'The business technology center will serve to empower SMBs to take advantage of technology that will lead to profitability,' said Virgilio Pe'a, chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), adding that SMBs are crucial to the growth of the country as there are 655,000 of them today comprising 99 percent of all businesses in the Philippines.

Located at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Regional Operations Group Office in Makati, the center facility was created through a joint industry effort by Intel Microelectronics Philippines, Microsoft Philippines, and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) in partnership with the government.