As a Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Center, RITSEC undertook the initiative to support the Arab countries in developing their Information Technology and Software Engineering sectors. RITSEC supported the Arab countries in this respect using state-of-the-art tools and techniques, which it gained access to through the many international alliances that it formed.

State-of-the-Art Software Engineering Tools
Among these tools that RITSEC utilized are the following:

• Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE)
  which RITSEC gained through an agreement with Texas Instruments (TI), enabling it to acquire 13 copies of the CASE software and to receive training for 25 engineers.
  
  
• Information Engineering (IE)



• Information Strategy Planning (ISP)



• Structured Methodologies:
  • Information Architecture,
    which defines the functions and information needs of the organization and identifies the alignment of the functions with the information needs.
    
    
  • Business Architecture,
    which identifies who controls activities and groups them into families of similar functions and date of similar types.
    
    
  • Technical Architecture,
    which identifies the hardware requirements and determines the networking requirements
    
    By utilizing these tools and techniques and capitalizing on its international alliances, RITSEC trained and created a team of internationally certified software engineers. RITSEC then built upon this experience and implemented a series of projects in several Arab countries utilizing its highly specialized team of software engineers and the latest available tools and techniques. This team then went to implement projects in many other countries outside the Arab region.
    
    The outcome of RITSEC's work in this field is grouped into implemented projects, developed products, consultation and technical assistance services and events.