Lebanon-based information technology firm Software Design Consulting Group (SDCG) is a rare success story in the country’s landscape of IT developers and implementers with a combined domestic and regional approach. Bucking trends of decline suffered by the Lebanese IT industry, in 2004 the firm realized a 16% growth of business and is rallying even stronger this year, projecting a near 50% increase in results based on its performance from January to mid-August. The company’s field of activity is software development and the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for corporate customers at the upper end of the small and medium enterprise market. ERP is an umbrella term for software that assists businesses in optimizing the integrative management of all facets of their activities, including planning, manufacturing, sales and marketing. Within SDCG’s concentration in this market, its core products are an accountancy and inventory system dubbed Dolphin and a modular
