Enterprise Software Development Company in Dubai

Enterprise budgets are set by integration surface and assurance burden far more than by feature count, so these are honest bands and we quote fixed fee in AED against written scope with the 5 percent UAE VAT itemised separately. A discovery and architecture engagement producing a threat model, data classification, integration contract, residency decision and a costed delivery plan typically runs AED 120,000 to AED 300,000 over six to ten weeks, and it is worth buying separately before committing to a build. A production enterprise platform, meaning a real system of record with identity integration, five to fifteen upstream and downstream integrations, bilingual Arabic and English interfaces, audit logging and an operational handover, typically runs AED 900,000 to AED 2,600,000. A multi-year modernisation programme replacing a legacy estate through progressive migration, with parallel running, data reconciliation and phased decommissioning, runs AED 2,600,000 to AED 7,000,000 and upward. Our blended rate sits well below London, Zurich, New York, San Francisco and Singapore equivalents and below Dubai-resident systems integrators, because our engineers are in Edmonton and Chandigarh rather than carrying DIFC or Downtown Dubai office cost in every hour. We do not quote before scope exists.

By never attempting a big-bang cut-over, which in a Dubai enterprise estate is usually the failure mode rather than the plan. The approach is the strangler pattern: put a routing facade in front of the legacy system, move one bounded capability at a time behind that facade, and keep the legacy system authoritative until the replacement has demonstrably matched it on real traffic. That demands three things people underestimate. First, a reconciliation job that runs both systems against the same inputs and diffs the outputs daily, so divergence is caught as a report rather than as a complaint from a business unit. Second, an anti-corruption layer, because a thirty-year-old data model will otherwise leak its assumptions straight into the new one and you will have paid to rebuild the same problem. Third, a decommissioning plan with named owners and dates, since the common outcome of a partial modernisation is two systems running forever at double the cost. Where the legacy estate is an AS/400, an Oracle Forms application or an unsupported vendor product, we also budget explicitly for knowledge archaeology, because the specification is usually the code and a small number of people who remember why. Each migrated capability ships with parallel running, a rollback point and a written acceptance from the business owner before the legacy path is closed.

We treat security assurance as a delivery workstream with dated artefacts rather than a document produced the week before a review. That starts with data classification per entity in the system, mapped to who may see it and where it may live, then a written threat model using STRIDE against the actual architecture, refreshed whenever the integration surface changes. Access control is role-based with least privilege, with privileged access separated and every administrative action logged immutably. Audit trail design is deliberate: who viewed which record, not only who changed it, because that is the question inspectors ask about resident and customer data. We build the pipeline with static analysis, dependency and container scanning, secrets detection and signed artefacts, and we produce evidence from the pipeline rather than by screenshot. Penetration testing is scheduled before go-live and after significant change, remediated to a written acceptance, and business continuity has a tested recovery objective rather than an aspirational one. Where your organisation is a Dubai government body or a supplier to one, we align the artefact set to the Dubai Electronic Security Center information security regulation your assurance team works to, and we ask for their current control mapping in discovery instead of guessing at it.

Yes, and for any resident-facing enterprise service in Dubai it should be the default rather than a phase two item. UAE PASS is the national digital identity and integrates over OpenID Connect, returning a verified identity for the resident along with the attributes your service is entitled to request, and supporting digital signature flows for documents that need one. The engineering considerations that matter are practical. Entitlement is granted per service and per attribute, so discovery has to establish what your organisation is actually approved to receive rather than what would be convenient. Account linking needs care, because an existing enterprise account and a UAE PASS identity have to be reconciled without allowing takeover of an existing record, so we bind on verified identifiers with an explicit confirmation step. Emirates ID follows a fifteen-digit structure beginning with 784 and ending in a check digit, and we validate the checksum on entry and classify it as identifying data with tighter access control and masked display by default. For non-residents and corporate users we keep a parallel path with your existing identity provider, because a UAE PASS-only design excludes people your service still has to serve.

Parity means the Arabic interface is the same product, not a translated afterthought with a broken layout. We implement direction with CSS logical properties and a document direction attribute, so a single stylesheet serves both languages and new components inherit correct behaviour instead of needing a mirrored override. Bidirectional text handling is explicit, because an IBAN, a reference number, a Latin brand name or an email address embedded in an Arabic sentence will render in the wrong order without it, and enterprise systems are full of exactly those strings. Content is externalised with a translation workflow your communications team can actually operate, with Modern Standard Arabic for formal and government-facing copy. Data-layer concerns are handled too: Arabic collation for sorting, Arabic-aware full-text search with alef and hamza normalisation and diacritic folding, and Arabic-Indic numeral display where users expect it while storage stays canonical. Hijri dates appear beside Gregorian in contexts where residents expect them, and Ramadan and Eid dates shift the operational calendar each year. Typography is chosen for both scripts together, and we test with real Arabic content rather than placeholder text, because Arabic strings routinely break layouts sized against English.

By being explicit about the clock rather than promising a follow-the-sun story that does not survive an incident. Dubai runs on Gulf Standard Time, UTC plus four, with no daylight saving. Chandigarh is Indian Standard Time, UTC plus five and a half, which puts it only ninety minutes ahead of Dubai, so our Chandigarh engineers work essentially the same day as your Dubai team and cover roughly 08:00 to 17:00 Gulf Standard Time synchronously. Edmonton runs Mountain Time, ten hours behind Dubai during Mountain Daylight Time and eleven hours behind in winter, which places its working day across the Dubai evening and night and gives you coverage from around 18:00 GST onward. Combined, that is close to nineteen hours of engineering coverage per weekday and a genuine overnight window for batch migration and long test runs. For production support we agree severity definitions, response and restoration targets, a named on-call rotation across both sites, and an escalation path with a person rather than a mailbox at the end of it. We also work the Sunday-to-Thursday week when your organisation does, and we plan around UAE public holidays and Ramadan hours.