KoçSistem and SBM announce strategic partnership

Published October 31st, 2024 - 06:18 GMT

KoçSistem and SBM announce strategic partnership

During the event.

KoçSistem, a leading Turkish technology company with a long-standing history, is actively forming regional partnerships with global tech firms. The company has recently signed an agreement with Saudi Business Machines (SBM), Saudi Arabia’s leading provider of end-to-end enterprise information technology and telecommunications solutions. Through this collaboration, KoçSistem will cooperate with SBM on cloud services, managed services, and consultancy.

With the newly formed strategic alliance, KoçSistem and SBM will create synergies to complement their strong existing capabilities and service offering for customers in the MENA region.

KoçSistem’s wholly-owned subsidiary, KoçDigital, will also play an active role in the market, offering IIoT (Platform360), manufacturing AI, data management, supply chain management, and other AI solutions.

The partnership signing ceremony took place on October 1st in Riyadh. KoçSistem’s General Manager, Mehmet Ali Akarca, commented: “As the leading technology provider in Türkiye, KoçSistem’s strategic partnerships allow us to leverage our 80-year history in the industry. Our partnership with SBM is a pivotal step in enhancing and expanding our presence throughout the region.”

Emphasizing the significant opportunities for companies that foster regional economic growth — driven by the young population’s interest in technology, public infrastructure investments, and institutional digitalization in the Middle East — Mehmet Ali Akarca added:

“We are supporting both countries’ development initiatives with local technologies. KoçSistem also maintains a physical presence in the region through our offices across the Middle East, with our strategic partnerships serving to further enhance our regional expertise and experience. We believe this agreement will contribute to the growing market needs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the wider region across critical technology domains.”

SBM’s CEO, Essam Alshiha, commented on the partnership: “At SBM, we are dedicated to empowering businesses and organizations in Saudi Arabia with transformative technology solutions. Our strategic partnership with KoçSistem marks a key milestone on this journey. It allows us to combine KoçSistem’s deep regional knowledge with SBM’s local unparalleled capabilities across AI, cloud computing and managed services. Together, we can leverage our shared strengths to foster greater technological innovation and lasting value.”

Background Information

KoçSistem

As a member of Koç Group of Companies, KoçSistem is a long-established and leading information technology company, presenting technology to the business world for over 75 years. Offering a competitive edge and productivity to companies with its innovative products and services, KoçSistem maintains its leading position in the industry, with its vision, modes of operation, and the value it attaches to its stakeholders.

Playing a leading role in the digital transformation of companies, KoçSistem offers a wide range of products and services in areas such as Internet of Things, Big Data & Analytics, Security, Corporate Cloud, Corporate Mobility, Business Solutions, Digital Workforce and RPA.

With the proactive products and services offered for the business needs of customers in the industries such as banking, retail, energy, durable consumer goods, automotive, government, insurance, and many more, it digitalizes the total value chain of its customers from the supply chain to the customer experience. KoçSistem carries the industries into the future with its innovative solutions and innovative technologies.

KoçSistem has developed strong strategic partnerships with the major technology producers in the world, and brought the customer needs with the matching business partners together, to create an efficient ecosystem.

KoçSistem establishes sustainable relationships with the major technology centers through its R&D projects that serve as a gateway to the global market. Its R&D and Innovation Center that ranks first in the software field in Turkey offers services to the development of both the industry and the country with its foreseeing engineers, creating solutions for the upcoming needs, and carries out projects that offer a competitive edge.

With its strategic sectoral perspective creating value for customers and shedding light on the future, market-oriented product management, R&D and innovation power steering the technology, KoçSistem is ready for new transformations!

KoçSistem’s Vision: "To transform from a traditional system integrator", "into a strong technology company that develops its own products and services, provides new generation technologies, and offers integrated solutions."