EGYPT OUTSOURCING COMPANY

DESCRIPTION
Brand name:
RDI stands for “Research & Development International”.

Official name:
The Engineering Company for the Development of Computer Systems

RDI is a leading Egyptian corporate software house in Egypt and Middle East. Since 1993, RDI has been fast growing, adopting a mission of serving Islam, Arabic language and culture.

Current Coverage:
• Egypt (head office in Al-Harem and 3D animations unit in Al-Mohandeseen)
• UAE-Abu Dhabi office
• KSA office
RDI has made use of over 30 M.Sc. & Ph.D. @ Cairo University, about 15 of them through RDI. Thus RDI started a real bridge between the Academia & the society.

Human Assets:
• PhD. Certified/students: 7%
• M.Sc. Certified/students: 20%
• Microsoft certified (MCP, MCDBA, MCSE, MCAD): 20%
• Linux security professionals: 2%
• Macromedia certified professionals (MMCP): 9%

Lines of Business:
RDI has three major business lines:
1. Tools and Technologies
2. E-Learning Solutions
3. 3D Animations

Tools and technologies mainly dedicated for serving Arabic text and speech.

Speech Technologies
• Arabic Text-To-Speech (TTS); ArabTalk©.
• Small Vocabulary ASR Voice Command; Labeeb©.
• Speech Verification:
• Self learning of Arabic Language
• Applied on the recitation rules of the Holy Qur’aan; Hafss©.

Arabic NLP
• High performance Arabic Lexical Analyzer and Disambiguator; Arab Morpho©
• High performance Arabic Text Diacritizer (phonetizer); ArabDiac©
• High performance Arabic POS-Tagger; ArabTagger©
• Large-scale Arabic Derivative Search Engine; Swift©

And a huge library of language and Qur'an resources
• Circumstances of Revelation
• Meanings, Recitations
• Topics tree for Qur'an
• Recitations and Explanations for many Scholars
• Arabic Language Resources "LR"; our already made databases or new customized ones.

Awards and Achievements:
• “Best of GITEX 1996” from the BYTE Middle East magazine.
The award was for speech compression.

E-Learning Solutions

Overview
E-learning is the one of the more important Lines of business in RDI, it was initiated at 2001.
RDI focused on producing E-content, yet it had delivered turn key solution via cooperation with sister companies.

RDI distinctly and densely produce e-learning solutions enriched with animations and simulations for educational as well as vocational training projects for various levels and ages; from primary to secondary, and in various languages; from Arabic, English and other Latin based languages, and for different curricula; from History to Physics and from Religion to Mathematics. These solutions are used by major corporations, governments, and educational sectors around the world.

Positioning
RDI E-content is considered one of the best available in the region in producing e-content, & there is a capability to produce better quality upon having the suitable fund.

Expertise
The technical team is composed of a group of consultants in education, project managers, developers, and graphics designers that have extended technical experience in similar projects, all these under the supervision of a group of university professors who promote scientific research.

E-Content
A huge library of already made Flash, videos, and images (MM catalogue) plus the technical capability to make new projects through wide array of multimedia resources for learning that can be categorized into:
A. Animations and videos
B. Interactive lessons
C. Interactive e-labs
D. Exams
E. Evaluation
F. Education via entertainment (edutainment)

All these are used to enhance the education process and can be SCORM complaint what makes our content can be easily integrated with any of the learning management systems (LMS)

3D Animations business line started at 2002 in RDI with the first episode of "Hummus and Bundouk" that was awarded the Gold prize of the “8th Cairo Festival of Broadcasting & TV; year 2002”.

SKILLS
Spectrum of products and services:
* Arabic Human Language Technologies (HLT) esp. in the fields of Arabic speech processing (Arabic text-to-speech; TTS, speech verification (for the self learning of spoken Arabic language), text-concept-to-speech; TCTS (a novel tech. for very low bit rate speech compression), and small vocabulary automatic speech recognition (for commanding by voice).
* Written Arabic language processing; morphological analyzer, automatic Arabic diacritizer (vowelizer), Arabic POS-tagger, and Arabic derivative search engine.
* Building Arabic HLT knowledge and training data bases.
* Providing training and consultancy on Arabic HLT projects and problems.
* E-learning enriched with animations and simulations for educational as well as vocational training projects; e.g. school city for the gulf area.
* 3D cartoon animation.
* Numerous rich audio/textual multimedia encyclopedia on Arabic history and cultural heritage, some of which are bilingual (Arabic/English).
* Education via entertainment (edutainment).

LOCATION Egypt - Giza, Giza EMPLOYEES 100-499 YEARS IN BUSINESS 11+ years CONTACT INFORMATION Register or Login to view the outsourcing service provider contact information.