Novell and Atos Origin Form Global Partnership to Jointly Deliver Innovative
Compliance and Governance Solutions
Premiere and INEM first European customers of joint offering
SALT LAKE CITY and PARIS, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
BrainShare(R) 2008 -- Novell and Atos Origin, an international IT services
company, are partnering to deliver new joint compliance and governance
solutions. Leveraging Novell's award-winning identity and security management
technologies and Atos Origin's consulting, systems integration and managed
operations services, the companies will deliver end-to-end solutions to allow
customers to meet stringent security, governance and compliance requirements.
As a result, customers can reduce both risk and cost through automating their
user provisioning, access and security monitoring processes.
"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."
Eugenio Garcia, chief security officer at Instituto de Empleo Servicio
Publico de Empleo Estatal (INEM), the Spanish State Public Employment
Services, said, "Novell's solutions contribute to INEM's strategy to focus
more strongly on identity, security and access management. Over the recent
years, both Atos Origin and Novell have proven to be reliable providers. We
applaud the strategic partnership between these two companies as they are key
providers for INEM."
"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."
Ron Hovsepian, president and CEO of Novell, said, "As a leading global IT
services firm, Atos Origin is a great partner for Novell for expanding our
governance and compliance solutions in the market. Today's announcement is
another important step forward in Novell's strategy of leveraging strategic
partners to drive our product growth. We look forward to expanding our joint
collaboration with Atos Origin over time to bring additional Linux and systems
management solutions to customers."
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 Paris Eurolist Market and
trades as Atos Origin, Atos Worldline and Atos Consulting.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most
interoperable Linux* platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management
software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and
risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell
harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology
to work as one. For more information, visit http://www.novell.com.
Novell is a registered trademark and BrainShare is a registered service
mark of Novell, Inc. in the United States and other countries. *Linux is a
registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other third-party trademarks are
the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE Novell, Inc.
Charlotte Betterley of Novell, Inc., +1-781-464-8253, cbetterley@novell.com;
or Jose de Vries of Atos Origin, +31 6 30 27 26 11,
jose.devries@atosorigin.com
