Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 19th, 2009 - HP Middle East announced today that it has signed an agreement with the Kuwaiti Mezzan Holding Co. to help the company in the automation and optimization of its business structure through HP's Integrity solutions based on the latest Blade Servers.
As part of its strategy in providing the highest quality of services to its customers, Mezzan Holding Co. has decided to use the latest HP blade servers; BL860 and BL870, running the HPUX V3 integrated operating system and supporting SAP management software, which marks the first instance of SAP software on BL870 servers in the Middle East.
"With its pre-existing SAP alliance and expertise in complete technological refits, HP proved to be a primary candidate for the project and has continued to demonstrate its ability to provide full-spectrum solutions to any style of customer," said Mezzan's Group IT Manager Mr. Parakat Baburaj.
In addition to its latest blade servers, HP is providing Mezzan Holding Co. with a three year support care pack to ensure continuous support to the company.
"Our partnership with Mezzan Holding Co. demonstrates HP's commitment to simplified technology consolidation and automation. With our latest blade solutions, we aim to assist Mezzan Holding in its development process to help them improve their customer satisfaction and loyalty", said HP's Sales Manager Sandeep Chhabra. " We could demonstrate our alliance with IBM Software who were selected to provide DB2 Database, with performance benchmarks and support required, for Enterprise accounts"
To ensure that HP solutions are well implemented, HP has partnered with the Kuwait Digital Computer Co. (KDCC), who would follow up on the execution of the project with project management.
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About Mezzan Holding Co. (KSCC)
Mezzan Group with its Head Quarters in Kuwait and is one of the most successful and diversified group of companies and spread across the Middle East. The group was founded in Kuwait in 1946 and has grown into one of the largest food merchants and processing conglomerates with activities affecting almost every sphere of commercial and industrial life.
The group comprises of nearly 30 separate business entities, being a leader in Wholesale & Distribution of Foodstuff, Pharmaceutical and other Consumer goods, with significant interests in Manufacturing, Food Processing, Catering Services, Agriculture, Medical Equipment supply and Oil field services.
The Mezzan Group companies continue to trade as autonomous units but with the added benefits of a parent company which will provide key centralized operational services for Finance & Investment, Procurement, Marketing & Advertising, Human Resources, Administration, Human Resources, Legal , IT, MIS and Building maintenance services. The group is constantly striving to improve their services, following the best industry practices in manufacturing, marketing and distribution.
About HP
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About HP Middle East
HP is the largest technology and solutions provider in the Middle East with 1100 employees and subsidiaries in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Cairo, Ramallah, Qatar, Oman and 2 service Joint Ventures in Kuwait and Bahrain servicing the GCC, Egypt and the Levant. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968 and opened its first regional office in 1994. HP Middle East is the market leader for enterprise, small and medium business and consumer technology products and offers a large portfolio of solutions and services in various business domains.
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