JBSAnnual Conference

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JBS winsSBP proposition

Paint mogulchooses JBS

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Paint Mogual Berger ChoosesJaffer Consultancy for ERPLicensing

Berger, with the purpose of following the world’s bestpractices has opted for Oracle E-Business Suite withthe conviction of Jaffer Consulting.

The Oracle licenses that Berger has procured areFinancials, Order Management, InventoryManagement, Process Manufacturing, AdvancedPricing, Mobile Supply Chain Applications, ProductionScheduling, Advanced Supply Chain Planning,Financial Intelligence, Supply Chain & OrderManagement Intelligence and Payroll.

Berger Paints Pakistan is a name associated withpaint manufacturing since 1950. Berger group hasworldwide affiliations with companies in 46 countries.

JBS Emerged Winners in SBPProposition

With a vision to implement the latest informationtechnology tools & services to promote efficiency in

the financial market, State Bank ofPakistan (SBP) has selected

Oracle ERP in order to bringtechnological advancementthat would lead to reducedoperating cost and improvedend-users performance.

SBP signed the contract forOracle HRMS licenses for its

4,800 employees to begin with.Under the scope of contract Jaffer Consulting,Business Unit of JBS, will also provide technicalsupport, maintenance, training services and consultingservices to SBP.

JBS will also work closely with SBP in equipping theircountrywide branch network with the latest HPDC7800 Core 2 & Quad Core machines. Thisprocurement is a part of the initiative taken by SBPto replace the I.T infrastructure all over Pakistan.Besides supplying these machines, JBS will also beextending its support for integration and maintenanceof SBP branches.

SBP, the central bank of the country is responsibleto regulate the monetary and credit system ofPakistan and to foster its growth in the best nationalinterest with a view to securing monetary stabilityand fuller utilization of the country’s productiveresources.

JBS Works Closely with JS BankTowards Expansion

JS Bank trusted Jaffer Business Systems (JBS) forequipping their new branches with cutting edgetechnological infrastructure. JBS was the obviouschoice because of the proven track of quality andcustomer services within the budgetary boundariesof JS. JBS will be mainly providing 20 HP ProLiantServers and over 150 desktop machines to bedeployed in the upcoming branches.

This will further strengthen JS’s technological wingand will give greater insight and control over theirsystems.

JS Bank Limited is a subsidiary of the JS Group,which is one of Pakistan’s most diversified andprogressive financial service groups.

JBS Accredited HP SoftwareSilver Business Partner

Jaffer Business Systems has been awarded thestatus of “HP Software Silver Business Partner”.The new partner level is a proof of JBS’scapabilities to provide consolidated HP hardwareand software solutions to businesses andenterprises, enabling them to choose from acomplete portfolio of products, services andmanagement solutions. This accreditation enablesJBS to serve its customers with powerful andtailored solutions by combining core competencies.

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JBS Conference 2008

JBS Annual Conference 2008 was held from 1stthrough 3rd August 2008, in the scenic venue of PC- Bhurban. Like previous years, this conference wasplanned to bring people from various departmentsand branches together, and give the respective

personnel an opportunity to interact with each othereven more closely. Chaired by Mr. Majid Latif, DirectorJBS, the theme of this year’s conference wasappropriately set as “Performing High”, and revolvedaround teamwork exhibited by the JBS team. JBShas delivered impeccable performances for the past3 years by way of its unwavering commitment toservice quality and unbound consistency in the sectorof Information & Communication Technology and theJBS conference serves as the right platform to drawaction plans for the forthcoming year and renew ourcommitments to elevate it even further.

The conference was kicked off by the opening notefrom Mr. Latif, followed by Mr. Zia-Ul-Haque, whostaged the overall performance of JBS. Theconference then starred different department’srepresentatives, who shared the facts and figureswith the team, discussed various operational andorganizational pointers at length. Motivation, beingthe prime idea of holding the conference, was inducedin the employees when the annual awards wereannounced and titles such as “Highest SalesAchievement”, “Highest Services Revenue” and“Highest Territory Sales Achievement” were anxiouslyanticipated by the JBS crowd. The day longconference ended with a tea break and the teamgathered at dinner in an informal atmosphere where

they further exchanged notes and first headed forthe movie theatre, and then for a musical night whereJawwad Ahmed rocked the night.

