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June 16, 2009
Bahwan IT achieves ISO 9001:2000 Certification
Bahwan IT LLC, which is a part of the Suhail Bahwan
Group has been awarded the prestigious QMS ISO 9001:2000
certification.

The certification was awarded by Bureau Veritas,
Oman, one of the world's top most certification bodies,
following a rigorous review process of Bahwan IT Quality
management System. The certification was formally awarded
to Ms. Amal Suhail Bahwan, Director, Bahwan IT, at a
recent ceremony, by Mr. Shakir Rasheed, Bureau Veritas,
Oman.
Shakir Rasheed, commented, "Bahwan IT has established
and continues to maintain top class customer focus based
model in the operational regime which truly deserves
this accreditation. During the certification process,
Bureau Veritas has observed excellent documentation,
higher degree of system awareness among the process
owners.
Amal Bahwan stated, "We thank His Majesty Sultan
Qaboos for his great vision and opportunities provided
to the people and organizations in Oman, which has helped
to add value to Oman's progress. It is indeed a proud
moment that one of our group companies has achieved
this milestone. This accreditation gives
further momentum to our standing in Oman market and
sustains our position more strongly. The attainment
of this high quality recognition will improve our product
and service quality standards in turn improving our
end customer's satisfaction.
M.K. Janaki Raman, General Manager, Bahwan IT LLC
stated, “We believe in team work & our core strength
has been excellent products and Solutions. This is made
possible through our incredible team who are trained
and Certified in the latest technologies and ready to
provide support and services to our Customers in Oman
leading to excellent customer reference. We have the
best strategic alliances which help us to effectively
link and interact with our customers and this has resulted
in us achieving this Quality Certification.”
Simon Joseph, well-known Management Consultant &
Technical Advisor had been the driving force behind
Bahwan IT’s robust & effective implementation of ISO
9001: 2000 system. The effective trainings, customized
documentation process, addressing gaps in time, technical
acumen & pro-active feedbacks have enabled the system
to be simple yet compliant.
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March 3, 2009
Bahwan IT steps up focus on Enterprise offerings
Bahwan IT is stepping up its focus on offering business
solutions for midsize enterprises. This was revealed
at a special seminar hosted by Bahwan IT for their partners
3i Infotech and HP at Grand Hyatt Hotel today.

