ADPC Information Technology Before & After (2006 – Today)

ADPC Information Technology Before & After (2006 - Today)
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The Abu Dhabi Government formed Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) in 2006; it is one of the greatest ports developers, trading and logistics sector, industrial sector and providing other related services. Propelling economic expansion by establishing the firm establishment of modern infrastructure, real estate and business services in Abu Dhabi is its main aim. In today`s global economy Information Technology (IT) has undoubtedly emerged as an important driving force; it is a key to a firm`s competitiveness. In the recent past, following the success of ADPC, the IT team has started analyzing and formulating policies to find out how ADPC`s power in software and the proliferation of IT can aid in developing a powerful company. The company has gone through several different stages of change and development. Due to IT, there has been evolution of business strategies in ADPC; it has changed the strategies of business from labor and manual skills to the approach of knowledge management. The social system of ADPC changed how tasks and work was being done after the introduction of information technology.
Based on IT's vision to serve ADPC business needs and its strategic plan to enhance and develop all existing IT Services within ADPC corporate, the history of ADPC`s IT sector from 2006 is discussed below. In 2006, ADPC had one site, which was also the headquarter and had not yet effected an IT sector. Later, Bechtel (A project management consultant) established IT in ADPC.
Bechtel was to help ADPC in the developing KPIZ with the core responsibility of management and co-ordination of fundamental planning, design, and construction of the port and related infrastructure issues. In addition, development of the construction strategy and development segmentation and control of the development master program were among the services Bechtel was to undertake. IT services were delivered and provided from Injazat Data Systems, a renowned market leader for Information Technology sector in the region but IT director was from Injazat.
In the year 2007, Injazat started providing ADPC with numerous solutions, which ranged from IT administration of infrastructure security, blackberry infrastructure administration, telecommunications, IT telephony and networking. Injazat was a major IT company in the UAE and ADPC found it worth to partner with them in IT issues. Injazat Data Systems was formed early 2005 and it was an Information Technology and business services company that offered to their customers many outsourcing services.
Its focus was on providing numerous IT and business process services to the oil and gas, financial services, transportation, telecommunications, governmental sectors and healthcare departments. Mubadala Development Company and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) were partners who had formed Injazat as a j...