"We are very pleased to see the cooperation between Novell and Atos Origin," said Günter Weinrauch, vice president of Information Management for Premiere, Germany's leading cable TV operator. "Like any customer, we want our key service and software partners to work together to deliver solutions tailored for our environment so we don't have to spend time and resources internally in deploying and integrating technology. We've already seen the first fruits of the partnership in a core infrastructure solution delivered by the two companies, and we look forward to expanding this to cover security and management solutions, as well."
"Our partnership with Novell expands our leadership in the identity and security management arena and will help us better address our customers' security challenges," said Francis Delacourt, executive vice president of global managed operations at Atos Origin. "Novell's technology can proactively address business needs for a real-time, comprehensive compliance solution that integrates people, systems and processes. With our strong customer relationships worldwide, including our unique position with clients in the IT outsourcing market, Atos Origin is very well positioned to deliver mission-critical governance and compliance solutions to large customers."
Focus
The partnership will initially focus on identity and security management and will be rolled out in major European countries. The three areas of initial focus will be:
-- Identity management and provisioning: automate and integrate employee provisioning and de-provisioning to reduce costs, meet compliance requirements and map to existing business processes. -- Access management: grant secure access to users, both inside and outside the company, from any location, integrating with existing authentication frameworks. -- Security information and event monitoring: monitor, remediate and report on security incidents on the network, meeting governance and compliance requirements.
"The importance of IT security is now top of mind for business executives as well as governments and regulators, given the public focus on major security incidents over the past year," said analyst Eric Domage, research manager, security products and services, for IDC. "Global partnerships such as the agreement announced by Novell and Atos Origin will be important in delivering efficient security solutions to IT organizations, which face increasing regulation as well as growing pressure to address business concerns."
About Atos Origin
Atos Origin is an international information technology services company.
Its business is turning client vision into results through the application of
consulting, systems integration and managed operations. The company's annual
revenues are EUR 5,8 billion and it employs over 50,000 people in 40
countries. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the
Olympic Games and has a client base of international blue-chip companies
across all sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the
About Novell
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