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EBLA Computer Consultancy Company is a
privately owned Kuwaiti Company established in 1993 with
branch offices in Qatar, UAE (Abu Dhabi & Dubai), the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt. The
main focus of the company is to provide IT solutions and IT
Consultancy and Professional services to its customers. Our
mission is
to provide our clients with the expertise, the deployment,
energy and motivation to solve their complex business issues
through the utilization of technology and effective business
processes. We are constantly measuring our customer
satisfaction as a model to meet our goals.
EBLA is a leading Gold certified Microsoft
Large Account reseller and service provider for the
Government sector in Kuwait and in Qatar and has been
awarded the distinction of being an Advanced Infrastructure
solution partner for Microsoft. EBLA is also a master Value
Added Reseller for FileNet Enterprise Content Management
solutions in the Gulf Countries and is an enterprise
solution partner for Messrs. Computer Associates (CA) for
their System Management and Security solutions.
Focus and target markets
The company’s chosen business is in the field
of providing IT solutions and professional services to its
customers in the following main areas:
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Enterprise Information portal and
Collaboration solutions using Microsoft technologies
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Enterprise Content Management solution using
FileNet and associated products on Microsoft platform.
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System management, Access management and
Security solutions using CA and Citrix solutions
EBLA’s
business success and growth in the last few years can be
attributed to our relentless focus on these solutions from
the very inception of the company. We have not allowed our
company to be opportunistic, and have built an experienced
and professional team over the years with significant and
rich expertise in the above areas of our competency.
Our target markets are currently Government
and Oil and Gas sectors, and we offer to our chosen markets
a rich array of solutions in our above competency areas.
Solutions and Services
Enterprise Solution
Development – Microsoft
EBLA specializes in the following enterprise
solutions:
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Enterprise Portals, B2B, e-Solutions and
e-Services
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ePayment solution
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Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
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Web Services
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Enterprise Workflow
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Content and Document Management
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Enterprise Application Integration
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Intranet Solutions for Collaboration
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Business Process Automation
Enterprise Content Management
solutions – FileNet
In today’s cost conscious competitive
business environment, gaining control over your business
information is not optional. Some estimates mark the level
of unstructured information (files, e-mail, multimedia,
test, forms, records, and other documents) at more than 80%
of all information generated within an organisation today.
EBLA offers the world leading FileNet ECM solution to its
customers who are looking to leverage the value of the
unstructured information to run their businesses more
competitively. FileNet solutions enable business critical
applications in client server or web-based and enterprise
portal environments that extends document management
functionality to a broad range of strategic business
processes.
With the combination of content, process and connectivity,
FileNet ECM solutions allow customers to build and sustain
competitive advantage by managing content throughout their
organization, automating and streamlining their business
processes, and providing the full-spectrum of connectivity
needed to simplify your critical and everyday
decision-making.
Software Development
EBLA engages in development of bespoke
software solutions for its customers based on their specific
requirements. We follow tested and proven methodologies in
all stages of development cycle, as follows:
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Customer requirement Analysis
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Assess customer’s current infrastructure and
manpower skills
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Architect and design the Solution
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Develop, test and implement using tools such
as:
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Project Management ( MS Project)
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System Analysis and design (Rational Rose)
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Graphic and Creative Tools ( Photoshop)
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Coding standards (Microsoft recommended or
Java as necessary)
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Change control and Version control tools
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Testing and QA standards ( EBLA internally
developed)
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Documentation standards ( Microsoft
recommended)
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Train, support and upgrade as necessary
As a Gold certified Microsoft Enterprise
partner, all our solutions are based on the Microsoft dot
net technology platform and are developed with Microsoft
development tools. We abide by a disciplined application
development methodology. Depending on the nature of the
project, we apply MSF (Microsoft Solutions Framework),
Rational Unified Process, or a modified version of these
Industry standard tools such as Microsoft Visio, MS Visual
studio and Source Safe to support our processes. We also
utilize Microsoft solutions such as Microsoft Sharepoint
Portal and Microsoft Enterprise Project Management,
Microsoft Live Communications Server, and Microsoft Content
Manager, which allow interactive, web-enabled management of
applications.
