Software Design Consultant Group was present at The Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants (LACPA) 16th International Congress. The event took place on February 16 for three consecutives days.

The event mainly focused on the challenges SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) are facing in today's world and their role in the development of the economy. Key speakers were invited and addressed several topics covering different subjects.

This event was an ideal opportunity for Software Design to showcase its financial solutions to local and international experts that attended the event.

Software Design openened its first branch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The opening is the first step of an enterprising strategy planned by Software Design to expand and consolidate its presence on the Saudi market.

Mr. Michel Nseir, General Manager of SDCG, said in this occasion that “2005 will see our efforts focus on the Saudi market. It has the greatest potential compared to other Gulf markets. Our objective is to identify and assign the widest number of Visual Dolphin partners and create local offices in the three major cities of the Kingdom. We will get closer to our distributors and will be able to grant them the technical support they require.”

Software Design Consulting Group - Saudi Arabia
Malek Abdul Aziz Street, Old Airport Road, Riyadh
Tel: 966-1-473078

In cooperation with the Dubai World Trade center, Riyadh has joined Dubai, Cairo, Beirut and Hyderabad as the host of the prestigious GITEX trade fair, one of the world’s most important shows in the field of IT technology. The Saudi market offers great opportunities for suppliers of the latest in office technology, Intranet services, mobile and wireless networking systems.

The GITEX fair is accompanied by a series of workshops and conferences by IT professionals from around the world. The conferences are an ideal opportunity to mix technical information and promotion, and present the latest developments and applications to an audience of distributors, decision makers and captains of industry. .

Software Design Consulting Group will be present at Gitex 2005 Saudi Arabia from the 24-28 April 2005. Come and visit us!

The Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants (LACPA), in collaboration with the World Bank, organizes its 15th Congress on the 11-12 February 2005. This congress will be held at the Metropolitan Palace, Beirut. The main topics addressed during this event are the challenges accountants will face while implementing the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

The professional LACPA audience encourages Software Design Consulting Group to participate to the two days event and to demonstrate the Visual Dolphin suite of products..

CaSoftware Design will be present at the Shaam 2004 Information Technology exhibition in Damascus, Syria. The event takes place from the 29th of April to the 3rd of May 2004. The participation of Lebanese IT companies to this event is an initiative of the Professional Computer Association (PCA) Export Office.

Software Design participation to this event goes along with the development strategy followed by Software Design; the objective being a presence in most of the countries of the region through a network of appointed Visual Dolphin dealers. The event is an ideal occasion to have new contacts that may lead to partnership with Syrian IT companies.

The event is organized by the Syrian Computer Society (SCS). Its main objective is to contribute to the achievement of the aims of the SCS, by raising the level of informatics culture in Syria and facilitating its diffusion and development. It will also provide the producers and distributors of IT solutions with an opportunity to exhibit the latest technological achievements in this field.

Like previous years, Software Design was present at the Lebanese Association for Certified Public Accountants (LACPA) conference. The conference was prepared in collaboration with the Arab Federation for Certified Public Accountants (AFCPA), the Central Bank of Lebanon and the World Bank. The event was held from the 13 to 15 April 2004, at the Unesco, in Beirut. .

The main theme addressed during the conference concerned the development of the small and medium businesses (SMB). Ideas developed around the main subject focused on the challenges SMBs will face to sustain their growth, the opportunities to be grasped and the future role SMBs will have in business development for the area.

The presence of such a professional audience was an ideal opportunity to demonstrate the functionalities of Visual Dolphin and the capabilities it offer to facilitate the daily work of an accountant or a financial manager.

On the 4th and 5th of February 2004, Software Design has invited its clients and prospects in Dubai to attend a seminar for the launching of the latest version of Visual Dolphin, the V5.0.

The seminar started with a general overview of the functionalities proposed by the V5.0, like the menus, newly introduced features, and the philosophy behind the Visual Dolphin Financial Suite. A detailed presentation of the Accounting and the Inventory latest releases followed.

