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16-20 October 2016 Dubai World Trade Centre Dubai, UAE
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16-20 October 2016Dubai World Trade Centre
Dubai, UAE
Country Profile 03
Economy 04
Demography 05
Education 06
Why should you invest in Bangladesh Technology Sector 07
Government Support to IT 08
Bangladesh IT 09
Software & IT Industry at a Glance 10
Business Specialization of BASIS Member Companies 11
Export trends in recent years 12
Follow us 13
Exhibitor
Code Knight Solution Limited 15
Free Software Solution 16
Genuity Systems Ltd. 17
Recursion Technologies Ltd. 18
REVE Systems Lyd. 19
About BASIS 14
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160
4
GDP ( million USD, at current market price)
Real GDP growth (%)
Per Capita GDP
Export (million USD)
Import (million USD)
Current account balance (million USD)
Consumer Price Index in�ation (%)
Exchange rate (Taka/Dollar)
173,640
6.12
1114
30500
40732
2854
7.60
77.80
2013-14
184,944
6.51
1314
25300
33060
1500
6.57
77.80
2014-15
245,200
7.1
1506
33752
39268
2958
5.90
78.37
2015-16
5
160
1.58
1.2
70.36
27
61.4
4
2011
6
2004-2012
2005-2012 96.7
2005-2012 57.37
1.6
14.1
2002-2012
71.1
78.5
0.40
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Why should you invest in Bangladesh Technology Sector
With one of the largest and fastest growing technology market in the South & South-East Asia, Bangladesh tech sectors offers exciting opportunity for investment in different areas of Infrastructure, citizen services, localized content & application etc.
One of the best FDI policy in the region (corporate tax exemption for infrastructure & IT service business, 100% profit repatriation, investment protection etc.)
Stable local currency & macro-economic situation ensuring stable return on investment
Matured capital market for exit on investment
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2019
Special Hi-Tech Park and Software Technolgy Parks (STP) are being built by the government at the different cities of the country to facilitate all the infrastructural supports needed by outsourcing companies. Government has initiated Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority to make the Hi-Tech Park operational.
Janata Tower: The �rst Software Technology Park in Bangladesh
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250,000200
10,000
900
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Software & IT Industry at a Glance
No. of Registered Software & ITES Companies : 1500+
No. of BASIS Member Companies : 983
Export (FY 2014) : US $ 250 Million
No. of Exporting Companies* : 400+
(Only registered companies. Does not include no. of freelancers)
No. of Export Destination Countries : 60+
Approx. No. of Human Resource Employed in the Industry : 250,000 +
Industry Turnover : US $ 1 billion
Industry Revenue Proportion
ITES
Software
56%44%
1500+
US$ 1 billion
Enterprise no.
Revenue of Software & ITES Industry
Total Human Resource Employed in the Industry
250,000 + Professionals
Source: BASIS survey
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Business Specialization of BASIS Member Companies
Source: BASIS survey
Technical Expertise of Software Companies
Source: BASIS survey
Domain (Functional) and Industry Specialization of Software Companies
Media Content Management SystemMicro Finance (MFI) Solution
Insurance Management SystemE-Learning
Office Management SolutionCapital Market Solution
Security, Biometric & Alert SystemsPOS & Inventory Management System
Hospital Management SysmentEnterprise Content Management
Education Institute Mgt. ApplicationCustomized Software Development
Mobile ApplicationCommunication Solution
Web Development Service & Hostinge-commerce & Portals
CRM, Marketing & Sales AutomationHR & Payroll Solution
Banking ApplicationAccounting & Financial Software
ERP & Integrated Business Application 31.4%
16.1%
16.1%
14.2%
9.5%
9.5%
9.5%
6.7%
6.7%
5.7%
5.7%
5.7%
5.7%
5.7%
5.7%
4.8%
4.8%
3.8%
3.8%
3.8%
2.9%Domain Specialization
VAR/Software
Product distributor
Reseller
R&DServices
ConsultingSystemIntegration
ProductCompany
MobileApplication
E-commerce/Web services
IT EnabledServices
Customised Software
development
55.66%
16.98%
12.45%
4.72% 4.34%
3.02%
1.51%0.94% 0.38%
0.05%
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Top export destinations(Amounts refer to percentage of surveyed companies having export in respective countries)
2012 -13 2013 -14 2014 -152008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
101.63
124.72132.54
151.8
35.36
45.31
70.81
Export trends in recent years
2009-102010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-16
Fiscal year
35.3645.3170.81
101.63124.72132.54
151.8
Export(in million USD)
7.44%28.14%56.28%43.53%22.71%
6.27%4.71%
(over last year)
Growth
Source: EBP
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Bangladesh has been enlisted in the Gartner’s report as one of the top 30 IT Outsourcing Destination.
