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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…

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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…

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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…

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Al Taqnyah Business Solutions the enterprise IT solutions provider today announced its partnership with LetterGen an affiliated company of the Belgian BTR Services, which focuses on the workflow of documents. The recent partnership is aimed to further strengthen LetterGen’s presence within the region – whereby Al Taqnyah will be the master distributor for LetterGen. With a profound knowledge of the document management arena; LetterGen’s strategy is to focus on worldwide distributors and resellers. LetterGen has selected Al Taqnyah to represent them in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan.Read More…

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Avnet held an exclusive evening for its partners, vendors and end-users at the Exclusive Armani Club at Armani Hotel, located in the heart of the World’s tallest building Burj Khalifa in Dubai to celebrate its success in the region. Avnet Technology Solutions’ EMEA Senior Management hosted the Cocktail reception which was attended by several key executives from vendors such as HP, Oracle, Hitachi, AMD, Enterasys to Channel Partners to mention a few Raqmiyat, Smartworld, Oxygen, Natcom, Office Pro among many others visiting from different countries in the region.Read More…

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Microsoft Gulf has revealed that six business solutions partners from the Gulf have been named to the worldwide Microsoft Dynamics Presidents Club. The partners include Al-Futtaim Technologies; Columbus IT Middle East; Crux Information Technology; Enhanced Engineering and Multi-Technologies; INC Technologies; and Mideast Data Systems.Read More…

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Novell, a provider of intelligent workload management (IWM), has announced that it is introducing, business-critical solutions specifically designed for Middle East companies to integrate mixed IT environments, delivering value-added benefits such as minimised business costs, complexity and risks.Read More…

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ComGuard today announced its special Gitex shopper offers where in it will run several promotions, gifts and discounts like mobiles, notebooks. All the customers buying any product from Comguard will get their money back spend on their entry ticket at Gitex Shopper.
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Network Equipment Technologies, has appointed Aptec Holdings as its distributor for the Middle East markets of UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Pakistan. Under the agreement, Aptec Holdings will distribute the entire suite of NET products through its strong reseller base to address market demand for enterprise solutions for unified communications (UC) and Enterprise Border Controller applications.Read More…