Injazat to discuss advantages of IT and business process outsourcing at special Gitex 2009 panel session

Ali El-Zein, Injazat's Executive Director for Operations, will discuss how Managed Services particularly benefits small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) that are seeking alternative options to technology management amidst the global financial crisis.

He will be a panelist at the 'Tech Made Easy' session dedicated to SMB solutions to be held today, October 20, 2009. Among the topics he will address are infrastructure management; support services; Business process managed services; print services management; and equipment leasing.

Ali El-Zein, Executive Director for Operations, Injazat Data Systems, said:

"The managed services and hosting models allow SMBs to avail of IT technologies and skills at lesser costs, delivered in a manner that best suits their particular needs. Today's highly competitive business environments require new approaches to IT management, which is why now is the best time for SMBs to partner with IT firms to optimize their IT-dependent operations through the managed services paradigm. Gitex serves as the perfect platform to further promote the adoption of IT and business process outsourcing across the region, especially among SMBS."

IT managed services provides numerous operational benefits, such as 24/7 monitoring, a single point of contact for network issues, predictable IT support costs, lower Total Cost Ownership, and avoidance of management and reporting system costs. Several organizations that have adopted outsourcing in response to the global financial crisis intend to retain the model in the long-term to enable them to focus on their core processes.

Gitex Technology Week 2009 will gather more than 3,000 ICT suppliers from 65 countries and senior-level executives and professionals from across the region's ICT sector for various marketing, networking and thought-sharing activities. Spanning 72,000 sqm, the conference and exhibition will also serve as a platform for the exclusive preview of Windows 7 a week before the official global launch of Microsoft Corp.'s latest operating system.

Injazat Data Systems is a joint venture between Mubadala Development Co. and HP. The company holds more than 50% of the UAE's IT outsourcing market and is the owner of the first Tier IV design certified Data centre in the region and the only one of its kind outside of North America.