The annual conference was an extravaganza aimedessentially at employee motivation and disseminationof information within the departments and branches.Apart from undefined appreciation and appraisals,this year’s conference proved to be highly motivatingand encouraging for the entire JBS team and wonrave reviews from the participants.

JBS at ITCN Asia 2008

Jaffer Business Systems showcased its productsand services at the 8th ITCN Asia, the region’sbiggest I.T and Telecom show of Pakistan, heldfrom August 11th through August 13, 2008. JBScrafted an attractive booth at the entrance,greeting the visitors to the show. JBS received akeen attention of visitors throughout the 3 dayswho were poised to know the offerings in areaslike managed services, enterprise hardware andsoftware solutions as well as individuals who wereexcited to work at Jaffer!

ITCN Asia has grown from a country event to aregional event. It gives a platform to the I.T serviceand solution providers to establish business tobusiness alliances and in turn leveraging theirstrengths towards mutual interests.

ITCN Asia Exhibitions & Conferences have beenplaying a pivotal role in land marking the image ofPakistan on the world IT Map and bringing in hugeforeign and local investments in the Country.

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Team Jaffer At Danial Trophy’s Final

JBL Cricket Team, often termed as Team Jaffer,came out as runners up after an enthralling game ofcricket at UBL ground Karachi. Playing the finals ofDanial Trophy, Season II, Jaffers were head on headwith PICT, which stacked up a total of 186 leavingTeam Jaffer to chase 187. Chasing the total, TeamJaffer suffered from early blows which left thembruised with 63/4 at a stage but then managed tocling on to a respectable total of 146 in the allocatedovers. The highlight of the second innings was the50-ball-66 from middle order batsman MukarramWaheed, who changed the matched and kept theinterest alive till the end.

Achievements of JafferConsulting Team Members

Muhammad Adeel Edhi and MuhammadAmyn of Jaffer Consulting-JC havecleared the ACCA papers and havebecome qualified ACCAs.

Farhan Mansoor Ali of Jaffer Consulting-JC has scored the highest marks inACCA paper “Audit & Assurance” allover Pakistan.

We congratulate them on their successand are proud to have such brightmembers in team JC.

JBS – Keen Emphasis onEducation!

ITIL V3 Foundation Certification

Recently JBS has aquired 4 new Certifications of ITIL V3 Foundation.

Two Engineers, Khalique Zafar & Kashif Mumtaz Tahirfrom Lahore and Naheed Ahmad, Sr.CustomerServices Administrator & Shazia Zafar, CustomerRelations Executive from Customer Care CenterKarachi have passed this exam with extraordinarymarks. Khalique Zafar & Shazia Zafar have secured100% marks while Kashif Mumtaz Tahir & NaheedAhmed have secured 97% marks in this exam.

Khalique ZafarLahore

Shazia ZafarKarachi

Kashif Mumtaz TahirLahore

Naheed AhmadKarachi

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HP AIS Proliant ML/DL Servers

Khalique Zafar &K a s h i f M u m t a zT a h i r , C u s t o m e rServices Engineersf r o m L a h o r e ,venturing for newcertifications havenow achieved HPA I S t i t l e f o r

ProLiant ML/DL Servers.

MCP Windows Server 2003

Salman Ahmed Khan from S&APCSKarachi has passed his MCP (MicrosoftCertified Professional) exam for WinServer 2003

Cisco Express Foundation Certification

Mahmood-ul-Hassan from S&APCustomer Services Islamabad haspassed Cisco Express Foundationexam recently, after passing hisCCNA. Thus, he has qualified for thetitle of Cisco Field Engineer.

Cisco Certified Network ProfessionalCertification

Syed Rehan Hussain Rizvi, CustomerServices Engineer form Karachi hassuccessfully completed his Ciscotrack of CCNP Certificatiion.

Training at HP Singapore

Khalique Zafar, Customer Services Engineer fromS&APCS Lahore, attended the HP Client AutomationStandard training in July 2008, while HammadSherwani, Customer Services Engineer of S&APCSIslamabad, has attended training for Designing &Implementing of HP StorageWorks SAN StorageSolutions in Sep, 2008. Both training programmesare very important.