World Bank has ranked Bangladesh as 17 for investor protection.
Moody’s has rated Bangladesh Ba3 stable rating for 4th consecutive years while S&P has rated BB- for 3rd consecutive years.
JP Morgan named Bangladesh as one of the `Frontier Five’ (along with Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kenya and Nigeria), a group of selected emerging countries having promising macroeconomic performance and demographic trends (Bangladesh has the 5th largest economically active population in the world).
According to a report of of A.T. Kearney Global Services Index, “Bangladesh is the No. 1 country in terms of Cost Competitiveness & 26th best location regarding Financial attractiveness, People skill & availability and Business Environment”
European Commission has included Bangladesh as one of the top 20 IT Outsourcing destination.
Follow Us
www.youtube.com/basischannel
www.facebook.com/BASIS.Official | www.facebook.com/BASIS.Softexpo
www.basis.org.bd | |www.bangladeshnext.com www.softexpo.com.bd
twitter.com/BASIS_Event
bd.linkedin.com/pub/basis-event/26/946/505
Upcoming Industry Events in Dhaka
Bangladesh Softexpo 2017 : February 1-4, 2017 Dhakawww.softexpo.com.bd
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Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) is the national trade body for Software & IT Enabled Service industry of Bangladesh. Established in 1997, the association has been working with a vision of developing vibrant software & IT service industry in the country. BASIS has already gained modest success in attaining the above mentioned goals. For domestic market creation, BASIS has wide range of programs and activities. Every year BASIS organizes BASIS SOFTEXPO, the biggest software and ITES exposition in the country. During the recent years, SOFTEXPO has become the yearly mega market place where software & IT service companies in the country project their products and services to potential IT users, both at corporate/organizational and individual level. BASIS periodically publishes software and IT service catalog /directory for promoting local solution providers to the potential business clients. For development of market in government sector BASIS has been working closely with different concerned Ministries and agencies of government. BASIS is trying to play a catalyst role so that its members can effectively provide support and technical guidance to different government initiatives taken in line with the Digital Bangladesh vision of current government. With regard to export market development, BASIS regularly takes initiatives for creating exposure for member companies to international markets with the help of different government and development agencies working in the export development area. Such initiatives include - arranging participation at interna-tional IT fairs & marketing missions, business linkage programs for outsourcing, B2B trade platform etc. There is a wide range of capacity building support that BASIS offers to its members. These initiatives are aimed at helping the member companies to become competitive at local and international level. These include training programs (technology and management; till date over two thousand profession-als have received training from BASIS), promotion and sharing of best industry practices, quality drive across industry etc. In the recent past, BASIS has also taken step for indepth industry research and development of white papers for providing strategic guidance to its members.
European Commission has included Bangladesh as one of the top 20 IT Outsourcing destination.
Exhibitor
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Code Knight Solutions LimitedRoad no. 19B, House 300(1st floor)Mohakhali DOHS, Dhaka, Bangladesh.Phone : +880 1713334696E-mail : [email protected] : www.codeknightsol.com
Code Knight Solutions Limited has been founded by a group of enthusiastic and experienced software developers and IT professionals in 2011.
