SBM Overview

At SBM, we offer integrated technology solutions, which are at the cutting edge of the global business landscape. In optimizing processes and facilitating transactions, SBM empowers its customers with the right systems to compete in business, with full force. Supported by decades of experience and in partnership with world’s principal technology brands, SBM today is the leading solutions provider for key companies and governmental organizations, in a multitude of industries across the Kingdom.

• BACKGROUND

At its very essence, SBM represents the acquisition and implementation of the latest technology, for the purpose of empowerment and development. Being a witness to the early success of IBM in the Kingdom in establishing the first information-handling system for the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), the Juffali Group recognized the need for technology solutions in a rapidly growing economy and spearheaded this visionary task in 1981, when it established SBM (Saudi Business Machines), as the nationwide General Marketing and Service Representative (GMSR) of IBM World Trade Corporation. Since then, its pool of strategic alliances has grown to encompass among others, CISCO being its largest partner in the Kingdom, SAP Practices and Lucent Technologies.

• EMPLOYEES

SBM has rapidly grown into an institution which boasts a repertoire of the best minds in the field, capable of integrating the most complex of technology systems. Our workforce consists of more than 900 employees, dispersed across the company headquarters in Jeddah, and in offices in Riyadh, Al Khobar and Jobail. SBM experts are dedicated to providing customers with original, inventive solutions which answer their specific needs, propelling their business into a new era of productivity and efficiency.

• SERVICE

SBM’s portfolio of services spans a multitude of specialties including: hardware and software solutions, networking and security solutions, business recovery and operation support (including both IBM and non-IBM products), integrated technology solutions and finally, professional services. SBM’s signature IBM Enterprise Software Solutions has made it the choice information technology solution provider for many critical projects as detailed in our Customer Successes.

• CUSTOMER SUCCESS

Our customer portfolio of successes, gives credence to the quality of our service, our high standards and solid reputation in the Kingdom. Over the past few decades, SBM has procured numerous key governmental contracts, such as the e-payment system for the social security program, the development of the Kingdom’s largest refineries telecom networks, as well as the digitizing of various governmental organizations and leading banks.
SBM today is the primary provider of total end-to-end integrated IT solutions, within the Kingdom, which allow our customers the opportunity to operate at a global level and to conduct more efficient business every day. SBM is credited with strengthening the Kingdom’s infrastructure, allowing it to flourish against a backdrop of aggressive demographic and economic growth, which has marked the region in the last few decades. SBM continues to invest in its capacity as leader in the industry, by adopting global standards, attracting the best talents and fostering an atmosphere of innovation to allow for customers’ enhanced opportunity to collaborate, network and achieve.