Company Profile

Introduction :

Ask Bangladesh.Com Limited is an Information Technology (IT) based Company registered as a Limited Company in Bangladesh. The company has been established with objectives to bring about a social change by creating demand for the IT services worldwide which will contribute to make a Digital Bangladesh, and establish Bangladesh as a member of the civilized societies.

Ask Bangladesh.Com Limited has marked its presence in the world information technology (IT) business to expose and enhance the technological and resource based potentials of Bangladesh in a whole new perspective. “What we do and what we create” define our dreams encouraging international relations, global resource sharing and bridging a new line of communication worldwide.

We believe, with the emerging need for more and more information sharing knowledge, awareness, resource sharing, and e-business, the IT application will grow day by day to bring the whole world together in growth and prosperity. Such a demand for growth, learning and achievements will create demand for advance ICT infrastructure so that people can use IT enabled services for the betterment of socio-economic status. This cycle of information and resource flow, generating the demand for better standards and improved ICT infrastructure is the key to development and worldwide digitalization and thus, Ask Bangladesh.Com introduces specialized services with aims to bring a new wave of change and revolutionalize the ICT world.

For more than decades we are only concentrating on the user level of computer, but we failed to develop better ICT infrastructure and were not able to bring such digital services to the common people. That is why as the country moves towards expansion in ICT education and infrastructure, enabling internet facilities at the remotest corner of the country, we look forward to spreading out our services to those remote parts and open paths to creating the opportunities and demands. Such exigency for growth, innovation and prospects will in turn create wider scope for improvement in people and overall ICT infrastructure of Bangladesh too, taking Bangladesh to stand on the world arena as ICT pioneers.

We realize that "Digital Bangladesh “does not only mean more use of computers, but an effective and willful use of technology in terms of bring positive changes in the education, awareness, e-business, job placement and poverty reduction, etc. Therefore, considering some key elements for social and economic growth i.e. development in human resource, people involvement, use of information technology, in business, abundant flow of information and resource exchange with the rest of the world we have introduced specialized services which strive to achieve an adaptive attitude, positive thinking and innovative ideas making the Digital Bangladesh dreams come true.

Ask Bangladesh.Com provides a full range of information and technological solutions on project basis tailoring the needs of our customers. Comprising successfully completed more than six web development projects and around 10 Ecommerce website design and web application development projects; Ask Bangladesh.com is the ideal choice for outsourcing partner. Our mounted experience from past projects and ability to adopt new technologies with ease gives our customers the best of both the old and the new.

Our Vision :

Ask Bangladesh.Com envision self-recruited communities around the world with emphasis to Bangladesh, utilizing its ICT products and services and be able to earn enough for improved and meaningful lives.

Our Mission :

To contribute to the dream of "Digital Bangladesh" and offer every household of Bangladesh an opportunity to be part of the world ICT businesses, develop professional capabilities to deal with information resources, manipulate information and engaged in businesses and development activities for economic and social benefits.

Location :

The Corporate office of Ask Bangladesh.Com is located in the following address:

Corporate office
Dhaka Trade Center (12th Floor), Room No - 9/F and 12/F, 99 - Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, Kawran Bazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Telephone :	+88 02 8189486 , 8189478, 8189481, 8189483-9
Fax :	+02 8189482
Email :	info@askbangladesh.com

Registered Office
BDBL Bhaban (17th Floor East), 12-Kawran Bazar, Dhaka -1215, Bangladesh
Phone :
Fax :	+02 8189482
Email :	admin@askbangladesh.com

Our Products :

With its Vision and Mission in view, Ask Bangladesh.Com Limited developed following ranges of ICT products to address the most current needs of all level of users worldwide:

Short descriptions of all of the current products of Ask.Bangladesh.Com are specified below:

Sromobazar.com

(A search engine delineates jobs and educational opportunities worldwide with provision for offering and availing services).

This is an online job portal and overseas education services information bank for the users worldwide. Sromobazar.com features job opening from all over the world offering opportunities for the job providers and seekers to market human resources.

Integrated in this site is a worldwide job offering accumulated and displayed on maps allowing users to know at a glance where they want to target their attention.
Many other new and intriguing services are introduced heresuch as the job bidding facility and user group options which are not even available internationally. Users will be able to bid for desired jobs as individuals or groups and that will open a new window of communication among employers and job seekers for a more intellectual communication. Secondly, there will be information bank for students seeking help to search and apply for overseas education including scholarship information.

Apart from the above services, askbangladesh.com will be a very fast and effective job search engine which will ensure with utmost efficiency for the jobs seekers and employers's queries. It will match very well with employer and job seeker requirements. All these services are available for only registered and paid members of the site.