The founding members of the company share a wide array of expertise among themselves which help them understand the fast paced technological evolution around and the opportunity it brings with it.
Specially, the ever growing mobile technology and the �elds of VOIP, GIS and LBS have been the key sectors where Code Knight Solutions can boast a good number of years' experience working with some of the pioneer companies of the world in this very �eld. Another important area where Code Knight Solutions certainly has competitive advantage over the market is Big Data. There are members in the team who have international standard work experience in the domain of data analytics. These two set of skills combined, Code Knight Solutions certainly has what it takes to take your fast moving ambitious project ahead, which is, to boost your Business in Motion.
Products / Services / Expertise
• Platinum Dialer• Sales Force Automation• GIS• LBS• Telephony
Client List
• AfriGIS• Bosundhara Group• Orion Group• iVoco• NTS telecom
Muhammad Sohel RanaDirector and CTO
Mohammad Ashraf HossainCEO
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Exhibitor
Free Software SolutionGulshan 1, Dhaka- 1212Phone No: +880 1871 005588E-mail : [email protected] Web : www.free-mobiledialer.com
Free Software Solution is involved with the Software Development (Mobile Phone Application) business since March 2015, which is the most potential and rapidly expanding sector in Bangladesh. The goal of the organization is to provide the best solution at a very low price to help client to make a good profit margin in current competitive market.
The solution has designed using minimum resource for maximum calls and the voice is HD quality. Minimizing the maintenance hassle we are offering 100% managed service. The organization is providing fully transparent and user friendly monitoring portal so that client can manage, configure and monitor their full services by their own. Products / Services / ExpertiseMobile Application for all platform.
Client List
Hafez AhamedManager, sales
Mitu BhoumikDirector, Sales
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Exhibitor
Genuity Systems Ltd.Sruti Tower (4th Floor), Plot- 8, Main Road, Block- Ka, Section- 6, Mirpur, Dhaka- 1216BangladeshTel: +(88) 02 9030255FAX: (88) 02-8034548E-mail: [email protected],[email protected]: www.genuitysystems.com
Genuity Systems Limited (GSL) is a public limited company established in 2003. Genuity provided services include but not limited to Contact Center solutions, VoIP soft-switch and billing solutions, Mobile Dialer solutions, IP-PBX solutions, Web-based software solutions and Advance IT training. GSL develop telecom software as mobile application software focusing export market like USA, UK, Middle East Asia, Central Asia and South East Asian countries. GSL has acquired name and fame in telecom Soft switch, gPlex Mobile Application & gPlex Mobile Dialer in the export market. Products / Services / Expertise
• Contact Center Solution• VoIP Soft-Switch and Billing Solutions• Mobile Dialer Solutions• IP-PBX Solutions• Advance IT Training
Client List
• Bank
• Hospital
• Telecom Industries
• E-Commerce
Md Lutful Kabir MajumderHead of Marketingand Sales
Choudhury Al TowhidMahmoodAssistant Manager
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Exhibitor
Recursion Technologies Ltd.H/33, Zakir Hussain Road, Block EMohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Phone: +880 1847188888, 01833755102E-mail: [email protected]: www. r-cis.com
Mohammed Shahed UllahCMO
Mohammad Arif HossainManaging Director
Recursion is a fully service based agency dedicated to the concept of being creative, imaginative, and more importantly result driven. Business Process Outsourcing, Software Development, Application Development, Telecommunication & Network Solution, IP PBX Solution, IT & Telecom Consultancy, End-to-end Telecommunication design structure, Printed Circuit Board(PCB) Design, and Web Design & Development are the expertise service provided by Recursion partnering with World Best Technology Vendors of Telecommunication, Transmission and Data Communication.
