Customers and partners attend two-day workshop to demonstrate the enhanced IT management solutions on offer from Microsoft
Riyadh - Microsoft Arabia is helping enterprise customers in the Kingdom to reduce the cost and time spent managing their IT infrastructure, with the Microsoft Management Solution Workshop, being held on November 27, 28 with the help of BDL, the Saudi Hardware Manufacturer. The workshop demonstrates to customers how they can have more control over their infrastructure and make management easier and quicker through use of Microsoft solutions such as Windows Server 2003, Virtual Server 2005, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and System Management Server 2003.
The Microsoft Management Solution Workshop is a part of the Dynamic System Initiative, a program from Microsoft to deliver self-managing dynamic systems to help IT professionals to design more manageable systems and automate their operations more effectively, resulting in reduced costs and more time to focus on what is most important to the organization. Microsoft is investing heavily in software research and development and working with partners to deliver end-to-end offerings integrated across application development tools, operating systems, applications, hardware, virtualization technologies, and management tools that will result in increased productivity and reduced costs, reduced time and effort to troubleshoot and maintain systems, improved systems compliance with business and IT policies, and increased responsiveness to changing business demands.
"The Dynamic Systems Initiative is an important drive by Microsoft to create systems that help IT professionals to do more with what they have," said Dr. Khaled Al-Dhaher, Microsoft Arabia General Manager. "Microsoft Arabia is committed to working with our customers and partners to help them improve the way they manage their systems and to get the most out of their investment in IT. This workshop is an important part of this commitment, and we hope to be able to provide the attendees with some new ideas about how they can use our solutions to address their management issues, system compliance, improving responsiveness for business winkles".
More than 50 top enterprise accounts had the opportunity to master the management solution applications realizing the value through Hands on Lab facilitated by "Future Power" PCs provided by the Saudi BDL company, which demonstrates Microsoft commitment towards their local partners in Saudi.
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About Microsoft Corporation
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. Microsoft opened its Dubai-based Middle East office in 1991. Microsoft today has five subsidiaries in the Middle East region: Microsoft South Gulf which oversees Microsoft activities in the UAE, Oman, Yemen and Pakistan, Microsoft North Gulf which oversees Microsoft activities in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, Microsoft Arabia covering the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Microsoft East Med covering , Lebanon, Jordan, Cyprus and Malta and Microsoft Egypt. Microsoft Corporation's address on the World Wide Web is: www.microsoft.com Microsoft Middle East's Web site is: www.microsoft.com/middleeast
About Microsoft Arabia
Microsoft Arabia was established in the Kingdom in 1998 with headquarters in Riyadh and branch offices in Jeddah and Al-Khobar. It is the leading software provider in the Saudi market providing sales, marketing, consulting and local support services in both Arabic and English. Our regional managers and management teams drive our long-term business direction and future growth. Microsoft Arabia complements its products and services with educational programs and technical seminars designed to transfer the latest technological information and updates to the Kingdom for the benefit of enterprise customers, small and medium business owners, developers, systems engineers and other IT professionals. Microsoft Arabia is also genuinely committed to promoting other sectors of the community using IT.
The company has been involved in many programs and projects that support disability organizations, a hospital for the treatment and rehabilitation of narcotics addicts, an organization that cares for gifted persons, and others. Education has also been a major focus for the Company's activities all over Saudi Arabia. These activities covered the Ministry of Education and various universities. Our support and commitment to government initiatives is covering several horizontal and vertical sectors. We deal with several e-Government initiatives by envisioning and supporting technologies. We have delivered certain projects that build towards this direction. We also engaged in delivering several portal solutions in several government and private agencies. For more details, please visit our website: https://www.microsoft.com/saudi
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Media contact
Faris M AlQureshi
ASDA'A Public Relations
Riyadh, KSA
Tel: 9661 464 0051
Fax: 9661 462-8219
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E-mail: f.qureshi@asdaa.com
Microsoft Contact
Mohammed Tawfiq
Microsoft Arabia
Tel: 9661 218 8045
Fax: 9661 218 8001
E-mail: i-mohtaw@microsoft.com
Website: www.microsoft.com/saudi
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