Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 44 | Page 10

NEWS KSA organisation honoured at Epicor MENA Customer Summit Epicor also used the summit to honour customers from the region that have leveraged its ERP offerings to harness such data mountains. The 2019 Epicor Customer Excellence Award winners in the MENA regional programme included: L–R: HE Mohamed Hassan Al Noman of Sharjah; David Mehok CFO at Epicor; Andy Coussins, Senior Vice President and Head of Epicor International; His Excellency Ali Bin Mohammed AlMuwaijei, Head of Audit and Governance at Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA). E picor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software to promote business growth, has hosted its annual MENA Customer Summit, which concentrated on how the cloud can enable enterprises to reinvent themselves amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The event, held at the One & Only Royal Mirage, Dubai, provided regional businesses with the opportunity to network with Epicor customers from across the manufacturing, distribution and hospitality industries. Epicor experts also shared key insights, trends and updates, focusing on the Epicor ERP and Epicor iScala solutions. Vinnell Arabia, from Saudi Arabia, was recognised for demonstrating measurable business benefits with Epicor Cloud ERP and won the cloud deployment category. “We are dedicated to providing solutions that meet the unique challenges of the markets we serve,” said Andy Coussins, Senior Vice President and Head of Epicor International. “Our industry-specific expertise drives everything we do and allows us to laser-focus our product development. This ensures that as our customers embrace Digital Transformation, they have verticalised best practice at the heart of their business.” ////////////////// STC & Philips to unlock telehealth’s potential to transform care in KSA R oyal Philips, a global leader in health technology, is partnering with STC to roll out telehealth solutions powered by AI in a move that could transform the ability to diagnose and treat patients in remote and rural areas. The telehealth solutions provided by Philips allow hospitals and clinics anywhere in the country to be connected to command centres, through which doctors in other locations can treat patients remotely, providing better access to higher quality and more cost-effective care. Eng Riyadh Muawadh, Enterprise Senior VP at Saudi Telecom Co, said: “We know that limited access to adequate ICT infrastructure is the biggest technological barrier to realising telehealth solutions for disadvantaged and underserved communities. We have invested in our state- of-the-art ICT infrastructure to help support the Kingdom’s Vision 2030, which has Digital Transformation at its heart. “Spanning all corners of the country, our network is a key piece of the jigsaw puzzle in providing better access, higher quality and more cost effective care to all residents of the Kingdom and helping healthcare professionals in all locations feel confident and empowered in their day to day working lives.” The combination of AI and the data processing power of STC’s full range of cloud computing services means high volumes of patient data can be analysed to rapidly and accurately diagnose and treat patients, identify patterns and make real-time decisions. 10 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com