Information Systems Department (ISD) is focusing on business solutions that intend to reduce operating costs, improve end-user performance, and meet overall organizational business goals. The business strategy of ISD is to maintain and augment the infrastructural foundation of automation across the SBP and BSC offices and also provide value added services to the State Bank and its Subsidiaries.

Alignment with SBP’s Strategic Vision

Automation of SBP’s business process strengthens its efficiency and effectiveness. ISD being the core department for carrying out such business automation initiatives aims to timely fulfill the evolving organizational needs.

A map of some key business systems and 6 strategic goals of SBP’s Vision 2020 are shown below:

(*) systems marked with asterisk are either under development or testing phase

Services Provided by ISD

• Operational Support for all the business systems currently in use. This includes
  

Business Systems	Supported Modules/Applications
GLOBUS Banking T24	29 modules
ORACLE Enterprise Resource Planning	8 modules
Custom Built Applications	48 applications
Data Warehouse	40 applications
Currency Management	1 application
RTGS	1 application
SWIFT	1 application
e-CIB	1 application

• In-house software development service for automation of business requirements. Currently the software development capacity by division is
  

Division	Software Development Capacity
Banking Systems Division	4 developers
ERP and Custom Built Applications Division	4 developers
Data Warehouse Division	4 developers

• Business Software upgrades and modifications (as per business need)
• Evaluation and procurement of Off-the-shelf software product (as per business requirement) through GSD
• Training (Countrywide trainings to ensure best use of IT)

Stakeholders of ISD

• All SBP Departments
• All BSC Departments and Offices
• NIBAF Campuses
• External Customers (ISD provides technical support and coordination for eCIB, RTGS, FBR and Data Warehouse to Banks and other Financial Companies