In preparation for the Universal Postal Union’s (UPU) Global Monitoring System (GMS), Qatar General Postal Corporation, in partnership with Emirates and Saudi Post recently completed the implementation of a RFID technology project aimed at improving the overall mail services in the region and the globe. CNME’s Manda Banda, chatted to Catina Aghayan, Quality & Development Consultant at Qatar Post, to find out what the implementation of this project means to postal services in the Middle East region.

Zulekha Healthcare Group is one of the leading private healthcare providers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) a region. The group provide healthcare services in six Arab states of the Persian Gulf namely: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. As with any network of healthcare provider that grows, communication challenges among staff are inevitable. Recently, the healthcare group took patient care to another level when it implemented the Blackberry solution to overcome the communication challenges throughout its hospital network.

To keep pace with its ambitious expansion plans, Pan Emirates has commissioned EMW, a supplier of services and products in the telecommunication, ICT, Engineering and Project Management sector, to upgrade its IP Telephony systems at the head office in Sharjah, UAE to one of the latest Avaya platforms. This will greatly increase system availability and enhance communication between the various branches and head office. The contract also includes installation of smart mobile technology at two new branches to support the warehouse management system and product tracking.

As more transport utility companies and parastatal organisations around the global are turning to technology to best manage their transport networks and infrastructure, the Dubai Road Transport Authority (RTA) partnered with the YMS Group that implemented its yTraffic solution in the Emirate. The project dubbed Dalili has changed the way the RTA manages and provides traffic information to motorists.

ADAOX Middle East, the regional business development centre for ESET NOD32 Antivirus has announced that Al Talayi Establishment, the sole distributor for Bridgestone Tires in Saudi Arabia, has deployed ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security (ESS) suite to secure its computers and IT network from viruses, spyware, malware and other known and unknown online security threats.