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April 26, 2000
Dhaka,
Apr 25 (UNB) – Nationalised Commercial Banks would soon be automated
giving a big push to the budding software development bid. “NCBs
can make a significant breakthrough in the IT sector” in next few
months, said Governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr Mohammad Forashuddin here
today (Tuesday). He
told a workshop that the finance ministry had already approved a midterm
plan for computerisation of the NCBs allowing them to procure as much
computers as required. Bangladesh
Institute of Bank Management and Data Soft System Bangladesh Limited
jointly organised the workshop on “Banking Software: A few Proposal”
at BIBM conference room. Director
General of BIBM Dr Muinul Islam and Managing Director of Data Soft Mahboob
Zaman also addressed the inaugural function of the daylong workshop while
Doreen Schmidt Siddiqui, partner of CSB GmbH, Germany, presented the
keynote paper. Forashuddin
said automation of the banking sector was delayed due to a false
perception that IT would cut human resources and, of course, CBA was
another obstacle. “Now
what we need is a strong desire and maintaining status quo,” he said. He
called upon the participating IT managers to try to develop software of
their own which will suit the need of time of the country. “This
is up to you (IT manager) to evolve user friendly banking software which
will have all features adaptable to local needs,” the Governor said. Zaman
said ready software from outside cannot solve the local problems. “We
just have started the beginning of a process of developing software which
will be developed by ourselves. We have to develop the software in
accordance with our need by hiring concept from outside.” Doreen recommended individual business processes, banking software, system analysis and programming. A foreign software is not customized and no maintenance support will be available, she added. |