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60 Mins Show dates: 20-24 October 2013, Dubai World Trade Centre
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Exhibition hours: 11am -6pm
Big Data a big topic at GITEX 2013
Experts at GITEX Technology Week’s first ever Big Data Conference have agreed that the ability to intelligently understand and utilise Big Data will have a profound impact on innovation and competitiveness in the region. The packed conference offered valuable insights on how Big Data increasingly becomes an unavoidable and compelling item at the top of the boardroom agenda. Keynote speaker Volkmar Koch, Vice President and Partner at leading global management consulting firm Booz & Co, set the scene: “The sheer volume of structured and unstructured data driven by digitisation is calling for a host of new coping techniques, methods 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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SAAED selects Avaya to upgrade incident management system Avaya today signed a new contract with SAAED, the UAEbased company delegated to handle minor and non-fatal traffic accidents, to upgrade its incident management system SAAED said it needed the upgrade to cope with its expanding operations, having branched out from just offering its services to Abu Dhabi’s
Mussaffah area in 2008, to the entire UAE capital and other emirates. The contract signed at GITEX Technology Week 2013 covers the integration of SAAED’s accident reporting and accident scene diagrams with Avaya’s unified communication solutions. 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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