SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and the southern African distributor for Centennial Discovery, a leading network auditing and asset management specialist, today announced that the latter had been named a finalist for the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 20th Annual Codie Awards.
The prestigious awards acknowledge the software and digital content industry's most innovative products and services. It is the only peer recognition programme in the software and information industry today.
"The 20th Annual Codie Awards continue the tradition of honouring the best of the software, content and education technology industries," commented Ken Wasch, SIIA president. "When one considers the number of outstanding companies that competed this year, being named a Codie Awards finalist is a significant achievement."
"We pride ourselves on offering one of the most comprehensive, efficient and cost-effective asset management and network discovery products available to the market today," added Brant Hubbard, general manager of Centennial Software LLC. "We're very excited to be associated with an industry award that utilises peer review to recognise product achievement and feel this nomination helps further validate the prowess of our solution."
Centennial Discovery is the ideal product for IT professionals, who need to quickly and easily ensure software licensing compliance, mitigate network security risks, improve help-desk efficiency and optimise IT network assets. It is the most comprehensive and easily deployed audit tool on the market that ensures fast, accurate discovery and tracking of all network hardware and software assets by physical location enabling organisations to dramatically increase network visibility and reduce IT operation costs.
For further information, please contact Bianca Maritz at telephone (011) 257 8600; fax (011) 257 8699; e-mail biancam@securedata.co.za.
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Centennial Software is a leading supplier of technology inventory management solutions to major organisations around the world, helping to reduce total cost of ownership. Centennial Software has been providing award-winning products for over five years and has a proven track record for providing leading-edge solutions.
Based in Swindon, England, the company was formed in 1997 by a team of highly skilled software engineers with many years experience in developing operating systems and network applications. Working together initially at Digital Research, the team was responsible for the award-winning DR-DOS operating system, and following the acquisition by Novell, developed components of the industry standard Novell NetWare product.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, network security, intrusion prevention software and network asset management.
SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs.
As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies and the southern African distributor for US-based Application Security, eEye, Rocket Software and RSA Security and UK-based Centennial. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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