Intelligent Tech Channels Issue 27 | Page 6

NEWS 4C sets up marketing consultancy practice for Middle East 4 Ali Saeed, newly appointed Marketing Cloud Practice Lead, MENA at 4C C, the customer-focused Digital Transformation consultancy, has announced the establishment of a dedicated marketing consultancy practice. The new division will be headed by Ali Saeed who joins 4C as Marketing Cloud Practice Lead for the Middle East and North Africa. Saeed will be responsible for building the will leverage the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform to enable businesses to deliver personalised journeys for their customers across channels and devices – enabling marketers to deliver the right messages to the right people via the right channel. Saeed said: “Digital marketing in the Middle East is still in its nascent stages but this is changing rapidly – driven not high performing professional services unit, specialised in delivering a range of marketing automation services. While 4C’s digital marketing consultancy services can help organisations across all verticals deliver next-level customer experiences, Ali and his team intend to initially focus on the travel, hospitality, entertainment, retail, automotive, energy and financial sectors. As the largest independent Salesforce Platinum Partner in EMEA, 4C’s new practice by businesses but rather by consumer preferences. There is a tremendous first- mover advantage for those businesses that adapt their marketing models to successfully engage the new breed of tech-savvy, digital-first customers. The Salesforce Marketing Cloud is the ideal platform to empower this evolution, and as the clear regional expert in this domain, 4C is ready to be the long-term partner in helping businesses efficiently and effectively navigate this transformation.” Axiz cleans up at CONTEXT ChannelWatch Distributor of the Year Awards L eading local value-added ICT distributor, Axiz cleaned up at the 2019 CONTEXT ChannelWatch Awards, winning in three categories – Customer Service, Retail Partner, and Overall Distributor of the Year. CONTEXT ChannelWatch is one of the world’s largest online IT-reseller surveys, giving key insight into the behaviour, opinions and predictions of over 6,500 IT resellers every year. As part of the survey, resellers in each country nominate distributors they work with for the CONTEXT ChannelWatch Distributor of the Year Award. This year, resellers also went on to rate their distributors on a wide range of key service areas. As a result, CONTEXT introduced five new ChannelWatch awards – customer service, innovation, logistics, retail partner and cloud partner – which reflect the breadth of service and value, which distributors bring to the modern IT channel. 6 Craig Brunsden, MD of Axiz, said: “We are thrilled to have won these awards, as they reflect the hard work and dedication that we have put in to growing all our partners’ businesses. It is a real honour to receive this recognition, as it shows that our efforts to provide our partners with top-quality ICT solutions to meet their needs are paying off.”