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Dubai Municipality selects Nexthink as its
artificial intelligence partner
With several projects in the pipeline, Dubai Municipality has chosen Nexthink’s advanced IT analytics
solution as one of the sources to gather data and provide insights.
Dubai Municipality announced that it has
selected Nexthink as one of its key partners
to achieve the national strategy and assist
their ongoing efforts to adopt artificial
intelligence. With several ambitious projects
in the pipeline, Dubai Municipality has
chosen Nexthink’s advanced IT analytics
solution as one of the data sources to
gather the voluminous data it generates
and provide meaningful insights; enabling
it to strengthen security compliance,
make better business decisions, boost
productivity and enhance service delivery.
“The strategic vision of His Highness to
set a UAE Strategy for Artificial Intelligence is
a move in the right direction to transform the
country into a global leader in innovation,”
said Ahmad Al Emadi, Chief Information
Security Officer, Dubai Municipality.
Ahmed Yehia Seleem, Regional Manager,
Nexthink said, “Satisfied employees are
more productive and can help enhance
organisations efficiency – this can be
achieved by improving the IT services
provided to employees and assist Dubai
Municipality achieve its objectives.
Only 29% IT decision makers planning network
segmentation in 2018, Fortinet global survey
Fortinet has revealed additional findings
from its Global Enterprise Security
Survey. According to the research, 63%
of IT decision makers at 250+ employee
organisations around the world are
confident in their cybersecurity posture.
Respondents reveal that 24% of
breaches experienced in the last two years
were the result of social engineering,
ransomware and email phishing. In
2018, 74% of businesses are planning
programmes to educate employees in IT
security, reflecting a growing awareness
that breaches are caused by carelessness
and ignorance as much as maliciousness.
Another top concern for organisations
is protecting access to the network. 38%
12
of ITDMs feel confident that they have
full visibility and control of all devices
with network access. 42% of ITDMs
feel confident they have full visibility of
the access level of all third parties who
frequently have access to networks and
48% of ITDMs feel confident that they have
full visibility and control of all employees.
This lack of confidence in the network
visibility suggests that this is an area
that should be treated as a top concern
for organisations. Yet, basic security
measures like network segmentation are
only being planned by 29% of businesses
in 2018. Without network segmentation,
malware entering a network will often be
left to spread.
Al Hilal Bank
implements SunTec’s
Xelerate for VAT to
ensure compliance
Amit Dua, President and Global Head, Client
Facing Groups at SunTec.
SunTec, which enables global financial
services organisations to increase
the lifetime value of their customer
relationships through effective revenue
management and customer experience
orchestration, announced its partnership
with Al Hilal Bank, a progressive Islamic
bank headquartered in Abu Dhabi. Through
this partnership, SunTec will facilitate in
analysing transactions flowing through the
bank’s systems, computing taxes under the
new mandate and invoicing of the newly
introduced Value Added Tax for the bank.
SunTec’s Xelerate for VAT, in its current
form, has been specifically developed for
the GCC to cater to their newly added
complexity of taxes. It is uniquely designed
to be an over-the-top solution which can
easily integrate with the core systems of Al
Hilal Banks existing IT landscape. This out-
of-the-box solution can be configured and
will enable banks and financial institutions
become VAT ready in a matter of weeks.
Commenting on the partnership, Amit
Dua, President and Global Head, Client
Facing Groups at SunTec said, “The new
VAT regulation is an unknown in the GCC
countries and we are proud to be the
partner of choice for Al Hilal Bank in their
journey towards compliance. Xelerate
for VAT has been designed specifically to
ensure that our clients find it convenient to
become VAT compliant with least amount of
interference to their existing infrastructure
and carry on with business as usual.
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