Techies from 20 nations attend data processing meet Saturday, 11 December 2010 02:27

DOHA: Business solutions based on Microsoft’s SharePoint technological advances in dealing with data processing have become more clearer for some 400 technology professionals and experts from across 20 countries who attended the Middle East SharePoint Conference on December 5-6 at Sheraton Doha Hotel.

Mohammed Hammoudi, Country Manager of Microsoft Qatar, said hosting the event in Qatar came at an opportune time as public and private sector institutions across the region are choosing SharePoint as their platform of choice to run their internal business and processes.

Microsoft SharePoint is built as a business collaboration platform to allow people to interact with each other, with content, and with both internal and external data to increase their productivity. As a result, SharePoint helps companies deal with the ever-growing and ever-changing business landscape.

Eric Swift, General Manager, Product Management of SharePoint, said Microsoft invested $1.3bn business to deliver the best productivity experience by letting people work together in ways that are most effective for them. The experience with SharePoint and the significant benefits was also a subject of discussion with customers like Qatar Foundation and Abu Dhabi Judicial Department who were represented at the conference. A CIO roundtable was also conducted with leading educational institutions from Qatar on how SharePoint helps improve education particularly in the fields of database and information management and control, research and social media.

Khalid Sarwar Warraich, CIO of Texas A&M University at Qatar, said SharePoint represents a great solution to help academic organisations use the powerful tools available to support the collaborative, mobile, and virtualised work styles that can help their staff and students work together and stay productive anywhere.

The Middle East SharePoint Conference 2010 showcased many examples of real world deployments and scenarios in sessions delivered by the most experienced SharePoint experts in the industry. The conference was a great learning opportunity to enable organisations in the region to be more efficient, have quicker access to data and learn from best practices around the world on how other enterprises have implemented world class productivity platforms and consolidated costs.

The SharePoint conference was also a meeting ground for a wide ecosystem of partners who are deploying, customising and building solutions on top of SharePoint. The number of partners is also increasing across the region as more partners recognize the value of SharePoint and its ease of deployment.

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