Sakhr Software Co.'s largest seminar in Lebanon

The seminar addressed the technology challenges facing ministries and public authorities, and presented technologies and solutions which will enable them to increase return on their investment.

The seminar was organized by "Smart Solutions Co.," Sakhr's authorized agent in Lebanon, and was attended by a large number of managers and IT officials within the ministries and the public authorities, as well as managers of IT solution providers. The seminar focused on the IT challenges facing the public sector, whether in terms of bilingual electronic archiving, or in the arena of search and retrieval of bilingual data & documents. The seminar also reviewed global trends in the field of speech technology.

"This seminar coincides with the ever increasing significant status Sakhr's solutions are achieving in Lebanon. It also serves to reaffirm our commitment to the Lebanese market which is expected to witness wide-spread development over the coming period,"

commented Alaeddine Alaeddine, Regional Manager, Sakhr Kuwait & Levant.

The IT seminar, attended by invitation only, addressed NLP technologies, the Natural Language Processing developed by Sakhr for the Arabic language. It also discussed instant translation solutions for organizations and the huge leap forward achieved by Arabic speech technologies, taking them to global standards.

"Sakhr launched its operations in Lebanon ten years ago. Since then, Sakhr has worked diligently to fortify its company's experience in order to better serve its clients and to be able to offer them only the very best in services, advanced solutions and applications. The development witnessed by Lebanon in recent years has assisted in creating an attractive environment for the growth of the IT sector," commented Mohamad Bokhari, Business Development Manager, Smart Solutions Co. He added, "We are working side-by-side with Sakhr to provide solutions and comprehensive technical support capable of fulfilling the needs of all the major sectors in the country."

"We were very happy that our solutions and technologies were received with such overwhelming interest. It was obvious that the public and business sectors have a strong interest in facing the challenges of expansion, growth and increase in data and documents within their organizations, and a deep rooted interest in keeping abreast of global IT developments," Alaeddine concluded.