New deal presents cost effective hosted solutions and services for organizations throughout the region

Ahmad Abdul Karim Julfar, General Manager (Designate) Comtrust, Husam Dujani, VP of Oracle Middle East, Khalid Al Kaf, General Manager Network Services, Etisalat,  and Tariq Habib, Senior Manager of Business and Technology, Comtrust.

Comtrust, the e-solutions business unit of Etisalat, has today teamed up with Oracle Corporation to provide Dedicated Application Hosting Services throughout the Arabian Gulf Cooperation Region (AGCC) region. Comtrust and Oracle share a common goal of helping customers reduce complexity in deploying and managing integrated solutions while lowering their total cost of ownership.

Mr. Ayman Abouseif, Senior Marketing Director, Oracle Eastern Central Europe, Africa and the Middle East said, “Software outsourcing is now moving from the-early adopter phase to become part of the mainstream information technology strategy for forward-thinking companies. Today Oracle has taken a step forward towards our commitment to dedicated Internet application outsourcing, with this regional agreement with Comtrust, that will deliver more valuable solutions to clients by providing them with a secure, convenient, and reliable solution”. Oracle anticipates that by 2005, approximately one quarter of its applications customers will have their software delivered by an outsourced model.

Comtrust is a world-class e-business solutions provider, offering the best in technology to host mission critical applications that require the highest level of reliability, availability, performance and response time. Comtrust provides state-of-the-art Data Center facilities in Dubai & Abu Dhabi, with high-performance network, 24x7x365 support, management & monitoring services, managed security services and specialized professional services.

By partnering and building this relationship, Comtrust & Oracle Middle East will take advantage of the synergies thus developed and provide customers in the region with a diversified portfolio of high quality solutions hosted in a most secure and fully redundant infrastructure. Bringing together the leading edge solutions of Oracle and the local experience & expertise of Comtrust in dedicated hosting services will ensure that customers benefit from cost-effective, tried and tested end-to-end solutions.

Ahmad Abdul Karim Julfar, General Manager (Designate), Comtrust said of the deal, “Oracle is world’s leading provider of Internet-enabled business application solutions and decision support tools. They are unrivalled in the market for developing solutions that deliver highest level of productivity, improved business processes and customer satisfaction. Companies in the region rely on Oracle for their information management needs and to run business applications & web portals. With this expertise and our local experience, the partnership will help us continue to deliver commercially attractive solutions to businesses in the region.”

Mr. Husam Dajany, Vice President, Oracle Middle East, commented, “As business processes become more complex, organizations are becoming less well equipped to efficiently manage and thus benefit from their IT investments. As a result, the application outsourcing market will see substantial growth in the need for secure, reliable and scalable solutions, which provide lower IT costs, faster implementation times, predictable monthly fees and the peace of mind of a continuous online service delivered by Oracle experts. The initiative between Oracle and Comtrust is designed to provide our customers in the region with the resources to outsource their enterprise-wide IT solutions and applications, whilst maintaining complete control over their decision-making and IT strategy.”