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SAP AG announced the appointment of Tim Noble to head of Emerging Markets in (EMEA region including Africa, CEE, CIS, and MENA. He replaces Bernd Kraus and Peter David who have been acting as interim lead and will return to their roles of COO cluster Emerging and CFO cluster Emerging respectively. As head of Emerging Markets in Europe, Noble will be responsible for strengthening regional capability, driving growth and delivering innovation to customers across emerging markets in the region. In his new role Noble will report directly to Franck Cohen, president of SAP EMEA.
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Kingmax honoured Golden Systems Middle East ‘Best Sales’ Award recognising the company’s commitment and outstanding performance of Golden Systems in promoting Kingmax’s best-in-class products, and for its role in increasing the vendor’s market share across the Middle East region. Speaking on the achievement, Sina Dadras, Manager – Marketing Communications at Golden Systems Middle East said, Kingmax, a leading memory technology provider, has long been committed to the innovation of the best memory module solutions.
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Red Hat appointed George DeBono as the new general manager lead the business in the Middle East and Africa region. DeBono, has been associated with Reh Hat for a long time and previously held a senior global operations role within Red Hat. Prior to joining Red Hat DeBono held management roles at Sun and Computer Associates. “The Middle East and Africa offer significant growth opportunities for Red Hat. We have been operating in the region with an on-the-ground presence since 2009. We intend to build on our early success by adding depth to our marketing, sales and technical support team and have recruited George to lead the company’s regional business. Read More…

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AOC recently held highly successful road shows in association with its Online Distribution in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad to spread awareness about the global new trends in the monitor space and how channel partners can benefit with their association with AOC brand in Pakistan. The road shows were specially designed to update its channel partners about the wide range of AOC eco-friendly, feature rich, high quality, ergonomically designed, value for money, ultra thin LCD/LED monitors Year-on-year basis AOC has maintained an average growth of above 20 per cent in the past three years.
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R&M the structured cabling specialist, introduced high density patch packs 100% performance for 10 and 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet data networks. The latest product breakthrough complements their completely modular data center range including its raceways system, MPO module, raised floor solution, and pre-terminated cables. R&M’s trademark modular solutions are the foundation for next generation data centers, enabling better performance, effective protection against electromagnetic interference, easy installation, and enhanced security.
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Infor today announced a partnership with global systems integrator, Catalyst Business Solutions to market, implement, train and provide professional services for Infor’s ERP LN, ERP VISUAL, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Performance Management (PM) solutions across the Middle East and Africa, supporting Infor’s growth and expansion plans in these regions. Jean-Baptiste Blanc, vice-president, sales at Catalyst Business Solutions. “In addition to its recently launched portfolio of truly innovative solutions, we were impressed with Infor’s new channel partner network programme, which provides extensive support in the form of local resources, marketing and training.
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Cisco today launched Cisco Connected Women (CCW) within the UAE – part of a worldwide initiative which offers its female employees opportunities for development, networking and philanthropic activities. Cisco Connected Women is the first chapter to be established in the region and supports the UAE vision of a ‘Connected Nation’. The initiative recognizes the need for more women to participate in the technology industry. Currently, over 50 female Cisco employees in the UAE undertake mentoring, career advice, work-life balance and personal development activities.
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The gaming ecosystem is undergoing major technology and business model transitions that will last beyond 2015. Gartner, Inc. estimates that worldwide spending on the gaming ecosystem will exceed $74 billion in 2011, up 10.4 percent from 2010 spending of $67 billion. By 2015, spending will reach $112 billion. Overall, Gartner estimates that the gaming software component will represent $44.7 billion in 2011, and it will continue to dominate the overall gaming market in the next five years as it absorbs almost two-thirds of consumers’ gaming budgets.Read More…

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Trend Micro, a global Internet security solutions vendor, has announced the public beta release of Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2012. Customers who download the 2012 beta version today will be eligible to receive an exclusive discount for the finished product via email when it’s launched later this summer. Users may access the beta www.trendmicro.com/titaniumbeta. The Titanium 2012 release continues the success Trend Micro established with the 2011 version–delivering a product with industry leading protection and solutions that alleviate consumer pain points. Research has consistently shown that consumers are frustrated by security products that slow their systems down, are intrusive, and are complex and difficult to understand. Read More…

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Sage Software, a global supplier of ERP, CRM and Human Resource Management (HRM) solutions to medium and large organisations, is currently eyeing the increasing demand for ERP-based software solutions and services in the UAE’s mid-market segment. The company’s confidence in the ERP segment complements a recent Business Monitor International (BMI) report showing that the UAE’s software spending for 2011 will reach US$636 million. The report has also identified the UAE as one of the region’s fastest growing ERP markets, which reflects local businesses shift towards utilising efficient resource management tools. Manufacturing and trading firms are looking to improve on productivity and efficiencies by transitioning from manual environments to full automation of back-office systems.Read More…

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Secureway Network Distributors, a specialist VAD in IT Security and Mobility Industry in the Middle East, has unveiled its Frontier Partner Programme, an initiative designed to support and empower its channel partners. Through the new Secureway Frontier Programme, channel partners will have access to various resources from Secureway such as its partner portal, training support, project lifecycle support, technical support, lead generation, marketing tools and resources, rebates and discounts. Pouya Parsafar, regional sales director at Secureway Network Distributors, says, “Secureway has grown significantly over the last few years because of the strong support we have received from our partners.
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Saudi Fransi Capital has signed an agreement with National Technology Group (Mubasher), to launch a new generation of multi-market, multi-channel e-trading programs and services. The agreement is in line with Saudi Fransi Capital’s strategy aimed at incorporating the most advanced technologies that provide multi-market channels for e-trading services, through mobile phones, Internet, various smart devices, and electronic banking channels, thus paving the way for a new era of electronic trading for users and Saudi investors who trade on the local market (Tadawul) and also the regional and international markets.Read More…