ITWorx
ITWorx is a professional software services firm in Egypt. Headquartered in Cairo, with development centers in Cairo and Alexandria, ITWorx has other offices in the Gulf region, namely the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, and is represented in Europe. Today ITWorx has around 800 employees operating in global locations. The company offers , business intelligence, enterprise application integration, and application development outsourcing services to Forbes Global 2000 companies. In 2008 ITWorx became privately held, with financial backing from the EuroMena Fund, Venture Capital Bank and Proparco.
Overview
ITWorx was founded in 1994 by three partners, Wael Amin, Youssri Helmy , and Ahmed Badr in Cairo, Egypt to provide solutions for the company’s first customer, Corel Corporation, in Canada. A year later, ITWorx began working for one of the largest conglomerates in the US and worldwide, United Technologies (UTC), which owns Carrier Corporation (A/Cs), Otis Elevator Company (elevators and escalators), Pratt & Whitney (aircraft engines), and Sikorsky (helicopters), among other business units. With an increasing number of major US customers such as UTC, Standish Mellon, Adobe, Wells Fargo, and Riskclick, the company set up an office in the US in 1998. ITWorx portfolio of products and services supports Microsoft Education Solutions to advance and sustain e-learning initiatives adopted by local and national education authorities, private and public schools, and colleges and higher education institutions, as well as Microsoft partners worldwide. In the government field, ITWorx engages with ministries and governmental agencies to help them deliver advanced, automated, and secure citizen-centric services. Services for telecommunication companies include infrastructure building and integration; multi-channel self-service and e-commerce portals; credit risk management solutions, and applications maintenance and support. ITWorx helps financial services customers worldwide by developing, co-creating, and customizing solutions that address the critical concerns of the banking, securities, and capital market industries.
The Company uses the IBM Rational Functional Tester to verify the quality of complex product deployments. It also uses IBM Rational AppScan to verify that its web applications are secure. The Company also uses Ounce Labs Ounce 6 to deliver the most secure software.
Partners
ITWorx serves governments, financial services firms, educational institutions, telecommunication operators, and media companies in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. ITWorx engagement model is based on forging long term strategic partnership relationships with its customers. It has thus since 1994 amassed a list of industry-leading Fortune 500 repeat customers the likes of United Technologies, Microsoft, Vodafone, and Mellon Bank.
ITWorx is partnered with Magic Quadrant technology vendors including Vignette, IBM, BEA Systems (now Oracle), Oracle Corporation, and Microsoft. It is ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI Level 3 certified.
Awards
ITWorx was announced as “Partner of the Year for Custom Development Solutions” in the Web Development category at the 2007 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program Awards. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft Partners delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology. The awards were distributed at a ceremony on July 11 in Denver, CO at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
Also in 2007, ITWorx won Adobe's "Site of the Day" award (formerly known as Macromedia's Site of the day before the merger of the two software companies) which recognizes websites based on their strong visual designs, superior functionalities, and innovative uses of Adobe products.