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Alba wins awards for Business & Commerce Application Category, On the Cloud Project Category' Award and MEET ICT Personality of the Year of 2014.
The awards were accepted by Alba's Chief Operations Officer, Isa Al Ansari and Senior Manager IT, Esam Hadi.
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba)'s commitment to international standards of excellence and workplace efficiency resulted in major achievements at MEET ICT Bahrain 2014 Awards by winning the 'Business & Commerce Application Category' Award for Implementation of BI Solution using Microsoft BI; 'On the Cloud Project Category' Award for its Private Cloud Solution based on Windows Server 2012 and the MEET ICT Personality of the Year of 2014.
The awards were accepted by Alba's Chief Operations Officer, Isa Al Ansari and Senior Manager IT, Esam Hadi.
Isa Al Ansari expressed pride at being honoured by the GCC region's IT industry experts and said:
"I would like to congratulate Alba's IT Department for their hard work in developing processes and promoting efficient operations throughout the organisation. We are proud to win these awards, which clearly demonstrates the IT Department's will uphold its key principles - speed, agility and simplicity.
I also congratulate Hadi on his well-deserved win of MEET ICT Personality of the Year of 2014. He has played a key role in leading such an award winning team and we look forward to winning more accolades in the future."
Hadi was a key speaker at Meet ICT 2014 and delivered a presentation "Big Data: To Be or Not to Be", which explored the fundamentals of Big Data and suitability of its implementation within organisations. Hadi was also part of a panel discussion on 'How Organisations tend to run their ICT with Cloud Computing & Big Data'.
Held under the patronage of H.E. Engineer Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed, Minister of Transportation, MEET ICT Bahrain 2014 is an exhibition-come-conference, which brings together IT leaders from across the GCC region to discuss latest technology trends and ideas on different platforms.
About Alba
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) - one of the largest and modern aluminium smelters in the world - is renowned for its premium grade aluminium products, technological strength and innovative policies, strict environmental guidelines and high track record for safety. Established in 1971 as a 120,000 tonnes per annum smelter, Alba today produces more than 912,000 metric tonnes per annum of the highest grade aluminium, with products including standard and T-ingots, extrusion billets, rolling slab, properzi ingots, and molten aluminium.
Alba is listed on both the Bahrain Bourse and London Stock Exchange, and the company's shareholders are Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (69.38%), SABIC Industrial Investment Company (20.62%) and the General Public (10%).
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