Estarta Solutions to Implement the Arab Bank's Enterprise Application Integration solution

Built on Microsoft Technologies and The First Project of its Kind in Jordan

Amman (PRWEB) March 11, 2004 -- Estarta Solutions, a leading IT company and provider of Banking Solutions signs an agreement with the Arab Bank plc, one of the leading financial institutions in the Arab World to implement the bank's Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution.

The EAI solution facilitates the efficient integration of all disparate legacy and new systems at the Arab Bank. An integral part of the EAI Solutions strategy is systems scalability whereby the banks environment is easily extended to satisfy future business evolutions, and supporting new business initiatives and to provide the customers with an ever-increasing and regularly enhanced range of leading-edge quality corporate and banking solutions based upon deep understanding of their needs, according to the highest international banking standards and practices supported by advanced technologies. In this way the Arab Bank with the cooperation of Estarta Solutions are committed to deliver products and services that profit all our stakeholders and facilitate life in our world today.

"Estarta Solutions is cooperating with the Arab Bank to build a comprehensive solution, which transitions the Bank's point-to-point integration strategy into an Enterprise Application Integration; resulting in reduced maintenance cost, increased scalability and availability for the distributed systems and enhanced business agility" says Majed A. Rahim, the Arab Bank Chief Information Officer.

The Arab Bank has always been a leader in adopting and implementing cutting-edge-technologies, and Estarta Solutions is proud to have been selected by the Arab Bank to implement this very strategic and mission-critical project. We plan to make full use of our strong experience in implementing large scale projects to ensure the success of this engagement," says Estarta Solutions CEO, Ennis Rimawi.

Estarta is leveraging Microsoft's BizTalk Server and .NET technologies to build a state-of-the-art EAI solution which caters for the Arab Bank's immediate and future needs. "BizTalk Server makes it fundamentally easier to integrate disparate systems across the bank. BizTalk and the .NET framework make it possible for the Bank to build secure, reliable, highly scalable infrastructure critical for today's extremely competitive business environment," says Microsoft's Business Development Manager -Jordan, Zeid Shubailat.

The EAI solution allows the Arab Bank to quickly and flexibly integrate business applications and data within a secure and managed framework, providing application-to-application (A2A) services. In addition, it gives the bank the ability to automate manual tasks, using business process integration. Furthermore, using standard EAI services offered by the solution is essential for supporting business-to-business (B2B) collaboration processes.

About the Arab Bank
The Arab Bank Group is one of the principal financial institutions in the Arab world and ranks among the leading international banks in terms of equity, earnings and assets. The Arab Bank was established in 1930 in Jerusalem. In 1948, the Arab Banks general management was moved to Amman and later, the Bank was reincorporated in Jordan as a public shareholding company.

The Arab Bank Group has a diversified network of about 400 branches, subsidiaries, affiliates, and sister institutions worldwide. It is engaged in providing a wide variety of financial services to individual, corporate and institutional customers, government agencies and other international financial institutions. These services include corporate and international banking, investment banking, private banking and retail banking.
www.ArabBank.com

About Estarta Solutions
Estarta Solutions is an international and regional IT solutions company with Delivery Headquarters in Jordan, and Sales Headquarters in Dubai, UAE, as well as offices in Boston, Doha, Dubai, Riyadh and Jeddah. After a successful merger between ONEWORLD and Zeine Technological Applications Jordan, Estarta Solutions emerged as a key player with a focus on delivering solutions to three market sectors: e-Government, Telecommunications and Banking. Powered by fourteen years of global experience, the company client base extends from the Middle East to the US and Europe. As part of its adopted strategy, the company is composed of highly talented and skilled teams of business and technical professionals. Partially owned by Microsoft, Estarta Solutions is also a provider of comprehensive IT solutions in its market sectors. For more information about the company, visit www.estartasolutions.com

About Microsoft Corporation
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software- any time, and place and on any device. Microsoft Corporations address on the World Wide Web is: www.microsoft.com. Microsoft and .NET are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in United States and/or other countries.
www.microsoft.com

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