In today’s world, organizations are being plagued with a new rising threat – cyber crimes, cyber espionage and cyber weapons of mass destruction (CWMD). With the UAE being a global business hub, it is among the most vulnerable countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to malicious attacks and cyberRead More…
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions is the UAE consumers’ most popular anti malware brand dominating the country’s retail sales with an overall market share of 37 per cent by value and 38 per cent by volume according to the latest IDC report about AMS retail channel in UAE, KSA, Egypt and Pakistan.
According to the same report, a total of 900,000 anti virus products with an estimated value of USD$ 6 million were sold across UAE retail stores in 2009. To make a comparison, Saudi Arabia’s AMS retail channel market during the same period was worth USD$ 4 million on a 600,000 unit volume. In Egypt, the most populous market in the Middle East, the total value of the market is estimated at USD$ 1.5.Read More…
Xerox today announced a color sheetfed scanner that is small enough to fit on a desktop, optimized to scan ID cards and includes ultrasonic double-feed detection technology. DocuMate®3460 is the latest generation in this award-winning scanning seriess from Xerox and it can scan 60 pages per minute / 120 images per minute in duplex.
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Business Software Alliance (BSA), appointed Jawad Al Redha to the post of Chair. Jawad comes with a wealth of experience in the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and intellectual production in the Arab world. He has associated with BSA for a long time and has been quiet supportive to the issue of IPR as part of his earlier roles at BSA and he will continue to do so in his new role as Chair.
HP today introduced the first unified system to accelerate the reliable, secure delivery of software applications and services across heterogeneous environments. HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 11 unites and automates the critical activities of modernization applications – from requirements management to quality, performance and release. A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by HP shows that 69 percent of IT decision-makers have earmarked a quarter of their annual IT budgets for application modernization, while 30 percent will dedicate more than 50 percent.(1) Application modernization enables organizations to gain control over complex processes and support the transformation of their applications portfolio to deliver an Instant-On Enterprise that boosts enterprise growth, agility and innovation.
SanDisk, announced a strategic partnership with National Store, the flagship company of JK Sons Group as its national distributor for the UAE and the recent tie-up comes in the wake of growth of the consumer electronics sector in the UAE. As per research reports, the country’s consumer electronics market is expected to reach AED11.38 billion (US$3.1 billion) in 2010, and projected to grow to AED14.3 billion (US$3.9 billion) by 2014.
Avnet will become one of the only few companies in the history of NYSE to complete 50-years, since its listing on NYSE in December 30, 1960. Ever since, Avnet has worked to create and sustain a culture that centers on profitable growth, operational excellence, people development and shareholder value creation. This has held true even as the company evolved from a diversified conglomerate to a focused technology distributor that is a global leader in its industry. It was not too long ago that Avnet sold decanters and musical instruments, among a wide range of other products.
Munaf Sabeeh, chief executive officer of Scopesky Communications, has announced that Iraq’s first commercial data centre will be ready in mid-December, Meed has reported. Built at Baghdad airport for security reasons, the fibre-optic ISP is connected to two gateways, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, with plans to sign up Jordan soon as the third gateway, he said. Iraqi Telecoms and Post Co will take a 20% to 30% revenue share and has the rights to sell the capacity.
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Software AG today announced that it has been named by Gartner, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm, in the Leaders Quadrant of the recently released Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites. According to Gartner, Inc., more organizations are adopting Business Process Management (BPM) as a discipline and scaling up their efforts to establish BPM as an enterprise program. The effectiveness of BPM in providing business efficiency was demonstrated by a 15% market growth in BPMS in 2009.Read More…
Gulf Business Machines (GBM), the region’s leading IT solutions and service provider, today announced that it has earned Salesforce.com’s Business Partner Status in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Salesforce.com is a US based Cloud Computing company which provides on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions globally. GBM already shares a longstanding relationship with Salesforce.com and offers its full range of Cloud-based Business Applications. With this partnership, supported by a highly skilled team, GBM will bring local capabilities and expertise to customers in the region.
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Orga Systems today announced its plans to strengthen its regional engagement and closeness to customers in the Middle East and Africa region. Orga Systems is a major player and works with over 40 telecom service providers across the world, serving more than 350M subscribers on its highly scalable real-time based convergent platforms. Mobile services in Middle East and Africa have seen tremendous growth during the past decade. This was based on ever increasing mobile market penetration. In light of today’s increasing competition, the region is facing a new challenge: sustainability of business. This can only be achieved by retaining and acquiring customers through sophisticated offerings designed to meet customers’ lifestyle. Only convergent billing systems can handle this significant volume of all prepaid and post paid subscribers.
Sage Software, has partnered with LinguaNext Inc., to launch the first Arabic version of its top CRM and ERP solutions for SMBs in the UAE. This includes the Arabic language add-on for ‘Sage CRM’, ‘Sage Accpac’ and ‘Sage X3′, which allows customers to use the same software available internationally in the Arabic language. The move is in line with Sage Software’s aims to cater to the needs of Arab users in the UAE, by offering more adaptable software in their vernacular, which is also part of the company’s strategy to expand its reach across the region.Read More…
