IDC Middle East CIO Summit Partners

At Oracle, our mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, unlock endless possibilities. For more than four decades, Oracle has delivered innovation upon which entire industries have been built.

The Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite of integrated applications for Sales, Service, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, plus Highly Automated and Secure Generation 2 Infrastructure featuring the Oracle Autonomous Database. For more information about Oracle, please visit us at www.oracle.com .

Injazat is an industry-recognized market leader in digital transformation, cloud, and cybersecurity. Injazat empowers organizations to optimize their business goals by utilizing cloud and emerging technology solutions and co-creating transformational digital platforms and services through public-private partnerships. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Injazat draws on its local expertise and presence as well as its global technology partnership networks to develop market-leading services. Injazat’s purpose is to empower human achievement through end-to-end digital solutions that deliver impact and value to customers and communities.

https://www.injazat.com

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization that has been partnering with world's largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive-powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology, and engineering services and solutions.

As part of the Tata Group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has businesses spanning across MEA, Europe, North America, and APAC. The company has been actively present in MEA for over 25 years and has more than 120 clients across different industries. The domain expertise of TCS has been built upon decades of experience working across industries and this knowledge underpins the suite of solutions. As global leader in digital and business solutions, TCS partners with clients to simplify, strengthen, and transform their businesses. TCS has been awarded as the Top Employer in the MEA region consecutively for the past 6 years.

Unifonic is a customer engagement platform that enables organizations to delight customers with remarkable omnichannel experiences. By unifying communication channels, messaging apps, and chatbots, Unifonic streamlines conversations at every touch point throughout the customer journey. Unifonic’s solutions integrate customer communication channels including text, voice, messaging and web into a single platform to enable companies to create stronger customer relationships. 

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. It helps organizations standardize across environments, develop cloud-native applications, and integrate, automate, secure, and manage complex environments with award-winning support, training, and consulting services.

AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster

SoftServe is a digital authority that reveals, transforms, accelerates, and optimizes the way enterprises and software companies do business. With expertise across healthcare, retail, energy, financial services, software, and more, SoftServe implements end-to-end solutions to deliver the innovation, quality, and speed that clients expect. SoftServe delivers open innovation — from generating compelling new ideas to developing and implementing transformational products and services. Our work is built on a foundation of empathetic, human-focused experience design that ensures continuity from concept to release. We empower enterprises and software companies to (re)identify differentiation, accelerate solution development, and vigorously compete in today’s digital economy.

Turbonomic (an IBM company) applies AI to eliminate manual troubleshooting and other labor-intensive aspects of IT operations, so teams can confidently modernise applications, adopt new cloud and container-based technologies, and accelerate release cycles without the risk of cost overruns or performance degradation. Turbonomic’s AI-powered ‘Application Resource Management’ (ARM) platform continuously makes resourcing decisions based on real time application demand, ensuring that applications always get the compute, storage, and network they need to perform. The platform preserves that automation in context, meaning IT teams can take a data driven approach to automation, but also align to company SLOs and compliance parameters. Turbonomic ‘Application Resource Management’ (ARM) aids in digital transformation by ensuring business-critical applications get the resources they need to perform on any public cloud, private cloud, or virtualized environment, automatically, at the lowest possible cost. More info at www.turbonomic.com.

MDS Systems Integration (MDS SI) is the UAE’s leading enterprise systems integrator, leveraging long experience in the region and providing excellent service through a highly qualified, trained, and experienced team of engineers. Since its inception, MDS SI has focused on integrating and delivering customized and advanced enterprise datacenter solutions, including servers, storage, backup, network, and security solutions. The company's extensive regional coverage is an indicator of its experience, strength, and ability to grow, manage, and support various types of projects and environments.

HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Our technology products, services and engineering are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships. With a worldwide network of R&D, innovation labs and delivery centers, and 147,000+ ‘Ideapreneurs’ working in 44 countries, HCL serves leading enterprises across key industries, including 250 of the Fortune 500 and 650 of the Global 2000.

