Leader’s in unified communications, Polycom announced the opening of a new office in Istanbul, Turkey, which is part of the strategic vision of Polycom to grow ist presence in the region. Polycom in Q3 2011 grew its revenueby 23% year-over-year in EMEA including Turkey and the Middle East. The new facility will help Polycom continue to innovate and deliver HD video and Polycom HD Voice collaboration solutions based on the Polycom RealPresence Platform, the most comprehensive software infrastructure for video collaboration, that are tailored for the Turkish market.Read More…

Oracle held “Oracle Day” in Amman, Jordan under the headline “More Expertise. More Innovation. More Insight”, the Oracle Day event 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. Among the key unveilings of Oracle Open World which were highlighted during the event in Amman was Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine, the industry’s first in-memory hardware and software system engineered to run analytics faster than ever, provide real-time speed-of-thought visual analysis, and enable new types of analytic applications.Read More…

Leading value added distributor FVC joined hands with Sourcefire to distribute complete range of enterprise security solutions rights across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Sourcefire claims to be transforming the way large organisations manage and minimise network security risks with solutions from the network to the endpoint. Read More…

South Africa based leading ICT solutions company, The Webcom Group recently signed up an reseller agreement with Huawei to sell range of products and solutions like, video ATMs, networking, data centre and telepresence solutions in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Commenting on the tie-up Pieter le Roux, Technical Director at The Webcom Group, said, “These four mainline product segments broaden our scope of offering, allowing us to deliver a Tier 1 brand to our customers. Huawei’s product offering is competitive and complements our existing offering to customers.”Read More…

Oracle and Intertec Systems will jointly be hosting the “Oracle Technology Summit” at the Intercontinental Hotel in Abu Dhabi on 16th November, 2011 and it expects to bring together key IT decision makers under one roof to demonstrate the efficacies of Syros ERP, Oracle BI and Oracle’s latest technologies on Database & Fusion Middleware. The aim is to simplify ERP software selection, alleviating some of the painful inefficiencies faced by IT, finance & business operations and delivering solutions in one event. Read More…

Leading value added distributor, FVC signed a partnership agreement with Esna Technologies (Esnatech) to deliver cloud-enabled unified communications to enterprises across the MENA region. FVC will offer Esnatech’s award-winning Office-LinX unified communications software as part of its solutions portfolio. K.S. Parag, Managing Director at FVC, said “This agreement with Esnatech is an exciting new addition to our portfolio and fits in with our commitment to bring emerging technologies to the region.Read More…

SAP, the world’s leading provider of business enterprise application software appointed State Informatics (SIL) as the first “service partner for large enterprise” in Mauritius. SIL will provide SAP implementation and consulting services throughout the Republic of Mauritius and the entire African region. “This agreement is a testimony of the trust relationship between SIL and SAP, the world’s leading provider of enterprise application software, with very stringent benchmarks. Read More…

MGS announced the successful implementation of a solution at Global Investment House (Global), which will allow Global to make investment in the future of information, to improve process efficiency and reduce the use of paper in their organization. Global Investment House (Global), headquartered in Kuwait today provide a range of financial services, to a broad base of clients, generating a significant volume of documentation. A large proportion of the documentation was paper based, making tracking and security an issue for a growing organization. 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…

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…

Greg White is a storage specialist and is expert on subjects like Data Management, Data Protection, Data Backup and Recovery. Greg works with the leading storage solutions provider CommVault Systems as Senior Manager of Product Marketing. It’s no secret that today’s unprecedented data growth, datacentre consolidation and server virtualisation is wreaking havoc with conventional approaches to backup and recovery. Read More…

South Africa based archive, migration, collaboration and messaging services provider, Soarsoft Africa announced that it recently signed an distribution agreement with Binary Tree to distribute its products across the African region. Binary Tree is a leading provider of software for migrating enterprise messaging users and applications to on-premises and cloud-based versions of Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint.Read More…