The key features of the sromobazar.com include:
1. Worldwide manpower engagement solutions
2. International job recruiting
3. Job bidding and posting
4. Groups job posting and engagement
5. Information on world universities and admission requirements.
6. Information on scholarship for higher studies.
7. Visa process requirements for the Embassies.
8. Information on part-time jobs availability during higher education abroad.
9. Information on the immigration.

You may please log in www.sromobazar.com for detailed information of the products.

Askbazar.com

(A web based market place for buying and selling affiliated and customized ICT products)

Askbazar.com is a unique online market place dedicated for buying and selling affiliated as well as customized ICT software which have great demand in the world market. The market place contains exclusive galleries for IT personnel or users who have high interest for such softwares and customized products. Askbazar.com provides online market place for IT personnel and users. A wide range of downloadable software products and applications are sold through the most secured transaction processes and user friendly way. Unique web templates, e-commerce templates, CMS and Blog templates created by ASK Bangladesh.com team can also be bought from this site with customizable options. Buyers can place orders for exclusive custom made templates too.

The key products of Askbazar.com are listed below:

Product Categories:

Self Product: This is the core category of AskBazar.Com products which are developed and/or customized by professional software engineers for marketing to the users.
Resell right product: In this category, all kinds of resalable products are marketed.
Affiliate Product: This includes products of partners's products such as Amazon, eBay, and Microsoft.
Freelance Product: This includes all kinds of Freelancer products.
Free Product: This includes all types of free downloadable products.

To know more about this site and its products, please log in www.askbazar.com.

Dressbazar.Com

(A specialized web based market place and bidding system on Garments and Textile products.)

DressBazar.com is a website for global marketing of garments products and apparels. It provides total solutions to the demand and supply needs in the industry worldwide. A one stop internet back to back portal for the entire range of buying and selling of readymade apparels, textiles, and clothing accessories, DressBazar.com is a secure, reliable, and cost-effective platform catering to the needs and requirements of the garments and textiles industries which utilizes cutting edge technologies and seamless connectivity. DressBazar's objective is to provide a hi-tech alternative to the traditional marketing of product and services.

Key Features of the site:

Registration on line
Posting company profile
Upload product in the buy sell market
Buy and sell
Bidding order place
Bidding participation
Stock lot uploads
Stock pot bidding
Stock lot buy
Stock lot bidding participation
Job posting and application in the relevant field of work.
Own corporate website with products gallery.

For more information about the product please visit www.dressbazar.com.

Loginbd.com

(A complete directory of Bangladesh service providers, government and non-government institutions, and individuals

Loginbd.com is a unique online directory aimed at becoming partner of choice for the world's leading service providers, government and individuals all over the world. Working as an online network for people and organization loginbd.com will open new doors of interaction and socializing, allowing everyone to know who, where and what at just a single click.

Individuals/Organizations/Institutions are welcome to join and submit URLs as well as create their own profiles announcing their presence and sharing information for the rest of the world.

Loginbd.com is a leading directory of business, operating in the classified advertising market in Bangladesh. Loginbd.com is set to bring you Bangladeshi focused websites and Internet resources. Finding the Bangladeshi quality websites through internet is becoming a harder job now. Loginbd.com is a dedicated effort to fulfill this need for all of our population friendly to net information technology. It is aimed to become the most favorite web directory of all age groups including students, professionals, businesses, government, bureaucrats, suppliers, intenders, companies, manufacturers, youths, teachers, parents as well as all for the family members. We tried our best to provide all the essential tools and information of your daily needs and interest.

Loginbd.Com is built to help provide easy access to information in every walks of life. This is the web directory which is developed completely in Bangladesh and designed to make search simple for Bangladeshi as well as Global visitors. Visitors query automatically identifies content on the web and organizes it in such a way that users get search results that are most relevant, realistic and with very fast speed.

Some key features:

Visitors can sign up free for 90 days and will get the facility of adding their URL.
A paid member can create their own page with the details information which will be visible to worldwide.
Schools or any educational institution can create their website with huge information's.
Easy User manual will be provided.
Secure and hassle free.

You are welcome to visit the site for more information www.loginbd.com .

Itbidding.com

(A complete web-based bidding market place on IT products)

In recent time web and software development outsourcing has become a major part of IT jobs in the world. Many successful ventures are running all over the planet benefiting from the conjoined efforts; combining marketing skills from one end of the world with technical skills from another end, producing qualitative and efficient systems at the best possible prices. Also throughout the globe freelancers and development firms alike have benefited by finding new earning sources out of the non-web based conventional marketing procedures. ITBIDDING.com is such an outsourcing and freelance jobs exchange portal. An open market for IT jobs, namely software engineering, web designing and web application development etc projects to be advertised and auctioned. Corporate or individuals of any level; organization or individual can use the services to auction out their IT projects to a vast number of freelancers or development firms anywhere in the world. Such a portal not only offers great means of communication for buyers and sellers to interact but also for firms and project managers to scour through in search of prospective employees for their projects or firms even. Thus extending the horizon of opportunities for IT personnel to not only get single contractual jobs but also to communicate with organizations and make their skills known to the industry on the whole.