The market for business solutions in the mid-sized
enterprises segment is set to witness a 20 percent growth
this year despite adverse economic conditions, said
M.K. Janaki Raman, General Manager, Bahwan IT.
3i Infotech and HP are the partners of Bahwan IT
as it makes its thrust into the segment. A majority
of the enterprises in the Middle East fall within this
category. The definition of a mid-size enterprise varies
from market to market said Janaki Raman.
3i Infotech's flagship product Orion, which comes
in three flavors, is the choice ERP product for this
segment. Orion Advantage is the verticalized industry
solution for mid-size companies. Orion is unique that
it is a product that was born out of needs of the region;
primarily UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman. The product's
advantage is that it is easily deployable. Anas Mayalackara,
regional Sales Manager of 3i Infotech, said a majority
of the business in the Middle East fall in the trading
and distribution category and Orion is suitable for
this segment because of its scalability.
Sandeep Chhabra of HP said at the seminar that Integrity
servers based on 64-bit architecture, which are highly
secure, provide the best performance needed for hosting
the Orion ERP application and other business critical
business applications.
For more information please email us:
info@bahwanit.com
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February 28, 2009
Bahwan IT wins Oman Web Awards
Bahwan IT's website www.bahwant.com won the bronze
award in the category of Software & Telecommunication/ICT
at the Oman Web Awards 2008 function held at Al Bustan
Palace hotel on 28th Feb, 2009.
This is the second consecutive year that Bahwan IT's
website is winning Oman Web Awards. The website had
won gold in the Corporate category of the
Oman Web Award
2007.
The Oman Web Awards is in its fourth successful year
which serves as an inspiration to all the Web designing
companies, designers and freelancers. It rewards the
creators for their skills and also encourages the novel
spirit of the web designers to meet professional and
international standards and helps in developing an interactive
community that aims at providing recognition to this
e-sector in the most exceptional way. The competition
helps raise the standards of web design and website
services and promotes intellectual property awareness.
The event was organized under the auspices of Information
Technology Authority (ITA), the apex government body
for Information Technology in the Sultanate.
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February 10, 2009
Orion Advantage & HP Integrity Seminar
Bahwan IT along with their partner, HP & 3i Infotech,
is organizing a half-day seminar at Hotel Grand Hyatt,
Muscat on March 3rd, 2009. This seminar is open
to all sectors of businesses such as manufacturing,
trading and distribution, retail, contracting etc.
The seminar shall provide local business houses
and organizations an opportunity to learn more about
the software solution – Orion & Hardware platform -
HP Integrity Server - and how it benefits companies.
Orion enables organizations to integrate various
business processes and streamline data flow to provide
seamless collaboration between the vital people of the
business supply chain, including suppliers, customers,
partners and employees.
HP Integrity servers create agile infrastructure
for an Adaptive Enterprise, where business and IT are
synchronized to capitalize on change.
For seminar agenda and details, please email to:
harishk@bahwanit.com.
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January 1, 2009
Celebrating 25 years of Excellence in IT
Bahwan IT began the journey in the Year 1984 as the
IBM Division of the Suhail Bahwan Group. Since then
Bahwan IT has come a long way. With a mere 4 employees
at the beginning now with a team in excess of 120 employees
reaches out to customers in the Sultanate of Oman with
offices in Muscat, Salalah and Sohar. Today Bahwan IT
leads the market providing End to End IT Solutions and
Services to various customers in Oman.
During this journey Bahwan IT has scaled many a milestones
and today is well poised to address any customer requirements
with tie ups with more than 30 Principals worldwide.
It has a motivated team of Professionals who are experts
in the respective areas of knowledge and are well positioned
to address the growing needs of the market. Customer
satisfaction has been the Vision and provides leading
edge Technology solutions.
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December 6, 2008
Towards ISO 9001 Certification
Bahwan IT has been already following its Quality
standards for the past many years. ISO certification
will help us put down what we already do, in black and
white. As popularly known globally, ISO 9001-2000 is
an international quality standard that defines minimum
requirements for a company's Quality Management System
(QMS).

We are in the process of getting certified for the
ISO Quality Standard better known as ISO 9001-2000.
We believe that by following the ISO standards, we will
be able to achieve higher level of satisfaction among
our customers.
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September 11, 2008
Bahwan IT goes green
Environmental protection should be the responsibility
of every citizen of the globe. We, the current generations
should take care and make way for a better environment
for our children. Bahwan IT understands the prevailing
and degenerating environmental conditions that we live
in.
If
we do not take care of this now, our future generations
will be deprived of a healthy environment.
As we say little drops make an ocean, if each one
of us, as an individual contribute to this cause in
little way, our children will have better place to live
in. Bahwan IT as an organisation, has taken the responsibility
of bringing in this culture amongst us of being environmental
friendly by:
- eliminating excessive
energy consumption
- increased carpooling
efforts
- responsible paper
consumption
- using technology
to communicate electronically as much as possible
&
- providing general
awareness to others
We wish you a better future and request you to take
this message everywhere along with you. We would appreciate
your inputs, please email to
info@bahwanit.com.
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August 25, 2008
Seminar on PUPM Solution
Bahwan IT along with its partner Star Link, providing
e-DMZ solutions for password security, conducted a seminar
at Hotel Crowne Plaza on August 25, 2008.
The seminar highlighted "Privileged Users Password
Management Solution". The management and control of
shared/privileged account passwords of all type is a
demanding security and compliance concern for today’s
enterprise. Internally developed solutions such as,
safe/envelope, encrypted spreadsheets and databases
are unable to meet the audit demands driven by SOX,
PCI, HIPAA, GLBA, Basel II and others.
Password Auto Repository (PAR), the award winning
Password Management Solution from e-DMZ Security was
the first product dedicated to the secure and compliant
management and control of all shared/privileged accounts.
Winner of SC Magazine’s Readers’ Trust Award as BEST
Password Management and Identity Management solution,
PAR is the choice of companies of all sizes from SME
to the world’s largest enterprises including 4 of the
top 7 Forbes ranked Banks! Delivered as a purpose built
hardened appliance with no agent software or 3rd party
software/hardware needed to deploy — PAR can be installed
and running within one day delivering an immediate ROI.

