The fact that three Islamic banks all signed inside a year or two for ICBA (Azizi Bank in Afghanistan, Mawarid Finance in the UAE and Ghavamin in Iran) had seemed to confirm the success of Infopro’s strategy of expanding away from its native market. Afterwards, it built on these wins and moved into additional sites, including the second wins in Afghanistan and Cambodia. However, in the last couple of years, there have been no further new-name wins and there has been the reverse at Azizi Bank. Infopro looks to have a broad product set, in terms of conventional scope, plus the added dimension of the Islamic banking support. It has a reasonable client list in its home market and has expanded in Asia Pacific as well as gaining inroads in Africa and the Middle East. The track-record appears to be a reasonable one, as reflected in its build up of takers within individual countries and within individual bank groups. Indeed, it claims a 100 per cent success rate for its implementations. A higher profile and reach would not come amiss – as Infopro itself has admitted – so too the Java version of its suite to replace the Oracle Forms technology.
