Emergen Consulting Pvt Ltd

The vision of PITB is to make Punjab the hub of information technology (IT) through human resource development, economic activity generation, IT education, outsourcing, and infrastructure development.

Emergen Consulting has integrated NADRA's legacy Nortel PBX system with Asterisk PBX using Asterisk Business Edition to give NADRA the flexibility to extend their voice communication network to all 350+ locations across Pakistan. Asterisk uses NADRA's state of the art WAN for voice as well as video calls. Emergen has also provided NADRA a state of the art email-to-fax as well as fax-to-email solution based on Asterisk.

Having been involved with BankIslami since its inception, we have seen how the requirements and the challenges change as the organizations grows. Together with BankIslami, we worked on an organization wide infrastructure solution with Open Source software as the base. BankIslami today is completely Linux based on the servers as well as the Desktop. BankIslami has experienced over 80% reduction in their total cost of ownership due to zero licensing cost, near zero downtime and freedom from viruses, hack attempts and vendor lock-in.

Tameer is one of the few microfinance banks in the world that is run and operated exactly like a commercial bank. They wanted a dynamic and energetic technology partner that could provide them with innovative infrastructure solutions that are extremely scalable, fault-tolerant, highly secure and feature central control without being too heavy on the budget. Emergen has provided Tameer with an integrated desktop environment, complete identity management of their infrastructure, secure single sign-on, redundant clustered storage and a VoIP PBX centralized at their headoffice. Tameer's data centre features the technological complexity of a high end datacentre, without the added cost of the proprietary solutions or hardware. Tameer's infrastructure caters to 400+ users spread over 22 branches nationwide. Emergen solution afforded Tameer an estimated 82% cost savings over the comparable proprietary solution.

Karachi Electric Supply Company aims to minimize its cost of inter-branch dialing by a significant percentage by introducing completely IP based communication using it's state of the art WAN network. To achieve this, Emergen Consulting implements a robust and scalable solution based on open source Asterisk PBX in more than 100 of its branches citywide. KESC now can make branch to branch calls at zero cost. The current size of the solution is 1700+ extensions with 12 PRIs with dual redundant servers. This solution has infinite scalability and can be integrated with industry standard call center solutions as well as video/voice conferencing solutions.

The NCCPL handles a critical function of Pakistan's stock exchange and wanted a robust and highly available infrastructure. Everything from their email, groupware, messaging, distributed storage to their identity management framework has been designed, deployed and managed by Emergen. Using an advanced agent-based network monitoring software, Emergen and NCCPL can collect detailed health statistics about individual applications running on their network, as downtime is a very expensive proposition in a financial clearing house.

National Fullerton Asset Management (NAFA), an investment management company and a joint venture of National Bank of Pakistan, Tamasek Holdings, Singapore and NIB Bank uses an Open Source Asterisk based PBX deployed by Emergen Consulting. Like any other investment management company, NAFA's internal communication system is extremely critical for them. It is imperative for NAFA to record all outgoing/incoming calls and maintain all data for a period of time specified by the regulatory authorities. Since its inception, NAFA has been using Emergen's PBX and over the past one year it has grown thrice the size and never came across any compatibility or scalability problems

Dalda Foods is the first and the only edible oils factory in Pakistan to have its own effluent treatment plant. It is also the only company which has ISO 9002 for Quality, ISO 14001 for Environment and OHSAS 18001 for Health and Safety Standards in this sector . In July 2004, Unilever Pakistan (previously Lever Brothers Pakistan Limited) decided to divest one of its strategic assets; the Dalda Brand, to Westbury Group in collaboration with Unilever Employee Welfare Group. The consortium formed an independent company under the name of Dalda Foods Private Limited. Dalda has been growing exponentially ever since it divested from its former principal. Their IT requirements have also been growing exponentially which in budgetary constraints. Emergen Consulting offered Dalda Foods to migrate completely to open source solutions to permanently address issues relating to expandability, robustness and security. The entire migration was devised in a way that during the first phase, Dalda's complete communication infrastructure would be revamped using open source technologies, particularly an IP based PBX; Asterisk. This will be followed by a complete infrastructure level migrations including all data center services and desktops to open source software.