22 May 2016
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Maham Al-Khaleej Company (MATCO), the leading information technologies and solutions provider in the Middle East, has attained Platinum status in EMC's Business Partner Program for the second year in a row.

Since its establishment in 1998, MATCO has been working towards reinforcing Saudi's IT industry with best-in-class technology solutions. With an extensive portfolio of over 150 clients, MATCO stands focused on supporting the country's Vision 2030 to evolve into a knowledge-based economy with its catalogue of information infrastructure solutions.  

Being named as EMC Platinum Business Partner second year in running is a stellar accomplishment for MATCO. This recognition helps boost its reputation as a world-class information infrastructure solutions company, capable of deploying and supporting complex IT infrastructure.

In light of Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia aims to undertake digitization of services across the private and public sector to enable rapid diversification of its predominant oil-based economy and enhance its market position worldwide. In line with its commitment to support the country's vision, MATCO provides EMC's premium infrastructure solutions to businesses, enabling them to foster innovation and sustainable business growth by leveraging cloud solutions and converged infrastructure, particularly 'Third Platform' technologies.

The EMC Business Partner Program (BPP) offers business partners access to cutting-edge technology solutions, helping them flourish and consolidate their position in the market, notably in 'Third Platform' technologies - cloud, mobile, social media and Big Data. This initiative not only rewards business partners based on their investment in EMC but also secures their current investments.

Dr. Nabil Al-Fayoumi, Managing Director of MATCO, said: "to be recognized as EMC Platinum Business Partner for the second time is an outstanding achievement and signifies our consistent efforts to deliver excellent customer experience. "

"EMC is at the forefront of delivering leading-edge IT infrastructure solutions, and without doubt, our long-term partnership with them will help us bring our vision of becoming the preferred information and knowledge infrastructure integrated solutions provider across Saudi Arabia to fruition."

"Simultaneously, we aim to maintain our position as EMC's Platinum Business Partner in the years to come by growing exponentially and delivering advanced IT solutions".

Havier Haddad, EMC's Channel and Alliances Director for Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa & Middle East, said: "Due to its excellence in performance, ability to deliver quality service and effectively meet customer expectations, MATCO has been named our Platinum Business Partner for the second year in a row. MATCO fully deserves EMC's highest recognition in our Business Partner Program for its distinguished business growth and impressive results.

"MATCO helps clients improve their IT infrastructure and meet business-critical goals by deploying leading innovative technologies by EMC Solutions. Over the years, we have observed that the company aims to be known as a leading knowledge infrastructure integrated solutions provider globally and we look forward to further strengthening our successful partnership."

MATCO offers EMC's innovative technology solutions to help its clients deploy a scalable IT environment to facilitate optimized operational performance and round the clock service availability, especially for businesses with an objective to utilize the 'Third Platform'.

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About MATCO
Maham Al-Khaleej Co. Ltd. (MATCO) is a Saudi company established in 1998 with the aim to be THE leading information infrastructure integrated solutions provider in the region, emphasizing on local talents and customer satisfaction. MATCO believes that data drives our world, and information is the new currency.

MATCO partners with international providers of quality IT solutions. As a top-tier IT solutions provider, MATCO focuses on DATA Center Infrastructure Solutions with a wide-range of advanced offerings from EMC, VCE, VMware and CISCO.

MATCO provides best-in-class information technologies, services and solutions that deliver compelling customer ROI, unmatched return on assets (ROA) and demonstrable business impact. With a vision that IT must be virtualized, automated, cloud-ready and sustainable, MATCO offers solutions that improve IT costs and agility.

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