Etisalat supports GCC 11th Industrial Conference on Petrochemicals

Etisalat is a Silver Sponsor of the conference, which is organize by the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting in cooperation with industry stakeholders in the United Arab Emirates. The conference targets to create a vision of petrochemicals industry in the GCC in 2020.

Ahmed Bin Ali, Vice President Corporate Communications, Etisalat, said,

'Etisalat is well positioned to support the industry and help it focus on core business activities. We can build a strategic partnership with the industry so that they can leverage our expertise as a leading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provider that can work closely with them to facilitate achievement of their business goals.'

Etisalat is showcasing a range of solutions at the conference to support the industry which is seeing very attractive growth rates due to the wide range of applications from the sector in everyday life. The industry today is placing a high degree of importance on 24 X 7 availability of technology infrastructure, and is looking at relevant ICT and telecom solutions to cope with revolutionary technological changes and remain competitive.

Etisalat's extensive range of solutions start with a variety of voice solutions that helps to enhance productivity and customer satisfactions. Etisalat's portfolio of solutions include Fixed Lines, International Direct Dialing (IDD), Local and International calls, Audio Conferencing, Toll Free services and a variety of value added solutions.

Etisalat data & Internet solutions also cater to diverse requirements of the petrochemical customers. IP connect, which is the flagship IP VPN service, caters to local and international connectivity requirements of customers. The international connectivity services are offered as one-stop arrangement partnership with number of international and regional providers such as BT, AT&T, MCI, Saavis, SingTel and others.

Etisalat's mobility solutions aim to enhance customer satisfaction while delivering productivity gains to oil & gas customers. The solutions includes VSAT (DVB deployment by Q1 of 2008), Fleet Management Services, Mobile Audio & Video conferencing, Value SMS, Blackberry- email and data access, GPRS and numerous other solutions to enhance service delivery options for energy & oil services customers.

With companies in the sector seeking to optimise the cost and benefits of their ICT requirements through the proven benefits of outsourcing, Etisalat 's ,Infrastructure outsourcing solutions offer very relevant solutions such as comprehensive outsourcing of data centre requirements. Etisalat operates several state-of-the-art data centres across the country providing robust, reliable, fully redundant, scalable and high secure infrastructure to host mission critical applications.

A number of companies from the sector today rely on Etisalat for co-locating their eBusiness and other mission critical applications. Etisalat data centres are equipped to provide back-up and storage solutions as well as 24 X 7 monitoring and support services.