Business & Money | Tuesday 17 November, 2015 3:47 am |

Headquartered in Dubai, STME the Middle East’s leading IT solutions provider and systems integrator (SI) which has nine offices spread across the region, is experiencing vigorous growth in the Saudi Arabia market. 

 

Having entered the Saudi Arabia market 25 years ago by setting up their first office in Riyadh, STME has expanded to Al Khobar and Jeddah, to be able to provide their products and services at a higher level and in a prompt way. “Our growth in Saudi Arabia is due to a combination of our strengths, which include three decades of experience in the Middle East region and our good reliable partner products,” said CEO Ayman Al Bayaa while speaking on STME’s phenomenal growth in Saudi Arabia. Some of the biggest partners of STME in Saudi Arabia are NetApp, HDS, Symantec, Veritas, Quantum, VMware, Oracle, and IBM, along with many other critical ones.

 

Despite low oil prices, economic development in Saudi Arabia is following an upward trend owing to the government’s robust economic diversification plans and healthy macro-economic indicators. As more small and medium businesses (SME’s) enter the market, the requirement for IT services increases. As a result, the IT services and software sales sector in Saudi Arabia is witnessing a boom in growth. Simultaneously, STME’s client base has grown to reach over 300 clients from a variety of industries such as, Public Sector, Banking, Telecom, Oil and Gas, and General Business. Mr. Ayman credited STME’s “Focused team of professional and experienced service consultants in delivering our solution portfolios,’’ as an impetus for the company’s growth in Saudi Arabia.

 

Speaking of future plans in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Ayman said the company aims to “Be a key player in the End-to-End Data Centre and Cloud Services provider sector.’’ This strategy is well-informed as there is a tendency for business organizations, regardless of size and scope to seek agile cloud-based services. Some of  STME’s more prominent clients are: GOSI, General Commission for Survey (GCS), Saudi Geological Survey (SGS), Public Pension Authority (PPA), Ministry of Justice, Boarder Guards, National Information Centre (NIC), SAMBA, BSF, AL Jazirah Ford, Saudi Airlines, AL Nahdi Pharmacies, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST),  and SABIC.