CONTENTS
ISSUE 14
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News
Latest regional news roundup from across the Middle East
Latest Intelligence
The Fog Rolls In: Network Architectures for IoT and Edge Computing
Trending
WLAN market sees strong global growth in Q3 2016
Country Focus
Implementations within Kuwait, with particular focus on the energy sector
Tech Talk
Cloudera talks about leveraging big data processing
Get to Know...
The lighter side of things, we ask the industry-experts what makes them tick …
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4 steps to accelerate mobile collaboration
With team members across different remote locations, unified communications solutions are a necessity
EDITOR’ S NOTE
Plans in motion...
What a year it has been. Undoubtedly the‘ talk of the town’ for the past 12 months has been security- never before has a single ICT issue taken so much time, effort and headlines across the industry. 2017 will prove no different. for growth; manufacturing is fast becoming a major player for growth in the region, and with this there is a need to both streamline operations for efficient business growth, but also to employ protection for these digital systems.
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At this juncture, it is a simple case of playing catch-up- cyber criminals and cyber crime is manoeuvering and evolving at a faster rate than most ICT security vendors would care to admit.
As such, we have dedicated a thorough section with 2016’ s last issue, looking at tech trends for the year ahead, with particular focus on security and where you need to concentrate both your attention and your budgets.
For this month’ s Cover Story, Charles Jesudason, Group General Manager, Zaker Trading, talks to Intelligent CIO about the UAE’ s industrial supplier implementing Epicor ERP as platform
If you’ re part of a growing company, then acceleration can be exciting: new customers, new projects and a brighter future. The downside is that growth often brings complexity- our talking business section this month discusses three ways to automate work on-the-go.
Another issue for consideration in 2017; with an increasing number of employees working with team members across different remote locations, mobile unified communications and collaboration( UCC) solutions are a necessity. We map out four steps to accelerate mobile collaboration for SMBs.
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