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NCR Outwits Competition at NBK Group Vietnam Gives NCR the Thumb! Cashcard Does a U-turn Dubai Duty Free continues its Journey with NCR Customer Testimonials NCR in the News
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NCR Saudi Arabia has recently announced the signing of a very strategic contract with Saudi Investment Bank (SAIB) worth $1.2M for the implementation of a number of innovative software solutions, including NCR APTRA Connections, Remote Software Distribution, NCR Solidcore Suite for APTRA, as well as IMCRW Security Upgrade to enable ECD. In addition, SAIB has also signed a 3-year software maintenance contract, which covers all NCR APTRA package on 350 ATMs. This order/win is very special and strategic to NCR for the following reasons: 1- SAIB will be the 4th bank in Saudi to select NCR APTRA connections since the introduction of NCR APTRA Connections in Saudi about 2 years ago. 2- SAIB commitment for the 3 years SM&S. 3- SAIB plans for Phase 2 of the project in 2013 (NCR APTRA Connections Interact) to integrate SAIB ATM network with their CRM and do personalized messaging. 4- The first bank to order our remote ATM S/W distribution utility that is developed by the local PS team. 5- This win reaffirms SAIBs trust to NCR, as their strategic solution provider and partner, who can provide complete ATM solutions, unlike Diebold or Wincor, who are still selling hardware boxes. Congratulations on this outstanding win are due for the NCR Saudi sales, as well as PS teams and more specifically for Hussam Zahdeh (account manager), Wael ElAawar (Saudi & North Gulf MD), as well as Zubaer Naseem and Subair Z (PS consultants) and Taher Ali (PS manager).
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NCR Outwits Competition at National Bank of Kuwait Group After an extremely challenging race between NCR and Diebold, , the NCR Kuwait team has managed to score a significant win with National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) Group. Incorporated in 1952 as the first indigenous bank and the first shareholding company in the entire Gulf region, NBK remains to date Kuwaits largest commercial bank and a key account for NCR. With high asset quality, consistent profitability, and strong strategy, NBK has managed to maintain its dominant market share with consistent and rapid growth locally as well as regionally. Its latest strategic move was the completion of its full acquisition of Boubyan Bank which is considered the Islamic Banking arm of NBK Group. Boubyan Bank is one of the highest growing Islamic banks in Kuwait with a clear strategy of offering NBK high class services to the affluent customers seeking Islamic Banking. The deal which is worth $974K covers requirements for the replacement of old ATMs, the pilot of NCR SelfServ 4 Financial Kiosk (first unit in Kuwait), as well as new branch expansion for Boubyan bank, which includes GBNA deposit ATMs, and Gasper Vantage Monitoring Solution (first implementation in Kuwait). The successful closing of this order was the result of a well-orchestrated team effort! Congratulations goes to Mustafa Awwad, Sherif Shawky, Gabi Abi Aad, Javed Anjum and Stephanos Mendonis (NCR sales team), Mohamed Abu Habib, Mohammed Arafeh and Kuwait services team, Jaypal Nambakat, Yahya AbdelKhaleq, and Muddassir Ali (PS team), Ahmad Murad (MEA PS team), as well as You-Yan Li for the support extended during the bid review process. A win in the SW and financial kiosk space is always a highlight, but when it is for NBK, one of the largest banks in MEA, it should be prime news! We worked as one team, we had a plan, and we executed the plan. Now we need to deliver so we can make this account a lighthouse account for all NCR solutions that we have installed there. Congratulations to the many contributors of this win! said Stelios Fragkos in congratulating the winning team.
