Sakhr Solutions and Technologies at the Microsoft Solutions Summit in Cairo

Sakhr's participation came in the form of two workshops held on the final day of the meeting hosted by Microsoft which was held over a period of three days, from 20-22 December 2004 in the Egyptian capital Cairo, and was attended by major Arab IT companies. During the workshops Sakhr demonstrated its two highly specialized systems aimed at Arab e-Governments and the comprehensive management of educational e-portals.

For the first time in Egypt, Sakhr presented its E-Portal system for electronic education. The E-Portal system is a comprehensive advanced system that fulfills requirements on a variety of levels. These include the management of educational regions, the management of schools sectors, the automation of school administration - teacher/ student/ parent relations, the interaction between all involved in the education process - executed via the Internet.

"This E-Portal solution is today considered to be a ground breaking system and the best of its kind. The system provides a comprehensive bilingual (Arabic/English) educational portal using the Internet and is mainly aimed at educational institutes. The system uses a flexible .Net technology to implement organizational processes related to education, integrates well with e-Governments and fulfils the specific managerial, organizational and educational needs of Arab educational institutes," commented Salah Malaeb, General Manager, Sakhr Software Co.

Sakhr also demonstrated its solutions targeting Arab e-Governments which include content management, advanced search engine, automatic reader OCR to convert traditional documents into electronic files, text mining tools that include spell checker, automatic categorizer, key word extractor and automatic summarizer. Technologies demonstrated include Sakhr's renowned speech engines which include Text-To-Speech and ASR (Automatic speech recognition) technologies that convert speech into text, and numerous other systems which integrate with the Arabic comprehensive information management solution AIMS.

"This meeting has given us the opportunity to exchange information about the latest technological advances. We were very pleased with the response to our solutions and technologies, particularly as they the unique quality of being able to integrate completely and to fulfill the needs of the e-Governments in the Arab Would," commented Eng. Tarek Elghazaly, Knowledge Management Product Manager, Sakhr Software Co.

"Our successful and rich experience with the e-Governments of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, in particular, has constantly proved that we at Sakhr always adhere to the strictest and highest standards built on Microsoft platforms," commented Salah Malaeb. He added, "By using Sakhr solutions, the performance and effectiveness of these establishments has increased dramatically. Considerable time and effort were saved. This in addition to the automation of most of the work that was previously done manually which has freed employees giving them more time to concentrate on improving the overall quality of their performance."