For seminar agenda, please
click here. For further details on the product,
please contact us or send an email to
info@bahwanit.com.
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April 2, 2008
Comex 2008 showcased Toshiba Tecra notebooks
At the Comex 2008, Oman’s IT and Telecom Expo held
at Oman Trade and Exhibition center from April 28th
to May 2nd, 2008, Bahwan IT had special offerings
for Toshiba Tecra notebooks. COMEX is the largest annual
IT, Telecom & Technology show in the Sultanate and a
perfect business and technological platform for the
IT & Telecom industry.

Tecra notebooks are the top-line series of Toshiba
notebooks bringing seamless wireless connectivity and
exceptional mobile performance to business computing
with state-of-the-art features, comprehensive expansion
and complete mobility.
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March 11, 2008
Bahwan IT - "McAfee Partner of the Year 2007"
During the McAfee Security Seminar held at Grand
Hyatt yesterday, McAfee has awarded Bahwan IT LLC with
“Partner of the Year 2007” status. The award was given
by Mr. Samer Malak, Channel Manager, MEM, McAfee to
Mr. M.K. Janaki Raman, General Manager – Bahwan IT LLC.
Mr. Emile AbuSaleh, Territory Manager, McAfee was also
present during the occasion. More than 100 representatives
from Government, Banking and private sectors attended
this seminar.

Bahwan IT is the only Elite Partner in Oman and enjoys
highest level of partnership with McAfee. It has been
providing IT solutions and services in Oman Market with
a standing of over 24 years.
“It is important that to provide quality service
to our customers, our consultants are armed with the
required expertise and competency in the products and
solutions that we offer. For this reason, we believe
in constantly keeping our workforce updated with the
latest technologies available today by investing in
training and certifications” – said Mr. Janaki Raman.
Bahwan IT has implemented Information Security solutions
in many Government organizations and enterprises, including
Network Admission Control, Data Loss prevention, Vulnerability
Management, Intrusion Prevention, Endpoint Security,
Network Security and so on. Our customer base also includes
banking and telecom sectors.
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March 9, 2008
Bahwan IT website wins gold.
Bahwan IT website was adjudged the best website of
the year 2007 under the corporate category of the Oman
Web Awards ceremony held at Muscat Intercontinental
Hotel on 8th March 2008. Mr. M.K. Janaki Raman, General
Manager, Bahwan IT LLC received the Gold Award from
HE Shaikh Al Fadhel bin Mohammed al Harthy, Under Secretary
of the Ministry of National Economy and Deputy Chairman
of IT Authority.

This award is given annually to the best websites
in Oman. This year, the Oman Web Awards 2007, was organized
under the auspices of Information Technology Authority
(ITA), the apex government body for Information Technology
in the Sultanate. There were around 170 entrants across
various categories, who participated in this competition.
This is the first time Bahwan IT has participated in
the competition.
"We are happy that we were able to achieve this in
our maiden attempt. Lot of hard work has gone
in its creation and we have strived to make our website
user-friendly and have tried to provide as much information
as possible without compromising on theme and quality."
said Mr. Janaki Raman.
Oman Web Awards's website
www.omanwebawards.org
will give you more information on the competition.
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February 20, 2008
HP PSG Road Show in Muscat.
The HP PSG (Personal Systems Group) Business Roadshow
was held at Barr Al Jissah Resort & Spa in Muscat on
2nd March, 2008.
HP launched the latest HP Business products during the
show and visitors were able to get hands-on experience
using:
- HP Business Notebooks
- Workstations
- Handheld Devices
- Thin Clients
- Business Desktops
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February 13, 2008
Microsoft Event - You're an IT hero.
Microsoft is hosting its biggest ever global launch
event to celebrate the hero in every IT person. It’s
a chance to meet IT heroes from around the Gulf and
get introduced to three new products – Windows Server
2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. So come
with your IT team to this mega event and see how being
a hero is not so hard after all.

