June, 2010 - eSense arabia recently held a one month training program for Banque Saudi Fransi (BSF) team, in order to help BSF project and management teams and enforce best practices and methodologies to enhance the quality and efficiency of their work.

eSense arabia provided comprehensive training for project managers, team members, executives and administrators on EPM's robust project management tools, to help BSF gain visibility, insight, and control over work, in addition to enhancing decision-making capabilities, improving alignment with business strategy, maximizing resource utilization, and increasing operational efficiency.

Moreover, the training focused on Team Foundation Server, through which BSF development team can share project plans, work products, and progress assessments easily and intuitively, in addition to VSTS client tools to help BSF enforce best practices and utilize optimization tools.  The training also covered SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), designed to support a wide variety of reporting needs, thus  enabling BSF team to deliver relevant information where needed across the entire enterprise.

"After a thorough evaluation and various feasibility studies, we were positive that  there was no match for eSense arabia in providing our team with the skills they need to utilize Microsoft's solutions and cutting edge tools to offer more advanced and well-rounded services to our customers," said Manager of Project management Office at BSF Najeeb Mohammad.

Rated among the world's top ten banks by total equity, Banque Saudi Fransi (BSF) is a Saudi Arabian Joint Stock Company; BSF provides comprehensive financial services and products in Saudi Arabia and other markets across the globe.

"It gives us great pleasure to pass on our expertise to an organization as established as Banque Saudi Fransi and help it reach its full potential. Being one of Microsoft's primary partners in the region, eSense has acquired a profound understanding of Microsoft's solutions and project management tools, doubled with an extensive experience implementing these solutions to large-scale organizations," said eSense arabia's  General Manager Samir Abu Ghosh.

Since the Launch of its regional offices last year, eSense arabia, the company was able to penetrate the Saudi market and stand out as one of Microsoft's leading partners, not to mention the significant role it played in setting new standards in business software solutions on both the commercial and governmental level in the entire region.

Mar, 2010 - eSense recently celebrated its 10th Anniversary at Le Méridien Hotel in Amman by hosting an event for its employees.

The celebration was held on Saturday, March. 27 with the attendance of the company's CEO Samer Maslamani, and a number of departments’ heads.

Founded in 2001 by a group of IT professionals with extensive experience in developing top-notch solutions, eSense provides custom software development, ready-made products, and consultancy and outsourcing services, all being created with the concept of unsurpassed quality in mind.

With a strong backing of several first-grade partners, including Microsoft, Appian, Huron, Alliance and others, eSense has established itself as pioneer of high quality solutions that utilize the latest in software development, design, marketing and hardware integration to deliver quality customizable solutions. The company enjoys growing activity in the gulf region with branches in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and UAE, all of which are fully operational.

"On this occasion, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all our clients who place their trust in us every day; I would also like to thank our team members, who are the pillars upon which eSense rests and the reason for its continued success," commented Maslamani. "We are now standing at the threshold of a new era; during which we aim at penetrating new markets, enhancing our technical expertise and renewing our commitment to our clients, to render better services and solutions that meet the ever-changing needs of their businesses."

Over the past 10 year, eSense has garnered a reputation for bringing the latest technologies in business solutions to commercial and governmental clients, thus, contributing to the growth of the IT industry in the Arab region.

Mar, 2010 - eSense recently was chosen by the renowned Kuwaiti publication house Dar Al Seyassah, to design and develop the web portals of their two key newspapers,  Al Seyassah  and The Arab Times.

Published in Arabic, Al Seyassah is one of the foremost metropolitan newspapers in Kuwait, published daily to cover noteworthy local and regional news, with a prime focus on politics. The newspaper is ranked amongst the most read publications in the country, enjoying a reputation for uncompromising coverage and objective editorials. The Arab Times is Al Seyassah’s English counterpart, and has become one of Kuwait’s prime conduits to the English speaking community. eSense in association with their partner in Kuwait, Kuwait e-Commerce, has developed two portals that present the newspapers’ content in a manner that blends between ease-of-use, sleek design and superior content management capabilities. The new portals were part of a long-term strategy by Dar Al Seyassah aiming to better service the online segment of its readership by offering them the newspaper’s content in a professional and intuitive interface. This is why eSense’s team has integrated a comprehensive content management system, to allow Dar Al Seyassah’s staff to easily update and publish upcoming issues.

Commenting on the new collaboration, eSense’s Director of Business Development Zaher Al Farra said: “We are honored that an organization as established as Dar Al Seyassah chose eSense to handle such an important project. Since we have garnered an extensive experience building such portals, we made sure that the design and implementation meet Dar Al Seyassa’s standards and effectively bolster their online readership.

eSense recently took part in Microsoft's "IT in Government" seminar, which was held as part of Microsoft's Citizenship seminars kicked off in Riyadh, KSA.

Through its recently launched offices "eSense Arabia", eSense was chosen to represent its award-winning ceremonial, protocol and office management system solutions, evventa® , during the seminar. Titled "IT in Government: Highlighting Efficiency in Government Organizations", the seminar aimed at promoting the use of advanced IT solutions in the Saudi government and demonstrating how IT solutions can be utilized to benefit the local community and mange governmental work from A-Z.

evventa® is an interactive multi-arena Events and Protocol Management system built to facilitate the work of protocol teams that manage events for head of states, presidents, crown princes and princesses, prime ministers and international key figures. Moreover, evventa gives governmental organizations the ability to seamlessly manage their work structure, work guidelines and ceremonial rules, thus, better serving the community by providing timely access to needed information to make the right decisions at executive level and with the highest level of security.

