Ooredoo partners with Advanced Computing

Ooredoo, one of the region’s leading ICT providers, announced yesterday a partnership with the Qatar cloud developer, Advanced Computing Company, to enable small businesses to drive their growth and competitiveness.
As part of the partnership, Ooredoo will host Advanced Computing Company cloud solutions Amana in the Ooredoo Data Centre. The Amana cloud solutions are quick-to-deploy, easy-to-use, and can scale up. As a result, Qatar’s small businesses can gain the same capabilities as large enterprises – including real-time tracking of human resources, payroll, documents, timesheets, and customer relationship management.
With more than two-thirds of Qatar’s small businesses using basic or minimal IT, according to a Qatar Development Bank report, experts expect the partnership to be transformative.
Waleed Al Sayed, Chief Executive Officer, Ooredoo Qatar, said “Amana cloud solutions will enable Qatar’s small businesses to drive their digital transformation and business competitiveness. As the leading small business technology vendor, Ooredoo is supporting small businesses by harnessing the power of the Ooredoo Data Centre, and bringing to market solutions from local Qatar technology companies.”
Using Amana’s customisable core modules, technology administrators can quickly deploy business services that manage day-to-day processes, and give employees self-service access using an internal web browser portal.
Sheikha Athba Al Thani, Founder and CEO, Advanced Computing Company, said: “Qatar’s thriving SME community needs to work in real-time, and so requires technology to support its speedy business execution rather than slowing it down and acting as a financial burden on them. Often, SMEs lack the necessary IT infrastructure or skilled staff to develop this on their own. By partnering with Ooredoo, we’re aiming for every small business in Qatar to adopt cloud solutions and this is only viable by leveraging Ooredoo’s world class networks.”