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Avaya opens customer
experience centre in KSA
OPPO launches
in KSA with
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PPO has announced its official launch
in KSA during a high-profile event held
in Riyadh. Company executives showcased
OPPO’s technological vision and shared their
commitment to innovating with partners in
the Kingdom. The event was held under the
concept of ‘Seize the Night’ and included
a combination of interactive fashion and
technology exhibitions.
Avaya KSA has
opened a customer
experience centre
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vaya Holdings Corp is celebrating
the launch of its new office space
at the Information Technology and
Communications Complex (ITCC), a
commercial and housing development
that serves as the epicentre of the Riyadh
technology community.
In what comes as a significant
investment in the regional technology
ecosystem, the office at ITCC features the
first Avaya customer experience centre to
be opened in KSA.
The centre will serve as a design and
test bed for world-class solutions to local
business challenges.
Open to Avaya customers, channel
partners, academics and others, the
space features cutting-edge facilities in
which local innovators can work to create
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technological answers to some of the
country’s most pressing challenges.
It will enable Avaya’s partners and
customers to design solutions embedding
advanced technologies such as AI and
Blockchain into their contact centre and
unified communications platforms.
In line with the Saudi Vision 2030, Avaya
expects this centre to contribute greatly to
the country’s Digital Transformation drive.
The new facility also represents Avaya’s
widening commitment to the Middle
East in general and KSA in particular.
The company hires fresh graduates from
Saudi universities, and invests heavily
into its local channel partner ecosystem,
which serves a contact centre industry
responsible for the creation of tens of
thousands of jobs.
OPPO entered the global smartphone market
in 2011 and has since become one of the
world’s most popular smartphone brands –
particularly among young people – with over
200 million consumers around the world
using OPPO smartphones.
In less than a decade, the company has
pioneered several industry firsts in mobile
photography and technology.
Andy Shi, President of OPPO Middle East and
Africa, said: “Our journey has now brought us
to KSA, and we are incredibly excited by the
opportunities in the Kingdom.
“It is a country with a thriving young
population, a diversifying economy, and one
in which consumers have clearly embraced
creative technologies.
“We are confident that OPPO will bring a
new dynamic to the Kingdom’s consumer
electronics space.”
The launch coincided with the release of
its hero smartphone series, the OPPO R
Series, and the availability of its two latest
R Series smartphones the OPPO R17 and
the OPPO R17 Pro.
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