Bahrain Software Development
OVERVIEW: In recent times, Bahrain has successfully developed a number of locally assembled and developed software products and some of them have also been exported abroad. A number of local companies and governmental agencies have acted as key playeyrs in the overall management and timely devlelopment of software in the island.
SOFTWARE PRODUCTION
Bahrain with the advancement of the computer and internet sector, is also
well on the way of the implementation and the formal development of local
build software. One good example of a locally made assembled and also exported
software production was from the Bahrain Defense Forces with their version
of a Customer Ordered Software. The Bahrain Defense forces wanted to develop
software that would take all the customer related information in their main
hospital and categorize the information of the current and past patients into
an organized set of consistent data.
The overall industry in Bahrain in terms of software development and production is managed and somewaht controlled by a number of local software houses and one of them is Amwal. Amwal Corporation has been a key player and very instrumental in hosting software solution not only in Bahrain but the entire Middle East. The company is centrally geared towards the development of online financing solutions and creating ebrokerage websites for the island.
This particular software really helped the Army hospital from a paper based
to a paper less system that would be always be able to update, easily modify
any necessary changes and also to ensure that there is data precision and
stability. Because of the success, this Patient Organized Data Software was
sold to a multitude of companies not only in other Bahraini businesses but
also to the hospitals in the United States.
Batelco (the Bahrain Telecommunication company) has recently signed an agreement
with Microsoft to develop a number of web based services and technologies
that would primarily utilize mobile phones. This is one of the first experiments
of its kind in the Gulf regions and will play a big role in Bahrain’s Software
development. Batelco is the leading Software development related company and
the other major local company is Amwal.
Most of the local Software development houses are centered around the area
of Manama, the capital and these companies are currently developing software
to provide reliable, operation critical solutions because most businesses
in the Island are Bank related.
Right now, most of the companies in Bahrain are mostly concentrating on the development of Software but there is also a trend for locally assembled hardware. By far, the largest hardware development house in Bahrain is Almoayed Company that primarily specialized in establishment telecommunications software and Hardware development. The company currently is delivering hardware solutions all the way from the entry level computers to developing Server Solutions.
The hardware concentration relies on Storage systems, Server Consolidation
as well as ensuring that the technology would be sustainaible for the future.
The company has a number of agreements with Microsoft, Linux and Oracle. In
fact, the company has recently joined a venture with Oracle to develop Oracle
Parallel Servers. The company however does not have plans to export hardware
to any of the countries but will do soon in the very future.(1)
(1)
http://www.almoayedgroup.com/