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Choice partner
CNME asked CIOs to name and explain the elements that they believed made for a strong partnership. Here’s what they had to say. When choosing a partner, we usually look [...]
Bonds that last
The systems integrator (SI) a company chooses to work with, and the partnerships it forms with it, can make a huge difference to how successful a project is. With that [...]
HP ESSN highlights channel initiatives and growth in the ME
At a HP channel partners conference titled ‘Grow with HP’, Alaa Alshimy, director, HP Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking (ESSN),HP Middle East announced that almost 90% of HP ESSN’s revenue [...]
Write it right
Whether you like it or not, contracts are a necessary and unavoidable part of doing business. When mistakes are made, it can significantly impact the business you do. Ben Rossi [...]
Cloud app integration: the best path
Cloud-based or SaaS applications need to live in an ecosystem, integrated with the rest of your infrastructure and enterprise applications. Sure — but what integration strategy actually works best? There’s [...]
Do and re-do
Service providers are launching new services for 2012, and are working to ramp up their support services. All-in-all, they look forward to a future of growth in the Middle East. [...]
The cloud CIO
Forbes recently published an interesting article written by Ed Sperling titled “CIOs: Be Careful What You Wish For.” In it, Sperling opined that virtualisation will cause a shift for IT [...]
CIO=supply chain manager
A few years back, only a large company could afford sophisticated back-office and front-office automation. Whether it was SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft or Oracle, a company needed to invest millions of [...]
A good partner
System integrators form a critical link in the chain that leads solutions to become effective business tools within enterprises. As the skills base in the region improves, it is upto [...]
Defending their PaaS territory
Independent platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers acknowledge that theirs is a crowded market, especially with big IT vendors like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell entering as competitors, but they expressed confidence this [...]
Egypt On
The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) of Egypt was in Dubai for GITEX Technology Week 2011 and took the time to discuss its role in the development of the [...]
Socialising for intelligence
Ten years ago, Logicalis, a systems integrator, would have needed a wiretap to overhear the grumblings of a competitor’s dissatisfied customer or prospect. But when a Logicalis sales representative stumbled [...]
Higher calling
The Ministry of Higher Education in Egypt (MoHE) has been working over the past two decades on improving higher education through developing and implementing a comprehensive strategic plan for reform. [...]
Fluke Networks rolls out OptiView XG Tablet
Fluke Networks has introduced the OptiView XG, a network analysis tablet that provides the fastest1 solutions for network and application problems for both wireless and wired access – anywhere in the [...]
