Oman DataPark signs pacts with OCCI, Haya Water

IT MANAGEMENT: Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Haya Water expands ICT services -

Lakshmi Kothaneth -

MUSCAT, MARCH 28 -

Oman DataPark has signed agreements with Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Haya Water at Comex 2017. The two contracts are different as the contract with the Haya water is to manage the IT infrastructure and with Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry it is to provide e-services.

Oman DataPark is classified as Managed Service Provider/Cloud Service Provider. “We absorb all the operational aspects from the corporate in outsourced kind of concept and manage it on their behalf with our 24/7 operation team with our service level agreement. We serve different infrastructures from banking sector to oil and gas as well other sector,” explained Maqbool al Wahaibi, CEO Oman DataPark. The Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been working on this development for one year. The move will see converting all of the activities of  OCCI through computers, providing easy accessibility to register from their homes wherever they are. “They do not have to be physically here in Muscat to register. The company registration is one example. You can pay for your registration and have papers attested on line. You can interact to book the hall for meetings. We are expecting the first phase to be ready by June and by end of July hopefully all the facilities will be implemented,” said Redha Juma al Saleh, Vice Chairman, Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The Oman DataPark will develop the OCCI portal, provide e-services and will manage as well as host it through cloud application.

As of now Oman DataBank is providing services to 480 corporate entities. The other area that has been developed is the cloud services. “Oman benefits from having its own cloud application hosted in the country itself instead of being hosted outside the Sultanate. There are some corporate who have issues with data security from a legislative point of view. Now they have an option just like Amazon AWS or Google. Companies can benefit from the cloud environment in Oman and the data sits in the country and is managed by an Omani company.”