According to the two companies, the new relationship will strengthen Comtrust’s market penetration and enrich ESKADENIA’s range of products and services.

“The success of our CSP programme can be directly attributed to the class of partners it attracts. ESKADENIA joins a growing family of regional best-of-breed e-business solution providers. It now has access to cutting-edge technologies, specialist industry insight across a range of sectors, an e-business knowledge base second to none with locally focused know-how,” said Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, General Manager, Comtrust.

Comtrust’s complete e-business range comprising an array of solutions within the spheres of e-Hosting, e-Payment, e-Security and e-Retailing will be now available through ESKADENIA, enhancing the company’s own portfolio of software solutions.

“Joining the CSP programme delivers immediate benefits to our customers through our ability to augment our own offering with Comtrust’s. The value added is significant since we are now able to offer regionally based world-class hosting solutions, e-Payment services and authentication solutions in hand with our ESKADENIA internet solutions, products, services and offerings” said Mr. Nael Salah, Managing Director of ESKADENIA. “It also gives us the opportunity to offer our range of software in an ASP model, reducing customers’ total cost of ownership, removing the headache of application management but still delivering all the functionality and reliability the market has come to expect form ESKADENIA.” Added Mr. Salah.

The Amman-headquartered company designs, develops and deploys a number of software solutions, geared towards the public and enterprise sectors, including specialist industry applications for telecommunications, ERP and insurance. The company has developed its own billing and Internet-focused applications, and offers a variety of wireless applications.

The company played an integral part in the e-enabling of several Jordanian public sectors as the Amman Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

The addition of ESKADENIA sees the number of companies participating in the CSP programme at 11, covering the UAE, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Pakistan.

According to Comtrust, the CSP programme plays an integral role in the company’s regional expansion plans. It has been designed to bring together the region’s leading providers of e-business solutions into a collaborative effort to drive regional e-commerce.

About Comtrust

Comtrust, the e-solutions business unit of Etisalat – Emirates Telecommunications Corporation – the national telecom of the United Arab Emirates, was launched in 2000 to bridge the gap in the market for a secure e-business solutions provider. Recognizing the potential and global implications of e-business, Comtrust has invested in state-of-the-art infrastructure and a highly skilled technological and managerial taskforce. Comtrust is the only comprehensive e-business infrastructure provider in the Middle East region, providing a one-stop-shop for all e-business services, infrastructure and strategies.

Comtrust offers e-business solutions in the Business-to-Business, Business-to-Consumer and e-Government areas. The suite of services include secure online payments, dedicated e-Hosting, managed security solutions, digital certificate based security solutions, e-Retailing solutions, managed security services and e-Consulting services.

Comtrust also provides 24x7 professional support for all the mission-critical services. Comtrust addresses the requirements of security for e-business transactions through a variety of mediums and mechanisms. These solutions are based on providing the key elements for a robust e-business solution; viz. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for security, dedicated e-Hosting for mission critical applications and Internet based e-payments transactions processing.

About ESKADENIA

ESKADENIA Software Solutions is active in the design, development and deployment of a range of software products in the Telecommunications, Enterprise and Internet Applications areas. The company is based in Jordan and has offices in the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. ESKADENIA is a product and market-oriented organisation with an entrepreneurial culture. More than 70% of its sales are being exported to the Global IT market.

For more information, please contact Mr. Salah Isawi at:UAEPR_Communications@eskadenia.com, or visit our site, www.eskadenia.com