(openPR) - DUBAI – May 29, 2008 – Business Systems Group (BSG) was presented with the Technology Provider of the Year award at the recent Supply Chain & Transport Awards 2008, the leading celebration for the region’s shipping, cargo and logistics industries. Organized by ITP Business Publishing, the lavish awards ceremony took place at the Al Murooj Rotana Dubai, and gathered more than 200 top executives from the Middle East transportation and logistics industries.

“The market opportunity in the Arabian Peninsula, together with the fierce competition to succeed in the lucrative supply chain and transportation sector, means the Middle East is producing some of the most impressive players in the global logistics industry,” comments Walid Akawi, CEO of ITP Publishing Group.

Now in its second year, the annual Supply Chain & Transport Awards set out to honor the regional and international players that have gone above and beyond in terms of their industry contribution. 16 awards were presented at the ceremony with categories covering the logistics, sea freight and air cargo sectors. The winners were judged by a prestigious panel of industry experts, selected from within the Middle East logistics industry.

Accepting the award on behalf of BSG, Nasser Tufail, Managing Director, said: “We are extremely delighted for being recognized with this year’s ‘Technology Provider of the Year award’, particularly considering that those who made it to the final short list are very reputable companies, and were indeed formidable contenders for this prestigious industry award. This award reaffirms the trust our customers continue to repose in our solutions and services and demonstrates the tremendous business value that BSG can bring to bear for the logistics operations of our customers”.

As logistics operations become increasingly technological, this award recognizes the technology provider that has supplied the market with cutting edge solutions to help companies increase their supply chain efficiencies.

“Winning this award from ITP validates our longstanding commitment to the region providing world-class Technology solutions backed-up by our extensive domain expertise that can add significant value to our customer’s business," said Raheel Khan, Regional Manager at BSG.

Judges described BSG as one of the most active players in the Middle East’s market for warehouse management systems, with a large number of customer wins over the past year, including companies such as Nikai, Sun and Sand Sports, Aptec, and GEAP Group. “We have noted BSG’s active market presence and consistent delivery and execution of Supply chain solutions to prominent customers, and it comes as no surprise that the distinguished judging panel deemed BSG worthy of this prestigious award”, said Robeel Haq, Group Editor, ITP.

BSG is a Technology solutions company that has been operating in the Middle East since 1995 and has a track record of excellence and a history of recognition by their partners as well as customers. Last year BSG has received recognition from Cognos as the “Reseller Partner of the year Award. Prior to this BSG were the recipients of “Rising Star Award” from Cognos and “Best Performance Management Contributor Award” in the whole of EEMEA region from Business Objects.

For more information on the Supply Chain & Transport Awards and for details of all the winners please visit www.itp.net/events/scata

Raheel Khan
Regional Manager
Business Systems Group
Block 17, Knowledge Village, Dubai, UAE
Tel: 971 4 363 1933
Email: raheelk@bsgme.com

About Business Systems Group (BSG):

BSG is one of the leading information technology solutions company operating in the Middle East markets since 1995. BSG's primary focus is the delivery of Supply chain execution and BI solutions and services to customers in the region.

BSG have the experience and expertise of building, testing and implementing mission critical applications at hundreds of enterprise customers and understand the complexity of fully integrating our solutions into customer’s existing business processes and system environments. BSG have implemented enterprise solutions at over 300+ customers across the Middle East.

BSG's large installed base of customers include some of the top Logistics Service providers, Freight Management companies, Shipping and Transportation companies, Banks, Oil & Gas companies, Airlines, Telcos, Manufacturing & Retail companies, Large Corporates and Government & Ministries in the Middle East. More information is available on www.bsgme.com