Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 24 | Page 30

CASE STUDY Major Ahmed Hussain Ahmed, project lead for the force’s Artificial Intelligence department user with a really easy and powerful system to integrate many other business applications to a single pane of glass and a friendly and powerful user interface for both the IT team administration and also the customers/ end-users. “Dubai Police will be front ending the platform with their own application to allow easy use and adoption and power for their internal customers. At the backend the power of the platform underpins all the processes, workflows and services that they deliver in one easy, simple transparent place.” An initial investigation of around nine months took place. “We went through a rigorous selection process where the platform’s unique benefits came to the fore,” said Yates. “Then from the implementation side it took about 70 work days and that was over a period of six or seven months because there are many enhancements we made to the platform because it is flexible and also there was a lot of testing to make sure the services we delivered were good. “It is the only platform that has vendor written Arabic native in the system 30 INTELLIGENTCIO Glyn Yates, regional director for Axios Systems for the Middle East, presents Dubai Police with an Innovation Award for Service Management which is really important for this region so you can create a ticket in English or Arabic and someone can respond in English or Arabic whatever language they want and that is really important for this market. services which are supplied to internal customers through the Axios system. Why did you choose Axios? Intelligent CIO spoke to Major Ahmed Hussain Ahmed, project lead for the force’s Artificial Intelligence department, about the system’s benefits. We carried out a case study of the systems currently available in the market. Axios covered most of our requirements for the system, plus it gives us all of the requirements for the ITSM standard. Can you describe the system and what it does for Dubai Police? What benefits will the system bring to Dubai Police? The ITSM system, which was taken from Axios, will take care of all the IT requirements of Dubai Police. We started at the beginning with the helpdesk part and expanded it to all the It will increase the happiness of the customer. The time frame for the services to be done will be reduced. It will make the jobs much easier for the customers. “The assyst platform has Arabic language native in the platform, allows comprehensive integration with other systems and as an enterprise product will support Dubai Police’s further development.” www.intelligentcio.com