SecureData lands Rocket Software for Africa

Issued by Global Research Partners for SecureData
Johannesburg, 21 Feb 2005

SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group (ERP), today announced it has been selected as a distributor for Rocket Software across the African continent and the Indian Ocean Islands.

"We are seeing a demand for a wide range of legacy-system-oriented products and services within the enterprise infrastructure market," commented Dean Brazier, Managing Director of SecureData.

"Rocket Software is the market leader and one of the very few players in this particular space and thus our partnership with them was a natural choice particularly as SA has a high concentration of legacy systems. Additionally, Rocket Software's product range complements many of the other solutions we offer in the local market outside the legacy environment."

"SecureData is one of the leading providers of security products, solutions and services on the African continent," added Jonathan Lehr, International Sales Manager at Rocket Software. "We see the African market growing steadily and needed a partner with the correct profile and presence for our inroads into the continent and saw a strong relationship with SecureData as the best way to achieve these objectives."

Rocket Software's main products include a mainframe agent for SecurID and z/OS and its LDAP bridge that allows legacy systems to integrate their directories into the modern directory world. Additionally, through its acquisition of NetCure, Rocket Software offers an enterprise-based network management, monitoring and analysis product as well as an equivalent telecom network management software tool, which is provided through its OSS business unit.

For further information, please contact Andrew Ochse at telephone +27 11 257 8600; fax +27 11 257 8699; e-mail andrewo@securedata.co.za.

Rocket Software

Founded in 1990, Rocket Software is a global development firm that builds enterprise infrastructure products for the world's leading OEMs, networks and software companies. The company's current lines of business complement and extend strategic OEM offerings in the areas of enterprise and mobile security, relational databases, mobile and wireless computing, and operational support systems. Rocket's current OEM relationships and technology partners include IBM, RSA Security, Microsoft, NEC and Toshiba. Rocket Software is based in Newton, Massachusetts, and employs more than 200 people worldwide.

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 southern African distributor for UK-based Centennial and Red-M, and US-based RSA Security, Rocket Software and TippingPoint Technologies. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.

ERP.com

ERP.com (ERP) is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit www.erpcom.co.za.

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