1. Egypt IT Industry Boost up
Some times ago one of my firends point that Egypt will expand its IT market and in Gitex 2008 you could see strong attempt of Egyptian IT Companies with diffrent solutions from software solutions to telecommunication solutions.
2. Unified Communication
It’s not much time past that unified communication borned. It seems it’s a favorite subject of middle east countries. Round table video conferencing, Microsoft Unified Communication, VoIP solutions and related hardwares still goes strong in the region.
3. Software As Service
With the comming of next generation of providing services to customers and according to concepts like Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 there are companies now moving from selling software to providing software as service. ERP applications are most softwares as service.
4. Microsoft Dynamics
Absence of Microsoft did not cuase absence of MS Solutions in the region where partners had the responsibility of introducing new solutions like Microsoft Dynamics. It seems Microsoft is moving to government body of mid east countries by Dynamics series and this is a way companies like Oracle have more experience.
5. Mobile Computing
By investigation of companies in telecommunication field and need of mobile computing for anywhere access to corporate information, there’s a huge market in this field. Mobile TV and Mobile Gaming had growth in mobile entertainement.
6. ITIL
Nowadays ITIL best practices are essential to IT departments of organizations. After releasing ITIL v3.0 you can see more companies providing ITIL services from training to compatible softwares to manage IT firms.
I think these 6 subject are most considerable things for IT industry in mid east region. These are personal thoughts and not any official publication or report.
acn Top 50 companies of Middle east
And finally acn an IT management magazine for mid east published top 50 companies of mid east. Top 10 are as follow
1. HP
2. CISCO
3. Oracle
4. MTC
5. IBM
6. Microsoft
7. EMC
8. Etisalat
9. Intel
10. SAP
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Posted by Amir Mehrani 
