Abu Sheikha for Exchange, the leading banking and financial services institutions in Jordan successfully completed the implementation of MenaITech’s Human Capital Information System (HCIS), a system designed for managing and developing human resources. As part of Abu Sheikha’s future visions, the application aims at providing comprehensive infrastructure solutions that serve the company’s employees working in its branches across the kingdom. It also seeks to develop and enhance the management of the company’s operations to keep up with its expansion schemes. Read More…

Leading innovator in digital storage and content management solutions, Iomega signed PC DealNet as an in-country B2B distributor in Qatar and Jordan. Iomega believes that this new channel move will allow its products and solutions readily available to System Integrators, surveillance SMB market, SMB resellers and VARs in Qatar & Jordan. “With our focus on the SMB channel, this comes as part of a wider plan in Iomega’s investment in the ME region, to be on the ground to support the SMB market as well as the SMB business-to-business distribution structure. Read More…

HP announced that Jordan based Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT), part of APM Terminals’ global terminal network, has virtualised its main data center with HP Converged Infrastructure to guard against loss of critical data and keep services available.
The highly available new IT environment with off-site disaster recovery has quadrupled ACT’s system performance while reducing costs, and is considered the ideal model for virtualisation. “ACT is always looking to update its secure, reliable IT environment to ensure the highest levels of service. The new HP infrastructure automates previously manual tasks and simplifies management, which means we spend less time on maintenance.” said Munther Dweik, IT Manager for Aqaba Container Terminal.Read More…

Jordan based leading Sage Accpac business partner and solutions provider, UBA signed an agreement with the American University of Madaba (AUM) to deploy Sage Accpac ERP 6.0 application that also includes the integration with the student information system.

The Sage Accpac ERP 6.0 package includes applications that will greatly increase the efficiency of the finance and administrative offices of the University, such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory control, purchase order.Read More…

Oracle platunum partner, Savvytek successful deployed “Hakeem” programme by implementing their Open-Source-based data exchange platform – Savvy Data eXchange Platform (Savvy DXP), which facilitates timely and accurate data transfer of updated citizen data from the Civil Status and Passports Department, to be loaded into “Hakeem’s” Central Database that supports the registration system for patient record checking and updates purposes. 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…

The Jordan Gaming Development Task Force part of the Information and Communications Technology Association of Jordan – int@j is hosting “Jordan Gaming Summit” on November 26, 2011 at the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center – Dead Sea. The Gaming Summit will be attended by IT professionals, Employees of gaming companies, in addition to university and students. It will also bring several of the world renowned speakers to share their iRead More…

Microsoft Jordan signed an agreement with Umniah to offer business productivity hosting solutions for increased efficiency in productivity and management, using state-of-the-art Microsoft technology that reduce operational expenses by maximizing the utilization of the IT infrastructure. Umniah is one of the early providers of hosted cloud services solutions in the region and the first in Jordan based on Microsoft’s leading applications. 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…

Zain Group, today announced the appointment of Ahmad Al Hanandeh as CEO of Zain Jordan. The appointment follows the departure of Dr Abdul Malek Al Jaber who ended his two-year contract as CEO of Zain Jordan and has decided to dedicate his immediate future to his family while pursuing personal business interests. Dr Al Jaber also relinquishes his role as Zain Group Chief Operations Officer. Ahmad, comes to Zain Jordan with an impressive professional track record, having joined as Chief Financial Officer of the successful Zain Sudan mobile operation in March 2011. Read More…

TeleFinity, a telecom solutions provider based in Jordan, has joined the Aastra Approved Partner Programme A2P2 as a Qualified Member. Compatibility and interoperability testing have been successfully completed for LogFinity IP 2.2 and LogFinity Ent 2.2 Call Recording Solutions. LogFinity is a centralised server solution, where the telephony servers will store, compress, encrypt and save each call conversation on the storage server. At the same time it saves calls information on the database server, which enhances calls search.Read More…

The Jordanian Ministry of ICT has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) with HP Jordan to develop common programmes and share expertise and practices to offer state-of-the art integrated technologies for government departments. The MoU is in addition to supporting professional IT education and assist the Ministry in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in that country. The MoU which was signed by Eng. Atef Al Tal, Minister of ICT and Eyad Shihabi, MD and Enterprise Business Lead at HP Middle East will see HP share its expertise with MoICT as it relates to becoming an Instant-On Enterprise, an organisation that embeds technology into everything it does in order to better address the growing needs of organisations and citizens.Read More…