RIYADH, 22 September 2004 — Mir International Company Ltd. (MICL), a major scientific and engineering solutions company operating in Saudi Arabia, has announced innovative products and solutions.
The announcement was made at a scientific symposium organized at King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) here.
Mir Himayath Ali, MICL’s managing director, said that “MICL is engaged in distributing leading third party products in statistical and mathematical analysis software and in selling Systat and Sigma Series, the global number one in statistical and mathematical analysis and graphing.”
The symposium was attended by a number of officials and experts from Saudi ministries, KACST and other institutions.
The symposium, addressed by a renowned expert Dr. Vadiraja Nagaraja Rao, head of the technical support at Systat Inc., highlighted the statistical software packages with special reference to the applications of Systat range of products in science and technology. Senior MICL executive M. Asgharuddin Ahmed also attended the event.
Himayath said that MICL is an official representative of Cranes Software International for distributing their whole range of products and services in the Middle East and Africa. “MICL with a definite and distinct focus on product distribution, service and training follows a vertically integrated business model,” he said, adding that MICL services offered in all the three streams, bear testimony to the efficacy of this business model.
“A total of $3 million is MICL’s commitment toward development of academic and research segment,” he said.
MICL has leveraged its captive source of IT business requirements in the local Middle East and Africa market and long relationship with its other principals like NetSolutions FZ LLC of the UAE and customers like multinationals, corporate clients and government agencies, he said. “The company’s team of experts based in Bangalore, India, and in Dubai has executed major contracts across the Gulf countries during the last 60 months,” he added.
Referring to the salient features of some of its solutions and products, Himayath said that Systat is rated among the top five statistical analysis products in the world. “Systat 11, as the new version is called, can provide statisticians and professional researchers advanced statistical and technical graphing capabilities.”He said that Cranes Software International, which is locally represented by MICL, has been able to take the turnover of its Systat product from two million dollars to $10 million.
He pointed out that Systat provides an entire module dedicated to Monte Carlo and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation. “Many experiments in defense and aerospace domain are done to determine how a system responds to a change in some factors,” explained Himayath adding that Systat has its applications in life sciences, social sciences, agricultural sciences, chemical and physical sciences which help to identify statistically significant differences in a single variable and analyze data from experiments with multiple factors.
“In addition, Systat provides a broad range of statistical methods in environmental research areas such as surface-level ozone, a pollutant that has adverse health effects on humans and causes damage to crops and vegetation,” said the MICL official, adding that Systat can help to predict trends in atmospheric deposition of gases and other pollutants.
