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New distribution partnership for software product development firm
S
pecialist Business Intelligence (BI)
software product development
company, QVAuctor – ebiexperts,
has announced a new distribution
partnership with South Africa Qlik
Master Reseller (SAQMR).
The distribution partnership covers
Africa and all SAQMR sub-partnerships
and enables the company to formalise a critical component of speeding up the
journey and ensuring the destination
delivers on expectation.”
John Paul Kirton, CEO, QVAuctor
– ebiexperts, added: “Being able to
partner with the calibre of SAQMR
emphasises that our Qlik agile lifecycle
management strategy is the correct
solution for the market, enabling
an African strategy, in which both
parties can actively participate.
“I am very excited by the partnership
with ebiexperts,” said James Hickman,
Managing Director at SAQMR.
“At SAQMR, we are focused on
becoming the analytics journey partners
for our customers and WIP contributes
significantly to us realising this
vision. Ensuring that users’ needs are
communicated, documented and tracked
from conception to release of the app is organisations to manage their Qlik
developments, environments and
files effectively. SAQlik, a multi
award winning Qlik Master Reseller,
and its sub-partner network have
implemented world class solutions
within the region.
“We will work actively with
SAQlik and their sub-partner
network to ensure the quality and
thus stability and assurance of Qlik
across the continent.”
John Paul Kirton, CEO,
QVAuctor – ebiexperts
STC signs three agreements under the Rawafed programme
T
he Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has
signed three new agreements under the
Rawafed Programme with Cisco, Ejada and
Amwaj Factory.
STC previously signed seven agreements,
bringing the total to 10. These agreements
aim at building partnerships to improve
the innovative environment of the inspireU
business incubator which will help in the
transfer of international knowledge and
expertise to emerging projects.
The agreements focus on increasing
the Saudisation of leadership positions
and supporting small and medium-sized
enterprises. They also aim to support
innovation and enable digitisation as part
of STC’s commitment to achieve the goals
of the kingdom’s Vision 2030 which seek
to maximise the local content and enable
Digital Transformation.
The agreements were signed by
STC’s Vice President for Procurement
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and Support Services Sector, Eng Emad
Bin Aoudah Al Aoudah; Region GM in
Cisco, Salman Faqeeh; and by the GM of
Ejada, Hani Al Husseini; in addition to the
Chairman of Amwaj, Ahmed Al Samadi.
STC’s Chief Executive Officer, Eng Naser
Bin Sulaiman Al Nasser, discussed the
results of the Rawafed Programme stating
that it managed to achieve a 20% to 40%
increase in Saudisation, in addition to its
efforts in supporting small and medium-
sized enterprises.
He also pointed out that in 2018, STC
began working on developing and expanding
the manufacturing of optic fibres in addition
to the implementation of several plans
aimed at producing high-tech products. He
also provided details about the progress
being made regarding the construction of
four innovative centres due to open in 2019.