Al-Naimi ... new technology and Raju Buddhiraju
Commercialbank has announced an agreement with Qatar Foundation joint venture Meeza to provide the bank’s customers with a large range of cloud applications and other new technology.
Commercialbank group CEO Andrew Stevens stated: “Commercialbank is pleased to enter into this strategic partnership with MEEZA, a Qatar Foundation joint venture. The partnership with MEEZA is aligned to Commercialbank’s strategy to expand its range of products and services as well as its key focus on creating customer service excellence.
“In a highly competitive marketplace, businesses require support and a distinct advantage over their competitors in order to thrive. Having a bank that understands the needs of your business through listening, offering support and advice is a necessary requirement.
“At Commercialbank, we strongly believe that one of our prime functions within the small and medium size business sector is to help and nurture businesses - our focus is to develop into successful organisations that have a positive impact on the development of Qatari society.”
MEEZA chairman and CEO Rashid al-Naimi said: “This exclusive relationship with Commercialbank enables them to provide MEEZA cloud services in the state of Qatar.
“Commercial bank can now offer a full portfolio of cloud applications to their existing and prospective client base - these cloud software applications will be running in MEEZA’s secure and highly available data centres.”
Commercialbank executive general manager Raju Buddhiraju said: “Qatar is poised for continued rapid growth and the important work being carried out by ensuring that the skills and know how required to create a world class economic infrastructure are right here in Qatar.
“This partnership allows Commercialbank to be uniquely positioned to offer SME’s across Qatar convenient access to managed information technology solutions, providing several benefits including low cost entry, no licencing costs, no costs for upgrades and quick and simple implementation.
“The bank will initially offer MEEZA managed payroll services, e-mail, document management solutions and web hosting infrastructure; then build further on these offerings from MEEZA’s wide range of world-class IT solutions.”