Amman, Feb 6th  2003 - United Business Applications (UBA) today announced that they have been contracted by Jordan Amal Cancer Foundation, the caretaker institution responsible for fundraising for the King Hussein Cancer Center, to implement and customize an advanced financial management system that will support the current and future needs of the Foundation.
 
Her Royal Highness Princess Dina Mired, Director of Fundraising, said, “In line with our vision of establishing a leading comprehensive cancer center in the region, the King Hussein Cancer Center has undertaken major steps towards realizing that goal. Upgrading our medical staff was one priority. In that regard, we were successful in enticing world–renowned Jordanian doctors from USA to join our medical team here. Obviously all these positive changes required more administrative and fundraising efforts on our part, and thus we outgrew our IT and business needs almost immediately. We believed that we could partner with UBA, because not only did they provide us with the most optimal solution for our business needs, they also understood and appreciated our mission.”
 
The Foundation’s decision to partner with UBA was based on a mutual understanding of the needs of the organization to achieve its goals in a business environment that is rapidly changing and where technology decisions must be flexible enough to adapt to the future demands of the business.  Hatem Salah, UBA’s General Manager, explains, “Remote access capabilities as well as retrieval of members’ information any where at any time were must-haves for management.  In the future the Center and the Foundation can be linked to a shared database via a secured internet connection, without the need to re-install any new technology.”
 
The new system, according to Hatem Salah, in addition to providing accounting and financial information, will help the Foundation to manage and strategize its growing Healthcare Program (the only program that partially covers cancer diseases in the country), establish a proper database, and set up a management information system at the click of a button.  With ACCPAC Advantage Series, the Foundation will be able to manage financial information efficiently, provide statistical data whenever needed and integrate the Foundation and Center’s financial system in the future if need be.
 
Marc Van der Ven, General Manager for ACCPAC Middle East ended saying: “Jordan Amal Cancer Foundation’s decision to adopt ACCPAC shows that our products are flexible enough to adapt to any type of organization or business.  Our strategy of investing in local partners clearly pays off when we see the level of support our customers can rely on throughout the region.  We are proud to be part of the Jordan Amal Cancer Foundation technology adoption program not only because of the humanitarian benefits involved, but because it symbolizes the level of technology awareness among the leaders of the country.”
 
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 About UBA – United Business Applications
UBA was founded to meet the rapidly rising demand for business management solutions in Jordan and to support the fast growing small to medium-sized business sector.  UBA’s mission is to provide the best of class solutions and services to the local market that includes marketing, selling, supporting, and developing software solutions around the complete range of ACCPAC’s end-to-end Business Management Applications
 About ACCPAC
ACCPAC International, Inc., a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), provides small and mid-size businesses a broad range of end-to-end business management applications designed to enhance customers’ competitive advantage. Product lines include ACCPAC Advantage Series™, ACCPAC Pro Series™, ACCPAC HR Series™, ACCPAC Business Analysis Suite™, ACCPAC eTransact®, ACCPAC ExchangeÔ, ACCPAC eCRM™, ACCPAC Warehouse Management System™, ACCPAC ePOS™, Simply Accounting®, FAXserve™ and ACCPAC Messenger™.
 
Based in Pleasanton, Calif., USA, with offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Mexico, the Middle East, the Netherlands, South Africa, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom, ACCPAC has more than 500,000 customers and more than 6,500 business partners in more than 130 countries worldwide.
 
To contact UBA
Hatem J. Salah – General manager
Tel.: +(962) 6 565-2317,
Fax.: +(962) 6 565-2318
Email: hsalah@uba.com.jo
 
For more information about ACCPAC and our products,
Call +(971) 4 390 0222 in the UAE,
or visit ACCPAC at www.accpac.com and
www.accpaconline.com.

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