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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>ADCB selects Sage's Prospero for wealth management</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank rolls out Sage’s Prospero wealth management system to support its portfolio and wealth management services]]></description>
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			<title>King Hussein Cancer Foundation signs on with Sage</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[King Hussein Cancer Foundation has chosen Sage to provide a system for real time access to donor information]]></description>
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			<title>Sage to shut Bahrain office</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Business software vendor Sage is closing its Bahrain office less than two years after it was opened]]></description>
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			<title>Optimiza deploys Sage CRM and ERP to manage operations</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[United Business Applications deploys Sage solutions for Optimiza to manage regional offices and operations]]></description>
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			<title>Sage goes all out at GITEX</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Company announces its biggest ever participation in the regional IT event]]></description>
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			<title>Sage set to star at GITEX</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Leading software developer Sage Software Middle East will showcase its full range of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Human Resource Management (HRM) software applications for medium and large organisations at GITEX Technology Week 2008.]]></description>
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			<title>Meeting point</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ERP systems lie at the very core of a successful enterprise – and yet many companies settle for their choice without fully investigating the options available. ACN travels around the world to look at the latest in ERP offerings.]]></description>
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			<title>Sage targets Saudi manufacturers with SI signing</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Conti-tech is chosen as the company’s first X3 ERP partner in Saudi Arabia]]></description>
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			<title>Sage signs Expert's Team for Saudi</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Expert's Team to provide systems integration and customization for Sage in Saudi Arabia  ]]></description>
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			<title>Knowledge masters</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are becoming highly intricate, making them an increasingly complex sale for software resellers and consultants. Channel Middle East asks some of the region’s leading ERP providers to detail their go-to-market strategies and outline the challenges facing the channel.]]></description>
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			<title>Lead generation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Relying on existing customers is all well and good, but there comes a time when resellers need to find new opportunities. That task can be a gruelling process, involving clear communication between the reseller's own business development team and the brands that it represents. Channel Middle East asks vendors to outline the importance of a strong lead generation policy and explain the procedures they have in place to assist Middle East resellers in their quest for new business.]]></description>
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			<title>Sage eyes CRM space </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Enterprise software specialist Sage is talking up its CRM solutions this week as it capitalises on the lack of customer-focused systems in the Middle East market.]]></description>
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			<title>The dream factory</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  As manufacturing in the Middle East expands, the industry looks to IT vendors to provide integrated software that can give the cutting edge in a competitive market. Brid-Aine Conway reports.]]></description>
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			<title>Sage to unveil CRM </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sage Software Middle East has revealed plans to launch its new online subscription-based CRM product at this year's GITEX Business Solutions event]]></description>
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			<title>Sage wises up to Bahrain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Enterprise software provider continues to spread its wings in the region by opening a new office in Bahrain.   ]]></description>
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			<title>Sage chairman in shock departure</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Sage chairman Sir Julian Horn-Smith has quit after six months, citing clashes in "style and culture".]]></description>
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			<title>Flexible friend</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IT agility remains a collective figment of the imagination at some vendors' marketing departments rather than something which can actually be realised.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Al Gosaibi oversees Sage project in Saudi market</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Gulf integrator AGIS completes software implementation for Al Rahji Holding as Sage hopes recent office opening will lead to more deals.    ]]></description>
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			<title>Licence to sell</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  SMB companies are a fundamental part of the Middle East landscape and for the software channel that represents a prime target base. Even renowned enterprise software providers such as CA, Oracle and SAP are assembling dedicated channels to seduce SMB customers that need a wealth of office solutions to efficiently run their operations. Channel Middle East examines this highly competitive battleground and asks what it takes to crack the Middle East SMB software market.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Stretch IT</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Maintaining a network of customers, partners and suppliers brings with it an equal amount of benefits and challenges. Duncan MacRae talks to the end-users, vendors and integrators spearheading the adoption of extended enterprise thinking throughout the Middle East market.    ]]></description>
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			<title>Sage the main course for Kuwaiti food company</title>
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			<title>Sage buys tech  from Vertical Falls</title>
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			<title>Sage preaches virtues of partner intimacy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Marc Van der Ven, managing director at HR and CRM software vendor Sage Middle East reveals why the company is not out to match arch rival Microsoft when it comes to building a local partner network]]></description>
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			<title>Enterprise software giant lays out aggressive plans for Saudi</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Global software and IT services behemoth finds lure of the Saudi market too difficult to resist and promises to increase its brand visibility with launch of three new offices]]></description>
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			<title>HR skills at the table</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[When human resources experts from the region took part in a roundtable discussion last month, they found plenty to talk about. Duncan MacRae finds out how they are trying to overcome skills shortages and develop their human capital.]]></description>
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			<title>Sage sets up in Saudi and plans other locations</title>
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			<title>Sage nets hat trick with new KSA office</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ERP and accounting software vendor boosts Middle East business with third local office]]></description>
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			<title>Banking invests in EAS market</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Manufacturing and oil & gas help drive up spend, says IDC ]]></description>
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