We offer an integrated portfolio of products, solutions, services, and IP through our Mode 1-2-3 strategy built around Digital, IoT, Cloud, Automation, Cybersecurity, Analytics, Infrastructure Management and Engineering Services, amongst others, to help enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age.

Qualys is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions with over 10,000+ active customers in more than 130 countries, including a majority of each of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100.

CyberKnight Technologies is a cybersecurity-focused, value-added distributor covering the Middle East with an on-the-ground presence in all key regional markets. The company's "Zero Trust Security" methodology, based on the Forrester framework, incorporates emerging and market-leading cybersecurity solutions that protect the entire attack surface by leveraging AI, threat intelligence, and collective defense. CyberKnight helps security and risk teams simplify breach detection, prevention, and incident response while addressing regulatory compliance. CyberKnight's "Art of Cybersecurity Distribution" methodology enables strategic partners to achieve greater market penetration, ROI, and time-to-value metrics.

Salesforce is the #1 CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, blockchain, voice, and artificial intelligence—to connect to their customers in a whole new way. The Salesforce Customer 360 is an integrated CRM platform that unites marketing, sales, commerce, service and IT departments. The company is a leader on Fortune’s World's Best Workplaces list, and Forbes has ranked the company one of the world's most innovative companies for nine years in a row. For information, please visit www.salesforce.com.

Cloud4C is a Global Cloud Managed Service Provider serving 60+ of the fortune 500 multinationals and mission-critical businesses in 25+ countries spread across Middle East, Europe, Americas, India and Asia Pacific.

The Company supports Hybrid Cloud environment and allows customers to choose the cloud of their choices such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud and Cloud4C. It has expertise in managing production workloads across various cloud platforms and also on its own community and Private cloud platform locally hosted across the globe in 25 countries with 50+ in-country Cloud Datacenters with end to end migration and managing the mission critical applications and workloads with a unique single SLA model. In Middle East, Cloud4C has its local Cloud Datacenters in UAE, Qatar & Saudi Arabia servicing to 120+ Enterprises across the region.

Micro Focus brings critical technologies to OpenText, including new categories of AI & Analytics, Application Development & Delivery, Application Modernization, and Digital Operations Management. They greatly complement OpenText’s proven market leadership in Content Services, Business Network, Digital Experience and Cyber Security. With our combined capabilities, we will help customers gain an information advantage and accelerate their digital transformation.

The newly combined company will focus on future business growth that is inclusive, sustainable, and human centric. We can accelerate how we solve complexities by bringing information and automation together so businesses of all sizes can be re-invented through new digital fabrics, new rules, and new ways to work.

The world’s most trusted companies trust OpenText, and our expertise is in helping people work smarter. OpenText powers and protects information to elevate every person and every organization to be their best.

Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business. Companies around the world use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software to bring one-click application management and mobility across public, private and distributed edge clouds so they can run any application at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost of ownership. The result is organizations that can rapidly deliver a high-performance IT environment on demand, giving application owners a true cloud-like experience.

AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster

Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. Approximately 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of Nessus®, Tenable extended its expertise in vulnerabilities to deliver the world’s first platform to see and secure any digital asset on any computing platform. Tenable customers include approximately 60 percent of the Fortune 500, approximately 40 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Learn more at tenable.com.

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company. Digital leaders harness our trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. We enable our customers to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.

NetApp: NetApp is a global cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere. Learn more at www.netapp.com

Logicom: Logicom is a leading Distributor of Technology Solutions and Services and Cloud Solution Provider covering a wide geography in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Providing an indispensable link in the technology supply chain, Logicom facilitates mutually beneficial relationships with its vendors and channel partners. The company is headquartered in Cyprus and is listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange since 2000. Its key technology vendor partnerships include Adobe, APC, Autodesk, Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc, IBM, Intel, Kingston Technology, Lenovo, Microsoft, NetApp, and WD. For more information on Logicom, please check our website distribution.logicom.net, ‘Like’ our Facebook page and follow Logicom on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.

Digital transformation changes expectations: better service, faster delivery, with less cost. Businesses must transform to stay relevant and data holds the answers.

