Abu Dhabi-based steel engineering and fabrication company, Sama Steel selected the next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution from Epicor to deliver a comprehensive web-based ERP system. Epicor offers an integrated workplace management platform that incorporates best-practice processes and generates critical business intelligence data and performance assessment reports. Founded in 2006, Sama Steel is a leading steel engineering and fabrication company renowned for its work on steel structures, sea platforms, rigs and pressure vessels. In addition, it also offers blasting and painting services to technical specifications as per client requirments.Read More…

Lexmark Middle East, served up a special treat for high-achieving distributors and associates in the region, by organising a ringside view of the recent Etihad Formula One Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi. “We are glad to be able to express our gratitude and appreciation to our partners and other high achievers through last year,” said Mark Thompson, SMB & Channel Sales Manager, Lexmark International Middle East.
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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…

World’s leading video game publishers Ubisoft, the developers of games like Assassin’s Creed and Prince of Persia, announced that it will establish a new development studio and participate in a new game development academy in Abu Dhabi, making it the first time a major games publisher to enter directly in the region. Ubisoft will establish a games development studio at Twofour54. Read More…

Twofour54 announced new venture capital investment deals with two of the region’s leading Arabic online games companies, Tahadi Games and Jawaker. Gartner exptects gaming industry to witness huge growth in the coming years and Twofour54 believes that these investments will go a long way in developing indigenous digital gaming industry in the region. The new agreements will help boost the development of a gaming cluster in Abu Dhabi, strengthening twofour54’s position as the region’s leading centre for game development in the Arab world.
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Anti-piracy authorities in Abu Dhabi recently collaborated with Microsoft Gulf, a member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the world’s foremost advocate for the software industry, to conduct raids on three Abu Dhabi-based IT resellers in Electra Street. The raids resulted in the confiscation of suspected counterfeit CDs containing Microsoft software. Three persons were also been arrested.
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