Global software company SAP announced at QITCOM 2017 yesterday plans to launch a private cloud data centre to accelerate Qatar’s $3bn digital transformation.
Showing the strong growth potential of digital transformation, Qatar’s commercial sector is set to increase its ICT spending by 50 percent from about $2bn in 2015 to about $3bn by 2019, says a recent report by the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
“Real-time information management is the foundation for Qatar’s organisations to drive Qatar National Vision 2030 digital transformation and economic competitiveness goals. Using cutting-edge cloud solutions, Qatar’s organisations can cut costs and drive efficiency, become more responsive to citizens and customers needs, and deliver innovative new business models,” said Gergi Abboud (pictured), Managing Director of the Gulf, North Africa, Pakistan, Levant for SAP.
When the new SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud data centre opens, organisations will be able to use the latest solutions running on the in-memory SAP HANA platform. “Qatar’s government, banking and finance, and oil and gas sectors will be among the biggest beneficiaries of the private cloud data centre,” said Edwin Kolen, Senior Vice President – Europe, Middle East, Africa of Cloud4C, the partner in Qatar.
