Access360 appoints ECS as their first Systems Integration Partner in Asia
Strategic partnership to provide complete solutions in access rights control and management
Singapore, 18 October 2000 - Access360, the world leader in Internet infrastructure software solutions for access management and provisioning in the enterprise, B2B and ASP marketplaces, announced a strategic partnership with ECS Computers (Asia) Pte Ltd.
Through this partnership Access360 appoints ECS as its Systems Integration Partner, the company's first signed partner in Asia, to fulfill Access360's products and services to its end-users in Singapore and in the region. ECS will be authorised to license Access360's software products,and provide professional service for software delivery, installation and implementation to customers.
The appointment of ECS follows a practice by Access360 to find and engage partners of the highest quality. Partners with a proven track record in the market.
ECS' infrastructure and resources in singapore and in the region will help Access360 respond faster to customer needs. Its understanding of the market and of the unique requirements of customers will help bring the technological and RPM leadership of Access360 to provide customers with total solutions to solve their business challenges in access rights control, management and security provisioning.
"Access360 will grow with our partner where they grow," said Bryan Tan, General Manager of Access360 in South Asia. "We will help ECS become the premeire implementation partner in this region."
The appointment of ECS as its first signed partner in this region is a clear indication of Access360's commitment to the local market and customers. Access360 recognises the growing need of companies in this region, to protect its information resources through proper management of access rights to its information network. To help address this need, it will work with ECS to bring in additional trained resources to help customers achieve the objective of managing access rights.
"We thank Access360 for appointing ECS as its strategic partner," said Mr Tay Eng Hoe, Managing director, ECS Computers (Asia) pte Ltd. "today's business cycles move at warp speed. Companies must respond rapidly to change, to e-business initiatives and to customer demands while continuing to keep operating costs in check. The complex array of business resources - operating systems, security systems, applications and databases that comprise the extended enterprise need to be enforced to determine who gets access to what business resources, when and why."
"With these complexities, we see good potential and market opportunities in the Resource Provisioning Management Solutions offered by Access360. ECS has embarked on its transformation to help companies become e-corporations. Having a wide portfolio of leading-edge products and the technical capabilities to deploy them are value propositions ECS can greatly enhance upon. With Access360's Resource Provisioning Management solutions, we can now offer even more comprehensive integration and end-to-end solutions for the extended enterprise," Mr Tay added.
With the local readiness of ECS' resources, Access360 will be strategically introducing enRole, its flagship software solution for access management to large enterprise to large enterprises in the banking, financial, and tele communications sectors, and large multi-nationals across various industries.
enRole is an administrative umbrella for controlling employee and third party access to information and applications within a company's network, intranet and extranet communities. By creating an efficient, manageable and auditable entral point of control for access rights, enRole quickly welcomes new employees, business partners and vendors into an information enterprise. And when those parties change location or need to be removed from the system, enRole can be quickly deployed to protect the corporation's information assets.
About Access360
With its global head office in Irvine, California, Access360 is the leader in Internet infrastructure software solutions for enterprise-wide access management and provisioning in the enterprise, busines-to-business (B2B), & Application Service Provider (ASP) marketplace.Access360 serves Global 2000 customers in a wide range of markets,including Internet-based and traditional finance,manufacturing and telecommunication companies. The company's enRole product, with over 900,000 users managed today,introduces a unified layer of control and a single source for managing and auditing access on multiple platforms, making e-business and access management faster, cheaper and more effective.
About ECS Computers
Established in 1982, ECS Computers (Asia) Pte Ltd is a member of NatSteel Electronics. As an IT Hub, ECS offers IT services and the best-of-breed e-commerce enabling products and solutions. Integrated solutions incorporating leading-edge technology are offered through strategic alliances with industry leading vendors and its wide and established channel of resellers and system integrators. Amongst the products and solutions offered are Access360, Sun Microsystems, iPlanet, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, Lotus and Check Point. Education and consulting services on cross-platform integration, network and security design, portal design and implementation are also offered. For more information, please call (65)2999433 or refer to http://www.ecs.com.sg.
