As part of its ongoing Oracle Day roadshow across the EMEA region, Oracle today held the “Oracle Day” in Kuwait to share with local customers and the local IT community the latest innovations that were unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 event in San Francisco, California, earlier this month. Oracle Day coined as “More Expertise. More Innovation. More Insight”, was a powerhouse combination of C-level, functional, and technology tracks, all dedicated to one goal: showing Oracle customers and prospects how the power of simplicity can change IT to a force that drives business innovation.Read More…

Oracle acquires an leading cloud-based customer service provider, RightNow Technologies for approximately $1.5 billion. The Customer Service Cloud of RightNow helps organisations deliver exceptional customer experiences across call centers, the web and social networks. Oracle with RightNow onboard expects to offer a superior customer experience at every contact and across every channel. The Board of Directors of RightNow Technologies has unanimously approved the transaction. The transaction is expected to close by late 2011 or early 2012, subject to RightNow stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.Read More…

Microsoft Jordan signed an agreement with Umniah to offer business productivity hosting solutions for increased efficiency in productivity and management, using state-of-the-art Microsoft technology that reduce operational expenses by maximizing the utilization of the IT infrastructure. Umniah is one of the early providers of hosted cloud services solutions in the region and the first in Jordan based on Microsoft’s leading applications. Read More…

Leading IT systems management software solutions provider, Kaseya signed up an distribution agreement with Dubai based Alliance Communication Solutions (ACS) to offer the complete Kaseya portfolio of IT Automation Solutions to meet the demand for an efficient, automated network management solutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. ACS is a leading provider of effective and reliable, IT solutions for managed service providers. ACS offers a blend of experience and market presence in the region that will enable an effective launch of Kaseya into the Middle East Market. Read More…

Adobe announced that publishers will be able to use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to create magazine and newspaper applications that appear in the Apple Newsstand section of the iTunes App Store and the Newsstand folder on the iPad. With more than 600 titles created to date, the industry-leading Adobe Digital Publishing Suite includes full support for Newsstand subscriptions, which can significantly boost sales and advertising revenue by combining greater content discoverability with flexible payment options required by readers.Read More…

Savvytek and Oracle held a dedicated event for fast growing Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Sector that brought together various IT decision makers from retail and distribution industries in Jordan. The event was presided over by the key experts from Oracle and Savvytek to discuss the role of IT solutions in their industry and how they technology can benefit the FMCG industry. The event established an open channel between Technology Experts from Oracle and Savvytek, and FMCG representatives to address how Oracle EBS integrated solutions allow businesses to achieve operations excellence in means to streamline internal processes, enhance operations, effectively manage cost of departments’ operations and improve the time-to-market strategy; through applying the best practices and latest standards across the enterprise. Read More…

Epicor announced its support of Microsoft SQL Server Code Name “Denali” – a complete set of enterprise-ready technologies and tools to enable people to derive the most value from information at the lowest total cost of ownership. With this move, Epicor plans to uplift its Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) suite to take advantage of the release’s enhanced levels of performance, availability and security; to employ its productive management and development tools; and, to deliver the next-generation for doing ad hoc business intelligence (BI) data analysis and bring pervasive insight to business users.
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Aptec announced that it has received the Microsoft Cloud Distributor status, which would allow Aptec to distribute the latest cloud technology product of Microsoft – Microsoft Office 365 in U.A.E., Qatar and Kuwait. Aptec also expects to get the distribution for other GCC countries and Egypt very soon. With its new Cloud Distribution status Aptec is expected to concentrate on recruitment and enablement of channel resellers along with offering them the complete services expertise.Read More…

Lieberman Software, the Privileged identity management and security management solutions provider announced that it has elevated the status of its long time partner in the region, Nanjgel Solutions as the value added distributor. As the value added distributor of Lieberman, Nanjgel will now be able to provide localised support to authorized resellers and service providers apart from selling and supporting Lieberman Software’s privileged identity management (PIM) solutions and other products directly to its clients across GCC.Read More…

Sage Software announced the launch of ‘Peachtree Partner Program’ in the UAE which is designed to provide the essential technology and sales support to help Sage partners get up and running in the shortest possible time, delivering high quality and fully efficient services to its customers in the UAE, particularly in the SME segment. The program is devised to offer its partners with product orientation, training, certification, a sales toolkit, marketing collateral, support guidelines and grading methodology.Read More…

The Human Science Research Council (HSRC) is tasked with conducting large scale, policy-relevant projects in the social sciences sector, both for public sector users and non-governmental organisations as well as international development agencies. The organisation is responsible for providing cutting-edge research and for disseminating the results of those projects and plays a key role in helping the development of South Africa. Read More…

OpenText Corporation, the pre-eminent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, acquired Operitel Corporation, a company specialising in Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Enterprise Learning Portals. With the acquisition adds powerful e-learning capabilities to OpenText’s solutions. Operitel’s solutions include social and mobile learning management and capabilities that integrate with Microsoft SharePoint.Read More…