Lebanese companies showcase solutions for the Arab market

The development is the result of cooperation between the public and the private sectors with the government taking responsibility for key regulatory functions while the private sector has been the main driver in implementation.

Evidence of this growth is available in the large number of Lebanese IT companies that are participating in Gitex 2001 to be held from October 14 to 18 at the Dubai World Trade Center (DWTC).

"Lebanon's growing IT sector will have the opportunity to demonstrate its strengths at Gitex 2001 and its participation in the exhibition will help enhace Lebanon's role as a strong regional high tech center and re-export gateway," said Ibrahim Al Hashemi, Corporate Manager Exhibitions, DWTC.

Software Design Consulting Group, a leading supplier of business solutions, provides flexible solutions including Dolphin and Visual Dolphin to serve complex and fast-moving local and international organizations. The two solutions include financial and distribution applications for dynamic marketplaces. Visual Dolphin has been conceived using client/server architecture under Microsoft SQL database and incorporating the features of Visual Basic. Fully multi-lingual, Visual Dolphin boasts the extensive multi-currency and multi-company applications. The company's recent expansion and growth has positioned the company among the major regional players and has achieved a competitive edge with its state-of-the-art standard and custom-made solutions.

DOT LB, a major representative of Net2Phone prepaid VoIP cards and Y@PGear hardware products expects its participation in Gitex 2001 to be a great opportunity to increase its market potential by appointing resellers for Net2Phone products. The introduction of myTrack, a fully integrated, internet-based, online trading system that enables online trading and monitoring of stocks, options and mutual funds will be another attraction from DOT LB.

ACT, which has 10 years experience in providing consultation, training and turnkey IT solutions by partnering with international IT firms is a Microsoft Solution Providing Partner, Oracle Business Alliance Partner, SUN Certified Reseller, Authorized System Reseller for Compaq, Sakhr Solutions Provider and local representative for Executrain in Lebanon. ACT hopes to use Gitex 2001 as a promotional platform for its products and solutions apart from creating IT awareness by updating the public with the latest innovations in the IT sector.

International Gateway Technologies ( IGT) a business development organization that facilitates various telecommunications suppliers to penetrate the MENA market, is offering a wide variety of products and services that include microwave, satellite, wireless and fiber optics, networking, voice enhancement, wireless infrastructure software and e-security products and services. Many other new products including messaging services, analog and digital voice/data transmission products, voice enhancement platforms and optical communications products, multi-provisioning platforms, high quality microwave products, wireless internet distribution solutions, wireless multipoint leading edge product line and secure e-business solutions will be on display from IGT.

Medpoint, a modular management system provider for hospitals, outpatient clinics and independent health centers, will showcase various integrated modules on accounting, billing, materials management, scheduling, admissions and patient medical records directory, radiology, laboratory and nurse desktop which permit the drawing up of a series of flexible and customizable reports.

Aims, a leading solution provider with 14 years of experience in providing turnkey business, ERP and business support packages will exhibit Socrate, a fully integrated business software that provides a complete solution for managing finance, inventory, warehousing, project management, manufacturing, distribution, point of sale, ticketing, freight, property management and customer relationship management.

www.yoojad.com a product from pyrana.com, provides a free classified ads network by allowing its users to submit various classified ads free of charge in the country of their choice. Yoojad.com uses the latest technology for banner ad management with a web-based interface to monitor the performance of the campaign. Yoojad.com, which has only a web presence in the UAE expects to find suitable partnership at Gitex 2001 to facilitate the growth of its network.

With an aim to widen the market potential in the Middle East and other Gulf countries, Midwest will give more emphasis on the display of Philips media products, mainly CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW, Floppy Disks and smart media.

With a vision to provide outsourcing third party component development as well as advanced management billing for telecoms, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), leased line operators, corporate enterprises and wireless services, DC Soft concentrates in the areas of web development by providing robust, scalable and secured web solutions. It also offers component development to be used in applications on different platforms and third party development.

Hostrix, an e-business company offers a wide range of hosting solutions from shared UNIX and Win 2000 to dedicated RaQ servers, exchange 2000 hosting and email outsourcing. Hostrix solutions are empowered with functional web based control panels for end users and resellers.