Products / Services / ExpertiseSipring Dialer • Faster Registration• Echo Cancellation• Easy contact searching• Manage Call logs• DTMF feature• Loud and clear voice• Call hold, mute, loudspeaker• Consuming low internet• Consume less battery charge• Supports IP PBXSipZen Hosted Soft-Switch: • Sip call up to 3000 channels with RTP (Real time Transport Protocol)• SIP call up to 4000 channels Signaling Mode• Support Pre-Paid & Post-Paid Wholesale• Powerful Import Export Rate Tools• ACL Support (Access control list)• Live System Navigation• High Level Security• Mobile Admin Panel• Reporting & Alerting• Real-Time Billing
Client ListEnterprise Solution (Web & Desktop Application)Metro Plus Ltd. (UK, Uganda), Wildcross Group (UK), Xeon Link Ltd., Bangladesh Army, 46 Independent Infantry Brigade, Dhaka. IP PBX & Telecom ServiceSamsung, Stonehenge Telecom, Metro plus Ltd (UK & Uganda), Nazdaq Technologies, Teknosell, ABEX Group (USA), Mos5Tel, Cell Tel. ITES BPOOpex and Sinha Textile Group, Sikder Group, Wildcross Group (UK), Metro Plus Ltd. (UK & Uganda), Comtech Ltd.
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Exhibitor
REVE Systems, founded in 2003, is a Bangladeshi multinational software company.
Headquartered in Singapore, REVE has its development centers in Bangladesh and India
and presence in Hong Kong, USA, UK, Russia, Lebanon and Pakistan. REVE Systems
products range from Telecom Software, IP based communication applications, Mobile
Apps, Bandwidth optimization technology products, WebRTC based products, Live Chat
solutions, End Point Security & Antivirus products and Server Security solutions. REVE
Systems clientele is based across 78 countries. The success of REVE Systems lies in its
operational excellence, strong values and product innovation.
Products / Services / ExpertiseBilling Solution Application Service Providers | Call Management | REVE Antivirus | Telepresence | REVE Chat | IP Based Communication | Call Centre Management
Client List
REVE Systems Ltd.Facilities TowerKha-199/2 Maddhya BaddaDhaka-1212, Bangladesh Phone No: +8801814655929E-mail: [email protected]: www.revesoft.com
Raihan HossainHead of Global Sales
Ajmat Iqbal CEO
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EPB Delegation
Ms. Sabiha HaquePavilion DirectorBangladesh PavilionGITEX 2016, Dubai, UAEandDeputy DirectorExport Promotion BureauTCB Bhaban, 1 Kawran Bazar, Dhaka-1215, BangladeshTel: +88-02-9944821-4, 8151496-7, Fax: +88-02-9119531E-mail: [email protected], Web: www.epb.gov.bd
Ms. Munira SarminAssistant Pavilion DirectorGITEX 2016, Dubai, UAEandAssistant DirectorExport Promotion BureauTCB Bhaban, 1 Kawran Bazar, Dhaka-1215, BangladeshTel: +88-02-9944821-4, 8151496-7, Fax: +88-02-9119531E-mail: [email protected], Web: www.epb.gov.bd
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Bangladesh Association of Software & Information ServicesBDBL Bhaban (Level 5), 12 Kawran Bazar, Dhaka-1215, Bangladesh
Tel: +88 09612322747, +880-2-8151196, 8144708-9, Fax: + 880-2-8151197
E-mail: [email protected], Web: w w w.basis.org.bd
Export Promotion BureauTCB Bhaban, 1 Kawran Bazar, Dhaka, BangladeshTel: +88-02-9944821-4, 8151496-7, Fax: +88-02-9119531E-mail: [email protected]: w w w.epb.gov.bdDr. A.K.M. Ra�que Ahammed
Commercial Counsellor, Head of Commercial WingCell: +971-52-5897077E-mail: ra�[email protected]
Bangladesh Consulate General, Dubai, UAEVilla No.36 & 145, Abdullah Hussain Al Malik Mulla Villa,132/3 Street & Abu Hail Road (Behind Al Ramada Hotel),Al Wuheida, Diera, DubaiTelephone No: +971-04-2651116, 2388199(PABX)Fax No: +971-04-2388212Web: w w w.cgbdubai.org