Commenting on the participation, eSense Arabia's General Manager Mohannad Itayem said: "This event is a testament to the strong and an undeviating relationship that we enjoy with Microsoft. It brings us great honor that Microsoft chose eSense among its four leading partners in KSA, and we hope this partnership grows stronger for years to come."

In a rather challenging and competitive business environment, eSense Arabia was able, in only 4 months since its launching in November 2009, to penetrate the Saudi market and stand out as one Microsoft's leading partners. Moreover, Microsoft dedicated its next CSR program, which will be conducted during March, exclusively for eSense's solutions, to demonstrate the great benefits they have on community development and social reform.

eSense provides a wide array of IT-Based business solutions, including Fleet management, e-procurement, and e-correspondence that help clients achieve their technical and business goals, in addition to software development services which allow organizations to automate their services and enhance their operational efficiency by leveraging the latest state-of-the-art technologies.

eSense recently signed an agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of Jordan, under which eSense will implement its cutting–edge  evventa® - Office Scheduling and Management System, to help automate and organize the work of Protocol teams within the Ministry.

evventa® - Office scheduling and management system is an interactive, private office management solution built to facilitate the work of the private office of government officials and key international figures personnel by providing the right tools to organize daily operations – big and small – in an automated manner, while maintaining a high level of monitoring and security over the work team.

MoFA's protocol teams shoulder mammoth responsibilities in driving all events from concept to successful execution, while having all events’ participants treated as presidential and royal subjects. Moreover, Planning and organizing for protocol and ceremonial events is a major challenge; it requires a high-level of agility and flexibility to modify any set of protocols in response to constantly-changing variables and conditions in a timely manner.

eSense utilized its highly intuitive system, evventa® - Office to enable protocol teams at the Ministry to plan and manage a diverse spectrum of events and arrange for the needed logistics in a short period of time, thus allowing them to execute their events in a flawless and successful manner, while offering a collaborative secure environment to manage and host all needed information of events management such as: attendees, program plans, travels, gifts, and much more.

"We are greatly honored that an important governmental institution with a significant and critical role such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, chose eSense's innovative management and scheduling suite. We are positive that evventa® - Office will boost the effectiveness and efficiency of the Ministry's operations while maintaining the highest level of security," said eSense's CEO Samer Maslamani. "Throughout our experience working with high-end officials, we collaborated with their protocol teams to deliver first-class value to their events management through our specially designed "evventa® - Office", "evventa® - Protocol" and "evventa® - Corporate", thus taking their events to new levels of quality and excellence."

eSense recently announced the launching of its Saudi-based operation front, eSense Arabia in Riyadh.

Aimed to deepen eSense's knowledge of the Saudi market and form an undeviating relationship with their current and potential clients, the new offices will oversee the company's activities in the entire Kingdom.

Offering eSense's top notch lineup of products and IT solutions, the new offices are created to meet the demands of the Saudi market and bolster overall customer satisfaction in the Kingdom. Moreover, the offices will provide presale consultation and post-sale support and target the governmental, financial, industrial and commercial sectors.

eSense's Arabia team of experts will put a wealth of cutting-edge solutions at clients' fingertips, most essentially eSense's interactive management suites; evventa Office and evventa Corporate, built to make office management a breeze and allow organizations and high profile executives to easily prioritize their management resources by centralizing information in a single, easy-to-use interface to maintain formal unity and build a positive image, In addition to eSense's flagship protocols and ceremonials management suite, evventa, which provides organizations with a powerful, integrated set of web-based solutions that automate the ins and outs of the most complex ceremonials and protocols. evventa offers a comprehensive and collaborative environment for protocol and ceremonial teams to manage and host all needed information, from events, attendees, program plans, scheduled, travels, hosted events, gifts, heraldries and much more, while ensuring promptness and a high level of security.

Furthermore, eSense will provide a host of enterprise solutions, in line with the company's regional activities, which include seamless integration, unmatched enterprise level services and service oriented architecture, specifically designed to help organizations assimilate their business' know-how and gain a competitive edge in their field. These services intertwine under a vendor-specific approach to create an IT infrastructure that helps clients address their critical business needs efficiently and effortlessly.  

 eSense Arabia will be acting as a regional front for Appain, a key partner of eSense. Appian is a comprehensive business process suite that provides clients with the ability to manage business processes, content analytics and collaboration. It is at the forefront of human intensive business processes management tools and is utilized by over 2.5 million users around the world.

The new offices will also offer eSense's enterprise and management system, as well as e-procurement management system, Fleet and Omini respectively.  
Fleet is a comprehensive set of tools built to facilitate the work at any organization dealing with fleets on routine basis, whilst Omini is a web-based enterprise management system built to facilitate the work of the inventory and purchasing departments at any organization by providing the right tools to organize and manage their daily operations in an automated manner.

"We are thrilled to announce the official launch of our Saudi-based offices, as we are now able to further expand our network of clients by providing the Saudi market with constantly-updated lineup of web-based business solutions. We seek to transform the reality of IT sector in the gulf region as a whole and take it to a whole new level of high-quality and excellence," said eSense Arabia's General Manager Mohannad Itayem.

Moreover, eSense provides a wide array of IT-related services, including IT consultation services, which help clients achieve their technical and business goals through utilizing the magnitude of skills available at the company, in addition to software development outsourcing, which allows organizations access to expertise and skills for interim consultation without the added expenses or delays of full time contracts.