For the third successive year, the National Computer Systems Company (Natcom) has been awarded the distinction of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Partner of the Year (2016) at a recently held GITEX Award ceremony. The award was received by NATCOM's chairman Ali Alireza from Chris Johnson, VP Enterprise Group and Managing Director of MEMA, as well as Dr. Khaled Al-Dhaher, Managing Director of HPE Saudi Arabia. NATCOM was congratulated by HPE for its "loyalty to HP and for promoting HPE as the first choice to their customers." Also, Natcom was lauded for its success in penetrating new accounts, especially in the small and medium enterprise (SME) market, for delivering end-to-end solutions, for having a wide geographical coverage, always being No. 1 or No. 2 in terms of overall achievement, and for delivering the full HP portfolio based on the latest IT trends of big data, cloud, mobility and security. NATCOM is a trailblazer in the Saudi IT market and one of Saudi Arabia›s first technology companies, having been established over 35 years ago. It is a leader in delivering total solutions using multi-vendor hardware and software products. While NATCOM was established with an emphasis on serving large enterprises as well as governmental organizations, it is also a major provider of IT products and services to the SME segment of the IT market. — SG