I am glad to write my first article on our beloved company website. For the last week I have been thinking about the topic to start with and didn't find a better start than to talk to you about our fantastic piece of software SIMS. I hope you find the article both beneficial and entertaining.
 
 Let me give you a glimpse of what we think in open scope of SIMS. We don't think of it as only a piece of software that can help manage schools and get together students, faculty and staff. Rather, we think of SIMS as an inspiration for better education, better management and an effective medium of communication for all parties involved in education. We tend to think of SIMS as our baby in open scope, since its first steps 3 years ago; SIMS was a trial for an effective way to manage schools. Here in Egypt our homeland we face a lot of difficulties when talking software, it feels like a nightmare for staff who are usually used to work with lots and lots of papers.  They tend to avoid software and think of it as a creepy thing that takes a lot of time to learn. This was our first challenge to create awareness among those school people and destroy the barrier that they have created towards software. It was a hefty challenge that started with trying to analyze and know from where their fear comes. We had our first opportunity with a popular school in Egypt where we could step up our first steps in this challenge to come. After a couple of interviews with the school staff we began to realize that fear from software is a mix between seeing software as a very difficult tool and also their concern regarding the possibility that software can end up replacing them. Also the fact that some of the staff are old and not really familiar with using PCs added to the challenge.