GEC NEWS WIREWith 27 years of experience in integrated technology solutions, Gulf Business Machines brings strong understandings of local needs, coupled with access to international expertise and technologies and solutions from the industry global partners. Iyad Chammat, Country General Manager of Oman shares how GBM managed to survive the year 2017 when Oman market went through number of challenges.
Please tell me about the key projects of GBM in Oman.
Oman continues to be an important market for Gulf Business Machines (GBM). Drawing on a twenty-seven year of experience in integrated technology solutions, GBM brings strong understanding of local needs, coupled with access to international expertise and technologies and solutions from industry leading global partners. We are committed to provide the best IT solutions that support economic growth at a national level and we are running diverse key projects in infrastructure, software related, big data which need to be complimented with security solutions.
How has the market responded to GBM’s solution in 2017 and how promising the 2018 market looks like?
During 2017, Oman market was tough as it was
going through number of challenges influenced by fall of oil prices and the shrinkage in Government spending. These elements definitely have direct impact on any large business in
the country. However, since we have nurtured partnerships with the world’s leading technology companies and invested in a talented, skilled workforce, GBM managed to survive the situation by offering innovative solutions that reflects deep understanding of customers and their requirements and effective integration with their business growth objectives.
What are the high growth areas in Oman that GBM has been cashing upon?
Infrastructure, software related, big data and security solutions
Which vertical has been the highest adopter of digitization?
Since government is reducing spending, for 2017 organizations from the banking sector and the services sector were more spenders in term of digitization.
What would be GBM’s go-to-market strategy in Oman for 2018? What kind of new partnerships can customers look forward to?
The Fund forecasts that Oman’s economic growth would bounce back to 3.8 per cent in 2018 and revenue is projected to increase. Therefore, we have plans to invest in resources which can address customer requirements. We are also considering outsourcing some of the managed services. We will also focus on security and digitization which are gaining more importance and value in the market. There is a national strategy to focus on non-oil sectors including manufacturing, transport and logistics, tourism, fisheries and mining so the momentum is there and we need to map our business growth with national agenda.
