I have a weird habit when I travel or research a new country. I don’t just look up the food or the famous landmarks. I start digging into what local businesses are doing, what industries are growing, and whether anything interesting is quietly happening under the surface.
That’s how I found OSOS.
I was reading about Oman’s economy and how the Gulf region has been pushing hard to diversify beyond oil. Somewhere in that rabbit hole, I landed on a company called OSOS, a software firm headquartered in Muscat. My first reaction was something like, “Okay, another ERP company, probably not that interesting.” But I kept reading. And thirty minutes later I was still on their website, genuinely surprised by what I was looking at.
First Things First: What Even Is OSOS?
OSOS is a technology company that builds cloud-based business software. They were founded in 2015 in Oman, and they position themselves as a “Global Technology Partner” for companies across multiple industries.
Now, I know what you might be thinking. Business software sounds about as exciting as watching paint dry. But hear me out, because the scope of what OSOS has built in just ten years is actually kind of wild.
They have over 200 employees, more than 400 customers, and a user base that has crossed 50,000 people. They run offices in Oman and Sri Lanka, and their clients are spread across the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. For a company that started in 2015, that’s a serious amount of ground covered.
The Product Lineup Is Bigger Than I Expected
Here’s what surprised me most. OSOS isn’t just a single piece of software with one function. They’ve built an entire ecosystem of tools, each designed for a different part of how a business runs.
Their flagship product is OSOS ERP, which handles the core operations of a business like finance, supply chain, and HR all in one place. Think of it as the central nervous system of a company. Instead of using five different apps that don’t talk to each other, everything lives in one system.
But the range goes way beyond that. There’s OSOS EduRP for schools and universities, covering everything from fee payments to HR. There’s OSOS HRMS for managing employees, payroll, and leave requests. There’s OSOS FleetRP for companies that operate vehicle fleets, which tracks maintenance, fuel usage, and compliance. There’s OSOS PropRP for real estate businesses, OSOS ClubRP for gyms and health clubs, and OSOS EasyRP which functions as a point-of-sale system for retail.
And then there’s OSOS QHSE, which stands for Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment. This one is aimed at industries like oil and gas, where safety isn’t optional and compliance can mean the difference between a functioning operation and a disaster. I’ll come back to this one because it’s where some of their biggest clients show up.
The Clients Are Not Small Names
I half-expected the customer section of their site to feature some local Omani businesses I’d never heard of. What I found instead were testimonials from companies operating on a genuinely global scale.
Alkhorayef Petroleum has been using OSOS’s QHSE platform since 2019 to manage safety reporting, audits, risk identification, and compliance tracking across their entire global organization. Their Global QHSE Director specifically called out how the system helps enforce standards across the whole company and praised the responsiveness of the customer support team.
NESR (National Energy Services Reunited) deployed the same platform across 15 countries. Their Global HSE Director talked about how the system gave them full visibility into their safety performance at every level, from country-wide down to individual business lines, and that they worked with the OSOS team to customize it to their specific needs.
These are serious companies operating in serious industries. The fact that they’ve trusted OSOS with something as critical as health and safety management says a lot about what the software can actually do.
The Industries They Serve Are All Over the Place
One thing I kept noticing was how wide the net is. OSOS isn’t targeting just one sector. Their platform is built to serve EdTech, PropTech, HealthTech, FinTech, retail, government, and energy. That kind of range usually either means a company is spreading itself too thin, or they’ve built something genuinely flexible enough to adapt.
Based on the client results and the structure of their product lineup, it looks more like the latter. Each product is purpose-built for its industry rather than being a generic tool with a new label slapped on it.
The People Running It Have Done This Before
The leadership team at OSOS isn’t made up of people who just stumbled into the tech world. The CEO, Abdullah Al Kindi, spent years working at Oracle and IFS before starting OSOS. The Chief Revenue Officer, Martin Roshan, has over two decades of experience in the IT industry across the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia, with stints at HP and collaborations with Microsoft and AWS. The Chief Strategy Officer, Aiman Al Maimani, was previously an IT manager and project engineer at Ernst & Young.
This is a team that has been inside big enterprise software companies, seen how they operate, and built something of their own. That context matters. It’s the difference between a product built by people who understand the problems and one built by people who are just guessing.
Why This Actually Matters Beyond Oman
Here’s the thing that stuck with me after I closed the tab and took a break from my research spiral.
We spend a lot of time talking about tech companies from the US, Europe, or the big Asian markets. When people say “global tech,” they almost always mean companies from those regions. But the world is bigger than that, and innovation doesn’t follow geography.
OSOS is proof of that. A company launched in Oman ten years ago now has over 50,000 users, clients in 15 countries, and a product ecosystem that covers everything from school administration to offshore oil safety. That’s not a regional success story. That’s a real company solving real problems at real scale.
I wasn’t expecting to be impressed when I started poking around their website. I came in skeptical and left genuinely curious. And in my experience, that’s usually a sign worth paying attention to.
If you want to take a look yourself, head over to OSOS. They have a demo booking option if you’re actually in the market for enterprise software, but even just browsing their product pages gives you a solid sense of what they’ve built.