CAMMi level-3 for BIPL opens window for outsourcing revenue
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Ershad Khandker
Bangladesh Internet Press Ltd (BIPL) received the capability maturity model integration (CAMMi) level-3 certification. Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University gives the recognition to institutions that are capable of showing a sustained adherence to a standard of professional and operational excellence as per defined guidelines of the SEI. This is a significant step toward bringing outsourcing work to the country.
CAMMi is a benchmark for professional excellence for software companies in addition to the corporate and administrative excellence in governance and management that ISO 9001:2000 determines.
BIPL is the first software company in Bangladesh to have received the laurels. The CAMMi is a strong denominator for receiving IT outsourcing work from the US and all over the world.
Since no other company in the country has this qualification, the BIPL team, led by Managing Director Saiful Islam, has put the onus on striving to educate the IT industry and even students on what the CAMMi means and why other local companies should strive to achieve this standard certification.
Bangladesh has not achieved any measure of success in getting work from the outsourcing boom that has seen billions of dollars in foreign exchange go to India and other places. CAMMi certification is one qualification that would make US companies to consider it as a strong indication that a company is professional enough to get outsourcing work.
"Anything that can be digitised can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer or both" is a quote from page 15 of Thomas Friedman's award winning book 'The World is Flat'. Bangladesh needs to show that it has smart programmers and cheaper ways to get back office work done.
Billions of dollars of work flows from the US to India because of the unending stream of programming professionals being churned out by the different branches of the Indian Institute of Technology spread all over India.
Non-resident Indians play a pivotal role in this value chain of back office work being outsourced to India. The non-resident Indians achieve their own dreams of professional and business success and then they set about in a quest to try and see that their success garners windfall for their country. Non-resident Bangladeshi's would need to start taking more responsibilities likewise. And BIPL management has expressed the desire to tap the NRB's to see that such help is forthcoming.
It is expected that if educational infrastructure creates world-class manpower, our businessmen hopefully would be keen to create an outsourcing hub in the country.
Bangladesh Internet Press Ltd (BIPL) received the capability maturity model integration (CAMMi) level-3 certification. Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University gives the recognition to institutions that are capable of showing a sustained adherence to a standard of professional and operational excellence as per defined guidelines of the SEI. This is a significant step toward bringing outsourcing work to the country.
CAMMi is a benchmark for professional excellence for software companies in addition to the corporate and administrative excellence in governance and management that ISO 9001:2000 determines.
BIPL is the first software company in Bangladesh to have received the laurels. The CAMMi is a strong denominator for receiving IT outsourcing work from the US and all over the world.
Since no other company in the country has this qualification, the BIPL team, led by Managing Director Saiful Islam, has put the onus on striving to educate the IT industry and even students on what the CAMMi means and why other local companies should strive to achieve this standard certification.
Bangladesh has not achieved any measure of success in getting work from the outsourcing boom that has seen billions of dollars in foreign exchange go to India and other places. CAMMi certification is one qualification that would make US companies to consider it as a strong indication that a company is professional enough to get outsourcing work.
"Anything that can be digitised can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer or both" is a quote from page 15 of Thomas Friedman's award winning book 'The World is Flat'. Bangladesh needs to show that it has smart programmers and cheaper ways to get back office work done.
Billions of dollars of work flows from the US to India because of the unending stream of programming professionals being churned out by the different branches of the Indian Institute of Technology spread all over India.
Non-resident Indians play a pivotal role in this value chain of back office work being outsourced to India. The non-resident Indians achieve their own dreams of professional and business success and then they set about in a quest to try and see that their success garners windfall for their country. Non-resident Bangladeshi's would need to start taking more responsibilities likewise. And BIPL management has expressed the desire to tap the NRB's to see that such help is forthcoming.
It is expected that if educational infrastructure creates world-class manpower, our businessmen hopefully would be keen to create an outsourcing hub in the country.