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.

eSense recently partnered with the Saudi-based Al-Rajhi Bank to develop an advanced enterprise project  management solution for the bank’s head office in KSA.

The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution is an end-to-end collaborative project and portfolio environment implemented by eSense to help the bank gain visibility, insight, and control across all work, enhancing decision-making, improving alignment with business strategy, maximizing resource utilization, and measuring and helping to increase operational efficiency.

Al Rajhi is the largest network of Islamic banks worldwide in terms of market value and total profits. The bank requires an advanced enterprise project management (EPM) solution to effectively manage its workload. eSense was chosen among several other IT solutions companies to develop the solution due to the company’s longstanding experience and successes in the field. The company’s KSA office, eSense Arabia, handled the implementation.

Al Rajhi has been successfully using Microsoft EPM 2003, integrated with Microsoft’s SharePoint Server to facilitate the management and execution of projects and the provision of various reports to the various executive levels within Al Rajhi. eSense’s solution is built on the newer Microsoft EPM 2007, which will help the bank overcome some major shortcomings of the previous version. 

Commenting on this collaboration, Mohannad Itayem, General Manager of eSense Arabia, said: “We are honored that an organization as established as Al Rajhi Bank chose eSense to implement such an important project. As we have implemented several similar solutions to large-scale organizations in the past, we are certain that the new Microsoft EPM will greatly ease the project management and monitoring tasks for Al Rajhi.”

eSense, the leading Jordanian provider of IT-based business solutions, is among the first IT companies in the region to join the Windows 7 movement. The company recently finished migrating the systems of its corporate clients to the new operating system, implementing an evolution that, whilst challenging in some aspects, will put a wealth of new and useful features at its employees’ fingertips and greatly improve the efficiency of their business.
 
Launched in October, Windows 7 has been raved about by countless users as a solid move on Microsoft's behalf, propelling the world's most popular operating system forward by improving speed, reliability and usability. Following several feasibility studies, eSense's team of IT specialists began a rather smooth transition process that upgraded the operating systems of its corporate clients from both Windows XP and Windows Vista to Windows 7, utilizing several technologies developed by Microsoft to ease the implementation, including Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 and Windows Deployment Services. 

"While many organizations remain weary of transitioning to new operating systems because the process may be intimating at first, we are always eager to bring the latest of our partners' offerings to our business environment," said eSense's CEO Samer Maslamani. "Being a Microsoft Gold Partner, and given the fact that we rely heavily on Microsoft's technologies in many of our projects, we decided to pioneer this transition and to get the trend rolling, both in Jordan and the region."

To make the transition even more seamless, eSense created a series of  installation images, each consisting of a tailor-made version of Windows 7 containing all the pertinent programs and data required by each client's system. This allowed for a fast and easy implementation with little or no interruption in workflow.

Since its launch, Windows 7 has been met with great praise by critics and users alike. It's stable, smooth, and highly polished, introducing new graphical features, a new taskbar, device management and security enhancements that make it both easier to use and safer than previous versions of the OS. Microsoft has gone to great lengths to make Windows 7 accessible to as many people as possible, providing exceptional hardware support, backward compatibility and very flexible interface.