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FINANCIAL
NCR has won a deal in Vietnam to supply the countrys first ever biometric ATMs. Thirty-three NCR SelfServ 22e units with an integrated thumbprint reader have been deployed by Mekong Development Bank (MDB) in its first ever purchase of ATMs. Aside from the biometric technology, the deal is significant because MDBs parent, Maritime Bank, is a Diebold stronghold. Mekong was looking for a differentiator a way to attract the young, tech-savvy middle class, as well as aid financial inclusion and increase security against card skimming. The consumers thumbprint is used in place of a PIN to verify the identity of the cardholder. The bank is delighted with the success of its biometric ATMs and has embarked on an intensive marketing campaign what you might call a thumb drive! Congratulations on this win are due for Chew Chee Chin (NCR channel account manager), Jim Lim (NCR channel account director), as well as for NCR channel partner Microtec Vietnam team. Namely, Dang Thanh Phong, Nguyen Duc Chien and Nguyen Bach Viet, who were the key contributors to this win.
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Cashcard Does a U-turn NCR is in the final stages of negotiating a five-year services contract with Australias biggest independent ATM deployer, Cashcard. Cashcard is an arm of the payments-processing behemoth First Data International (FDI), who, five years ago, gave Wincor its first and massive foothold in the Australian market with an order for 5,000 off-site ATMs. This represented a 20% market share overnight, with services provided by Wincors local maintenance partner, ITS. But already the tide is turning and NCR is on the cusp of winning back the maintenance. Once signed, the deal would see NCR maintaining more Wincor ATMs than Wincor. Next stop hardware!
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Dubai Duty Free Continues its Journey with NCR Dubai Duty Free (DDF) continues its journey with NCR, with the signing of a contract for NCR RealPOS 82XRT units with i5 Processor technology worth $392K to be deployed in the Dubai Airport New Concourse 3, which will open soon. This strategic order was secured in close cooperation with Emirates Computers (NCR retail partner). Dubai Duty Free is a strategic account for NCR in the Gulf area and the first in this area to deploy the newest family of NCR RealPOS with i5 technology. At present, DDF has more than 300 NCR POS units operational in its outlets at Terminal 1, 2, & 3 in the Dubai International Airport. Congratulations on this win goes to Emirates Computers team, as well as Manoj Mishra, Nicholas Antonio and Michael Aniftos from the NCR Retail sales team. Habib, Manoj, Mike, Nick and all contributors, this is a very strategic win in one of the most visible accounts in MEA and across the world. Dubai Airport is among the largest airports in the world and millions of people, see the NCR POS performing hundreds of thousands of transactions every single day. The fact that for so many years Dubai Duty Free is using NCR POS is another example of the reliability and high quality products we offer, which ensure the ultimate consumer experience at all times said George Flouros, amongst others in his congrats message.
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CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS
From: Peter Davies Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 7:40 AM To: Ganapathi, Shankar Subject: Thank You !! Dear Shankar, This note is very late, but I would like to sincerely thank you and your team for their hard work, cooperation and patience during our integration project (with Oman International Bank), as we could not have achieved the closing of this deal without your assistance. Specifically, this was in relation to the printing of a number of documents at very short notice.
We shall be reaching another milestone in our integration in late November, when we shall, again, be requiring your assistance and I know the Purchasing team are looking forward to working alongside your team once more to achieve our goals. Once again, thank you very much for your support. Kind regards Peter Davies Chief Operating Officer and Head of Integration HSBC Bank Oman SAOG
Shankar Ganapathi Debasish Sarkar Sandeep Thapar V Raghuraman & Gulf CMS Team
Congratulations to
RECOGNITIONS
This is a major achievement for the Gulf States. I want to thank you both and all the team members, who were instrumental to get certification on required courses in sees and CCIE's said Najeeb Hatoum (MEA Services VP) in congratulating Raed Almadieh, Adel Harb and the Gulf Services team.
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This press clipping titled Services successfully completed CAIT citizen center in cooperation with NCR the global technology was recently published in a number of local media in Kuwait and refers to the successful call center implementation project by NCR at CAIT (Central Agency of Information Technology of Kuwait company). Congratulations to Ahmed Jamal (NCR MEA solution Sales), as well as Mohamed Habib (NCR Kuwait Services) on this successful implementation.
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