Software Futures has secured the distributorship for Memco security products in South Africa. This adds a third leg to the group`s systems management products, alongside those from New Dimension Software and Dazel, which was signed last month.
Memco Software, founded five years ago, is a Nasqaq-listed company headquartered in Redwood, California, with R&D offices in Tel Aviv. With staff of more than 200, it is represented at clients such as JP Morgan, Time Warner, Chase Manhattan, Motorola, Mastercard MCI and Chrysler.
"Memco has two major areas of focus," says Allen Lewis, MD of Software Futures` systems management business unit. "Firstly, it provides enterprise-wide secure single signon services. Secondly, it controls access to resources, providing IBM RACF-like security management for the Unix and Windows NT markets."
Lewis adds that Memco has an OEM agreement with New Dimension. This means Control-SA and Memco can be sold as a bundled solution or separately. Where Control-SA provides administration and management of security, Memco provides the actual protection of the resources.
"Gartner reports that Memco is well positioned to be the leader in the single signon market," reports Lewis.
Software Futures will be targeting companies with a heterogeneous environment. Lewis says the group has closed the first sale locally, and adds he will be appointing a high-level manager to head the group`s security focus.
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