Software Design's consultants demonstrated the decision support capabilities offered by Visual Dolphin when using Proclarity™, a business intelligence tool that helps any decision maker exploit the static data stored in Visual Dolphin database and turn it into a dynamic decision support tool.

Mr. Paul Kain, representing Maximizer™, introduced the tremendous advantages that Maximizer™ offers as a Customer Relationship Management solution and the returns achieved when integrating Maximizer™ with Visual Dolphin.

Year end processing is always critical to every institution. Software Design Training Department initiates training sessions for Dolphin Accounting and Stock Control users. The training provides details about the major steps required to prepare for end of year processing..

Four sessions are scheduled as follows:

These sessions will be held from 10 AM till 12 AM.

For reservation, please call Software Design at 961-(01)-399855 or send an e-mail to support@softwaredesign.com.lb including the date and the number of attendees.

The detailed close year procedures can be downloaded from the available white papers

Software Design participates as a host company to the EU-Mashrek Partenariat event in Syria from 23-25 October 2003.

The EU-Mashrek Partenariat is a European Commission initiative to promote business cooperation between small and medium size enterprises from the European Union and the Mediterranean. It is the extension of the successful Europartenariat formula of direct contacts between enterprises in the European Union and the Mediterranean.

The EU-Mashrek Partenariat aims to help local SMEs, operating in different sectors and facing market globalization and stronger competition, by assisting them in using new technology, specialized information and quality trends. The pre-fixed face-to-face business meetings expected to be held during the event will be a major step in this regard, where Syrian, Lebanese and Jordanian entrepreneurs will discuss future possibilities with their European counterparts. The resulting enhanced competitiveness will facilitate links with the EU, with the region and with wider world.

As a result of the EU-Mashrek Partenariat, the organisers expect the establishment of joint ventures and other business partnerships and the expansion of national exports; both of which will help reduce unemployment and alleviate poverty.

During Termium 2003, a major IT event in Lebanon. Software Design Consulting Group organizes a series of seminars that will depict the latest trends in the IT industry. The seminars will address Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management and on effective ways to get the most of your ERP.

The seminars are scheduled as follows:

• Understanding the concept of Business Intelligence - or in other words, how to use the data stored in your ERP to turn it into a business decision tool and differentiate yourself from your competitors ( Sept. 17, 2003 @ 6:00 pm)

• How an ERP can step you up to a higher level - We will focus on how companies can realize the full potential of an ERP system and the best ways to provide a better, faster, reliable and cost-effective way to implement an ERP solution. ( Sept. 18, 2003 @ 6:00 pm)
  

• How to empower your business using a CRM system We will focus on how a CRM helps you improve your customer's experience and yield opportunities to reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction and increase revenues
  (Sept. 19, 2003 @ 6:30 pm)
  

  If you are interested by GoldMine and would like to know more about it, You can confirm your attendance by calling Software Design at (961)-01-399855 or by sending an e-mail to mktg@softwaredesign.com.lb

Quality Software has always been a concern to Software Design consultants. The PCA (Personal Computer Association), in collaboration with Amideast and the USAID, has organized on the 25 & 26 of June a Capability Maturity Model (CMM) training course.

The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) was created by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to evaluate the capability of contractors to develop quality software on cost and on budget. It was then used extensively by the software development industry to determine the maturity of their software development process, identify its weaknesses, and plan improvement actions

This intensive seminar was designed for members of QA, software and system engineering, management and process specialists.  

In order to promote its products and services in the Arabic Gulf, Software Design Consulting Group has participated, like the past four years, in one of the leading IT exhibition in the Middle East Area, Gitex Dubai 2002.

The main objective of this participation was to consolidate the presence of Software Design in the region, attract new customers and approach new dealers. This was also an excellent opportunity to prove, once again, the high level of expertise Lebanese IT companies has acquired.