Shift Technologies, the leading Enterprise Architecture consultancy firm, operating in the Middle East, Africa, & Europe achieved a new recognition of its exceptional results by winning the ICT Consultancy of the year 2010 award by Computer News Middle East (CNME) in a ceremony conducted at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai on Sunday 17th of October 2010.
CPI is the regional partner for IDG, the world's largest Information & Communication Technology (ICT) publishing house. As part of a family of more than 300 magazines globally, namely CNME, CPI is uniquely positioned to take local news to the world stage and bring world news to the local market. With 20 different vendor award categories, the ICT awards were highly competitive with over 250 applications across the different categories. The award recognized Shift Technologies for its overall accomplishments, placing it among the best performing and fastest growing consultancies in the region.
The awards Program recognizes the nominees for innovation, demonstrable business value, thought leadership and performance excellence. Criteria for this award include customer satisfaction, solutions' innovation, number of new clients, number of delivered projects, originality of solutions, and customer success stories.
With more than twenty five (25) successful regional Enterprise Architecture (EA) implementations, providing thought leadership in the region in the area of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), delivering innovative solutions to clients based on leading technologies and receiving great testimonials from high profile government and private authorities, Shift Technologies was able to demonstrate its uniqueness and leadership.
Shift Technologies is member of the prominent UAE based AW Rostamani Group and is a pioneering Business and IT consulting firm that assists clients across the Public and Private sectors in implementing business excellence by leveraging enterprise architecture as a transformation platform for continuous improvement and converting best practice concepts into effective organizational capabilities. Shift has sustained an impressive growth over the past four (4) years since its establishment, doubling in revenues year to year. In such a short period, Shift emerged from a small start-up to become a recognized consultancy firm as evidenced by the number of clients, number of employees, annual revenues, & profitability.
"Shift Technologies is one of the latest additions to our group portfolio and one of the most promising and exciting entities. With focus on knowledge acquisition and best practice development, Shift Technologies reflects our commitment as a group to contribute back to our society, country and region in ways that help advance our economies and drive our social development in the new knowledge based economy" commented Mr. Abdul Wahid Al Rostamani, Chairman of the Board of the AW Rostamani Group.
"While this award recognizes our past efforts to establish Shift Technologies as a leading consultancy firm, we are committed to making Shift a world class regional and international reference through tangible customer results using adapted best practices, leveraging cutting edge technologies, delivered by talented consultants" added Mr. Abdallah El Kadi, CEO of Shift Technologies.
Based on foundation of Enterprise Architecture (EA), Shift Technologies offers distinguished services and solutions such as Strategy and Performance, Organizational Development, Finance & Risk Management, IT Best Practices, Enterprise Architecture, Software Development, TOGAF Training, Oracle ERP Lifecycle Management and Oracle Dealership Management to its valuable clients.
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