ASSIMA announces Naizak as its official partner in Saudi Arabia and their first joint project:SATORP

Dec. 17, 2009 - PRLog -- PARIS, France - Assima, a leading global software provider, today announced its partnership with Naizak Global Engineering Systems, a subsidiary of Al Abdulkarim Group. Together they have signed a new client:  SATORP. The combination of Naizak’s recognised expertise in resource planning and management solutions, and Assima’s innovative software, will increase customers’ capacity to manage change and optimise their IT systems deployment through high end user adoption and efficiency.

Assima has already developed successful business in UAE with the largest banking group and the second largest telecoms group in the Middle East, as well as with one of the top 10 oil producers in the world.  It is now moving onto the attractive Saudi Arabian market which boasts 4 of the top 5 companies in the Gulf.  The Kingdom has a strong pro-business approach, as well as one of the most stable currencies in the world.  Investment in the future is one of their main priorities; there has been a recent surge in public spending that is forecast to last with 26% of government budget allocated to education and investments in ICT expected to be nearing £38 billion over the next 20 years.

For Saudi Arabian companies competing at a global level, optimising the efficiency of their employees on the Information Systems they invest in, is going to be one of the keys to their success.  The partnership between Assima and Naizak now offers these companies a comprehensive solution in the form of highly interactive simulations and quality virtualised sandboxes.

Assima and Naizak are pleased to announce the signing of their first client SATORP, a joint-venture planned to be the first full-conversion refinery and the second biggest refinery in the area (from the DJOUBAIL project: 12 billion USD) between TOTAL (the worlds 4th largest oil and gas company) and ARAMCO (1st largest oil corporation in the world) to accompany their SAP rollout.

“Naizak in continuing providing a world class services to our local IT market, just added Assima to its portfolio. Assima will bring to our clients a unique suit of solutions in the area of end-user training for any application in any language. We believe that Naizak and Assima can provide the very much needed solutions to our respective clients that include Saudi Aramco, Sabic, Saudi Electric, SATROP, and many others. With the current economic crises, our services would add great value to our clients with much affordable cost.
Naizak looks forward for great collaboration with Assima and generate good revenue during the remaining of 2009 and years to come.” Said Sheikh Khalid Al Abdulkarim, President of Al Abdulkarim Holding.


“ASSIMA’S partnership with NAIZAK will provide an optimal combination of expertise to the Saudi Arabian market.  Companies will now have access to solutions that ensure higher end user acceptance and maximum return on their IS investments thanks to our tools ATS: Accelerating System Deployments, APS: Guide Employees To Greater Performance, ACMS:  Technology & Consulting For Change, and AMS- Dynamic Multilingual Interfaces.” said Mr. Michel Balcaen, chairman of ASSIMA Ltd.

ABOUT ASSIMA

Assima (Euronext ALSIM), a fast-growing Anglo-Saxon software company, develops and commercializes software solutions allowing improved users adaptation and efficiency among strategic information system within the Global Fortune 500. Over 100 large accounts in the world have already experienced the success of Assima solutions.

For more information, visit www.assima.net


ABOUT NAIZAK

Naizak Global Engineering Systems, a subsidiary of Al Abdulkarim Group, is an IT solutions integrator that caters to the specific uptime and robustness requirements of industry clients throughout the Middle East. Naizak is a customer driven, local services organization, with a deliberate policy of heavy investment in staff of a very high caliber and specialization.

For more information, visit www.naizak.com