LINK tries to connect dots in North Africa

A firm called LINKdotNET is attempting to make a big play in the CRM industry of the “Middle East and North Africa region,” launching what is self-promoted at the region’s “first hosted CRM solution.” Representatives of the firm announced today that LINKdotNET “will be offering Customer Relationship Management solutions in a way that makes them far more accessible to small and medium businesses in the region.”

LINKdotNET’s hosted CRM promises to be “the first in the region to offer the sophisticated customer acquisition and retention tools that come with current CRM solutions…” LINKdotNET pledges all the standard advantages of CRM: cost-efficiency, scalability, quickness of deployment, automation of workflow, and such. Check it out for yourself at (what else?) www.link.net.

LINKdotNET is a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom Holding Company, a large-scale integrated telecommunications services provider in the Middle East region. LINKdotNET has regional offices in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and Islamabad, Pakistan. The company employs over 800. As firm PR would have it, “LINKdotNET is, in brief, the Region’s powerhouse that provides, maintains, develops and promotes internet solutions and services.”