As an increase in data volume and new services dominates data centre growth and development, Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) needed to update its data centre setup in order to meet future requirements. It therefore embarked on a digitalisation journey with Huawei. The Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) chose to partner with Huawei, a company […]

Operating with a strong and reliable network infrastructure requires integrating a robust security strategy and is a requirement in today’s technology age. Director of Enterprise and Wholesale at Zain Bahrain, Ali Mustafa, tells us how the company utilised the expertise of Fortinet and its Secure SD-WAN solution in order to offer an improved service to its […]

Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, has announced that the Royal Court in the Kingdom of Bahrain has implemented Nutanix Clusters, which provide a highly available hybrid cloud infrastructure for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and critical end-user applications. The solution has increased uptime, simplified operations with an integrated management platform, increased security of the […]

Saudi Arabia’s leading medical research facility has turned to high performance computing solutions provided by Oracle’s second-generation cloud region in Jeddah. Saudi Arabia’sKing Abdullah International Medical Research Centre (KAIMRC), one of the leading biomedical and clinical research institutions, has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to provide high performance computing (HPC) to power its complex research into […]

The United Bank of Egypt has embarked on a far-reaching Digital Transformation, reinventing systems and processes. Ahmed Helmy, CIO, United Bank of Egypt, shares with Intelligent CIO Africa why it was important for the bank to embark on this Digital Transformation journey. Challenge The United Bank of Egypt was established with a vision to drive […]

UAE-headquartered Emirates NBD, provides retail, wholesale and corporate financial services across the Gulf state and international markets. To increase the speed and flexibility of IT delivery while controlling costs, it embarked on an ambitious multimillion-dollar initiative to transform its end-to-end technology infrastructure and practices. Miguel Rio Tinto, Group CIO, Emirates NBD, tells Intelligent CIO Middle […]

Temenos, the banking software company, has announced that Jordan Ahli Bank has gone live with cloud-native Temenos Infinity to rapidly develop and deploy new digital and mobile banking experiences, helping it differentiate and drive customer growth in Jordan and the Middle East. Working with Temenos, the bank has successfully achieved this while operating remotely, due […]

To help Bahraini businesses thrive, the National Bank of Bahrain embarked on an ambitious plan to expand its treasury activities. The bank grew its treasury operations with enhanced trading capabilities deploying Fusion Kondor from Fintech company Finastra. Maha Al Mahmood, Head of Treasury Customer Service Sales Flow Business, National Bank of Bahrain, tells Intelligent CIO […]

Infor has announced that Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant, Jordan’s largest wastewater treatment facility, has transformed the efficiency of its operations, reducing its maintenance budgets and helping preserve Jordan’s scarce water reserves by deploying Infor EAM. Samra, which serves Amman and the neighbouring city of Zarq, opened in 2006 and now serves some 5 million people. […]

Saudi Arabia-based healthcare, beauty care and prestige products, and fast moving consumer goods company, enhances bandwidth connectivity with InfiNet Wireless point-to-point solutions. Tamer Group, shares with Intelligent CIO Middle East how point-to-point wireless network deployment is benefiting the company’s business operations. Headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Tamer Group is a 98-year-old conglomerate that has successfully […]

King Abdullah University Hospital recently embarked on its Digital Transformation journey as part of a wider strategy to modernise the legacy healthcare information system that had multiple technical issues and left many users within the hospital dissatisfied. Eng Anas Matalka, IT Director, King Abdullah University Hospital, tells Intelligent CIO Middle East how the hospital computerised […]

UAE-based retailer of pharmaceutical medicines and over the- counter products, Marina Pharmacy Group, recently deployed SonicWall Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions. Tareq Abdulrasheed, IT Head, Marina Pharmacy Group, tells Intelligent CIO Middle East how the implementation of next-gen firewall solutions has improved the group’s security posture and secured network connectivity of its 40 retail stores […]