Informatica is the only proven Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that accelerates data-driven digital transformation. Informatica enables companies to fuel innovation, become more agile, and realize new growth opportunities, resulting in intelligent market disruptions. Over the last 25 years, Informatica has helped more than 9,000 customers unleash the power of data. For more information visit www.informatica.com.

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SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and enterprise-grade open source solutions, relied upon by more than 60% of the Fortune 500 to power their mission-critical workloads. We specialize in Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes Management, and Edge solutions, and collaborate with partners and communities to empower our customers to innovate everywhere –- from the data center, to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. 

Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Our cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion --- designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, our customers can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital customer experiences and real-time business operations. Our mission is to set data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.

Our goal is to graduate teammates from mere operational slaves to transformative change-agents. Giving them back the time and energy needed to build the future. Automation looks after the routine work that happens every day so your people can progress the projects that really matter.

Mendix, a Siemens business and the global leader in enterprise low-code, is fundamentally reinventing the way applications are built in the digital enterprise.

The Mendix platform is built to promote intense collaboration between business and IT teams and dramatically accelerate application development cycles, while maintaining the highest standards of security, quality, and governance — in short, to help enterprises confidently leap into their digital futures.

We are steadfast in our belief that everyone, anywhere should have the ability to build world-class software. Our platform uses visual models and collaboration tools — opening the software development process to people with a wide variety of technical skills.

Udacity changes lives, businesses, and nations through radical talent transformation in digital technologies. Udacity's global, online talent transformation platform focuses on in-demand digital technologies, mentor support, and project-based learning taught by industry experts. Programs include real world content for job-ready competencies in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, autonomous systems, cloud computing, among other disciplines. Udacity has more than 100 enterprise customers including Airbus, Bertelsmann, BNP Paribas, Leidos, Mazda, and the United States Air Force. Udacity collaborates with more than 200 global industry partners including Google, Facebook, Mercedes-Benz, and NVIDIA to power technical education. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the private company has operations in the United Kingdom, Egypt, Germany, India, and the United Arab Emirates. Udacity has raised $163 million in funding to date from investors including Bertelsmann, Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, and Drive Capital. For more information, please visit www.udacity.com

SER is a leader and pioneer of the enterprise content management (ECM) and content services market. SER’s AI-powered Doxis Intelligent Content Automation platform and its solution suites for business-critical processes automate content understanding across enterprise ecosystems. Acclaimed by market analysts, SER’s cutting-edge solutions make daily work easier for more than five million users. With over 35 years of experience, SER’s dedicated team works from 22 locations around the globe. Find us at www.sergroup.com.

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. It helps organizations standardize across environments, develop cloud-native applications, and integrate, automate, secure, and manage complex environments with award-winning support, training, and consulting services.

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Nintex is the global standard for process management and automation. Over 800 customers in the Middle East and more than 10,000 public and private sector organisations across 90 countries turn to the Nintex platform to accelerate their digital transformation journeys and quickly and easily manage, automate, and optimize business processes. Nintex and its global partners are shaping the future of intelligent process automation.

Trellix emerges from the previously announced merger of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye in October 2021. Trellix is a global company redefining the future of cybersecurity. The company’s open and native extended detection and response (XDR) platform helps organizations confronted by today’s most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Trellix’s security experts, along with an extensive partner ecosystem, accelerate technology innovation through machine learning and automation to empower over 40,000 business and government customers. More at https://trellix.com.

Injazat is an industry-recognized market leader in digital transformation, cloud, and cybersecurity. Injazat empowers organizations to optimize their business goals by utilizing cloud and emerging technology solutions and co-creating transformational digital platforms and services through public-private partnerships. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Injazat draws on its local expertise and presence as well as its global technology partnership networks to develop market-leading services. Injazat’s purpose is to empower human achievement through end-to-end digital solutions that deliver impact and value to customers and communities.

https://www.injazat.com

SummitAI is an enterprise-class solution suite that delivers measurable business outcomes through digital transformation. SummitAI leverages the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics, and automation to take enterprises to greater levels of speed, responsiveness, and productivity. As a true multi-tenant solution, SummitAI is deployable in public cloud and on-premises environments, with enterprise-wide functions that go beyond IT to include human resources, shared services, facilities, and more. Through AI-driven knowledge intelligence, CIOs and service providers can simplify operations and reduce costs while factoring in on-demand scalability. SummitAI is your digital transformation partner to help unleash enterprise productivity.

