Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 16 | Page 49

COUNTRY FOCUS: EGYPT public and private sector organisations. Cloud adoption is on the rise in Egypt and organisations in the country have initiated major transformation projects to offer new products, expand into new markets, hire and retain best talent or deliver an exceptional customer experience. “Our commitment to Egypt has only grown and the impact of these investments can be seen in our size, revenue, customer base, products and partners. With the rapid rate of cloud adoption in Egypt and our unique ability to offer completely integrated solution across all layers of the Cloud, such as SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, Oracle will only continue to get bigger and better.” www.intelligentcio.com Rahman Al Thehaiban added Blockchain will affect the business sector in three major areas. “From an operational perspective, Blockchain can enable process improvement from simple optimisation to total transformation,” he said. “For example, the concepts of the decentralised ledger and trusted transactions can replace traditional complex billing or settlement systems. “The second will be from a market perspective; new services and new revenue streams can be easily generated by introducing Peer-To-Peer (P2P) business model. With Blockchain, trusted transactions can be made between two parties or a group of peers with the governance of digital smart contracts and peers verification. “The third area, which comes usually with new trends, is the people. Blockchain is a great enabler for business innovation and the introduction of new talents in the market from different domains. “New business people can think of many innovative P2P ideas; even engineers can build an energy-sharing ecosystem if they utilise Blockchain.” INTELLIGENTCIO 49