ESKADENIA builds one of the world's largest Islamic portals

Through this agreement, ESKADENIA will revamp Islamweb's portal, enabling it to provide the Islamic community worldwide with access to information on Islam, latest news, Arabic cultural heritage, polls and opinions.

'After a long search for companies that would undertake such a critical and large scale project, we decided to choose ESKADENIA as our partner in this development. ESKADENIA's expertise and capabilities as well as the flexibility it presented in the execution of the different stages of the project are the key elements behind our decision,' stated Mr. Yousef Bin Ahmad Al Kuwari, Vice Chairman of Islamweb. 'ESKADENIA is well established in the Middle East and by combining their strength with ours we can deliver unparalleled services to our audience.'

'We are excited about this agreement with Islamweb as it demonstrates Jordanian companies' capabilities to provide turn-key solutions to some of the Gulf's biggest organizations,' said Bassam Madi, Vice President at ESKADENIA. 'Our focus is to continuously enhance our customers' services, helping them to become more competitive through deploying appropriate and effective technologies. We are preparing Islamweb for its innovative growth and are building a solid base for new features such as wireless services using SMS and WAP. '

The new portal developed by ESKADENIA uses the latest Internet content and information publishing technologies and is based on advanced Oracle technologies, including Oracle 9i Application server. Widespread promotion of the updated portal will commence by the end of 2002.