Professional Services
EBLA provides a range of professional
services to its customers in the following areas:
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Project Management
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System integration
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Solution Architecting
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Business Analysis and System Analysis/Design
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Development and Testing
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Customer training
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Professional support services including 24X7
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Consulting on disaster recovery, business
continuity planning, data warehousing, business
intelligence, e-business and a host of other areas
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Professional manpower services
EBLA Resources
EBLA currently employs more than 150
professional employees who are highly experienced and fully
trained and certified on the Microsoft, FileNet and Computer
Associates suites of products. The skills available in-house
are in the following areas:
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HTML,DHTML, XML, VB, C, C++, Delphi
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ASP Active Server Pages
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Certified .NET resources
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Client side scripting (Javascript, VBscript)
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J2EE, Java applications, scripts, applets,
servlets, beans
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Web-enabling existing applications
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Adobe Photoshop, MS FrontPage, MS Visio
EBLA References and Case
studies
EBLA currently has over 70% share of the ECM
market in Kuwait and Qatar and is rapidly expanding its
presence in the other countries of the region. EBLA is the
Microsoft Gold Certified partner for the entire Government
sector in Kuwait and in Qatar, and has been responsible for
delivering, deploying and supporting Microsoft desktop and
server licenses at all Government sites in these two
countries (more than 20,000 PCs in Kuwait and about 15,000
PCs in Qatar at this point)
Since its inception in 1993, EBLA has amassed
an impressive track record of problem solving and along with
it an equally impressive client list, including many
Ministries and strategic public sector organizations
as well as a number of major organizations in
the private sector
.From portal development to e-commerce
solutions, product development to enterprise-wide
applications, we have provided reliable, cost-effective
solutions to our clients, many of which are repeat
customers. We have placed a representative set of our
references in deploying Microsoft Advanced Infrastructure
solutions at our following customer sites:
Public Institute of Social
Security, Kuwait
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Migrate Windows NT domain to Windows 2003
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Design and deploy Active Directory structure
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Implement DNS, DHCP, File and Print services
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Design and deploy Exchange 2003 server
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Implement SUS (Software update services)
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Implement Sharepoint Team services
Public Authority for Civil
Information, Kuwait
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Deploy System Management Server (SMS) 2003
State Audit Bureau, Kuwait
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Deploy Windows 2000 Active Directory
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Windows 4.0 Domain migration
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Deploy Exchange 2000 Server
Ministry of Finance, Kuwait
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Design, plan and migrate MDaemon Mail server
to Exchange 2000
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Migrate User mail boxes to Exchange 2000
Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
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Design and deploy Windows 2000 Active
Directory
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Deploy Exchange 2000 Server
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Deploy ISA 2000 Server
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Deploy SMS 2003 Server
Strategic Alliances
We constantly strive to foster and develop
strategic alliances with the most influential pioneers and
established technology providers in the world.
Highlighting our role as integrators and
complex application developers, these partnerships enhance
our ability to deliver the comprehensive, cutting-edge
solutions we promise. At the same time, these partnerships
mean that our developers always remain highly trained on
next generation tools and technologies. Given the diverse
specializations of our partners, we are better able to
select from a pool of technologies when designing and
implementing our superior-standard solutions. The following
is a list of our current technology partners:
Microsoft Corporation
As the largest and most powerful software
company in the world, and an undisputed world-leader in the
desktop operating system, Office productivity software,
database and collaboration/knowledge management software
markets, the Microsoft brand is synonymous today with the
state-of-the-art in technology and a consistently high level
of product quality. EBLA is proud to be recognized a
Microsoft Gold Certified partner for
Kuwait and Qatar.
FileNet Corporation
FileNet Corporation is one of the world’s
leading ECM solution vendors as recognized by all the
international third party consulting organizations such as
the Gartner’s Group, the Meta Group, Forrester Research and
others.
EBLA is a master reseller for Messrs. FileNet Corporation,
USA, in all the Gulf countries (except Saudi Arabia), where
we help sell, implement and support the full range of
FileNet ECM solutions through our own offices and through
those of our channel partners. EBLA is also an authorized
Service provider and an authorized training centre for
FileNet in its territory, a distinction it has earned after
more than a decade of distinguished service to the Document
management market in the region.
Citrix Corporation
Citrix Corporation is the global leader in
access infrastructure solutions and the most trusted name in
secure access for enterprises and individuals. Citrix
Metaframe Presentation Access Suite is the world's most
widely deployed access infrastructure software for the
on-demand enterprise. It gives information workers anywhere,
on any device or any connection, secure and easy access to
the information resources they need without regard to
underlying computing complexity. The Access Suite helps
organizations increase IT security, business agility, and
user productivity achieve regulatory compliance more quickly
and cost effectively, and enables organizations to better
achieve business objectives.
