SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and the southern African distributor for St Bernard Software, today announced the latter has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Programme for San Diego for the second consecutive year.
The programme ranks the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the area based on the percentage of growth in fiscal year revenues over five years, from 2000-2004. During that period of time, St Bernard Software has experienced a 182% increase in revenue.
St Bernard Software President and CEO, John Jones, credits new product introductions and enhancements, rapidly growing market demand and strong brand recognition of St Bernard products for the fast growth over the last five years.
"Our products provide proven solutions to several critical security needs that every company and school must solve," commented Jones. "By engineering our products to be easy to install, maintain and afford, we enable customers to easily implement comprehensive policy-based perimeter and system security solutions that were only available to the largest companies just a couple years ago."
To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues of at least $50 000 in 2000 and $1 million in 2004, must be public or private companies headquartered in North America, must be in business a minimum of five years, and be a technology company defined as owning proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues; and/or devoting a significant portion of revenues to the research and development of technology.
The rankings, which were determined by Deloitte & Touche, will officially be announced on 22 September 2005 at the Estancia Hotel & Spa in San Diego. Winners of the 19 regional Technology Fast 50 programmes in the US and Canada are automatically entered in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 programme, which ranks North America's top 500 fastest growing technology companies.
For further information, please contact Willem Barnard at telephone +27 11 257 8600; fax +27 11 257 8699; e-mail willemb@securedata.co.za.
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St Bernard Software is a global provider of security solutions that help small and medium businesses protect their network infrastructure at the perimeter and system levels. Using a multi-layered security architecture strategy, St Bernard Software's range of solutions harden business critical systems against threats and exploits, provide policy-based Internet management, protect e-mail messaging, and secure the data backup process to cover files that are open or in use. Deployed across millions of computers worldwide, the company's award-winning products are recognised for ease-of-use, affordability and scalability.
It was established in April 1995, with corporate headquarters in San Diego, California, and an international office in London, St Bernard Software sells and supports its products directly and through key solution partners worldwide. For further information, visit St Bernard Software at www.stbernard.com.
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 US-based Application Security, eEye, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard and Websense. It is also African distributor for USA-based TippingPoint Technologies. 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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