center has been provisioned by Si3 as well.

In the case of a disaster or a system(s) failure/crash at the DIB Head Office, the systems would be available through Si3’s Data Center which is connected by a 2MBps DXX Link and an alternate route via a 512Kbps backup link to be established over the internet through VPN tunnel.

This partnership has enabled DIB with remote backup hardware and systems support.

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.

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 UBL providing specialized hardware, software, and services, with seamless storage management for the bank's open network environments.

Si3 represents Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp), a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise.

A comprehensive integrated centralized Enterprise Systems Management Solution has been implemented at United Bank Limited by a certified team of Si3 professionals to provide end-to-end Problem and Event management of UBL’s IT infrastructure including the monitoring of its critical servers, switches, routers and WAN links.

The solution provides UBL, a financial organization with much of their business services derived from technology, with a management system through which they can proactively monitor their critical business services. These services need to be available 24/7 to the customer and in return will help UBL develop more business and market their services with more confidence.

The core solution is based on IBM Tivoli product line and Assyst Helpdesk Application components that have been integrated together to provide the required functionalities and offer the requisite reliability, availability, scalability, and manageability.

Si3 has been selected to design and develop a web portal for UBL Fund Manager, a subsidiary of United Bank Limited. Users can view and download information regarding UBL Mutual Funds. A variety of tools are available for Funds comparisons and projection of Return on Investment. The web application also sends vital information to subscribers via SMS.

Si3 was awarded "Best Value-Add Business Partner in 2005" at the 'IBM Pakistan Kick-Off 2006'. This award recognizes Si3 for securing the First End to End Tivoli win at UBL and winning key IT outsourcing deals at National Logistics Corporation (NLC) and MyBank Limited.

Picture shows Habib Ullah Khan (VP - Channels, Si3) receiving the award on behalf of Si3, (R)Takreem El-Tohamy (General Manager, IBM Middle East , Egypt & Pakistan), and (L)Humayun Bashir (Country General Manager, IBM Pakistan).

As technology partners for one of the fastest growing Indian IT companies, Si3 has successfully completed a project for an American company in the hospitality industry which was breaking off into four smaller companies.

Si3 has been awarded winner of "Best of Start-Up Companies" category at the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) Information Communications Technology (ICT) Awards 2005 in Karachi on the evening of December 6, 2005. The event followed by a Gala Dinner was attended by around 350 people from the ICT sector across the country, as well as corporate and government guests. The winners demonstrated their to a panel of judges from varied disciplines of the industry.

On behalf of Si3, Amer Hashmi received the Award Trophy, and in his acceptance speech thanked his entire team, and elaborated on Si'3s vision and unique business model as a technology integrator.

Since its inception in May 2004, Si3 had won multi-million dollar contracts from the Public Sector and Banking Sector, through competitive bids against world-class IT solution providers. This rapid growth as a start-up company sets SI3 apart from its peers.

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"Si3 ECXS Virtual Acquiring" was recognized as a "Special Mention" award by the panel of judges, for its nomination in the category of "Best of Financial Applications" .

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On behalf of Si3 Application Development Management Services, Mohammed Sabzwari, in his acceptance speech, thanked Asif Qayyum and his former ECXS team, who designed the Si3 EXCS Virtual Acquiring Application.

Picture shows (R) Mohammed Sabzwari (Group Head- ADMS, Si3) receiving the
"Special Mention" certificate for "Best Financial Application" category from Dr. Aamir Matin, (Managing Director, PSEB), and (L) Jehan Ara (President, PASHA).

The objective of the P@SHA ICT Awards is to provide recognition to software and service applications that have been developed in Pakistan . It is meant to acknowledge creativity, innovation and excellence in Pakistan's Information and Communication Technologies sector.

GEO is the first South Asian Urdu language channel to provide world class content ratings that exceed all satellite channels in Pakistan.

Independent Media Corporation; branded under the name 'Geo' has a high capacity bandwidth/internet connectivity up to 2 MBPS and managed Network Online.

Trakker, the vehicle tracking and fleet management multinational company, wanted to encourage their clients to pay the monthly Car trakker charges on-line so as to save time and reduce the hassle. Currently, Trakker clients have the option of paying on-line for their monthly car tracking charges.

Virtual Acquiring of products through the web portal is an expanding business, as credit card issuance rises sharply in Pakistan. In line with Trakker’s tradition of being in the continuous pursuit of fulfilling our customer’s needs, Pay-Track is their new online payment solution, powered by Si3 ECXS. The system facilitates the customer to make payments for equipment, transfer, and renewal of monitoring charges or any other services by simply using a valid Visa or MasterCard. Instead of going through the hassle of writing checks or driving to one of their offices, now customers can simply log on to a secure website link to make payments online through a secure and reliable system.

