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			<title>Be our guest</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The region's top enterprise champions were honoured at a gala ceremony at Dubai's Jumeirah Beach Hotel, in the third edition of the celebrated Arab Technology Awards.]]></description>
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			<title>End users versus vendors</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ACN is taking up the cause of end users by taking the questions of CIOs right to the vendors. This year vendors were given just two days to come up with an answer to a simple question. Some passed with flying colours, while others stumbled at the starting line – these are their responses.]]></description>
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			<title>Staying the course</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The global economic ship is starting to right itself and navigate into less turbulent waters, though not without organisations placing more importance on customers. Nathan Statz investigates how CRM is faring in the current climate.]]></description>
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			<title>SAP in online tie-up to help partners find new staff</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Enterprise software vendor SAP has struck a marketing agreement with professional online network LinkedIn that it claims will make it easier for midmarket partners to recruit new staff.]]></description>
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			<title>Picking the winners</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Next month, judging begins for the 2009 edition of the Arab Technology Awards – and for me, that will be the real litmus test of whether the region’s IT ventures have emerged from the global financial crisis. ]]></description>
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			<title>SAP increases profitability forecast despite tough Q2</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SAP software revenue drops 40% in Q2, but company increases operating margin increase on improved income]]></description>
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			<title>Oracle buys IP assets of firm linked to SAP</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Conformia received a minority investment from SAP two years ago and has now agreed to sell its intellectual property assets to Oracle.]]></description>
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			<title>Business Intelligence market bucks trend to grow 21.7%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Strong performance in business intelligence and performance management software in 2008 unlikely to be repeated says Gartner]]></description>
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			<title>The art of the impossible</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After acquiring Western Bakeries in 2007, Almarai had to convert its ERP system from Oracle to SAP in just 104 days – and using only one team to support both companies. Imthishan Giado reports.]]></description>
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			<title>Jaleel Holdings chooses SAP</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SAP has announced that Jaleel Holdings is rolling out the German-based company’s ERP system]]></description>
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			<title>SAP CRM application now available on Blackberrys</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The SAP-RIM partnership has born fruit in the form of general availability of SAP’s CRM application on Blackberrys.]]></description>
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			<title>SAP profits down 16% in Q1 09</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SAP sees 33% drop in software revenue, but MENA continues to post strong double-digit growth]]></description>
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			<title>UAE’s E-City first to go live with SAP Retail</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The recently-opened E-City in UAE’s Wafi Mall has become the first retailer in the region to use SAP’s Retail platform ]]></description>
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			<title>ERP Ahead</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ERP may have grown up with a chip on its shoulder thanks to a number of controversial failures, but the market has come a long way since then. Nathan Statz reports on the once treacherous realm of the ERP project.]]></description>
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			<title>SAP: Enterprises face ‘new reality’</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[States regional enterprises will have to find new business models and make better use of existing assets]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi college joins SAP’s University Alliance Programme</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Saudi Arabia's Yanbu Industrial College has signed on with SAP's University Alliance Programme (UAP).]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi reseller one of first to earn Run SAP certification</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Al-Bilad Arabia Company first in region to certify on the Run SAP methodology for implementations]]></description>
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			<title>SAP boosts customer training in the Middle East</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SAP signs agreement with MESAP to bring regular, off site training to customers in the GCC]]></description>
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			<title>Boushahri Group upgrades SAP deployment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Kuwait conglomerate upgrades SAP ERP to create better efficiency across business divisions]]></description>
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			<title>SAP introduces Quality Program to Middle East</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SAP Quality Program aims to improve best practices and standards for SAP ERP deployment]]></description>
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			<title>SAP adds lifestyle group to its customer base</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Pragma Group International chooses ‘All in One’ ERP solution to streamline operations and manage growth]]></description>
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			<title>SAP planning to lift Western’s efficiency</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia’s Almarai Group has implemented SAP’s flagship enterprise resource planning application (ERP) at its companies Western Bakery and International Baking Services.]]></description>
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			<title>SAP Forum stresses need for adaptability</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SAP EMEA president tells regional businesses they need to embrace change]]></description>
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			<title>Western Bakery aligns ERP with Almarai</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Western Bakery and International Baking Services deploy SAP ERP to integrate with parent company]]></description>
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			<title>Ayman Abouseif resigns from SAP</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SAP Middle East & North Africa VP of Sales steps down after less than twelve months]]></description>
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			<title>VAR signing boosts SAP's Jordanian prospects </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[United Technology Solutions to to provide major public sector channel focus for SAP in Jordan]]></description>
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			<title>SAP witnesses record growth in Middle East</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Figures confirm global financial crisis has presently not affected regional market]]></description>
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			<title>SAP in the mix</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ACN asks a number of IT professionals if they have used SAP's products in the past or will in the future.]]></description>
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			<title>Khimji Ramdas selects Satyam for SAP roll out</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Satyam to deploy SAP ERP for Oman trading conglomerate ]]></description>
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			<title>SAP to set up Competence Centre at Kuwait University</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UCC will give Kuwait University students training and certification in key SAP technology]]></description>
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