Women in AI (WAI) is a non-profit do-tank working towards gender-inclusive AI that benefits global society. Our mission is to increase female representation and participation in AI through community, events, and education. Women in AI is bringing all minds together across 140 countries, making change happen with more than 8,000 members and changing the role of Women in AI with 160 volunteers (including country ambassadors and leadership teams). It is a vibrant community with more than 22,000 LinkedIn followers. WAI has several well-established programs running across the globe, including datathons, talks, startup acceleration programs, and innovation hubs. Its educational programs are for women of all ages and backgrounds, and are aimed at raising awareness and empowering women for action in the field of AI. The organization provides access to learning, practice, and a community for support, with certain certifications.

Emirates Digital Association for Women is a non-for-profit society under ministry of social affairs UAE that has been established to curate community opportunities and ecosystems for women primarily. It as well supports all forms of STEAM, technology drivers, and industry enabling projects, curating better opportunities for all sectors around the and in the community starting with kids to senior citizens.

Established in 2002, under the umbrella of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Dubai Business Women Council (DBWC) is the leading platform for the personal and professional development of business women in the Emirate of Dubai. Since its establishment, the Council has dedicated its efforts to enhancing gender parity in society and encouraging women to play an active role in building the country and stimulating sustainable development. Providing education, training, and networking opportunities to assist the holistic development and career aspirations of UAE-based business women is at the heart of the DBWC’s mission, as well as inspiring and encouraging women to play their role in society and the economy. The DBWC’s tailored workshops and seminars are hosted exclusively for its members and provide valuable information about the latest knowledge, skills, and best practices for women entrepreneurs and leaders. For more information about the DBWC and how to join its community of visionary and influential trailblazing women and benefit from its services and initiatives, visit www.dbwc.ae.

Established in 1982, the UAE Banks Federation (UBF) is a professional representative body comprised of 51 members. The federation's mission and objectives are focused on representing its members and defending their rights. It provides a platform for cooperation and exchange of ideas and opinions among its members and plays a major role in raising public awareness about the distinctive financial, economic, and social contributions of UBF members to the UAE.

Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) is one of the leading multimedia and creative services companies in the Middle East, and the largest media organization in the UAE. The DMI portfolio includes three distinct sectors: TV and Radio, Publishing, and Print and Distribution. DMI is also home to the Awaan digital platform, the largest digital media library for local and Arab media in the Middle East, providing Arab audiences with a unique experience to enjoy free viewing of TV content.

GCC Business News (GBN) first appeared on the digital landscape in May 2008 before being acquired by Consultfull in February 2015. Today, GBN is a top-tier business news portal that serves entrepreneurs and traders both within and outside the GCC region. With a focus on fact-based reporting, GBN strives to be a reliable source of business news from the GCC and worldwide markets.

https://www.gccbusinessnews.com/

Founded in 1994, Marhaba produces Qatar's premier information guide that has sections on everything you need to know about the country. Marhaba also produces the ever-popular Pocket Map – a must for navigating your way around town – and Qatar Image, a souvenir coffee-table book. All products are readily available for purchase in stores or can be customized to each client’s requirements.

Media 7 is a global digital media network of publications. Its audience of decision makers and influencers totals more than 95 million across 120+ countries globally, and its 30+ brands have been inspiring, informing, and intriguing millions of people for years. Businesses use Media 7's brands to be seen and heard in their markets by prospective buyers and to engage them through highly targeted content, based on a deep understanding of these audiences. Brands, agencies, and platforms rely on Media 7 for audience engagement at scale, while marketers from large enterprises to SMBs turn to the company for their marketing, advertising, and lead-generation programs.

CIO attracts the highest concentration of enterprise CIOs and business technology executives in the Middle East with unparalleled peer insight and expertise on business strategy, innovation, and leadership. CIO readers gain key insights on career development for themselves and their employees, including certifications, hiring practices, and skills development, along with a strong foundation in digital transformation of their businesses.