March 2004

On the sidelines of the recent HRD meet at the EPCCI, two companies - Naizak and Edutech - put up a display of their IT services which are of particular use to the corporate managements.
 
Naizak Global Engineering Systems provides services to the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical and Utilities Industries in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Amir Syed, the Systems Sales Engineer of the company, told “SAUDI COMMERCE”: “Being an affiliate company of Al Abdulkarim Group (AKTE), Naizak uses the logistics and infrastructure of AKTE to their best advantages, and this gives Naizak representation in over 25 geographical locations across the Kingdom and GCC
countries”.
 
Headquartered in Khobar, Naizak specializes in a portfolio of solutions and services that include business intelligence, data management systems, data management workflow, laboratory information management systems, enterprise information portal, email archiving, nearline storage, e-learning, process simulation, collaboration support, competency skills & management systems and SAP Training.
 
Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC), a leading international IT Company, recently appointed Naizak as its strategic partner in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, for its whole range of Enterprise products, including high-end servers. The alliance came into effect with Fujitsu signing an agreement with Naizak at GITEX Dubai 2003, Mr. Syed said.
 
Naizak Global Engineering Systems has also recently developed strategic alliances with Genovate and Pink Elephant. Genovate have a wealth of experience in software services, in particular the Financial Services industry, where its key services are in turnkey projects, design, development and implementation of customised software, e-services, training and professional services. Genovate is an authorized training partner of SAP, IBM, CA, SCP, Planet 3 Inc and Prosoft Training.
 
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada Pink Elephant is the world’s leading proponent of IT Management Best Practices. Pink Elephant is the acknowledged world leader in ITIL education and the first to offer public education in North America in this very successful IT service management framework. The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the de-facto standard framework for IT service management.
 
Edutech solutions
 
Edutech unveils enterprise productivity Suite of solutions: Edutech, a Dubai-based human resources development company, also showcased its enterprise productivity suite of solutions that help integrate and manage knowledge assets. These solutions ensure employees’ easy access to information and just in time learning they need to be productive. The company helps design, build and operate corporate learning systems.
 
Edutech’s solutions provide the best possible work experience for employees, while maximizing resources and increasing efficiencies in the organizations. This means a comprehensive and consistent learning program that results in a more productive work force and significant cost savings, observed Mr. ASF Karim, Managing Director of thecompany.
 
Edutech Middle East is a leading provider of technology enabled knowledge solutions. It provides solutions that meet the learning and knowledge needs of academic institutions including universities, colleges, schools, enterprises in petrochemical industries, banking & financial sectors, manufacturing, healthcare & hospital industry and military and defence sectors.
 
The company has partnered with world’s leading technology publishers and solution providers in the areas of education, training and information. It has offices in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Al Khobar in Saudi Arabia.

© Saudi Commerce and Economic Review 2004