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AVEVA and Aramco to partner to realise key sustainability goals through digitalisation
announced their intention to form a strategic alliance . Focused on driving sustainability in the region through Digital Transformation , the partnership will help enable AVEVA to establish their largest digital hub , with an R & D capability , in the Middle East , headquartered in Saudi Arabia . The partnership will represent a significant investment for AVEVA which is also looking to create up to 300 high skill new jobs in the Kingdom by 2030 . facilitate Saudi Arabia ’ s path to realising the benefits of a digital economy .”
Peter Herweck , CEO , AVEVA , said : “ AVEVA is proud to be working with Aramco towards an agreement to facilitate its Digital Transformation journey . Through this partnership the vision of our companies is to play a fundamental role in industrial sector decarbonisation within Saudi Arabia .”
Peter Herweck , CEO , AVEVA
Aramco , one of the world ’ s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies and AVEVA , a global provider of industrial software , driving Digital Transformation and sustainability , have
Ahmad Al-Sa ’ adi , Senior Vice President , Technical Services , Aramco , said : “ One of the key pillars for realising the Kingdom ’ s Vision 2030 is Digital Transformation . Digital technologies have the potential to accelerate the transformation of the industrial sector and drive it towards more efficient and sustainable operations . The regional hub that would be established by AVEVA would contribute to Aramco ’ s ‘ In Kingdom Total Value Add ’ ( IKTVA ) programme goals and will
Higher data growth rate generated in KSA , UAE and Egypt in 2020 due to pandemic
More data was produced in Saudi Arabia ,
UAE and Egypt in 2020 after businesses shifted to a remote work system due to the pandemic , a new survey commissioned by Kingston Technology showed .
Based on the results of the survey conducted by ResearchOne Marketing Consultancy , 75 % of the respondents , who comprised IT specialists , affirmed that their organisations had shifted to a work-from-home ( WFH ) set-up last year to help stem the spread of COVID-19 .
Around 67 % of the interviewees agreed that , as a result of the WFH adoption , the data growth rate witnessed by their companies was faster in 2020 compared to the previous years . They credited the uptick to the increase in email storage during lockdowns .
The data spikes resulted in the need for more efficient and sustainable online storage systems and data centre facilities . To increase
efficiency and , in the long run , reduce the ecological footprint , bringing down the energy costs has become one of the priorities of many businesses today – thus leading them to speed up their cloud migration efforts .
About 50 % of companies in Saudi Arabia had begun migrating some of their processes to the cloud during the period , while 25 % in both the UAE and Egypt had taken a similar route .
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