Come to this event and test drive Windows Server®
2008 operating system, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008,
and Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008. Microsoft is also
giving an evaluation kit with versions of all three
products at the event.
In Oman, the event will be held on
23rd March, 2008
at Barr Al Jissah (Shangri-la) from 8:30am to 5:00pm.
You may register yourselves for either IT Professional
Track or Developer Track.
To register and view the agenda,
click here.
(NB: This link will take you to the Microsoft registration
page of this event)
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January 7, 2008
BusinessToday - 50 who left their footprints
in 2007.
BusinessToday (Jan 2008 issue) has listed Mr. Janaki
Raman, General Manager - Bahwan IT as one among the
50 individuals, who left a mark in 2007.
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writes "True success is often measured by the
difference that an individual makes to society.
Business Today takes a look at 50 such individuals
who left a mark in 2007, not just in business
but in a much wider sense, encompassing every
sphere of activity. Our list includes businessmen,
sports personalities, social workers, doctors,
environmentalists and even two children; the
one thing that all of them have in common is
that they dared to dream."
Bahwan IT was instrumental in IT-enabling
the Majlis A'Shura Elections held during October
2007.
BusinessToday wrote "The Majlis as 'Shura
elections in October 2007 stood out for a number
of reasons. One of those was the fact that Bahwan
IT designed a foolproof, zero-defect IT-enabling
system to conduct the election. This made Oman
the only country in the region to have a fully
automated election system. Says Raman, "It was
important for the sultanate as these elections
have high visibility." There were 50 personnel
from the international media covering the election
along with a number of representatives from
various governments and NGOs. The success of
the entire exercise can be gauged by the fact
that observers from Qatar have expressed interest
in following a similar process there."
BusinessToday is Oman's number one business
magazine, keeping readers updated on the happenings
in Oman's business world with incisive and insightful
reports.
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January 7, 2008
Bahwan IT organizes Microsoft EA Seminar.
The Microsoft EA seminar was organized by Bahwan
IT and Microsoft at Hotel Grand Hyatt. The seminar showcased
the benefits of going software genuine and was targeted
for enterprise customers.
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emphasis was made on the Software Assurance. Benefits
of both the Enterprise Agreement and Open Value Volume
Licensing Programs, which was well appreciated by the
audiences. With Software Assurance, customer is
entitled to the most valuable up-to-date technology
from Microsoft with a number of key benefits that can
save time and money. The seminar in several ways has
facilitated customers to realize the importance of the
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December 27, 2007
12 more HP Certifications for Bahwan IT consultants
In its endeavor to provide quality service to customers,
Bahwan IT gives importance to getting its staff certified.
Twelve of our consultants were certified recently in
Implementing HP MSA Storage Solutions.
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October 27, 2007
Bahwan IT, IT enables the Majlis A'Shura
Elections
The Majlis A'Shura 6th term election was conducted
successfully on October 27th, 2007. 84 members
were elected to the Majlis A'Shura Council through polling
conducted in 61 wilayats of Oman.
Bahwan IT LLC was
contracted by Ministry of Interior, the main government
body to supervise and conduct the elections, for the
second successive Majlis elections to provide the complete
IT platform for this year’s polls. It has teamed
up with UK based Data Research and Services Ltd (DRS),
which specializes in providing IT services for elections,
censuses, and educational projects, as its technology
partners.
Bahwan IT’s scope of work spanned from providing
consultancy to the ministry on how the entire process
would be conducted to designing the ballot paper, providing
the vote sorting machine, software for the vote sorting,
logistics and training.
The design of the ballot papers was a challenge in
itself as 61 different ballot papers, one for each wilayat,
were printed along with color photographs of individual
candidates. They also had check digits and embedded
characters making duplication impossible. The ballot
papers’ features facilitated in fast identification
and counting. Bahwan IT brought state of the art PS900
e-Counting scanners from UK-based DRS. Using its Photo-Scribe
platform of technology, the DRS PS900 imaging scanner
validates every ballot paper as it is scanned. The PS900
combines the speed, accuracy and economy of Optical
Mark Recognition with the advantages of full or partial
ballot images.
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Bahwan IT’s scope of work also included training 150
people from the Ministry of Justice to man the polling
stations, while an equal number from the company monitored
the process from a central hub. The company kept 12
flying squads ready with engineers and spare machines
that could be dispatched to any of the polling centres
in case of equipment malfunction to ensure that there
were no hiccups. “The entire process was planned meticulously;
nothing was left to chance,” Ramakrishna Sathyagopal,
Head Data Capture Solutions informed.
The success of the entire exercise in evident from the
fact that observers who had come from Qatar appreciated
the process so much that they would like to follow a
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