Dubai-- 25 Nov 2015: In an amazing international attestation, Dubai Customs maintains its lead through the 'Year of Innovation' by asserting the Leadership in Government Transformation Award for the 'Smart Capability Investments' category from the FEAC Annual Enterprise Architecture Awards.
Sponsored by the FEAC Institute, USA, the award was launched in 2002 and conceived as the prime granting entity acknowledging the effects of Enterprise Architecture (EA) best practices on achieving efficiencies, greater efficiency, transparency, increased collaboration, and ingenious options to federal government mission outcomes. By winning this award, Dubai Customs exceeded measuring up to significant sophisticated nations that made it to the final screening, including USA, UK, Romania, India and many others.

Dubai Customs Director Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, received the DC working team that won the award in the presence of Juma Al Ghaith, Executive Director, Customs Development Division, who handed him the award. Mr. Musabih hailed their efforts for marking this milestone as an added value to the consecutive successes and developments attained by Dubai Customs both regionally and internationally.

"This global accreditation pertains to showcase our commitment in marking our imprints on the course of imagination, development and quality, following the tracks initially set and drawn by H.H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, in motivating all government entities to seek enhancing customer experience with public services. His highness as soon as said, 'The race for quality has no surface line, and this is exactly what our company believe in and look for to analyze on our day to day practices,'" Ahmed Mahboob said.
Juma Al Ghaith described that "A world driven by consistent change makes it important for us to embrace and make use of the 'Learning Organization' doctrines with all its characteristics. For which, we greatly count on purchasing our human capital as a crucial drive for taking advantage of a wise customs environment efficient in leveraging Dubai Customs into a world class reliable entity.".

Al Ghaith also highlighted that by expanding the EA value across Dubai Customs and through utilizing smart channels; it enhanced its ability to produce the enterprise tasks prioritizations, allowing it to attain its strategic objectives, supply understandings for corporate technique development and create inputs for additional company procedure improvements. He also releaseded, "Dubai Customs ended up being the first electronic government department in October 2013, and pursued its trip in marking flagships of innovative progression by delivering services through cellular phones and watches. We take imagination and advancement as the essential pillars to accomplish Dubai Customs' success, and eventually serve the greater end of leveraging Dubai's competitiveness and the UAE as a whole.".

Director of Business Process Department, Hussam Mohammad Juma said: "This award stands as a worldwide acknowledgment of Dubai Customs business architecture excellence in embracing world class finest practices in this field while introducing cutting edge practices in handling business capacities, which ultimately causes increased operational performance.".

The FEAC Institute hosts the Annual Excellence in Enterprise Architecture Awards since 2002 in partnership with 'Zachman International for Enterprise Architecture', established by John Zachman who is attributed as the dad of contemporary business architecture. He sat the grounds for the Framework for Enterprise Architecture, which is nowadays the de-facto standard in defining EA's ontology around the world.