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Belkin strengthens is position further with the appoint of Shastech as its authorized distributor in KSA and under this new partnership, Shastech will be servicing both the Retail and SMB sectors across the KSA market. “We are looking forward to working closely with Shastech to further support our active regional expansion. The key components to partnering with Shastech were based on their solid experience and successful history in KSA, good channel presence and relationships in both the retail and SMB sector, well determined and effective logistics solutions as well as a team that understands the KSA market very well,” said, Youssef El-Arif, National Account Manager MEA, Belkin Ltd.Read More…

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Avnet Technology Solutions, a VAD in the Middle East and Africa region recently held a special training programme called “HP Software Academy” in association with HP to educate its Preferred Partners in Jeddah and Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Emad Aboukhater, channel manager for HP Software Solutions at Avnet Technology Solutions says the HP Software Academy is an initiative designed specifically to inform partners about the vendor’s software portfolio and increase awareness about the benefits of key software products and solutions offered by it.
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia acknowledged the potential of ICT industry with the Shura Council eyeing to raise the industry’s contribution to the level of 20 per cent of national GDP by 2020. Reaffirming the government’s robust ICT outlook, recent studies have projected Saudi Arabia’s software market to reach a value of USD 675 million during the current year, up from USD 611 million in 2010 and poised to maintain a healthy growth rate in the succeeding years, while the IT services market is expected to reach USD 1.1 billion this year and sustain a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9 per cent during the 2011 – 2015 period.Read More…

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Research commissioned by HP about the attitudes and behaviours associated with counterfeits. And, the results in KSA revealed that the majority of managers with purchasing responsibility for their offices have never bought counterfeit products. Majority of business owners surveyed in Saudi Arabia said that they wouldn’t purchase counterfeit goods. However, a small percentage stated that they had inadvertently purchased counterfeit products under the false impression they were genuine brand name original. Read More…

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Autodesk today announced tie-up with Zoofitech, a integrated supply chain solution provider to distribute the extensive educational solutions from Autodesk across the KSA market and it will be working closely with Autodesk to help widen its scope further across education institutions within the Kingdom – through an established network of Autodesk authorized Value Added Resellers (VARs). The Saudi market is in its boom stage of building & operating a large number of education institutes across the Kingdom, with the Saudi Government placing a heavy focus across ongoing initiatives for the education sector. In the 2011 budget alone, the Saudi Government allocated $40bn for its Education sector, and almost $68bn for the new construction and completion of existing projects.

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Fujitsu is taking its maintenance and support services to a new level with the launch of high availability services for enterprises in Saudi Arabia. With the high availability service, Fujitsu aims to increase its footprint in the enterprise sector in the Kingdom. Fujitsu has created an dedicated in-country spares hub in Saudi Arabia to ensure the fulfillment of high availability service commitments with the delivery of spares around the clock and also provide hardware maintenance with pre-defined response or recovery time.

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Interactive Intelligence a unified IP business communications solutions provider expanded its business in the Middle East by appointmenting Abdul Nasser Bangcola as the Country Manager for Saudi Arabia. Abdul Nasser brings a formidable background in services, channel account management, sales and technical expertise to his new position. As country head for KSA, he will be responsible for executing sales and marketing strategies, business development and developing channel development strategies along with building strong customer relationships.

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