INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Oman Data Park launches
Professional Services as a
Service (PSaaS)
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O
man Data Park (ODP), the Sultanate’s
premier managed data centre
services and cloud services provider,
has announced its newest service offering
Professional-Services-as-a-Service (PSaaS).
Responding to a growing market need to
support various businesses in their quest
to modernise and improve their own ICT
services, this new service from ODP is a
significant addition to Oman’s IT savvy
market, bringing with it a host of certified
expertise and experience.
Supported by a highly qualified team of
experts who have been actively engaged
in managing and rolling out the award-
winning services of ODP that are currently
offered to their customers, this new service
is aimed at helping and guiding customers
through their Digital Transformation
in preparation for the Fourth Industrial
Revolution and Gig Economy.
Maqbool Al Wahibi, CEO of Oman Data Park,
said: “Having begun our operations in 2012,
ODP has accumulated a host of expertise
both in the lines of top-notch certifications
and the local know-how in managing the
various ICT challenges that are associated in
this fast paced technologically driven world.
“We understand that businesses of today
have enough challenges focused on their
growth and we would like to address their
ICT challenges through our PSaaS offering
so that the businesses can focus on their
core services.”
He further commented that: “Keeping a track
of updating an on-premise business solution,
be it ERP, network or storage needs expert
advice but that is not always at hand. We
will simplify this challenge with our certified
experts who are qualified to consult and
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project manage a host of such business
solutions and they will walk with you through
your ICT transformation journey and ensure
that you are served with a cost-effective
and agile solution that only ODP experts are
capable of providing.
“Our teams have been doing similar exercises
for the past seven years to keep ODP services
up to date, and what we are doing now is
to share that knowledge so that you, the
customer, can also benefit from it as well.”
Supported and certified by a host of
industry leading service providers such
as VMware, Microsoft, Cisco, F5, Fortinet,
Arbdor, Wedge Networks, Oracle, Veeam,
Dell EMC, IBM Storage and SAP B1, this
new service is aimed at helping customers
with their advancement of software
technology, network and network security,
cloud migration, disaster recovery and
business continuity, storage, data protection,
applications and ERP solutions.
“We want to be the digital enabler for
businesses in Oman and we plan to achieve
this by not only offering our core services
based on managed and cloud platforms but
also offering our expertise as a professional
service to customers, where we enable their
on-premise technology to progress to the
next level,” said Hassan Ali, General Manager
– Service Delivery at ODP.
He further added that: “If a company
wanted to upgrade their software, hardware,
networking or application technology,
our PSaaS offering can cover ICT process
bounded with system integrator functions
at one stop. For example, to assist with the
designing of solutions, project managing the
entire exercise from the initial consultation
meeting to implementation. The same
can be said for disaster recovery, business
continuity and storage where our PSaaS
can enable a smooth workflow based on
customer objectives and resulting in a timely
implementation with SLAs.”
The addition of this new Professional
Services-as-a-Service (PSaaS) serves as
a testament to ODP’s expertise in the
managed services and cloud arena. n
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