‘Service Orientated Architecture’

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, was awarded with the "best Service Orientated Architecture (SOA)" across the Middle East and Africa in 2016 as part of the Architecture Excellence Awards organized by iCMG, a global leader in providing Enterprise Architecture consultancy services.

The awards ceremony - held this year in Bangalore, India - witnessed the attendance of senior executives, Chief Information Officers, and representatives from leading organizations from all around the world. The annual awards are considered a global benchmark for excellence in IT architecture design and planning.

The award recognizes the company's excellence in executing its integrated vision in Enterprise Architecture domain that unifies the SOA Layer of all direct customer contact points with the aim of delivering a seamless and high-quality customer experience.

Nabeel Mohammed, Zain Kuwait's Chief Technical Officer, commented: "This award from a leading global organization is a testament of the tremendous efforts exerted by our team to implement management's vision into a fully integrated service architecture for our internal systems".

Mohammed added: "Zain's modern Enterprise Architecture Practice is continuously being expanded to create enduring systems that will not only reflect on the quality of the services we offer our customers, but also facilitate the process of implementing new systems with our strategic partners and B2B services".

Mohammed concluded: "This achievement reflects our innovation and continuous effort to deliver the highest satisfaction levels to our customers. Winning this award is a significant achievement given the intense competition present in the Kuwait mobile market, and we are grateful to the judging panel for recognizing our efforts."

iCMG is a pioneer and leading full service Enterprise & IT Architecture Firm. It's considered a global leader in providing architectural services to a wide variety of clients (over 20 domains) across 42 countries. The complete ecosystems of Enterprise & IT Architecture services include consulting, training & certification, research & advisory. In addition, iCMG is reaching more geography and business domains through online architecture services such as Ask the Architects, Online Training & Webinars. In the last 12 years, iCMG have helped customers to manage complexity and contradictions within enterprise for growth.