GFT and Entegrity Form Strategic Partnership
St. Georgen, Germany - July 10, 2002 - GFT Technologies
AG, one of Europe's leading service providers for integrated
IT consulting and systems integration, today announces a strategic
partnership with Entegrity Solutions®, a world leader
in application security. Through this partnership GFT will
be Reseller and Systems Integrator for AssureAccess - the
Entegrity award-winning access management software. GFT's
partnership with Entegrity covers Austria, Germany, Spain
and Switzerland.
Enhanced Security Offering by GFT
GFT's clients will benefit from the cooperation of the two
companies through GFT's strategic consultancy and the implementation
of Entegrity's latest access management software - AssureAccess
2.0 alongside portal and CRM solutions. Fifteen GFT consultants
have already been trained by Entegrity to deploy AssureAccess
2.0, enabling the creation of secure e-business solutions
that include authentication, single-sign-on, authorisation,
audit, user management and security policy administration.
AssureAccess enables organisations to quickly deploy and
update their security within multiple web applications. The
benefits include more reliable security implementations, shorter,
more predictable deployment schedules and significantly reduces
development costs, especially for companies that continually
add and enhance online applications.
"Our partnership with Entegrity brings our clients a great
opportunity to benefit from the proven access management advantages
that AssureAccess provides", said Peter Ruchatz, Managing
Director of the Security Line of Business at GFT.
Ian Hendry, Entegrity Director of European operations, says:
"We are very excited to have signed this partnership with
GFT, who have a tremendous reputation across Europe for the
development of innovative, but above all, secure e-Business
applications".
About GFT Technologies AG
GFT Technologies AG (GFT) is one of Europe's leading service
providers for integrated IT consulting and systems integration.
As partner of established and long-term clients from promising
industries, GFT implements innovative and intelligent business
models that are based on cutting-edge technologies. Besides
the financial services sector, GFT is focused on the business
areas of Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Application
Integration, Enterprise Portals and Security. GFT achieved
revenues of € 147.86m. in 2001. The
GFT Group, headquartered in Germany, was founded in 1987 and
employs around 1.300 professionals at 22 locations in Austria,
France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, the
United Kingdom and the United States.
About Entegrity Solutions
Entegrity is a leading provider of application security for
Web and Java-based Web sites, portals and Web services. Its
security products include AssureAccess access management software
that provides authentication, single-sign-on, authorisation,
audit and security policy administration and AssureDelivery,
which provides file content security for all types of files
sent over networks. Organisations that develop applications
using Java technology and J2EE application servers not only
benefit from pace-setting security, but also, realize shorter
and more predictable application deployment schedules, and
much lower security integration costs. This benefits both
enterprises and their system integrators. Entegrity also provides
Entegrity DCE and DFS, the most widely accepted solutions
for developing and deploying secure distributed computing
applications enterprise-wide. AOL, Citibank, Reuters and the
Federal Reserve Bank are just a few of the organisations that
rely on security solutions from Entegrity.
Entegrity Solutions in headquartered in San Jose, California,
with sales, services, operations and R&D facilities in Massachusetts,
Maryland, New Hampshire, Texas and the UK. For more information,
visit the Entegrity Web site at www.entegrity.com.
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Entegrity®, Entegrity Solutions®, AssureAccess®, AssureDelivery™ and Gradient® are registered trademarks of Entegrity Solutions Corporation.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
For additional information, please contact:
Public Relations at Entegrity.com
Toll Free (US): 1-800-525-4343
(Outside U.S.): 1-603-888-1473 x2700
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