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Company Profile:

International Turnkey Systems (ITS), founded in 1981 in Kuwait, is a leading company in providing integrated information technology solutions and software services. The company offers world-class products and services that enable regional companies to keep pace with the evolving changes in today’s competitive business environment, and to meet future challenges and opportunities. ITS services mainly target banks and financial institutions, both conventional and Islamic, in addition to the telecommunications and higher education sector.

Regional Expansion:
Building on its leadership position in the region, ITS has developed broad plans over the past years to spread and expand its reach in the Middle East, in addition to Asia and Africa. ITS also has plans to widen its line of products and services to meet the needs of a wide-range of sectors, notably banking, communications and the higher education sectors.

ITS Products and Services:

Banking and finance Solutions:
In the last two decades, ITS has established itself as a market leader in providing innovative, end-to-end, turnkey IT infrastructures and software solutions for banks and financial institutions, both conventional and Islamic, across the region. ITS is also a member of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) and the Interactive Financial Exchange (IFX).

Today ITS is widely recognized as the main provider of fully-integrated, comprehensive, Islamic banking products. Currently, ITS Islamic solution can role out more than 2000.000 transactions per day. Moreover, the company can also implement Islamic banking solutions for newly established Islamic banks and institutions in less than two months.

ITS Islamic banking solutions cover all aspects of Islamic banking operations such as consumer finance operations, Islamic trade finance, Islamic banking for individuals, and Islamic product leasing or Ejara solutions that follow the operation principles of the Islamic Sharia, in addition to risk management solutions in accordance with Basel II and the Islamic channels of supply – therefore making ITS choice number one of a growing number of Islamic banks and financial institutions across the region.

Unlike other IT companies, ITS enjoys a deep understanding of the regions in which they operate regarding their cultures, values and business practices. The company also enjoys a record of accomplishment in providing quality training to its employees resulting in a high-level of technical expertise, which is one of the factors that accounts for the company’s continued success in the region and beyond. This, together with partnership agreements with global leaders, enables ITS to provide innovative customized IT solutions to suit the needs of domestic and international customers. The banking solutions designed by ITS are currently in use in more than 75 major banks from around the world.

Communications sector solution
ITS is committed to providing outstanding products and services to telecom clients in all the regions that it serves. This commitment is clear, as ITS has more than 175 advisory operations in the Middle East, Pakistan and Bangladesh – providing information and guidance to telecom operators in order to facilitate strengthening their knowledge and abilities – helping to better provide services to their partner’s clients.

ITS has also set up several Remote Managed Services (RMS) centers in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Pakistan to allow companies to outsource their technology infrastructure and applications requirements, thus reducing the cost of ownership and increasing returns on investment. Additionally, ITS has joined the “GSM Association,” a global trade association representing more than 750 GSM mobile phone operators across 218 territories and countries of the world. The GSMA plays a pivotal role in the development of the GSM platform and the global wireless industry. Membership in the GSMA is recognition of ITS’s cutting-edge solutions that are available to the telecommunications sector.

Higher education sector solution

ITS Center for Educational Technologies (ITS CET) provides a viable and proven technology framework designed to empower educational institutions to meet the challenges of the future through intelligent use of information technology. ITS offers administrative applications that were developed as per the academic ‘best-practice operations’ guidelines for higher education infrastructures, such as a pre-integrated suite for student information systems, human resources, including web-based self-service capabilities for admission, registration, reporting, and process workflow.

ITS offers comprehensive academic applications including a pre-integrated university portal, a content management platform, e-learning software, smart/digital classroom technologies, an integrated library system, automated scheduling solutions and information access. These solutions are already implemented in over 1,600 universities in the Middle East region and worldwide.

Moreover, ITS offers software solutions that are secure, flexible, reliable and easily integrated with other applications, and they are carefully designed to grow to meet the needs of the industry in which they operate.

Leadership Awards
During the past year, ITS has reaped a number of distinguished awards. It was named the ‘Most Outstanding IT Company’ at the fourth Kuala Lumpur Islamic Finance Forum (KLIFF) in 2007, and it was named as the ‘Best Universal Banking Solution Provider for 2007’ by the World Finance International Magazine. Also, ITS has been voted Best Islamic Technology Provider by the readers of Islamic Finance News, the world’s foremost global Islamic finance news provider.

Human Resources
ITS’s common objectives are to support their clients’ corporate strategy, culture and purpose. The company has over 2200 highly-qualified professionals, located across an extensive and continually expanding network of over 24 regional offices, in the Middle East and North Africa, East Asia and the Caribbean. The ITS team is committed to delivering world-class comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions that organizations need for their businesses to succeed.

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