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The last two years for businesses across the region have been anything but a time for innovation for CIOs. Marked by extensive budget cuts and extreme focus on operational tightness, businesses have been rushing to get their house in order. But this does not mean that innovation has to continue to fall through the cracks, thanks to the emergence of operations frameworks that help IT leverage best practices to manage they services they better. So what do these blue prints really mean for businesses? “Let’s look at it this way – enterprises today are dynamic and continuously require to modify processes for doing business profitably. In my view, these blue prints including process frameworks, enterprise roadmaps and operations architectures represent the possibilities for an organisation’s competitive advantage,” says Faisal Qayum Siddiqui, Director for Global Product and Strategy at TEXPO.

The reason why we talk about corporate strategy being the key driver is due to the fact that today’s organisations are driven to ensure sustainability and IT often finds itself in the driving seat. Let’s understand why.

Although a first for the UAE, the ground satellite control station built by Astrium for Yahsat’s satellites Y1A and Y1B stands as a unique showcase for a communications network controlled completely by IT and networking systems. Built using modular and commercially available equipment, this project is a clear demonstration of easily renewable and replaceable solutions can help build a more sustainable operation. TEXPO was an integral part of this build out as the exclusive solution and IT services partner for Astrium.

The days of owning a giant data centre that you hope to grow into are over. Today’s data centre decisions pivot around managing energy efficiency and building in modularity that helps keep investments in pace with growth. Good data centre planning gives the organisation a clear path for growth and TEXPO has been showing customers how they can achieve that. In this exclusive interview with TEXPO’s CEO Dr. Sarfaraz Alam, we talk about the key trends shaping the future of the data centre.

The days of the long drawn iterative software development process are a thing of the past, thanks to the significant shift towards packaged solutions. Interestingly enough, this trend is now dovetailing custom development of solutions built on top of leading industry platforms and packaged solutions to help serve the unique needs of fast growing organisations. The software application development practice today is about delivering agility at customer speed. TEXPO’s Software Development Division understands this as it builds force by leveraging cutting edge platforms from Microsoft to develop a go-to-market strategy for its in-house solutions built under its Al Sharyan brand.