The Citrix Metaframe Access suite integrates
three of the best-of-breed product lines – Citrix
Presentation server, Citrix Access Gateway and Citrix
Password manager.
EBLA is a silver business partner of Citrix
in Kuwait and Qatar.
Computer Associates
Computer Associates International, Inc., one
of the world's largest management software companies,
delivers software and services across operations, security,
storage, life cycle and service management to optimize the
performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT
environments.
CA pursues, develops and delivers the kind of
leading-edge technologies that can truly transform a
business. This includes our highly evolved—and highly
effective—system management software to run day-to-day tasks
as well as manage on-demand computing, wireless, and Web
services initiatives. CA’s integrated solutions help manage
the infrastructures of more than 95 percent of the Fortune
500® companies and more than 80 percent of the Global 1000,
as well as government organizations and hundreds of other
companies in diverse industries worldwide.
Founded in 1976, CA is a global,
multibillion-dollar company with headquarters in the United
States and operations in more than 100 countries. Our
technology, our flexible business model, our people and our
range of programs and services are all focused on enabling
customers worldwide to better manage their computing
infrastructures, align those infrastructures with business
goals and ultimately, run an even better business.
EBLA is proud to be an Enterprise Solution
Partner (ESP) of CA in Kuwait and Qatar.
McLaren Software develops engineering-centric
intellectual work management applications for the oil and
gas, process manufacturing, utilities, life sciences, and
engineering, design and construction sectors. McLaren helps
organizations optimize their engineering design and asset
change management processes to maximize the value in their
engineering documents while mitigating the commercial risk
associated with their use.
McLaren Software
McLaren Software is a leading vendor of
engineering drawing and document management and control
in the world.
McLaren’s Enterprise Engineer application
suite supports the engineering process by providing a single
point of control to manage the production and use of project
content; including drawings, correspondence, procedures and
specifications. Enterprise Engineer allows the user to
focus on the processes around managing the output - the
document itself - produced by the engineering knowledge
worker; consequently providing insight into the status of
each deliverable and potential impact on the overall success
of the project.
By providing a single source of engineering, design,
decision and commercial information for any given project,
the software results in reduced costs, lower risk, improved
efficiency and accelerated project execution.
The McLaren Enterprise Engineer suite integrates fully with
the FileNet P8 platform to accommodate the complexity of
engineering content and provide a scalable enterprise-class
solution.
EBLA represents McLaren Software in its
territory (Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait and Oman)
Bell and Howell
Founded in 1907 in Chicago, Bell & Howell
Company at one time was best known for its motion picture
cameras and projection equipment. In fact, the company even
won several Oscars.
Now, nearly a century later, Bell & Howell
has transformed itself into a global provider of solutions
and services for information access and distribution. The
Company focuses on well-defined vertical markets where it is
or can become the market leader. It offers a wide range of
imaging solutions and components including a full range of
highly functional document scanners.
EBLA is an authorized business partner and
service provider for the full range of Bell and Howell
scanner products.
Plasmon
Plasmon has provided electronic archival
storage solutions since 1985 and is the world leader in
professional optical libraries.
Plasmon provides the storage industry’s most
comprehensive line of professional automated libraries,
optical drives, media and software. Plasmon’s broad product
line includes UDO (Ultra Density Optical), 5.25 inch
Professional Optical, DVD/CD, 12 inch TrueWORM, media and
storage management software, offering the highest level of
technical innovation, reliability and flexibility.
EBLA is an authorized business partner and
service provider for the full range of Plasmon Optical
storage and jukebox products.
EBLA is one of the most experienced IT
Solution companies in the Middle East with regard to
Integrated Web-based Portal, Collaboration, Business Process
Management and ECM solutions. EBLA is financially strong and
viable, and has achieved consistent profitability and
business growth of over 10% during the past. EBLA’s
corporate credo is to make every Single Installation a
“Production Success”. The company employs a group of
highly qualified and professional management, technical and
support staff that is completely dedicated to service and
support the Microsoft and FileNet suite of products at all
its customer sites in the region.
EBLA, despite its outstanding business
success and growth during the last ten years, still retains
its entrepreneurial spirit, which drives its management to
relentlessly pursue its business goals, by responding to
shifts in customer requirements and new advances in
technology. At the same time, EBLA also continues to adhere
to its core and fundamental corporate values, which is to
provide quality solutions to its customers in its chosen
target markets. That is what EBLA has always done better
than anyone else in its markets, and that probably will
remain the major reason for its continued success and growth
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