Orientation Program for ResidentEngineers

JBS – Services Division has started a new orientationprogram for Resident Engineers. In the first phase,this program was conducted only for newly hiredResident Engineers to familiarize them with thesystems & procedures of JBS. Around 20 newResident Engineers participated in the program. Thetraining program was conducted with the collaborationof HR, Customer Care Centre & S&AP CustomerServices. The trainers were Balach Jamali, TahirKashif, Shazia Zafar & Naheed Ahmad. Thisorientation program will help these ResidentEngineers to achieve customer satisfaction byproviding efficient services. The program was verymuch appreciated by the Engineers and theyrequested for more training to be conducted.

Decoding Project ManagementJargon

Essentially complete.It's half done.

We predict...We hope to God!

Risk is high, but within acceptable ranges of risk.100:1 odds, or with 10 times over budget using 10times the people we said we'd employ.

Potential show stopper.The team has updated their resumes.

Serious but not insurmountable problems.It'll take a miracle...

Basic agreement has been reached.The @##$%%'s won't even talk to us.

Results are being quantified.We're massaging the numbers so they will agree withour conclusions.

Task force to review.Seven people who are incompetent at their regularjobs have been loaned to the project

Not well defined at this time.Nobody's even thought about it.

Still analysing the requirements.See previous answer.

Not well understood.Now that we've thought about it, we don't want tothink about it anymore.

Requires further analysis and management attention.Totally out of control

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Results are promising.Turned power on and no smoke detected -- this time...

Elements will be phased in gradually as the softwareinterface matures.It's late!

Unacceptable stretching-out of the time scale.It's late!

Still in the early phase of the learning curve.New

The requirement was changed and the programconcluded.Cancelled

Experiencing transient malfunctions.Going wrong

Conceptually configured in several variations.Modified

A structured interface with the government on aninter-departmental basis.Money!

Oracle, HP Unveil Computer toCope with Digital Explosion

Longtime business software giant Oracle hasannounced that it is diving headlong into the computerhardware business with a brainier, brawnier machinecrafted to manage the explosion of digital data.

The company’s chief executive Larry Ellison onWednesday unveiled an Exadata Storage Server anda Database Machine built in partnership with computertitan Hewlett Packard. “Oracle is getting into thehardware business but we are not doing it alone,”Ellison said during a speech at an Oracle Open Worldconference in San Francisco. “Conventional storagearrays simply cannot compete with the Oracle-HPDatabase Machine.”

Oracle and HP have worked together for years onsolutions to the rocketing growth in the amount ofdata businesses have crammed into their machines.The amount of digital information is doubling ortripling annually and the number of people companiesneed to have access to that information is multiplyingexponentially as well, according to industry statistics.Businesses grapple with an increasingly difficultchallenge of sifting through growing mountains ofdata for insights regarding customers, inventories,performance and other vital aspects of operations.More than a third of the executives overseeingcomputer networks at major US firms believe that

their data centers will not be able to meet growingdemands by the year 2010, according to HP VicePresident Anne Livermore. “At the heart of this is adata center badly in need of transformation,”Livermore said in a preface to Ellison’s presentation.“They need a next-generation data center.” Ellisonsays Oracle and HP have addressed the problem bybuilding a machine that pairs Intel multi-coreprocessors with blocks of memory, essentially givingeach data storage disk a brain of its own. Instead ofhuge chunks of data being sent over limited bandwidthconnections to business servers for processing, the“brainier” memory disks send just the details beingsought.

Tests of the machines indicate they handleinformation more than 10 times faster than systemscurrently in use, according to Oracle. “I think we arebringing to the market what two great companies dobest and we are doing it as a team,” HP ChiefExecutive Mark Hurd said during a video broadcastappearance with Ellison. “It’s an exciting day for us.I think it’s a great thing for Oracle, HP, the market,and customers.”

The HP Oracle Database Machine combines Exadataservers, beefed-up connections, and high-performance processors in a package. “I hope yourteams are ready to turn these things out like iPods,”Ellison quipped to Hurd, implying the machines wouldbe hot sellers. Exadata servers using the Linux open-source operating system are available immediatelyand models based on other operating systems, suchas Microsoft Windows Vista, “are on the way,”according to Ellison.