Prior to the main celebration session, a press conference was organised to focus on the achievements of ISL during its twelve years of journey. Andreas Diantoro, regional director, Dell South Asian Developing Market Group, was present at the event along with Shapir Khasru, managing director, GTG and Aveek Mitra, Group COO.

In his inaugural speech, Shapir Khasru briefly stated the success story of ISL in distributing Dell products to corporate segment of the country. He also put emphasis on developing a strong ICT infrastructure in the country to attract more foreign contributions to the country's economy.

Andreas Diantoro stated the global operations of Dell and acknowledged the company's twelve years of relationship with ISL. He said Dell is a US$57 billion company and it is eager to contribute more to the ICT sector of the country. At the end of his speech, he revealed that Dell manufacturing plants require only one-and-a-half minutes to assemble a PC.

ISL is a premier business partner of Dell in Bangladesh. Since its inception, ISL has been trying to provide cutting edge ICT solutions for the business sector of the country.

In addition to its regular product pipeline, ISL also offers business integration, network solutions, service and maintenance and technology distribution to its clients. Subject to market condition, ISL plans to get involved in the SME and consumer sectors of the country in the near future.

Genesis Technology Group (GTG) includes two other units -- X-Net and Genesis Systems Ltd. X-Net provides broadband wireless access (BWA)-based data communication service with network across major cities in Bangladesh, while Genesis Systems Ltd provides software applications and system integration services to companies in different sectors.

Edward Apurba Singha