Callmate –Telips is the first LDI operator in Pakistan and has received many awards in regards with providing telecommunication services in Pakistan. To build its corporate image, Callmate-Telips consulted Si3’s expertise to design, develop and deploy its presence on the web. www.cttelecom.net

The site design imbues the sprit of professionalism and honesty, reaching out to its consumer base in rural masses and urban youth, and eventually to executives in the corporate sector. Accordingly, the website has a two-pronged approach to project Callmate-Telips’ image for such diverse audiences.

The Si3 DiscoverT methodology provides a structured approach for a robust IT Strategy Framework for a large financial institution like CDC with diverse and growing IT needs. Si3 will conceptualize and document the initiatives necessary to ensure the successful identification, coordination, prioritization, planning, and execution of enterprise-wide IT related projects on an ongoing basis.

Callmate Telips will be using the Si3's payment processing solution to create a more convenient and dependable channel to accept payment made, using credit cards. The solution will enable Callmate Telips customers, sitting anywhere to be able to pay online.

Also, Si3 has been selected to provide the Callmate Telips website which provides the company, to create its brand image and reach out to its different customers and suppliers through it.

The National Logistics Cell (now known as National Logistics Corporation- NLC) is a national provider of Transportation, Engineering and Tolling Services and also the largest logistics company in Pakistan . In addition to Fleet Logistics, NLC operations include management of Dry Ports , Highway construction and maintenance activities, as well as Toll collection at highways.

In June 2004, NLC released a Request for Proposal for deploying a Fleet Management System and a Financial System for their operations. Si3 responded to this RFP with a 600+ page document in July 2004. After a thorough review of the proposal and presentations, Si3 was chosen out of the final four contenders which included SAP and Oracle implementers.

The e-NLC project aims at establishing a solid business infrastructure within the organization, positioning it to expand its interests to the Telecom, Energy and Manufacturing sectors as well. This implementation involves deployment of a Fleet Management System by DCS Logistics of Holland and Oracle E-Business suite. This project also includes deployment of a nation wide private network for NLC which would support applications, email, Voice-Over-IP and Video Conferencing. Lotus Notes will provide email, document management and workflow applications. The servers include an IBM's state-of-the-art pSeries (p5) server which will host the ERP, Payroll and Fleet Management applications and three IBM Xeon-based xSeries servers which will run Lotus Notes, LDAP and Antivirus applications. NetApp storage hardware will provide disaster recovery to NLC.

The project is being managed by a dedicated Project Management Office that will be coordinating all the project activities among Si3, NLC, Contractors and Suppliers.

This nationwide rollout of e-NLC project will be supported by Si3 Karachi and Islamabad offices including any necessary customization of the application and support the IT solution for NLC's overall business. Si3 will be working closely with NLC's business and IT teams to deliver a high quality business solution.

Following the tremendous response of clients, Si3 has announced that the office in Islamabad will be functional in the next 3 months. This will be phenomenal considering the amount of construction taking place in major cities of Pakistan and the month of Ramadan right around the corner. The office in Islamabad will open before the end of this year. Following the tradition of the Karachi office, a large data center will take a prominent space in this office. This will also provide clients with the facility to choose their Disaster Recovery sites from any of the two cities. This puts Si3 in the forefront of DR Service provision being the only company in Pakistan able to offer double redundancy disaster recovery.

Habib Bank Limited recently awarded Si3 a contract to formulate an IT Security Framework for Secure Banking. Under the deal Si3 will provide HBL with best practices, conduct a gap analysis and give recommendations based on the analysis.

Si3’s professionals bring with them a vast amount of specialist knowledge and experience into this project.

Air Blue recently selected Si3 ECXS payment gateway over an existing e-payment solution provided to them by an international company. The change was required to address certain problems in the billing system.

Si3 ECXS is Si3’s e-payment gateway with Citibank. 95% of online credit card transactions from and within Pakistan flow through this virtual gateway.

This year’s Independence Day marked the launch of Si3’s bandwidth for corporate and home users under the name Si3 Online. The primary focus of this service initiative was to provide quality bandwidth service with a customer centric approach. This initiative plays a less prominent yet important role in Si3’s long term vision to provide information and business value through technology services to Enterprises in Pakistan and abroad.

Si3’s Data center is outfitted with equipment from IBM, Sun, Dell, Cisco and Enterasys Networks. Si3’s internet backbone delivers our clients with 24x7 internet connectivity backed by dedicated help desk & technical support.

Si3 has been selected to provide the DVCom Billing Integration System which provides the management for tracking of business opportunities. This web based application also allows management to keep them updated with business and marketing activities.