Features Overview:

Buying and providing functions for all users to post or bid for projects and a an extensive control panel to enable users to access everything from project posting, profile posting to project management.
A team of administrators and specialists on the project will always be monitoring all the stages of project from initiation to final payment in order to ensure maximum efficiency of the user control panels and transactions in process.
Most important feature of this site is its security; the company ensures secure money transfer methods to the providers and buyers for any and all transactions carried out within the system.
The system is designed to keep proper records of all transactions with user access to view and manage financial as well as project data for present and future references.

You will know more about the product in this link www.itbidding.com .

itreel.com

(A complete new search engine for worldwide information searching):

Ask Bangladesh.Com Limited is proud to present its ingenious and bright new approach to worldwide search technologies, development and social welfare; a complete web search engine called www.itreel.com. Itreel.com strives to establish as a dynamic and stimulating search engine for the new age of technology. As a non-profit and social welfare based project Itreel is serving at its best to aid the research and information needs of people all around the world.

Itreel not only revolutionize the information and resource sharing systems in the world but also commit to relentlessly work towards social and economic development aid for all sectors of the world economies. You can be a part of this effort too. Join us today and extend your hand in making this dream come true. Your cooperation will inspire us to move forward.

The two most compelling advantages of our engines.

The indexes of search engines are usually vast, representing significant portions of the internet, offering a wide variety and quantity of information resources.
The growing sophistication search engine software will enable you to precisely describe the information that you seek.

To get more information about the product, please visit our website: www.itreel.com .

Ask Bangladesh.Com Teams :

Ask Bangladsh.Com Ltd. engages dedicated Team for long-term and short-term software and web application development projects. Web development is our specialty so we have gathered talented and experienced professionals to work in team for providing ultimate development services. Many professionals with outstanding past careers are engaged as teams allowing great flexibility to twist themselves facing dissimilar and challenging projects and using cutting edge technologies. We are organized ourselves not to ease our work but for our clients and the complex business environment that requires professional talents with adequate experience to provide ICT solutions.

Ask Bangladesh.Com Team mates are bunches of extremely talented and experienced professionals consisting of some best minds and expertise in:

Skilled Software Architecture
Professional Software Engineers
Wide Visional System Analysis
Creative Web Graphic Designing
Expert Quality Assurance
Specialists in Software Testing
Technical Writing
Network Engineering
Search Engine Optimizer
Administration
Business Development Professionals
High end project management personnel
Administration staffs

Ask Bangladesh.com Ltd. is committed to develop the high end technology solutions with constant innovation, continuous improvement and value added services. The teams have clear mission which gives direction to the teams to achieve the targets. Our talented teams are well coordinated and perform every development project with proper direction from the top leadership for client satisfaction. Client satisfaction is the end results that we count in our company.

Our development teams are committed to their work and serve knowledge base industry with all their technical talents. Every individual team member is committed to achieve team's mission. Team success is the parameter for evaluating individual team member's performance.

Effective teams use to work with explicit and appropriate ground rules and norms. We follow every ground rule of IT industry in developing projects. Ground rules provide teams with guidelines and a common set of procedures by which to operate.

Ask Bangladesh.Com Business model

"A business model of a profit making enterprise is an idea or concept for profitably". It is a concept for transformation of inputs into value adding outputs. Ask Bangladesh.com follows various strategies, trading practices, operational processes and policies that consist of perfect business model to facilitate local and offshore customers.

Ask Bangladesh.com defines its business model under following model blocks:

Project-based solutions :

Ask Bngladesh.Com provides a full range of Information & Technology solutions on project basis - tailoring the level of support to specific needs. We provide technical assistance and advice, create and recommend solution, develop a practical implementation plan for all projects. Our skilled project managers oversee the project with team. We build our team with experienced IT professionals who have not only sound business and strategic skills, but extensive implementation and project-management experience.

Hire dedicated developer based solutions:

We hired IT professionals who work independently for our projects. They have enough experience of working for our company.

