CA's EMEA CIO Stunt unveils how CA is using SAP end-to-end to transform its business and achieve new levels of efficiency and productivity
Dubai - CA, one of the world's largest enterprise IT management companies, today announced to Middle East SAP customers details of its own US$100 Million SAP global rollout. The implementation is part of the CA Transformation program, a critical corporate effort driven by the needs of its business and will integrate information technology (IT) with the company's core business. The announcement was made by CA vice president for International IT and CIO for EMEA, Philip Stunt, during his keynote address at the SAP User Group Arabia (SUGAr) 2005 Annual Conference, held in Dubai. CA is participating as platinum(?) sponsor of SUGAr.
"The CA Transformation program is a software-driven re-engineering focused on efficiency, effectiveness and integration of core business processes and is underpinned by the SAP infrastructure to provide CA with a single application that will provide the company with platform for growth for many years to come," said Stunt. "I will sharing with many of our customers at the conference, who are also SAP users, the vision of closer partnering with SAP and we can deliver great TCO improvements through innovative integration and optimisation of IT investments."
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The SAP User Group Arabia (or short for S.U.G.Ar.) is a non-profit organization in the business of promoting effective use of SAP among SAP users in the region.
"The SAP rollout at CA is not 'just another IT project' but a tremendous effort that stretches over an 18 month timeline and will see the effective combination of CA solutions with the SAP infrastructure. We are minimizing customization of the solution as we want to see how the use of CA solutions together with SAP "out of the box" can enhance business process flows and we will be able to share the experiences that we gain with our customers who are also using SAP."
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About CA
CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://www.ca.com
About CA Middle East & Africa
CA set up its direct presence in the Middle East region in September 2004. Today CA has offices in Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai). With over 100 (what is the number with Turkey?) highly skilled professionals and a tri-lingual 24X7 customer support centre in the region, CA is able to help many large and small organizations to unify and simplify their IT environments securely to drive better business value.
CA customers in MEA include Aga Khan University, Bank of Beirut, Dubai Department of Civil Aviation, Emirates Bank International, Etisalat Contact Center, Public Warehousing Company, Royal Court Affairs in Oman, Salalah Port Authority, Saudi Arabian Airlines, UAE Higher Colleges of Technology and many other organisations large and small. For more information, please visit www.ca.com/arabworld
For more information please contact:
Mohammed Kharroubi
ASDA'A Public Relations
Tel: 9714 3344550
Fax: 9714 3344556
E-mail: m.kharroubi@asdaa.com
Sherif El Gamrawy
Communications Manager
Tel: 9714 361 6710
E-mail: Sherif.el-gamrawy@ca.com
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