KARACHI – IBM Pakistan has boosted output of software engineers by 20 percent in the last five years, while exports could touch $10 billion along with one million jobs in the industry in the next decade. This was stated by the IBM Country General Manger Humayun Bashir in a press briefing at IBM house. He also stated that green data centers are to be established, while the company is mainly focusing on outsourcing businesses.
In the last 10 years, he claimed that IBM has reinvented itself and introduced services in ‘solutions integration’ for different companies and products. IBM has also bought 80 software houses in the country. Speaking about the new ‘Watson Computers,’ he said the company is working in collaboration with AEO clinic and have done 54 pilot testing of the said project in which all the illnesses and their diagnoses would be fed in the said computer.
He said that the company has been in Pakistan for 59 years and it has an established branch office and gained solid successes. IBM is celebrating 100 years in business on June 16.