Software engineers & Developers
Wide Visional System Analyst
Creative Web Graphic Designers
Expert Quality Assurance Analysts
Specialist Software Tester
Technical Writers
Network Engineers
SEO Specialist

Value propositions(services we provide to our clients)

Development :
Website designing, E-commerce solution, Web application

Graphics designing :
Logo Designing, Flyer & Catalog Designing, Flash Designing, Corporate Identity Designing, Customized Software

Internet marketing :
SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Web Promotion, PPC, Website Optimization, Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing

Open source customization :
Joomla, Drupal, Zend, OS-Commerce, X-Cart, CakePHP, Ruby on Rails, DotNetNuke

Our Target customer segments :
In global business environment use of Information & technology has taken a key place for solving the complex business problems. Hidden brains provide offshore IT solutions globally bring innovation, creativeness, and high-performance websites for companies in multiple.

Competitive Advantage

Ask Bangladesh.Com Limited envisages producing high quality software and IT products, which will meet the most demanding international standard for local and international market. The company's advantage lies both in cost and in quality when compared to imported IT products. It will produce IT related desktop and web base online product of quality high enough to replace those been imported from western countries and from high level Asian countries. Apart from enhanced quality, IT related and web related products produce by Ask Bangladesh.Com Limited will offer international web market as the company will have following advantage:

Hassle free logistical support;
Cost benefits in terms of reduced transportation time, transport, freight cost, bank charges, customs fees, clearing charges and related support;
Easy communication and information to develop data systems;

Due to reduction in delivery time business could be repeated and promote entry into higher margin, faster response to IT businesses.

Under this circumstance, Ask Bangladesh.Com Limited's competitive advantage over IT products will go up resulting higher level of economy and convenience. Within the IT related industry, Ask Bangladesh.Com Limited will be filling in a niche, which up to now is serviced by imported IT products in a far from satisfactory manner. Delayed IT products and quality variance in end-products are the two major problems being faced by the IT developers and producers in Bangladesh. Ask Bangladesh.Com Limited's key strength is the latest dependable technology it will utilize to produce IT products and IT services which will ensure high quality standards in the whole world market. In addition, IT products manufactured will be entitled to cash re-imbursement from the Government of Bangladesh for local use and will be able to benefit from the system itself.

Management of the Company (Leadership):

The overall responsibility of the company will rest on the Board of the Directors. Presently, the Board formation is:

1. Mr. Anowar Hossain, Chairman
2. Ms. Farida Yasmin, Managing Director
3. Ms. Sharmin Khan, Director
4. Mr. Ashfaq Rahman, Director

On the behalf of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the company will maintain the overall responsibilities of the company. The Chairman will have the discretion of formulating policies, setting targets and guidelines and monitoring the performance of the company and to chalk out strategies for the future. The Managing Director will manage the day-to-day affairs of the company and maintain liaison with financial institutions and external organization.

The following organgram depict the key functionaries including the Board.

In future, for better performance of the company in relation to the Technical and Financial matters, the Board of Directors will constitute an Advisory Committee with 7 to 11 members having vast knowledge and skills in the above fields. The role of the Advisory Council shall be to advice the Board of Directors on the above matters when needed.

Major Equipments of the Company :

Ask Bangladesh.Com is equipped with most modern equipments to cater its need to deliver efficient and technical backstopping for the IT professionals.

List of the key equipment are:

Computer
Generator
Furniture and Fixture
Internet Network Equipment

Hosting Server Equipment & Network Operation Equipment:
1. Power Edge Server With Hardware Raid	2. Manageable GB Switch(12+24)	3. Terminal Server
4. Cisco Router	5. Firewall	6. Internet Connectivity
7. Server Rack	8. Switch Rack	9. Online UPS
10. Operating System (Redhat Linux Enterprise)	11. Windows Server

Server:
1. File Server	2. Mid Range Server	3. DNS Server
4. Mail Server	5. Storage Server	6. DAS
7. NAS	8. Proxy Server	9. Gatway Server
10. Xcon Qued Core Server	11. Hosting Mid Range Server	12. UPS Server Online

Server establishment related equipments with sever are:
Anti-virus
Power Generator
World Wide Link

Total value of Network and infrastructure Development is BDT 220.00 million.

Financial Investment for the Company: The entire project cost is estimated BDT300 millions. Of this, sponsors equity is 50% and balance 50% is designed for collection as equity from the ICB (Investment Corporation of Bangladesh) in the form of preferential shares (refundable within 6 years). For smooth functioning of the projects it is necessary to have working capital of at least BDT200 million which is expected from the commercial bank or financial institution in Bangladesh on basis of Loan.

The means of finances is shown in the table below:

Means of Finance
Particulars	Amount (BDT in "Million")
1. Sponsors Equity (50%)	150.00
2. Preference share for ICB in the form of Equity (50%)	150.00
Sub-total :	300.00
3. Working Capital From Bank as Short Term Loan	200.00
Total Projected Cost :	500.00

Conclusion :

This profile contained the most current and relevant information about the company. This information is subject to change as the company moves forward. The information exhibits in the document is the true picture of the company.